Got my aunt's rotary phone in the closet.
DagwoodIII
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I have two. Ginger beer tastes great, and it's helpful if you've got a cold or stomach ache.
It's a 'soft drink' only because it doesn't have alcohol. Manhattan Special Espresso soda. I'd see the old Italian men drinking it when they played bocce. Three bottles have enough caffeine to give you heart palpitations.
I loved 'The Rockford Files' when I was growing up.
Rewatch and notice that they used exact amounts of money in the dialog. "Hey, this is a $75.00 jacket" or "$5 for a martini?"
They don't do that anymore, because prices from even five years ago seem insane.
In terms of clichés, I'd go with 'they see the glass as half empty.'
Not exact, but close enough
It's like any other skill. If you keep it up you'll remain proficient and if you don't it'll eventually fade away.
That's the amazing thing about Trump.
No matter how low the bar is, he always manages to be worse than you could imagine.
I've been hoping for his people to see the light since 2015.
They stuck with him when he admitted that Trump University was a scam...
They stuck with him when Mexico didn't pay for the Wall...
They stuck with him when a million people died of Covid...
I hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
I was living in New York when the Tower first went up. When I was in the area I decided to stroll in and see what the controversy was about. At street level it's just black glass. Inside it's all gold with a waterfall. I thought it looked like a big golden toilet.
Trump went on Howard Stern and boasted about barging into the dressing rooms at the Miss Teen USA pageant. He famously perved on his own daughter. This is nothing new
Back when Trump put up his tower, Jackie Kennedy Onassis was famously fighting to preserve New York landmarks like Grand Central Station. Trump's own architect told him to leave the façade of the building alone, but Trump overruled him. Trump blew the perfect opportunity to get in good with elites because he was too greedy and arrogant.
Bonus- there's a guest apperance by John Barron!!
Historical context.
Inflation started becoming a problem in the late 1960s. LBJ wanted to have a massive Vietnam War without raising taxes, so he printed money. Nixon ran as a 'peace candidate' and then tripled down on Johnson's policies. For a while, running the steel mills 24/7 to make bombs was popular with the Unions and Wall Street, but when the Arab Oil boycott hit everything went off the rails.
Jimmy Carter hire Paul Volker to run the Fed; Volker's plan worked but Carter lost in 1980 and Reagan got the credit. Worse, Reagan let the banks print money to fund the 'go-go' 1980s.
In 1968, middle class was one income supporting a family of four. In 1992, when Bush Sr. was done, 'middle class' was two incomes. During the same time, $1 million went from being a vast fortune to what a rich guy paid for a party.
Of course they don't want the people in deep Red States to have access to new ideas.