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  1. 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.
  2. 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...
  3. 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...
  4. 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.
  5. 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"...
  7. 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...
  8. 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...
  9. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    When did "gift" become a verb? Oh, and when you're tempted to use an adjective as an adverb, just say no! Add the "ly" to the end, please! And while I'm on a rant-and-roll, how about "myself"? It's a reflexive pronoun, not an ordinary objective one. "Please get in touch with Jim or myself if...
  10. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    This evening I saw two commercials for whole body deodorants to include the unsurprising arm pits, then on to the crotch and the feet. It's a wonder none of these people had ever heard of a shower with soap.
  11. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Heee! Heee! Heee! There's one born every minute! The vendor is certainly hoping for one, and "no one ever went broke underestimating ...", but seriously, is the vendor delusional, naive, or merely seeking to test the greater fool theory?
  13. KILO NOVEMBER

    You know you are getting old when:

    Here's one for my fellow American Baby Boomers: You know you're getting old when you remember saying the pledge of allegiance at the start of a school day while facing a forty-eight star flag.
  14. KILO NOVEMBER

    Is anyone else following the Six Nations Rugby?

    Probably for the same reasons you call an "elevator" a "lift".
  15. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    There's another, legit member and frequent poster, who doesn't get the idea behind "So trivial, but it really ticks you off." Make that plus one for STBIRTYO.
  16. KILO NOVEMBER

    (Don't know if this has been done before but) Movies so Traumatizing You Could Only Watch It Once.

    Hands down, "The Exorcist".
  17. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    So, hows does this fit into "Really Ticks You Off"?
  19. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I imagine these MiGs are expensive to maintain?
  20. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    This may not be an issue in most places in the UK, but in northern U.S. states, Tesla owners were "left out in the cold" recently. https://www.npr.org/2024/01/16/1224913698/teslas-chicago-charging-extreme-cold
  21. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Please excuse if I have already posted this, but I found it on a Facebook page by a fellow I used to work with: I had the rudest, slowest, and nastiest cashier today. That does it! I'm DONE using the self-checkout lane.
  22. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    My reading on this matter tells me that "thou" was a singular form while "you" was plural, but if you can be on familiar terms with God ("Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed by thy name."), who ranks above and would be owed a more respectful form of address?
  23. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    This reminds me of a story a French teacher (that is, a teacher of the French language, not a teacher from France) from my high school told 50+ years ago. It seems there was a French man who had a servant of North African origin. This servant had limited French language skills and never learned...

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