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  1. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^ We got those missives at least twice monthly on average when we lived in a rapidly gentrifying district. There are now brew pubs and art galleries and the like where hardware stores and shoe repair shops used to be. I couldn’t complain about selling our place for 350 percent more than we...
  2. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    You’ll never want for company.
  3. tonyb

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    The fellow I alluded to above is on his third marriage. I’ve been married but once, to the person I expect to remain married to for however much longer I’ll be drawing breath. But I had many a more-or-less “serious” relationship prior to my marriage. Those arrangements fell apart for various...
  4. tonyb

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    Realizing what a cringeworthy fool, a**hole, idiot, boor, jerk, chump, etc. one has himself been, and knowing that all he can do at this point is avoid being any of those things now and in the future, seeing how no one can undo what has been done. I happen to be well acquainted with a character...
  5. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ If it’s now a “mother tongue” (I’m not familiar with it, so I couldn’t say with any authority if it is or isn’t), it would a creole language, lower case “c.”
  7. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    What can you do? An uneducated person insists others are uneducated. I don’t know how to reach such people, but I’m pretty sure I know how not to reach them. The need to feel superior is, in most cases, a response to a sense of personal inferiority, so telling them they’re wrong usually just...
  8. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I’ll have to do that. He seems an fascinating fellow, and not locked into anyone else’s orthodoxy. He has a podcast as well. I’m listening to it at present. Can’t beat the price.
  9. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I recommend a good linguistics survey course. I recommend it to most everybody. It might dispel many a commonly held prejudice and misconception about how language actually works. It certainly did that for me. As I’m sure I’ve observed here before, had more people been so educated we would have...
  10. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I just saw an advertisement on this site for a local HVAC and plumbing outfit featuring an endorsement from some fellow I had never heard of before. “I love these guys,” it reads, under a photo of his face. He is identified as a Super Bowl champion. Did he play for the local mercenary force...
  11. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    We’d find these verbal tics less annoying if those so habitually employing them were otherwise sympathetic.
  13. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I wonder if a slang expression’s odds of becoming more widely accepted is roughly proportionate to how “naturally” it is spoken. You know, unforced, unaffected.
  14. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Any linguists in the house? If not, I’ll be left to research on my own how slang terms, some of them, work their way into the “standard” lexicon. And how others (most of them, I strongly suspect) don’t.
  15. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    May as well.
  16. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    “Totally” all on its lonesome is very much in use around here. It’s most often used to mean something along the lines of “I’m in complete agreement.” I don’t like it so of course I don’t use it. I’m tempted to say, on hearing it, “totally? as opposed to partially?” But, alas, it’s another of...
  17. tonyb

    Ghost signs

    That sign best belongs right where it is, but if were to go elsewhere, for whatever reason (demolition, changed use of the building, midnight acquisition, etc.) I happen to know a guy who would love having it.
  19. tonyb

    Old gas stations

    Artists are allowed their flights of fancy. I’m a member of the Kirkland Museum of Fine and Decorative Arts in downtown Denver. The fine arts there are certainly worth one’s while, but for aficionados of industrial design it’s a veritable Mecca. Teague stuff is in the collections. He certainly...
  20. tonyb

    Old gas stations

    Am I correct in assuming the Teague you reference was Walter Dorwin Teague? He designed some groovy stuff.
  21. tonyb

    Old gas stations

    I don’t know which brand they were back when they were gas stations, but there’s a few remaining structures around here that retain the large triangular awnings that covered the pumps. The awnings slope upward from the main building and come to a sharp(ish) point. One I can think of right off...
  22. tonyb

    Old gas stations

    A friend owns a former gas station of a similar style. It had two service bays and an awning overhanging the office entrance and wrapping around the corner to cover the path to the restrooms on the side of the building. It’s now a specialty retail space. I implored this friend to retain the...
  23. tonyb

    Old gas stations

    Is it still sided in porcelain panels?

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