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Abshopious New Year
Published on 31 Dec 2006 at 3:00 pm.
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Filed under Politics, The Economy, Good Manners, Words, Credit Cards.
I’ve coined a new word for the New Year: abshopious. I’m going to try to give up (ab) mindless shopping in 2007. Ab-shop-ious. Derived from one of my favorite words: ab·ste·mi·ous [ab-stee-mee-uhs] adjective sparing or moderate in […]
Collateral Dumb-age
Published on 12 Feb 2006 at 2:34 pm.
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Filed under Politics, Good Manners.
What could qualify as a more perfect example of irony and poetic justice? News flash: Vice-President Cheney just accidentally shot a friend while bird hunting! Although my first reaction was to laugh out loud, it isn’t funny. I’m sure it isn’t funny for his friend, although I’m guessing the medical response team was hovering nearby. Can’t […]
Networked Up
Published on 19 Dec 2005 at 1:55 pm.
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Filed under Good Manners, Airlines.
I came home yesterday from a week in Mexico, my composure and harmony destroyed with such efficiency by the return trip that I’m puzzled why America Worst is going under. Really. It started on the trip out. My bag was 4 pounds over the limit of 50, and the jerk at the counter made me take things […]
Taxing Ride
Published on 15 Nov 2005 at 10:00 pm.
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Filed under Good Manners, Etcetera, etcetera.
I’ve always hated bad cab drivers. I hate it when the cab has an overpowering air freshener but I also hate it when they smell of cigarettes or b.o. I hate when the driver speeds up and then stomps on the brakes until I have motion sickness. And I hate it when drivers don’t […]
Enough Chuck
Published on 30 Oct 2005 at 12:19 am.
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Why is it that in nearly every movie and television series, someone throws up? Am I the only person disgusted by this phenomenon? I haven’t lived a particularly sheltered life, but honestly, I’ve only seen about six people throw up in my entire life. But you can hardly avoid the celluloid spew. And I’m […]
Fit to be Tied
Published on 20 Oct 2005 at 12:23 pm.
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S&M has gone mainstream. I remember the good old days when it was seamy, below the radar, down-the-alley-in-the-side-door dirty. Not any more. You can hardly turn around without tripping over a pierced, corseted, whip-wielding, spike-heeling dominatrix dragging her leather-masked, cuff-clad, butt-bearing love slave by the leash. Vanity Fair. The movies. Everywhere. Really. You heard it here […]