Category: Rantings
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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
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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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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…
