Category: Rantings
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Riot, Right? Wrong!
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22257 – 778: Here’s the haps: Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment: (Exo 23:2) KJV “Don’t do something just because everyone else is doing it. If you see a group…
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Curmudgeonly Monday On Saturday – Putting The “X” Back In Xmas & My Holiday Theme Song
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22191 – 755: Here’s the haps: Last year on Christmas Day I posted “Merry Xmas!” and was able to reason with the torch-bearing mob by explaining that putting an “X” in Christmas has been going on for a long time and in and of itself is not…
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Water And Oil Mix – If It’s Snake Oil
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22176 – 746: From prior to the 1800s all the way to the 1950s and even today, there is a group of people who hold many titles, but are basically all the same; unscrupulous salesmen called, “Snake-Oil Salesmen.” (See I didn’t even mention politicians.) In the Old…
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I Regale With Another Retail Tale Of Behavior Beyond The Pale
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22171 – 741: As my title implies, I have found yet another story from the archives from the job at the first big blue box store. When I found this small cache of stories I figured I would share them with you and also keep up with…
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The Code Of The West
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22170 – 740: One of the strangest and most annoying things to me is city people who move to the country and then whine about how much better they had it in the city. Several years ago I used to ride the bus with a twerpy little…
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I Feel Sad For New Car Owners
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22169 – 739: You know, I feel sorry for some of the people who drive these brand new cars. Not so much that they are pretentious, which some are, of course, but rather that people have to get them without all the niceties. If I were to…
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I Found This Entry Without A Link Back To The Owner – What To Do? Netiquette On The High Seas
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*EDIT/ADD 9/19/20 – Since this theft was posted about here and on Ben’s blog, Mr. Hamson replied to Ben’s e-mail and removed the post from his site.* Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22141 – 713: Arrgh, Since tomorrow, 9/19/20, be International Talk Like A Pirate Day I thought ’twas ironic that I…
