Ace-Garageguy

Mee two.

Me me me me me. I mentioned something about the increasingly popular incorrect use of "aircrafts" as the plural of "aircraft", and it just went from there. EDIT: And, ummmm...it's "whose".

If I gave you an honest answer, as usual, I'd be banned.

Stopping point on the Chevelle build to get this billing cycle ready. 246 photos to label and key to the text, which itself will probably run to well over 10 pages. HOURS of tedious work on the computer this weekend... Ummmm...just exactly WHEN is AI going to be able to do this part of MY job...or any other part of it?

Car people are apparently not real good at understanding the technical definition of a sentence, as both of the entries above could have been sentences with just the tiniest extra effort....like adding the word "was" to each of them where appropriate.

I appreciate your response. I was not aware of those at all. Every bottle in that photo says "non buffing". Was there a "buffing" line as well?

To the best of my knowledge, there's NOTHING like the lovely old buffing metalizers. Yes, there are some decent metal-ish finishes, but they don't buff up like the Testors stuff did. Hmmmmm... Not to be argumentative, but the rattlecan buffing metalizers worked great right out of the rattlecan once you learned how to handle them. Are you referring to the little glass bottles of buffing product, which I thought (perhaps mistakenly) were sold concurrently with the rattlecan stuff?

It's called a "fender" by girls and moms and little boys if they don't know any better, but most car guys call it a "quarter panel"...though on earlier non-envelope-bodied cars it is indeed correctly called a fender. On those cars though, there's also a rear inner fender or wheel-well or inner well or under well... IIRC, 1949 was the year that separate rear fenders pretty much went away on US cars, and merged with the quarter panel...but the fender was still there actually, just migrated to inside the quarter panel and now called an inner fender or wheel well. The '49 Ford did away entirely with the separate fender... But GM held on to vestigial fenders longer... Of course, there are also multitudes who confuse fender and bumper too, so wat choo gonna doo?

Reformulation to save money or phase out "toxic" materials, resulting in a product that "goes off" quickly, in a planned-obsolescence kind of way? It's SOP now, ya know?

No one in jail ever sings: “my bologna has a first name, it’s O-S-C-A-R” when they serve Bologna sandwiches

Today's version often seems to be "Whatever is true, noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable - if anything is excellent or praiseworthy - tear it down, ridicule it, try to discredit it and then destroy every trace because it might oppress somebody".

Brand her forehead with a big red A.

Live in a pod. Eat ze bugs. Everything is a social construct. Our form of gubmint is a democracy... Might be straying a little far afield, you know, like flying too close to the sun if you know what I mean. Don't wanna melt those wax wings. Did somebody say something about a dead cat?

I don't know exactly when "myriad" became a noun as well as an adjective. When I was in school, myriad meant essentially "many", so saying "a myriad of something" was the same as saying "a many of something". Wrong, wrong, wrong. Today though, it seems to be perfectly fine to say "a myriad of something", with myriad meaning "number", as in "a number of something". To my ear, "a myriad" just sounds stupid. But I assume it's been misused for so long it's now accepted in the vernacular.

Sheeples is as sheeples does. It's funny that dumb and wrong seems to spread a lot faster than smart and right.

Same guy furiously pumping the gas pedal when it won't start...

Dogs and cats and even cows figured out it's cooler in the shade. But humans continue to cut down every tree in sight, and cover their roofs with black stuff.

Got it. Thank you.

Yup. I have several different issues years apart. Not a problem in the bunch.

Maybe it's time to change the thread title from "Blue Angels Killed a Cat" to "Grammar Pedants Beat a Dead Horse".

Yup...that "ed" where it doesn't belong, missing "to be", rankles. Oil needs changed, car needs washed, etc. Lately there seems to be a LOT of misunderstanding of tenses in general too. "Education", eh wot?

"Tat" is British slang for cheap crappola.

How about the name Hugh spelled "Huge" and vice-versa? Huge Hugh don't come 'round here no more.

I've had cats that totally freaked out whenever the neighborhood pyros started letting off firecrackers. Somehow it never occurred to me to sue anybody. I've also had cats that didn't twitch a whisker, looked around, had some chow, and went back to sleep. Definitely my preferred kind of feline personalities.