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I have mixed thoughts about cell phones--or more correctly, smart phones--in cars. I see a fair number of accidents in my commute, nearly all minor. But I'm certain that none are caused by cell phone use. As far as the distraction in having a conversation on a cell phone while you're driving, it's no different than a conversation with a passenger, maybe even less so. Actually holding the phone might be a distraction, though. But the ones staring at their little screen when the traffic is stopped are often still staring at it when it starts moving again. No, I believe all those accidents I see are because of aggressive driving, mainly tailgating, and nearly always in the left-hand lane of a "dual carriageway" parkway. I live in an area with a lot of Type A personalities and everyone is in a hurry. Commuting is a competitive activity, sometimes adjudicated. Obeying the speed limit is not tolerated, but that goes along with the general moral decline these days when anyone obeying the law is considered to be a fool. The funny thing is that now everyone drives in the left-hand lane and only uses the right-hand lane for passing.
The last one sounds like a classic New England slam. Are all of those monikers really dead now?We had a lot of phrases like that -- outastatahs, summah complaints, from-aways, transplants. The specific phrase used to describe a specific person depended entirely on their attitude.
"Summah Complaint" was the worst, and it isn't exactly a cute, quaint humorous phrase. It was derived from a 19th Century euphemism for dysentery, and the implication was that the person so called was so full of something that they were bubbling over with it.
We had a lot of phrases like that -- outastatahs, summah complaints, from-aways, transplants. The specific phrase used to describe a specific person depended entirely on their attitude.
"Summah Complaint" was the worst, and it isn't exactly a cute, quaint humorous phrase. It was derived from a 19th Century euphemism for dysentery, and the implication was that the person so called was so full of something that they were bubbling over with it.
December, 2005. IBM Selectric II....But when was the last time you saw a typewriter?...
When I worked in Branson in the late 1970s the term for the tourists was "Mullets" (this was prior to the hair style). I have no idea why..
Some of the tourists had blue hair (old ladies), but there was no one sporting a "Mullet" hair style at the time. It may have been related to the fish as this is a tourist town on a lake.
The last one sounds like a classic New England slam. Are all of those monikers really dead now?
Here the most common one for the tourists is "fudgie" and it's still alive and well. Fudge shops have a long history in the tourist traps in Northern MI, so . . .
Originally, the typing class in school was "typewriting." Manual typewriters, too. But when was the last time you saw a typewriter?
Some of the tourists had blue hair (old ladies), but there was no one sporting a "Mullet" hair style at the time. It may have been related to the fish as this is a tourist town on a lake.
imilar to this would be the use of "roll up" and/or "roll down" in reference to car windows.
As far as using a typewriter on a daily basis goes, I used a 1950s-era Royal thruout my radio career, right up to the end in 1997. I then gave it to my then two-year-old niece, who proceeded to destroy it within a week.
...I don't have a functioning computer printer, and refuse to spend money on one, thus tying myself into the ink/toner cartridge racket. ...