So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

[3fingers]

Trenchfriend, I don't know about the Super-Bra, but I remember commercials for one called Wonderbra. No reports on whether it was Wonderful or just like the ones on the rack at JC Penney.

 

[LizzieMaine]

You spent $39 on one of those, looked at yourself, and you just had to wonder.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Holy cow, I couldn't believe my ears! Groundhog-day is really existing!!

Just this minute, the moderator of NDR Kultur (North-German Broadcast) mentioned the events in Pennsylvania, today, and appreciated it with a piece of music. Isn't that "international understanding"?

 

[tonyb]

Holy cow, I couldn't believe my ears! Groundhog-day is really existing!!

Just this minute, the moderator of NDR Kultur (North-German Broadcast) mentioned the events in Pennsylvania, today, and appreciated it with a piece of music. Isn't that "international understanding"?

Yes, it's one of our cornball traditions. A handful of locales across this fair land have their own groundhogs for their own Groundhog's Day festivities. Local chambers of commerce in regional tourist destinations will grasp at nearly anything to bring in visitors during February.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Even as we speak someone is rampant on the Main Street of my town dressed in a giant ground-hog suit with a maniacal grin and googly eyes, carrying what appears to be a plush, stuffed hot dog. I have no idea what it's all about, but I wouldn't mind having a free hot dog.

 

[GHT]

Local chambers of commerce in regional tourist destinations will grasp at nearly anything to bring in visitors during February.

Indeed they will. Here in The New Forest there's a small village, a hamlet really, that has a unique name. A name that they have been cashing in on for as long as lover's have been sending each other a valentine's card. The name of the village is: "Lover." Starry eyed lovers from all over the world can have a valentines card, complete with message, sent to their loved one from the village of Lover. The envelope will be stamped with the British Post Office's stamp as well as the name of the sending Post Office, in this case, Lover.

 

[Zombie_61]

Indeed they will. Here in The New Forest there's a small village, a hamlet really, that has a unique name. A name that they have been cashing in on for as long as lover's have been sending each other a valentine's card. The name of the village is: "Lover." Starry eyed lovers from all over the world can have a valentines card, complete with message, sent to their loved one from the village of Lover. The envelope will be stamped with the British Post Office's stamp as well as the name of the sending Post Office, in this case, Lover.

Funny, all I ever got was a postcard from Hell. And, yes, I can honestly say I've been to Hell and back.

 

[3fingers]

Santa Claus, Indiana does a booming postal trade around Christmas time each year.

 

[BobHufford]

Santa Claus, Indiana does a booming postal trade around Christmas time each year.

As does Noel, Missouri.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I once knew somebody whose name was "Hellenbach," and she'd heard all the jokes.

 

[Edward]

Funny, all I ever got was a postcard from Hell. And, yes, I can honestly say I've been to Hell and back.

I went to Liverpool once, so I can sympathise.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

I went to Liverpool once, so I can sympathise.

Richie: "So we're not in some dark, godless void on the outer edges of human misery?"
Eddie: "No, we're in Nottingham."
Richie: "It's the same thing."
...Bottom Live 2001

 

[GHT]

I once knew somebody whose name was "Hellenbach," and she'd heard all the jokes.

At school, we had a Richard Head. Back in 1946 what chance did his parents have of knowing that someday we would import the vulgarity dick head?
In my teens I remember a young lady whose surname was of French origin: de'Ath. But of course, in English it spells death, literally. One other name I remember, way back when I started work, a client by the name of Gotobed. My surname is a common or garden Taylor. But at least it's safe.

 

[EngProf]

At school, we had a Richard Head. Back in 1946 what chance did his parents have of knowing that someday we would import the vulgarity dick head?
In my teens I remember a young lady whose surname was of French origin: de'Ath. But of course, in English it spells death, literally. One other name I remember, way back when I started work, a client by the name of Gotobed. My surname is a common or garden Taylor. But at least it's safe.

He wasn't the only one... There was an article in the local paper about the retirement of the mayor of a small town in our vicinity who was named "Richard Head". It was a complimentary article and the people they quoted seemed to like him. Still, a politician named "Richard Head" seemed a bit humorous to me...
I know someone named "Norman Bates" who was born before the movie came out, but was just the right age to take a lot of kidding about it in later years. I never had the nerve to ask him how much trouble it caused him.

 

[tonyb]

If your last name is Hole, don't name your son Harold, as was done by the parents of a man of my acquaintance many years ago.

And then there was that young Mr. Longman, whose folks named him Lance. With an advance billing like that, well, the performance had better measure up.

 

[GHT]

I know someone named "Norman Bates" who was born before the movie came out, but was just the right age to take a lot of kidding about it in later years. I never had the nerve to ask him how much trouble it caused him.

The amount of vulgar humour that schoolboys have over the name of Bates. How grateful I am that I didn't have to tolerate the endless ribbing by, as a schoolboy, being called: Master Bates.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Power windows in a semi-polar climate are the single stupidest idea ever to emerge from humanity's epic history of stupidity. Especially in the drive-thru line at Dunkies.

 

[Fading Fast]

Power windows in a semi-polar climate are the single stupidest idea ever to emerge from humanity's epic history of stupidity. Especially in the drive-thru line at Dunkies.

And in every climate it's just something else to break.

Epic history of stupidity or not, still glad I'm not living in a cave, wearing a loin cloth and getting ready to kill a giant animal with my rudimentary spear for food.

 

[LizzieMaine]

And I could also do without the way that toner cartridges for printers are now metered so you can't squeeze out a few more pages by taking the cartridge out and banging it the desk to redistribute what remains inside. No, better you should have to go out and spend $80 on a new one when all you want to do is go home and go back to bed. BAH.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Why has a very nice Eleventy velours-leatherjacket to cost 1.349,99 EUR?? Man, 134,99 EUR and you made the deal!

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