Recent Comments

1. about 2 hours ago on Prickly City

   re: “What was your household budget on 19 Jan 2021?” Etc.

   Your point — if you have a point — being?

   You’ll probably want to take some time to invent the point of that comment. Take all the time you need.

2. about 3 hours ago on Prickly City

   There’s no need to apologize for stating facts. Especially to our good friends who state lies as facts.

3. about 3 hours ago on Prickly City

   Back in ’15 a good and politically savvy friend of mine opined that the “country was strong enough to survive” if Trump won the election. This was a sort of academic position since we both thought that Trump was so outre that HRC would win. (Neither of us liked her, but we both despised Trump. So, as Mark Twain opined on another subject, we looked on the canvas as “Heaven for climate and Hell for society.”)

   I do not think that he would be as sanguine about a second (or third or fourth) Trump “presidency.”

4. about 3 hours ago on Pluggers

   My eyelashes, when I was a kid, used to annoy me because they were so profuse, thick, and long that they rubbed against my glasses. Now they have thinned out to near extinction,

5. about 3 hours ago on Pluggers

   And ear hair in mine.

6. about 3 hours ago on Moderately Confused

   That homonym always amused me when I was his age. But I much preferred the one over the other. My favorite was a Dusty Miller. This concoction was vanilla ice cream covered with chocolate syrup and topped with a generous heap of powdered malt.

7. about 3 hours ago on Lola

   The candy cigs tasted so bad — like peppermint flavored chalk — that it’s hard to know why anyone would like them. Back in the ’60s one of the foremen at the outfit I worked for came into the lab and passed out bubble gum seegars. He and his wife had adopted their first child.

8. 1 day ago on Yaffle

   It’s long gone. I expect that the house was demolished circa 1970. Possibly another GC commenter will have more information; there may also be some information on the web and 1 or more photos. Google Earth (or equivalent) should have contemporary satellite or street level views available, too.

9. 1 day ago on Yaffle

   Back in the late ’50s or early ’60s there was a one story house that was built upside down here in Indy. It was near the intersection of Rockville Road and Washington Street. I think a construction business put it up as some sort of promotional stunt.

10. 1 day ago on Moderately Confused

    “Don’t confuse me with the facts! My mind is made up!”

    No, not of ursidae; of elephantidae.