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  1. tonyb

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    ^^^^^^ I got lots of thrift store saucers and salad plates, but dinner plates are mostly used restaurant ware, old melamine, and a stack of a dozen or so I call Fauxesta, because it kinda resembles Homer-Laughlin Fiesta but was only a buck apiece at the dollar store.
  2. tonyb

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    I use mostly thrift store plates and platters as saucers under potted plants. No good reason not to.
  3. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    As to changing definitions … “Hook up” used to have a somewhat more expansive definition. It meant a meeting of pretty much any sort — social, business, whatever. Now I see and hear it used exclusively in reference to sexual encounters. So I no longer ask friends if they wish to hook up over...
  4. tonyb

    Ghost signs

    More Lynne McCowin-restored signs in Ellensburg, Washington …
  5. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I’m left supposing you have neither voicemail nor caller ID. I get so many phone solicitations that I rarely answer calls if I don’t recognize the caller’s name and/or number. My voicemail “greeting” tells the caller exactly that, along with my assurance that if they have business with me and...
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    Old gas stations

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    Old gas stations

    This famous image was created by Ed Ruscha in 1966. He made it in an edition of 50 and has produced other variations on it since. Three years ago I posted in this thread one of those variations, which my source indicated was from 1963, but other, apparently more reliable, sources say that was in...
  9. tonyb

    Show us your FREE swag!

    The table is a gift from a junktique peddler I had done business with going back nearly 20 years. She hadn’t yet marked a price on it when I asked what she might want for it. “It’s yours,” she said, “take it.” That was more than a decade ago, maybe closer to a decade and a half. The tobacco...
  10. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    ^^^^^ I once owned a ‘47 Dodge school bus. I had considered getting a double-decker to convert to living quarters — a “tiny house,” as it might be called today. (I know where one is parked, slowly succumbing to the elements.) But I won’t be doing that. I have no place to put it, nor the skills...
  11. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    ^^^^^ I can’t stop laughing.
  13. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    … you fail in your attempt to capture your cat to take the furry little ******* to the vet. I confess that my plan wasn’t well thought-out. I let him see the cat carrier prior to closing off his escape routes. I flushed him out from under the bed but wasn’t quick enough to catch him before he...
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    Old gas stations

  15. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^^^ The guy I chased off today opened by saying “Are you the homeowner?” It’s among the things that most annoy me, that asking who I am before identifying themselves. If the first thing out of a caller’s mouth is “Who’s this?” or “Is this Mr. Mispronouncedname?” I just hang up. You called...
  16. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ Oh yes, it certainly is. I taped a sign to the front door reading … No solicitors, survey takers, political canvassers, religious proselytizers My lovely missus asked that I take it down, as in her view it seemed beyond unfriendly. Well, okay, but intruding on my domestic tranquility is...
  17. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    This would seem clear enough, wouldn’t it? I suppose it’s possible it was overlooked, but I think it likelier it was ignored. Door-to-door soliciting is more annoying and intrusive than its cousin, telephone soliciting. When I become dictator, both will be capital offenses.
  19. tonyb

    Funeral arrangements

    As that late American sage Yogi Berra put it, you have to go to other people’s funerals or they won’t go to yours.
  20. tonyb

    Old gas stations

    ^^^^^^^ It’s a handsome structure. My brother worked in one of those “modern” Shell stations 50 or more years ago. He escaped an attempted robbery at gunpoint there as he was closing for the night. He had a bay door open while he was warming up his Vespa scooter when the gunman appeared and...
  21. tonyb

    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Shall we mention yesterday’s passing of one particularly infamous personage? Or shall we let his name be forgotten?
  22. tonyb

    Missing Members

    ^^^^^^^ I feared that. We’re at that age. Most mornings I find myself reflecting on the people I’ve lost, and a month doesn’t go by without hearing that people with whom I have some association have either died or have a condition that likely will kill them within the foreseeable. It leaves me...
  23. tonyb

    Missing Members

    I hesitate to ask what became of RJR.

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