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Category: Rantings

  • Be Quiet Please or Thank You For Stopping

    Be Quiet Please or Thank You For Stopping

    Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22582 – 895 Here’s the haps: I had to go pick up prescriptions a couple of days ago. The line at the pharmacy was long. Longer than usual, about 7 or 8 people deep. Fortunately one of the things I learned in the Army was the process known…

  • 41 Years and The Gecko Gets Us

    41 Years and The Gecko Gets Us

    Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22404 – 841: Here’s the haps: My Dear Readers, Fans, Friends, Fiends, Foes, Family, Foundlings, Frogs, Hairy Frogs, and Freaks of Nature, Greetings. I apologize for not writing sooner. Last week my wife and I celebrated our 41st wedding anniversary. A beautiful milestone and I took off some…

  • Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: L Is For Lunchtime Labels

    Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: L Is For Lunchtime Labels

    Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22349 – 814: Here’s the haps: So this is the kind of silliness that makes me want to laugh out loud so maniacally and so hard that people fear and dogs and little children start to whine. “Mommy, why is that man banging his head so hard against…

  • Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: G is for G Rated Content

    Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: G is for G Rated Content

    Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22343 – 809: Here’s the haps: First, I will confess that by definition there are times when my content is PG, even, possibly PG-13. And yes, someone is going to point out that I do my best to withhold support for hollyweird and the entertainment industry so why…

  • Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: E is for Epically Awesome, Dude And Other Phrases That I Literally Dislike

    Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: E is for Epically Awesome, Dude And Other Phrases That I Literally Dislike

    Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22341 – 807: Here’s the haps: There are some words and phrases which have figuratively been used to death. Epic and Awesome are two words that are just so abused anymore that they really don’t have any meaning. When I heard this snippet of conversation, “Dude! It was…

  • Please Read or Re-Read Fahrenheit 451 (please)

    Please Read or Re-Read Fahrenheit 451 (please)

    Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22308 – 792: Here’s the haps: Sixteen years ago I wrote a post called, “Which Books Should Be Banned?” In that post I described the processes that should be undertaken if a particular book is considered offensive. Now, I read where Dr. Seuss’s publishing company, which is owned…

  • Dear Telephone Solicitor Wanting Business With Me, No, My Call Is NOT Important To You Or You’d Answer The Phone OR Don’t Call Us, Child, We’ll Call You

    Dear Telephone Solicitor Wanting Business With Me, No, My Call Is NOT Important To You Or You’d Answer The Phone OR Don’t Call Us, Child, We’ll Call You

    Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22275 – 784: Here’s the haps: I am old-fashioned about a lot of things. We live in a society today of rudeness and telephones are one of the worst places for lacking manners. And it isn’t just that people have no sense of decency or privacy and…

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