That’s Mister Sparrow to you.
Uh, it’s actually P-H-L-E-G-M. So long, now!
Venerable Bede sounds like it could be another name for phlegm.
Winurds–do not put them in the same sentence as a smim, or there WILL be trouble! Especially if there’s a fnord nearby. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
Xbox or Playstation?
Ywis, thysse alpha-bette hap cometh to its closen.
Zarilee, I think not as in thysse alpha-bette there are fourteen more midler’n characters.
Alpha Beta was a regional chain of grocery stores while I was growing up. What companies from your childhood do you remember?
Barenburg Optical made eyeglasses for 50 year old men. I was 10.
Cones at Star Drugstore in Galveston, the oldest drugstore in Texas. Best hand-packed ice cream, too (you ate your cone, then took home a quart for later).
Dime Stores: there were candies at G. C. Murphy’s or Woolworth’s that I will never taste again.
Everyone eventually goes out of business, alas.
Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlor in the Galleria, in Houston. I always ordered a big juicy hamburger on an onion roll, followed by a Banana Fudge Royal. They brought you a little metal cup of the hot fudge to pour on yourself. MMMMMM…
Gemco, where we’d go shopping every month. (It’s a Target now.)
Hooks Drugs, which was the rival of Haags Drugs, both of which were purchased by Osco Drugs, which has since been purchased by WalGreens.
I used to go to Sav-on, which I guess is CVS…whcih I guess is Osco…
JustaBurger is gone forever, I guess.
Kresge’s was a great store. It became** K** Mart.
Long list of small local businesses lost when the megastores arrived, including a bookstore, bakery, furniture and hardware stores. It was especially sad when the little bookstore closed. 
Murphy’s was already mentioned, but when the Smurfs started getting popular, the store near me changed their name (briefly) to Smurphy’s.