The only truly seasonal fruit I can think of now (as in, you can only get certain times of the year) are fresh cherries. Which makes them a real treat when they are in season.
My uncle had a television with an actual “clicker”. Opening a fresh 2 liter bottle of soda was also enough to change the channel.
I worked with a nonagenarian who’d grown up in the clubs of Greenwich Village. He was so amazed that cool was still cool. “A lot of old terms we used faded away, but we were using ‘cool’ back in the early '50s, I first heard it used by old jazz musicians back then. Even the beat poets… And hey, here we are, we’re still cool!”
None.
Says he defiantly.
Except that I now look for a longer stick to push a button or perhaps to reach something else just outside of reach.
No, actually, not kidding. Am 47 years young and in good health, with a good skeleton and muscles for miles…I just don’t like bending over to reach stuff.
Cf. Jean Gabin. When he got to be a certain age, if Peter Macsonofbitch is to be believed, he had it written into his contract he didn’t bend over in films.
Also, envious of those grabber sticks.
Be careful.
The way to become unable to bend over is to be unwilling to bend over. The way to remain spry is to behave spry.
That is so true. My gf took her mom to Florida to visit relatives. I have a typed list of things that need to be done each morning/evening wrt the horses, chickens, wildlife, etc. It’s almost like I’ve enrolled in a gym. I actually feel good doing the extra work.
Then again it is unseasonably warm outside. I shudder to think about doing her chores if it was cold and snowy.
I keep commenting on all the places (mostly restaurants) that are gone when I’m out driving around. And it makes me sad. Sniff
“Kids these days…”
Cara Cara’s come close. But yeah, I remember. I knew they were doomed though, because they had so many seeds.
The first Honeycrisps I ever bought were so big that I made a pie from a single one. The great thing they retain though, is that the skin does not get chalky when you bake them. Most apples have to be peeled if you want to heat them up. But a Honeycrisp, you can bake it stuffed or in a pie and just eat the whole thing.
The first word of Beowulf doesn’t mean “white”? or does it? I thought it was just some kind of utterance, like “all right!” or “OK!” or “Hey!”
It’s literally “what,” but in this context it is more like “Okay!” or “hey!”
There is a company that makes prepared dinners and delivers them to elderly customers. Their commercials show an elderly woman, remembering as a young girl about how they used to deliver milk.
They then show a younger man unloading dinners into a fridge, while the old woman says “and it’s always great to chat with Bob. He’s an old soul…”
Was the phrase “old soul” popular, referring to a younger man? Is it likely to appeal to the elderly?
My English professor who taught us Beowulf translated it as “Listen!”
It actually looks like a cognate of “what”-- don’t know why that never occurred to me before.
I spent my early childhood in the deep South in rather crappy public schools saying “cain’t” and “Chewsday” and “duddin-it” and “iddin-it” and “Co-cola” and “Seb-mup”, but damned if they didn’t drill in “Huh-wether” and “Huh-wite” hard enough to last a lifetime. They actually taught: when you see “WH”, just reverse the letters in your head before you say them. And they damn well enforced the rule.
Where did you grow up?
This is part of the wine - whine merger.
Growing up in Utah in the 60s and 70s, we defininately pronounced the “wh”. My mother and siblings still do.
When my kids were having English lessons in school in Taiwan, they were sure that their Taiwanese teachers were mispronouncing words such as “why”, “what” and “white.”
I wasn’t aware of this until I corrected a student’s pronunication and the parent explained that is how other teachers were teaching it. Oops.
… telling our teenage daughters to put on something on top of that short-crop top - so she doesn’t catch a cold …
does that qualify?
What [heh] inspired me to quote it was the spelling: first “h”, then “w”.
Which is still the dictionary pronunciation recommended to those without a wine-whine merger.