I Hope You Won’t be Triggered by This:(ITM)

My grandfather was a General Contractor and my dad helped him when he was a teenager and early 20’s.

Her efforts reminded me of something they would say, any time they would make some kind of mistake:

”I don’t understand it:  I’ve cut it back twice, and it’s still too short.”

Yes, they do vote, however rarely is it for the person they were intending to vote for.

I was the General Manager of the Black Angus in Montclair when this game was played.  So I got to watch it live on the big screen in the lounge.

i was already an Angels fan, but one simply cannot dismiss great baseball moments (hint:  speed ahead to 6:50 if you don’t need to see Eckersley pitch him to a 3/2 count)

It’s like the moon landing:  Everyone remembers where they were. 

i started this thread as a salve to the everyday politics-as-usual and the brow-beating those with a rational thought process must endure because of it.  Anything I find that might momentarily take our minds off the flotsam and the jetsam, I will put in here, and I invite everyone to do the same.  Not jokes, though, because we have another thread for those.

The one on Euclid, almost across the street from the Anaheim Plaza:

in the door, down to the right, big corner booth on the end:  I remember sitting there, facing N/E, reading that very menu as if there was the slightest chance I’d order anything other than a Big Boy Combo and a chocolate shake.  

This is a tough one, actually. "Bob" is clearly an anachronistic gender-binary appellation. "Bobbie" is occasionally used by cis-gender individuals with two X chromosomes, but for that reason again it's too noninclusive.

We need a nonjudgmental, all-inclusive name for the clearly gender fluid icon-formally-known-as-"Bob."

Pat? Lex? Moonbeam? MDDad? We need to get a consensus here.

Further, "big" can be used as a closet pejorative for the body-mass-index disadvantaged. Possible alternatives include "othersized", "gravitationally challenged", or the current widely used but mediocre "plus-sized."

"Boy" is clearly a remnant of the white male aristocracy's well-documented penchant for using hidden symbols and signs to oppress people of color, other examples being statues of Ulysses Grant and Abraham Lincoln, memorials to 9/11, and Mount Rushmore. Some of our naïve, unawakened colleagues have suggested the word "human", not realizing that the presence of the derivative "man" clearly suggests XY superiority/dominance. How long, oh Lord?

Similarly, "personage" is clearly unacceptable given its middle syllable. "Biped" should be considered, implying as it does the obvious equality of all primates and the rejection of the speciesist assumption of homo sapiens superiority.

"Soul"? "Individual"?

Personally, I would have to go with "Moonbeam's Other-Sized Biped". Granted, it doesn't quite roll off the tongue but I'm confident none of us will be offended which, after all, is the purpose of the English language.

Other opinions are welcome..............................Luca