Category: Rantings
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Curmudgeonly Monday – Please, I Beg You, Just Wait Even If Retailers Can’t
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22920 – 1007 Here’s the haps: I have had this blog for 18 years although there was a time of major depression when I didn’t post on it at all until I reached a dark epiphany about myself which you can read about here if you’d like. Anyway,…
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“Feelin’ Froggy? Then Eat A Live Frog,” Mark Twain?
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22851 – 995 Here’s the haps: I was visiting someone’s blog a while ago and they quoted Mark Twain as saying, “If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And if it’s your job to eat two frogs,…
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Blogging A – Z Challenge 2022: Zee or Zed, Let’s Put This Thing To Bed
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22727 – 976 Here’s the haps: “It’s a good thing we won that Revolutionary War or we’d all be speaking English today.” Americans are almost the only ones to end the alphabet by pronouncing the last letter, “zee.” The rest of the English-speaking world says, “zed.” Apparently, the…
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I Must Reprimand The Chauffeur – The Warranties Are Expired‽
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22628 – 936 Here’s the haps: I have found a way that worked for a week or two getting the car warranty people to leave me be. I went through the recording and got to the part where I could talk to a live person. I then told…
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Enunciate When You Pronunciate!
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22626 – 934 Here’s the haps: <><><><><><><><> I have several readers who are non-native English speakers and several others what don’t talk good American but speak English, instead. Canada, The UK, Australia, New Zealand all have quirks of their own. “Can you imagine if we had lost the…
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An Open Letter To Anyplace That Uses A Phone Tree – Curmudgeonly Monday On Tuesday
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22599 – 912 Here’s the haps: People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. The chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches. Adam…
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A Blog Post Curated For you By Me
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22596 – 909 Here’s the haps: There are a couple of words that have been overused, misused and flat out abused. Lately, the word curated seems to come up everywhere in regard to pretty much anything. The second definition of the word means to organize and sift through…
