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Today’s retro A&J is more antediluvian tech humor from barely five years ago. Presumably today they would both have a smart phone and would both be entitled to their own set of facts. Speaking of smart phones, I’ve discovered a strange phenomenon. My new phone has about four times the square footage of my old flip phone, but I’ve noticed it’s easier to lose! Maybe because it looks like a dozen other gadgets lying around the house. I’ve give some thought to what we discussed yesterday, the future of our retro feature, and I think I have come up with some ideas. I hope you’ll find them rather painless once implemented. Maybe we’ll run some experiments next week.
220 responses to “On Pretty Good Authority”
Symply, thanks for telling us you went out on a high note there. Looks like the band and the crowd was having fun too. And I notice you are wearing the shirt you mentioned earlier. (for the folks who can’t read it, click on the photo and it enlarges). Thanks for sharing.
Hardly Fargone. When you live a dream it is hard to let it go. Sounds like you had the best.
“Bore” us all you want friend.
Ghost you made me go look for that Mike Rowe article and read it. He got the gun out from under his bed. He sleeps naked with a shot gun under his bed. Ok, I may have to buy whichever trashy supermarket public action prints those photos.
But he had curtains on Windows?
When I lived in Honolulu and had a body worth a photo I walked across floor to bathroom to see helicopter outside window. Had similar thing happen in Houston. Mega drones back then.
Time to get up and dress.
Jackie: ‘Where have the good looking men gone?’
Well, for starters, c x-p and I have both retired. He is still happily married and I’m not on the market.
Ghost Rider: ‘Beats me. Where have all the females in sundresses gone?’
They women are still around, but the sundresses, at least around here, are packed away ’til spring ’17. Have to settle for videos of beach volleyball.
Peace,
I think far too many men both young and old spend too much time in recliners watching television and drinking some beverage of choice. Or in front of computer screens.
I don’t remember all the guts hanging over pants tops or worse yet, butts hanging out the rear
Women are even worse perhaps. I think we have become a nation of unfit bodies and I see myself backsliding that way. This has been a lonely trip and lonely people do things like eat badly. That is not a good excuse for me or anyone else.
I would just like to see a few fit men. Is that asking too much?
Mike Rowe could do a calendar. I’d buy it and I bet rest of females in Village would as well.
OK, this could be a good discussion starter: http://qz.com/790750/30-words-and-phrases-that-will-soon-disappear-from-american-english/
There’s a link to the full list of 50 words/phrases. I decided not to use it because this article gives a better explanation and the other website uses white letters on black background which I find hard on the eyes.
Cuddy I knew because used in boats. Frog strangled rain I knew. NEVER heard any of others. Good bye words.
eMb, your implied description of me is too kind! Really, too, too kind….
Thanks, though.
Ruth Anne: I looked at the list with these results:
Heard of barnburner, but not as a match. Don’t use it.
Heard of clabber, but not bonnyclabber. No need to use it.
I believe the word is counterpane, not counterpin. Parents used it; I use bedspread.
Know and use frog strangler.
Know, but rarely use, leader.
Often use pot cheese…though I dislike the stuff.
Know of whistle pig, but don’t use it.
Of course, all the above terms probably should be in quotation marks, but I’m not going back to insert same.
Surprised that no one mentioned the passing of Arnold Palmer. I was not a Golf fan and never played the game until college, but I was a faithful soldier in Arnie’s Army. There have been better golfers, but none had the greatness of Arnold as he took a gentleman’s game and made the casual fan want to watch it. Many of those fans took up the game themselves.
I remarked on Facebook that Arnie was more than lemonade and ice tea. He was more than a sports star, but a celebrity that America trusted. A friend stated that his greatest legacy was the hospital that bears his name. http://www.arnoldpalmerhospital.com/
At first he and his wife were just looking for a worthwhile charity to support. After it open he challenged the hospital to do even more and that “good would never be good enough.” Another person quoted said that if you asked Arnie, he loved his 92 championships and major golf wins, but none of it compares to saving the life of a child.
I had several heroes growing up. I found out later that several of them were not quite the people that I would aspire to be. I am proud be have been a member of Arnie’s Army.
Ruth Anne, I”ve used, heard, or read only seven of those. Fascinating list! Thanks!
Here’s the full list in black letters on white background:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/these-50-american-slang-words-are-in-danger-of-disappearing_us_57d2ba4ae4b06a74c9f423dd
What you can do with one photo and Photoshop: http://cheezburger.com/973573/badass-squirrel-poses-for-one-of-the-coolest-photoshop-battles-ever
Nebraska is boring so far.
PS: We learned “dragonfly” = “darning needle”. Does that count as = “sewing needle”?
Had to share. I at Cabela’s world headquarters. Not for first time there are some that would find this interesting.
Knew several of the words. Don’t use any of them. Tow sack, croker sack- what I say is burlap bag. Popskull-mostly I find this when reading material about the pre-1900’s. Frog/toad strangler. I had read the darning needle name for dragonflies too.
Steve: I wasn’t really surprised to learn of Palmer’s passing – some of our local sportscasters have done stories in recent months that seemed like previews of what everyone is doing now. I suspected that those who had known him for a long time wanted to say how much they appreciated him while he was still around to hear it. Here’s the story from today’s front page: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/golf/os-arnold-palmer-dies-20160925-column.html
Jackie: yes, we would probably go at least a little out of our way to go to Cabela’s. Used to order lots of stuff from them years ago when we did more camping and before we had more local options.
Smigz: I would definitely recommend the yellow Mustang convertible for you (but not me). This would be more my style in a ‘Stang…exactly like the one I saw on the showroom floor when buying my Explorer, but didn’t have a trade-in worth $30,000.
http://www.themustangnews.com/content/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/16-GT350-7tt.jpg
Thanks for the info about your name. Oh, and Polish names don’t intimidate me…I graduated from HS with a girl whose surname was Przybyszewski.
Houston reporting in. I am still standing. Loon is in Phoenix.
Found this, following Mark’s Photoshop Sciurus carolinensis.
http://cheezburger.com/793093/a-super-chill-brown-bear-gets-the-photoshop-battle-it-deserves?ref=exit-intent
The one of Putin is right on. He might even think so, if he has a sense of humor. Same sp., our grizzlies and Eurasian brown bears, Ursus arctos.
Ghost, that name is a mouthful! I always thought mine was not too intimidating.
Glad to hear that you and Loon are okay, sand.
I miss you and Loon too. I love clever people with senses of humor.
Is everyone else glued to TV as I realize there is something dramatic going on. One friend asked where the 3-D glasses were being issued and another posted she was eating him alive. My mind did not process either post correctly as that was all either said.
I got pizza and Dickens and I are going to take it leaving else in.
3-D glasses might help – another glass of wine might help more!
Instead of watching the debate, will watch the Logdriver’s Waltz, then sack out. Peace