“…There’s nothing good on TV.” Is she speaking of right now, or a general, permanent condition? If the latter, I’ll vote with her. We gave away our last TV in about 2008, and haven’t missed it.
Hmmm…I Googled “Cosco”, but all I got was a shipping company and a home-and-office-products company. Are “hot dogs” now classified as home products? I suppose that makes sense.
Using trains was old-fashioned when I was in school, a couple centuries ago. When I taught physics, I used more exciting examples. "Lois Lane has just been pushed off the roof of the Daily Planet building, which is 550 meters tall. Superman arrives 0.75 seconds after she starts her plummet. His maximum acceleration is 12g [and the student is expected to have memorized the fact that 1g of acceleration is 9.8 m/s2 (⬅︎ that “2” is an exponent). Will he be able to save his girl friend in time? (You can tell this is an old test: Superman isn’t married yet).
It’s often claimed that a misplaced or missing comma can completely change the meaning of a sentence. I guess the same thing could be said for quotation marks!
All school buses have barriers that swing out to the side to help prevent cars from swooping past. Usually they swing out from the front of the bus. I don’t know enough about dog physiology to understand how Louis is doing that.
In fact, Dad has them produced in northern Sweden once a year, only for him. If you look at one of the strips at a zoom level of 2200% or more, you can see his name embroidered on the waistband. That’s how I discovered what their last name is. No, I’m not gonna tell you: you’ve gotta get a better monitor.
And Hamhock is Līo!