In all seriousness, today is national Barbershop Quartet day. It was on this date in 1938 that the group was formed which would eventually be named the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America (SPEBSQSA), now known as the Barbershop Harmony Society.
That was the correct way to do it on a typewriter, but with word processing software the space is already longer after a period, so it’s no longer necessary. But as Scott says, “It IS Rita, after all.”
In the US they still have the old credit card format where you have to sign for the transaction. If you’re in a restaurant, for instance, you give your card to the waiter/waitress, they take it away to run it through something or other, then they bring it back and you sign for it. It amazes me every time I go to the States. For all the cutting-edge breakthroughs the US has done, credit cards and the metric system are the two ways they’re still in the mid-twentieth century.
Actually, it doesn’t. While there is a doughnut in Germany called a Berliner, nobody in the crowd would have thought Kennedy made a mistake. This is according to a German who now lives in the US and who was shocked the first time someone said how embarrasing Kennedy’s mistake was. Her YouTube channel is Feli from Germany and there’s a whole video about it. I don’t know why I can’t post a link to the YouTube video here, but she does explain it well.
There’s a quartet called Instant Classic who does Livin’ On a Prayer. You can find it on YouTube.