Yep, 555 (or “KL5”) is used so that a real number is not given out.
Some grocery stores have handles on the bags but for the most part paper grocery bags do not have handles. Paper inside plastic, or plastic alone, is used for carrying by the handles.
i still don’t understand how vertical boards keep the rain out.
The stupidest one for abnormal sized places (besides Friends) was Mad About You. They had an episode where they are trapped in the bathroom and it is the size of an airport. THEN, they are getting ready for baby and it’s revealed that they have a whole second bedroom they are paying for that’s just filled with junk. Right, even with her in a corporate job that seems unrealistic.
Dang it, us folks down here in Georgia wuz criticized fer not wearin’ shoes right up 'til FDR brung us ‘lectricity . Now yer criticizin’ us 'cuz we DO wear shoes! Make up yer minds whatcha want!
I’ve seen a few grand school buildings in Atlanta and some small Georgia towns, as you describe them, and even attended a few when I was very young. This would have been back in the '50’s. These were old buildings built back in the '10s and '20s, and there weren’t a lot of 'em left even then. I don’t know if there are any at all any more, at least not around where I live.
To be part of the Chinese-food hijack, there’s one restaurant in town that I know of that still gives take-away in paper cartons. SOMETIMES. At least they do it for doggybags. Everywhere else gives a metal or plastic or Styrofoam carton.
In fact, I have a Styrofoam carton of utterly luscious sesame chicken and steamed broccoli and rice I’m bringing to work with me for lunch today… Of course the broccoli will have wilted by the time I nuke it to mouth-searing temps for dinner, but…
I know what you mean. I still see people in Georgia going without shoes in summer … saw a whole family hiking to the store barefoot not too long ago. It’s not that they can’t afford shoes, they don’t like 'em. And I speak as one, as a kid, from April until October while at home wore a pair of shorts and that was about it. Add a T-shirt for special occasions. But shoes? What a bummer!
Of course, we Americans are wealthy enough to keep the outdoors manicured so we can wear shoes inside and go barefoot outside without making a mess. That’s what all those Mexicans are doing here.
Thanks for the pictures of vertical slats The Gaspode. Now that I’ve seen them I know I’ve seen them before (they look nice), but I too wonder how they’re supposed to keep rain and snow out.
Well, I do try not to step in mud, dogshit, dead beetles, filthy goobies and God knows what else. If you’re walking from the bus/car to the front door, most people walk on sidewalks, then the front walk, then the front steps, so you don’t have to walk in mud, then many homes have shoe scrapers (usually made out of plastic or carpet). I wouldn’t knowingly go leaving mud tracks on someone’s floor or carpet. Now that would be rude. If it were pouring rain or snowing heavily and I couldn’t clean them off my shoes before entering, then I probably would take them off to keep the drippage down, but obviously, it’s happened so few times that I can’t even think of when the last time was.
We have a carpet throw in front of our front and back door so people can wipe off their shoes. A lot of people have them.
Geez, I’ll let you know if Homeland Security comes calling. runs to throw away Outfoxed and The Republican Noise Machine before they get here
Has anyone made mention of how incrediby neat and clean American TV homes are, even those with kids and pets and no maid service? They all look like model homes waiting for a buyer to walk through.
Americans don’t seem to have pets, unless the pet in question is part of the storyline at that moment. Even households you know have pets you rarely see them, you don’t see food and water bowls, no one ever walks the dog.
No one does yardwork. Those lawns magically get mowed, the hedges trimmed and the flowers planted.
As for the shoes indoors, I always wear either shoes or slippers. The wood floors get cold, you know. If my shoes are muddy, I’ll take them off at the door but put something else on immediately.
I used to do that til the time I got sick as a dog. Now I try to remember to get it in the fridge that night. I still don’t nuke it, though. Ice cold out of the fridge is still tasty, imho (especially Canadian bacon & pineapple), and still better than reheated.
Well, no, there’s nothing inherently wrong with cold pizza, but it’s just when it’s supposedly fresh, hot pizza, and the slices they pick are stiff as a board - it’s one of those little things that always jump out at me.
It doesn’t really qualify as a continuity error - what would you call it? Prop error?
The verticle slats thing was big around here in the late '60s into the '70s. Today they are usually considered an unatractive artifact of the past. It’s not at all common to see them in new construction. As far as seeing them on TV, well there is this.
For the most part, at least around these parts, paper grocery bags have gone the way of the dodo. Except they put my wine in a little paper bag inside the plastic bag. They still have paper grocery bags, and the baggers at Publix always say “Is plastic okay?” so I guess somebody still likes paper, but I never see them around anymore.
Stands to reason – after all, if you’re the Props Director who has to portray as a hotshot office executive loaded with the latest and greatest geewhiz wizardry, are you really going to plop him down behind a generically bland Dell tower? Or, worse, a cow-patterend Gateway leftover? :eek:
Mac users: cutting-edge, sexy, with-it, intelligent.
Windows users: dull, boring, generic, cheap.
Wow, I must live in Siberia. We still have paper grocery bags (some places like Trader Joe’s have the nice ones with handles!), and as I said before, we still get Chinese food in the folded paper cartons. I’m surprised I can’t get milk in glass bottles.
Even if I stay on the sidewalks, there is no way to avoid snow if it’s winter, or mud if it’s wet out. I have never seen a perfect strech of sidewalk that somehow remains 100% rain, snow, and mud free in all my years. Even with a shoe scraper and “mud rug,” there is no way to get all the sand, water, and crud out of the treads in my shoes, so off they come at the door. Trust me, I’ve tried. I have spent what seems like several minutes (probably more like one) wiping, pounding, and scraping shoes on a welcome mat, shoe scraper, and two “mud rugs”, and still, when I walked onto the hardwood floor, BAM, water and dirt coming off of my shoes. It just makes more sense to me to take them off. I can not clean my floors for a month and you’d never know because there is never anything on them.
