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Remember when the big toilet paper debate was putting the roll over or under? Make way for the fatberg! 27 Aug 2013 | 12:48 pm
When it comes to putting the toilet paper roll on the holder, I grew up in an “over” household. But somewhere along the way I converted to “under”. I understand that I am the minority here, but in tr...
Put a ring on it… 26 Aug 2013 | 12:15 pm
Before I leave to take a ride on the T – Boston’s public transpo system – I take my Charlie Card (smart card that contains the electronic version of the subway tokens that used to clang around in chan...
Call 911 for a cable outage? Oh, grow up! 23 Aug 2013 | 11:53 am
It’s not as if I’ve never called 911. Why, in just the last couple of years, I have dialed it on several occasions. Last December, we smelled burning wires. The odor seemed to me to be emanating fro...
The Boredom Room 22 Aug 2013 | 12:18 pm
Somewhere, early on in my work life, I worked at a bank. There were a couple of older men who “worked” in our immediate area who didn’t appear to have all that much to do. They came in late, had long...
Brand Maasai 21 Aug 2013 | 11:29 am
The world these days is much more brand-conscious than it once was, say, back in the olden times of the 1960’s and 1970’s. No, today Brands “R” Us, which, I suspect, is a brand violation in its own r...
Nick Beef: let the crazy 50th anniversary JFK assassination stories begin 20 Aug 2013 | 12:17 pm
With the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination just around the corner, we will all need to gear up for an onslaught of related – however tangentially - stories. What are Marina Oswald’s daughter...
Royalty is just so NOT what it used to be. (“Romanian princess arrested in Oregon cockfighting sweep.”) 19 Aug 2013 | 12:35 pm
Well, I suppose that, having lived through Sarah Ferguson (Duchess of York) trying to sell access to Prince Andrew, and Prince Charles having once pined to be Camilla Parker-Bowles’ tampon, no royal b...
Monopoly Empire (We li-ive in a material world…) 16 Aug 2013 | 01:04 pm
Last month, my sister Kathleen had a wonderful post on her blog – yes, we’re the bloggin’ sisters - about the latest brand-extension to the Monopoly line. Monopoly Empire joins such properties as th...
High on the hill stood the lonely goatherd, no doubt wearing lederhosen 15 Aug 2013 | 11:47 am
I will be the first to admit that pursuing my (half) German heritage has never been high on my to-do list. Not that I ignore it entirely, but I just grew up far more Irish- than German-identified. A...
If the stakes weren’t so high, conman James McCormick would be LOL funny. But the stakes are so very, very high… 14 Aug 2013 | 12:21 pm
Interesting article a few weeks back in Business Week on a British businessman conman named James McCormick, who’s now serving a ten year sentence for selling the Iraqis (among others) real fake bomb ...
