Sometimes the overuse of words make them unsustainable and actually reduces their impact.
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How many times have you seen it? How many times have you done it?
I see it a lot and it’s starting to get scary.
I know —it’s hard not to do it.
Everyone else does it.
I used to do it all the time and, last week, I did it, even though I’ve tried very hard to resist the impulse.
Read the rest of this January 4, 2006 post (recovered February 25, 2011).
A few years back, when moving the blog location, I lost many of my older blog posts and images. Recently, while exploring the Internet Archive WayBackMachine, I discovered much of what I had lost. I’ll be restoring the lost material and will share some of the better “recovered blog posts.”
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Give me a break!
I hear now the board that’s used in a classroom can’t be called a black board or a white board. From what I understand, it’s derogatory to blacks or to whites if you use that kind of descriptive words – it’s either chalk board or marker board.
I guess it’s a good thing that there’s not anyone that might be traumatized by the use of the words chalk or marker.
I don’t know what you would call the boards then.
Read the rest of this October 20, 2004 post (recovered February 26, 2011).
A few years back, when moving the blog location, I lost many of my older blog posts and images. Recently, while exploring the Internet Archive WayBackMachine, I discovered much of what I had lost. I’ll be restoring the lost material and will share some of the better “recovered blog posts.”
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“The coast ain’t clear, __-___”
This isn’t our car and it’s not even the same model year, but the front end of our car looks something like this.
If I had just a moment and could turn back the clock, that’s what I’d tell the person that waved the kid through.
It’s what I would tell the kid, too.
We had just seen “True Grit” at a new theater that just opened about an hour’s drive from home. On the way home, we decided to go ten miles out of the way to go out to eat.
When it happened, we were driving on a road that is two lanes in each direction with a center turning lane.
We had just gone through a traffic light as it turned yellow. The next light had just turned green and the cars stopped there had started to move. We were in the southbound lane next to the turning lane and there were fewer cars ahead of us than there were in the other southbound lane.
Just after we made it through the light that had turned yellow, a car that I hadn’t seen darted through a gap in the other lane of traffic.
They had been waved through by a driver in that lane.
“The coast ain’t clear, __-___s”
We were about three blocks from the restaurant we had decided to go to.
I hit the brakes and thought that we just might make it – but realized, just before impact, that we weren’t going to.
We hit hard, but not so hard that the air bags deployed. The impact moved us a little sideways, so that the front, driver side tire was over the yellow line of the turning lane.
Shortly after the impact, the kid backed his car back into the drive of the convenience store, clearing one lane of traffic. The __-___ driver that had waved the kid through didn’t even stop to see if anyone was hurt. The accident happened right in front of their vehicle, but they just drove off.
Our car wasn’t going any place under it’s own power.
“My chest hurts.”
Karen still had her seatbelt on.
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Karen’s brother brought us home after she was released from the Emergency Room.
Karen is still hurting, but nothing is broken – according to the x-rays – and her heart is fine. She got a shot for pain at the Emergency Room and got a prescription for the same medication – something that doesn’t cause nausea.
I’m fine – no pains that I can attribute to the accident. Tomorrow may be a different story.
The car is 6 years old with quite a lot of mileage on it. It’s probably totaled. The cost of repair will probably be more than the value of the car.
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Yesterday, when I checked my phone as I was leaving the fitness center, I found a missed phone call from a number and area code that was not in my contact list and that I didn’t recognize. I didn’t try to call back, preferring, instead, to wait until after I got home and could find out where the area code is .
It turned out that the call was from Phoenix, Arizona.
Now, I do know some people who are living in the Phoenix area, but they were people from work who either quit and moved there to work or retired and moved there to work. I wouldn’t expect to hear from any of them.
However, there was a contract coordinator on one of the contracts jobs I did who worked out of Phoenix, though all of the communication with the contract company when I’m not working comes from the home office in Florida. Still, it was worth looking into a little bit more, but not enough to try calling back, yet.
I decided to try to do a reverse phone number look-up. For a price, personal information is available for the name a phone is in for almost every land line as well as many cell phones. There are varying amounts and varying plans that can be subscribed to. However, I don’t often have the need to track down personal information and I wasn’t about to pay for information about a call that might have been a wrong number. When I searched on the term “reverse look-up,” all I found were various websites trying to get my money when I tried to do a reverse phone number look-up.
Then I decided to do a search on the phone number in Google.
Sometimes ya just get lucky.
Some of the comments on one of the pages:
A credit card telemarketing scam! They are trying to get you to tell them your credit card number so they can charge your credit cards.
They keep calling me to my cell phone and I never give them my number,I don’t know how they got my number, they are violating my privacy calling to my cell phone I hope we can do something to stop this.
I get frequent "missed call" notices on my cell phone from this number (
). The caller is always too cowardly to leave a message. As another complaint filer noted, it appears to be a telemarketer. How are telemarketers getting our cell numbers?
The second time they called – same message, and this time I played along.
This is a complete and utter scam
How do I know? because I’ve never applied or carried a credit card – not even a store credit card! I prefer to operate on a cash basis. They have nothing to do with any existing credit card company nor are they calling on behalf of any company from what I gathered from them on the phone they are either a complete scam or an intermediary that will buy your debt from your existing company although he was very hazy and evasive on the phone. So the alarm going off in my head says scam – and under no circumstances should you give these people any information about yourself
They won’t be calling me from that number for a while.
Verizon Wireless lets customers block calls from up to 5 numbers for 90 days. It’s a temporary measure, but, hopefully, our numbers will have dropped off of their system by December 9.
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Carlos Irwin Estevez a.k.a. Charlie Sheen…. acchhh!
March 8, 2011
Two and half men,
Now, it’s a sin,
Old Charlie Sheen,
Screwin’ up a’gin!
(…and a’gin …and a’gin.)
I can honestly say that I’ve never watched a single episode of Sheen’s show. I also don’t watch much TV at all, but, lately I’ve seen far more of the pompous and erratic Mr. Sheen than I really ever wanted to.
However, I’m not really interested in writing about Sheen’s “situation.” To me, the real story is elsewhere.
The recent media and public attention has enabled his high profile professional self-destruction.
We’ve seen it over and over again where the problems and faults of a public personality have been more newsworthy than real world events – Tiger Woods, Linsay Lohan, Mel Gibson, Britney Spears, etc., etc., etc. Some stories flame out quickly and you don’t hear about them again until the celebrity screws up again. Others go on and on because of who the person is more than what the person has done. Then there are those like Sheen, who jumps on the media whoopla train and rides it to destruction.
The reason these things make it on air, online, and in print, of course, is because people pay attention when someone who has it made fails spectacularly – and, advertisers pay for what people tune in, go online, and read about.
Sheen has crashed, stories about it are are being watched and read everywhere – and his co-stars and all the support personnel for what was the most popular sitcom are now out of work.
I’ve seen more of it than I wanted to and I’m done paying much attention to it.
What about you?
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