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  1. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    This is far more than trivial to me. Where I live, it's so easy to get rid of trash. I live in one of them subdivided neighborhoods in the county, so we pay for commercial trash pick up. But with that comes "heavy trash" once a week, so you can put out furniture, washing machines, computers...
  2. HudsonHawk

    Season's Greetings From The Boys From Marketing!

    I read something online a while back called "Bleaker Endings", where people made up alternate storylines to movie endings. This would have fit in nicely. I offered up: Field of Dreams: "Eddie Ciccote beans Moonlight Graham right in the temple for winking. Graham is left to die at home...
  3. HudsonHawk

    Season's Greetings From The Boys From Marketing!

    People often conflate "life expectancy" and "life span", but they are two different concepts. As you say, we often hear that people "live longer" today, but that's a statistical change in "life expectancy" due to changes in infant mortality rates, wars, disease, etc. It doesn't really speak to...
  4. HudsonHawk

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    "Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out." - Ty Cobb
  5. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    There is no distinction in the South between "sweet" and "sweetened". It's just "sweet tea" regardless of when sugar was added. And the term "unsweetened" is common, even though it's grammatically incorrect.
  7. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I have a friend who is driven nuts by this term. According to him, it's just "tea" or "sweetened tea". If you must, you can call it "non-sweetened tea", but you don't sweeten it then somehow remove the sweetness. He goes absolutely nuts when he hears it. Sometimes I'll say it just to get him...
  8. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    This has happened in the US as well, as Constitutionally, only Congress can declare war. However, as Commander in Chief of the armed forces, the President can use military force pretty much at will, circumventing that requirement (though Congress must ultimately agree to fund it). It's been...
  9. HudsonHawk

    You know you are getting old when:

    More importantly, I think, everyone should have a phone that doesn't depend on electrical power to operate. If the power goes out, that cordless phone (I know those are going the way of the rotary phone too) won't work. And cell phones are only cellular until the signal reaches the antenna...
  10. HudsonHawk

    Cuban cigars now legal in USA.

    My grandmother was a cigar roller back in the day. But she didn't look like this:
  11. HudsonHawk

    Cuban cigars now legal in USA.

    There are two issues at work: 1. Some experts estimate that up to 90% of all cigars in the world sold as "Cuban" are fakes. I don't know if it's 90%, but it's a high percentage, well over half. And that includes in Cuba. So unless you know exactly what you're getting, and you're buying from...
  13. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I save that feature for those who put beans in their chili. That's just over the line.
  14. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Well I hope all you fancy schmancy folks who've never lost a shoe will keep associating with the rest of us. As for being asked why you don't have kids, my wife says "I'm not allowed to, it's part of my plea bargain deal. Now, you wanna put a leash on yours?" Rarely does the inquisition go...
  15. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Nine. He had nine shoes. Four pairs, and that one shoe, that all men have, who's mate was lost many years ago, but we just can't seem to muster up the courage to throw out the orphan.
  16. HudsonHawk

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    The story I've read is that the wearing of freshman beanies died off after WWII, when many incoming freshman were veterans, who weren't about to defer to the upperclassmen who were typically younger than they were and hadn't fought a war. The 1960s then pretty much polished off the tradition...
  17. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The last czar himself, Nicholas II, wasn't even ethnically Russian. His father was mostly German and his mother was Danish, the daughter of Christian IX, King of Denmark. His uncle was King of Greece. European royalty is just one big incestuous family.
  19. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I think that's the point. People will stake their identities on the subtle nuance of the same flavors being peddled, yet claim to have made a conscious choice after careful consideration. They simply don't recognize that they're being played, be it the political offerings, soft drinks or their...
  20. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Not only that, but peoples' own identities are so wrapped up in brand recognition that they'll pay for the privilege of advertising Brand X or Y by wearing tshirts and putting a "Salt Life" sticker on the back window of the family truckster. Which is why I only drink RC, drive a Dodge, and...
  21. HudsonHawk

    You know you are getting old when:

    Interesting how you view that record and that song. My friend Brian once wrote a different take on it: "People are forever seeking inner peace; and they’ll climb to the mountaintop, move to the desert, blast themselves out and up amongst the stars, trying to find it. And good luck to them...
  22. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The highest popular vote percentage ever (at least since 1824 when they started recording the popular vote) is just a tad over 60%. That means at our most cohesive, we're a 60/40 split.
  23. HudsonHawk

    You know you are getting old when:

    I mostly listen to digital music now, just because it's so convenient. But when I put on side 1 of the old vinyl copy of Let it Bleed, and I hear the opening guitar riff to "Gimme Shelter", it gives me chills.

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