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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Yes, and I have consumed many of them. I have gathered though that if you ask for a milkshake in certain parts of the country they either would not know what you want or would tag you as an outsider, just as if you asked for a frap from one of our ice cream stands. Although the chain places that...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Likewise I do occasionally enjoy leading the self important down the garden path and then quietly letting the air out of their balloon. I have noticed that most of the people who have anointed themselves as highly superior are by far the easiest to lead.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    It's all very confusing. Do you include the original single effort in the calculation? If so you have the original effort plus the second doubled effort, then possibly the 3rd redoubled effort. We may need a grant to study this.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    That must have been some type of franchise/brand in that time frame. We did not have fraps in the midwest, but I remember that name on ice cream cups and bowls somewhere along the line. My father was a connoisseur of ice cream so we stopped at quite a few places.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    When I was a child our neighbors had an old pony that wasn't all that interested in hauling kids around any more. He would stand in one spot all day with a kid on his back. There was a little canvas sack on a stick that you would put a few oats in before climbing aboard. He would walk around...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I don't know. I have read several times that after dodging the question for decades by naming Bing Crosby or Gene Kelly as his favorites to avoid offending any of his female partners he finally named Rita in an interview in the 1980's as his favorite.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I do not disagree, but Fred Astaire's admitted favorite dance partner was Rita Hayworth.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I worked for a man for quite a few years who was a fountain of mispronounced words and malaprops. People would ask us how we knew what he was saying most of the time. It wasn't hard to understand him once you learned his dialect. Even though the shop is long gone, when the old employees run into...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Well all I can say about all of these malaprops is that these folks thought they were using the correct word for all intensive purposes. :D
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    Lunch, Anybody?

    I am glad that we do not share an office. :D
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    Sears might be going belly up

    ^^^^ I don't see how they can. There are too many well developed and well run competitors already out there and I have no confidence in any of their current management being able to successfully run a lemonade stand. Sears really hasn't been Sears for a long time anyway. It is a name that has...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Indeed. I was far less taken with season 2 than 1. On top of fleshing out the film angle I think they are trying to tell too many stories with too many characters in the time they have and all of the potential of the stories isn't fulfilled. I will give them this season to pull it together. If...
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    Dangerous Playground of the 1900's rare photos

    I have often wondered what the cost of many products would be if lawsuits only went forward based on actual liability or negligence of the seller.
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    Dangerous Playground of the 1900's rare photos

    One of our friends was at a playground with her children and her daughter fell off of one of the rides. She had a dandy split lip which of course was bleeding profusely as such things do. Before she had hardly had a chance to get her daughter calmed down and try to stop the bleeding park staff...
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    You Realise Christmas Is Approaching When …

    I was in our local branch of the evil empire a few days ago trying to find a sack of dog food. The Halloween decorations are already pushed into a very small area and the entire garden center plus a few aisles close by have been changed over to Christmas.
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    The Billboards

    Not that I think utility rates are too low by any means, but I have observed that folks who complain the loudest about the cost don't seem to have the same issues with their cell phone or cable television bills. People are funny.
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    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    I no longer live where my family all came from but I still get the weekly paper. Last year I took the digital option. It was only slightly cheaper (not enough less considering the costs of paper and postage they aren't paying). I hate it. My subscription runs out soon and they will have to...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    This is one of my great pet peeves. Put the thing away! I did recently see a woman abandon her buggy and then proceed to back over it doing some damage to her car. Occasionally there is immediate justice in this world.
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    Barber shops

    ^^^ I understand what you are saying but I look at it differently. I do not live an extravagant lifestyle but there are things that I enjoy that I am willing to pay for. A half hour in the chair with my erudite barber to visit with is one of those things.
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    Dangerous Playground of the 1900's rare photos

    Interesting. Some of that stuff was still around when I was a child. We had monkey bars that you climbed a ladder to get on, swings and slides that would cause hyperventilation these days and a merry go round and ocean wave mounted on concrete. If that wasn't enough, we had the haylift rope and...

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