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  1. tonyb

    Old gas stations

    No good reason I can think of.
  2. tonyb

    Old gas stations

    I’m guessing it matters not one whit to you that your porcelain Texaco star would sell for more than a little money these days, and that it would bring a substantially larger amount if not for that chip in the finish. My modest collection of old commercial signage has been acquired on the...
  3. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Much as it might annoy, I fear we have little choice but to acknowledge we have lost that battle. One of my sister’s offspring is now an elementary school principal. “Awesome” is her default response to any favorable action on the part of her little charges.
  4. tonyb

    Old gas stations

    I can’t recall if the Texaco station where I worked c. 1972 bore the owner’s name. Lou Spurlock was a good guy. Fair. Honest. Even-tempered.
  5. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Likewise.
  7. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I food shop probably five days per week on average. It’s just me and the lovely missus living here, so buying larger quantities of perishables would result in much of it going bad before we got around to consuming it. So I generally pick up what we’ll be having for dinner that evening and...
  8. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    There’s something to be said for jumping into challenges not quite fully prepared (after all, if not for that no one would ever have children and that would spell the end of the species), but there’s more to be said against it. I’ve long recoiled at hearing the phrase “unskilled labor.” There...
  9. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I largely rely on other people’s experience in such matters, seeing how my own is decidedly limited (and seeing how I’ve witnessed what happens when people think a little bit of knowledge is all they need; we’ve been gradually undoing the previous owner’s DIY “improvements” ever since we moved...
  10. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I really wish that weren’t true (regarding residential skylights). Had to replace two of four in a duplex, at considerable expense. I’m looking into tubular skylights, aka solar tubes, which are reportedly much less expensive to purchase and install and less likely to fail, although I’ve heard...
  11. tonyb

    Old gas stations

    Those things were banned by local ordinance in a burg where I once resided. I saw that mostly as a matter of social and economic class. The strings of brightly colored pennants had most commonly festooned used car lots and discount appliance stores and the like. You know, the declasse...
  13. tonyb

    Tourist cabins, auto and motor courts

    ^^^^^ Steel cantilever chairs of that type are discussed at length earlier in this thread.
  14. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ Oldie but a goodie.
  15. tonyb

    The "Annoying Phrase" Thread

    I’ve heard that argument before, or ones similar to it. I’ve also heard talk of a “post-literate” humanity, that reading and writing itself may become a thing of the past. Still, though, it’s hard to beat literacy for transmitting knowledge and building on it. Literacy is the abstraction of...
  16. tonyb

    The "Annoying Phrase" Thread

    Kidding aside, certain college-level teachers of my acquaintance might find something to be said for educational practices of a century ago that fell by the wayside over the intervening decades. What I’m hearing from those teaching 100 level courses is that too many of their students are...
  17. tonyb

    The "Annoying Phrase" Thread

    Which goes some way toward explaining why so many of their successors dropped out of school in their teen years and signed themselves up for service in the war.
  19. tonyb

    The "Annoying Phrase" Thread

    Oh please, just who is being disrespectful here? That esteemed professor’s take on this is just her take on this and nothing more. Her view will not prevail. People will continue saying “each and every” (and countless other phrases many of us might rather they didn’t) no matter what she or you...
  20. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ ”It is our most modestly priced receptacle.” That’s from one of many amusing scenes in “The Big Lebowski.” Dude and Walter are at the mortuary to retrieve the cremated remains of Donny, the third member of their bowling team, who had recently died from a major heart attack he suffered in...
  21. tonyb

    The "Annoying Phrase" Thread

    ^^^^ It’s done for emphasis. And “each” and “every” are close to synonymous but not quite exactly. (True synonyms are few. There are shades of meaning, sometimes so subtle as to be almost meaningless, but still, the best communicators know the difference between a good word and a better one.)...
  22. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The odds of success in such efforts may be all but impossibly long, but they’re infinitely better than doing nothing. So you do it.
  23. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The truest mark of character is a person’s actions — for good or for ill — that go unwitnessed. No plaudits, no punishments. Doing right in the belief that an all-knowing deity is keeping a tally for which a person will be called to account is hardly selflessness. I recognize how the promise...

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