You’ve broken my brain. I think I say both EGG zit and EK sit, but now I can’t tell which is right or which I use more. I will never use that word again without thinking about which way to say it. Thanks a lot!
Same for me. Now I’m going to be in a burning building and when someone asks for help I’ll be standing there thinking “head for for nearest EGG-sit, no wait…”
In fact, you may find it more profitable as did P.T. Barnum. He put up signs in his museum reading "This Way to the Egress." Instead of finding what sounded like a new attraction, museum-goers found themselves outside and forced to pay another admission fee.
Console yourself with the fact that they are so close, it doesn't matter any more. It's a little like whether or not you pronounce a "T" or a tiny "t" in often. It most often doesn't matter.
linda.spiegler@frosch.com Gene, please do an entire piece on Eckers : not only can Ed Compton fix ANY watch or clock, and he made me one from scratch for our 55th (11 o'clock), but he'll type your name in Braille, and introduces you to his resident parrot. Also makes house calls if it's your grandfather clock that needs help. An amazing, very dear one-of-a-kind person who brightens any day--even these days NOW !
He fixes my great-uncle's bar mitzvah watch (probably cost $5 in 1904) whenever it decides it is too tired to go on. I hope Ed Compton never gets too tired to go on.
We canceled WaPo delivery yesterday, because of your excellent alternate news venue Washington Pist and my years of increasing irritation with it. As I read our last issue yesterday, starting as usual with comics, I wondered about your also excellent comic strip appearing in WaPo. That seems cognitive dissonance, out but still there.
Suggest the next iteration of the "Rachel Watch" have a functional crown to reveal not only "Now," but "Soon" and "Later" to add embodiment to the Manteuffel Special Theory of Relativity.
We'll know whom to turn to in November for some Exit polling.
You’ve broken my brain. I think I say both EGG zit and EK sit, but now I can’t tell which is right or which I use more. I will never use that word again without thinking about which way to say it. Thanks a lot!
Pat Myers, who came up with the idea for that question, finds herself reacting the same way.
Same for me. Now I’m going to be in a burning building and when someone asks for help I’ll be standing there thinking “head for for nearest EGG-sit, no wait…”
Me too!!
From now on it’s “egress” or nothing.
In fact, you may find it more profitable as did P.T. Barnum. He put up signs in his museum reading "This Way to the Egress." Instead of finding what sounded like a new attraction, museum-goers found themselves outside and forced to pay another admission fee.
I remember Jack Palance telling this story on Ripley’s Believe It or Not.
Console yourself with the fact that they are so close, it doesn't matter any more. It's a little like whether or not you pronounce a "T" or a tiny "t" in often. It most often doesn't matter.
Same for me….i can’t tell. We’re doomed.
linda.spiegler@frosch.com Gene, please do an entire piece on Eckers : not only can Ed Compton fix ANY watch or clock, and he made me one from scratch for our 55th (11 o'clock), but he'll type your name in Braille, and introduces you to his resident parrot. Also makes house calls if it's your grandfather clock that needs help. An amazing, very dear one-of-a-kind person who brightens any day--even these days NOW !
He fixes my great-uncle's bar mitzvah watch (probably cost $5 in 1904) whenever it decides it is too tired to go on. I hope Ed Compton never gets too tired to go on.
Can you order me a watch that says TWO WEEKS on its face? If not, I'll order my own in about a fortnight.
That watch is never wrong.
And you don't have to change it twice a year for daylight savings time.
Both are very good points.
Except it's Daylight Saving Time. -Pedantic Man
Jimmy Buffett lyrics to Breath In, Breathe Out, Move On
I bought a cheap watch from a crazy man
Floating down canal
It doesn't use numbers or moving hands
It always just says "now"
[Verse 2]
Now you may be thinking that I was had
But this watch is never wrong
And If I have trouble the warranty said
"Breathe in, breathe out, move on"
And in addition, it's always 5:00 NOW. Drink up.
If you’re in Charlottesville, then that means it’s a good time to send my best wishes to you and Rachel, for whatever they may be worth.
Thank you. Twill be fine.
We canceled WaPo delivery yesterday, because of your excellent alternate news venue Washington Pist and my years of increasing irritation with it. As I read our last issue yesterday, starting as usual with comics, I wondered about your also excellent comic strip appearing in WaPo. That seems cognitive dissonance, out but still there.
Rachel is my hero. Nice piece...
Now is as good a time as any!
The answer to many existential conundrums can be found in Jimmy’s body of work.
This is true. He was a wise man.
How about a watch that says "Island time"on the dial?
My cohort says “ ford. “ If my brother wanted to say “put your forehead forward,” he’d say “ put your ford ford.”
I think I say both at the same time, egg-ksit, but I can't be sure. Oh crap, now I'm conscious of my breathing.
Now she needs the rest of the set to complete her week (TUE, WED, THU, etc.)
It wouldn’t take my vote! I am morally offended!
Are you by chance Scottish?
Suggest the next iteration of the "Rachel Watch" have a functional crown to reveal not only "Now," but "Soon" and "Later" to add embodiment to the Manteuffel Special Theory of Relativity.