OUR ARCHIVES : January 2010

Senior Discount Please

My eyes are drawn to the word “free” like peanut to butter. But this article is not about free. It’s about free’s distant cousin, discount. Well, it’s actually discount’s older brother, senior discount. When I first became a geezer, I began noticing the words “senior discount.” Of course, I wasn’t interested. “I’m not really a [...]

Five Banned Words

There was a time, which is now, when there were seven words you absolutely could not say in any medium, except cable TV. To those must be added five more words, which have been banned from all media, advertising, and even cable TV. I am being allowed to use them here only because I have [...]