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  1. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    It looks like you laid in a new supply of stamps. No backstock of QEIIs?
  2. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Here's a two-fer fer your Friday consideration. Every business conversation, or meeting, or whatever, will inevitably produce some saying "reach out to so and so". It started with a TV commercial jingle in the 1970's with AT&T encouraging phone users to make long distance calls to family...
  3. KILO NOVEMBER

    You know you are getting old when:

    When you're old enough to know who John McCain is and why he had trouble taking his undershirt off over his head.
  4. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    "Awesome" is not a suitable adjective for describing the order I just gave to a waiter.
  5. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Probably only among what the British would call "posh". I don't think it has caught on among the people working for hourly wages.
  7. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Alabama meets Brooklyn
  8. KILO NOVEMBER

    A little help please

    Is it a genuine Stratoliner that you want? I can think of several hat makers who could provide you with a high quality replica. Tony, you still have your equipment?
  9. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    If that just doesn't give me the warm and fuzzies. The PRC has such a splendid record of respecting the rights and privacy of its citizens. NOT!
  10. KILO NOVEMBER

    You know you are getting old when:

    If only "two" rhymed with "p"... And consider, three is one of the magic numbers (e.g., The Three Stooges, Three Blind Mice, Three Wise Men from the East, Cinderalla's three wicked step sisters, how many companions did Dorothy collect on her way to Oz?...)
  11. KILO NOVEMBER

    If I hadn't seen it, I wouldn't have believed it!

    I'm trying to imagine the pitch to potential investors for these products. I can't stop laughing! As to Tony's remark on low-cost alternatives, back, oh, 50 years or so ago, before flat screen TVs and remote controls, I used to watch the commercials. I do remember a product called "Nair"...
  13. KILO NOVEMBER

    If I hadn't seen it, I wouldn't have believed it!

    Lest anyone thing this thread is only about theater, here's another one. A few months back I had run out of shaving cream. (Don't let the beard fool you, I shave my throat and cheeks daily.) So I went to a nearby location of a national chain drug store, looked up at the aisle signs and walked...
  14. KILO NOVEMBER

    If I hadn't seen it, I wouldn't have believed it!

    It was redone about 20 years ago with Nathan Lane in the Max Biyalistock role and Matthew Broderick covering for Gene Wilder. Skip if if you have the chance and stick with the original movie.
  15. KILO NOVEMBER

    If I hadn't seen it, I wouldn't have believed it!

    Calls to mind Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel.
  16. KILO NOVEMBER

    If I hadn't seen it, I wouldn't have believed it!

    It was a cliff hanger! Please, no one take offense at the gallows humor.
  17. KILO NOVEMBER

    If I hadn't seen it, I wouldn't have believed it!

    My wife just walked up and asked, "Did you see that someone has made a musical out of "Twelve Angry Men"? I had to check. An opera, well, OK, maybe, but a musical!? I can see the ad now: "All singing! All dancing! A rollicking experience!" You might as well make a musical out of the trial of...
  19. KILO NOVEMBER

    You know you are getting old when:

    Certainly a "roman a clef", but the "clef" isn't exactly hidden under a bushel. Likewise for 1984, which I've just finished re-reading for the first time since I was a teenager. And that was a long, long, time ago. These days we have creeping or crashing into our vocabulary our time's NEWSPEAK...
  20. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    In the US, that image shows the activity with the fully-qualified name, "soliciting for the purposes of prostitution", often shortened to "soliciting" when the context makes the latter part of the phrase unnecessary.
  21. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I see that this is my 2^10 post. A retired computer nerd's milepost, for sure. At the two entrances to my subdivision are prominently posted "No Soliciting" signs. Nonetheless, from time to time a young person rings my doorbell and knocks on the door. I point out to each that "No Soliciting"...
  22. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Here's something that has been going through my head this morning. It's not "trivial", but not serious, either. I was thinking about the challenges non-native English speakers have. Here's a perfectly ordinary sentence in past tense, subjunctive mood, that would surely challenge those ESL...
  23. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Don't forget the companions, "could of" , "would of", and "should of"! As for antipodean accents, I find Kiwi harder than Aussie. I'm fond of the now-wrapped-up New Zealand TV series "Brokenwood". I find myself turning on the subtitle feature so that I can pick up all the dialogue. Maybe it's...

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