tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-320185402024-03-08T16:42:56.596-05:00Book Doctor GwenBook Doctor Gwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08371670634917502649noreply@blogger.comBlogger87125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32018540.post-4365644098854087192010-06-22T22:32:00.005-04:002010-06-22T23:28:35.660-04:00<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:180%;"><strong>Chronology of Auto Safety Firsts</strong><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>. . . Being in Detroit, one cannot escape having some connection to the auto industry. My dad worked for Chrysler for a long time, and he started at least three clubs for grown men who collect toy cars, and I was often called on to run his booth at toy shows while he was off schmoozing with other automotive enthusiasts.</em></span><br /><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>Despite all that, automotive history is not a hot topic for me, but I am interested in the history of safety improvements. Thus this little chronology was born.</em></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"><em>Unfortunately some experts disagree on exactly when an innovation appeared or who invented it. For example, there is a lot of disagreement over when and where the first traffic signal appeared. When I found conflicting dates I usually took the earlier date. Most of these factoids came from one of three primary sources, Borth, Phillips, or Cantor, listed at the end.</em></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br /><strong>1900. First automotive headlights</strong>, kerosene, 20-candle-power, offered by R. E. Dietz Company, NYC. <span style="font-size:85%;">Borth.</span><br /><br /><strong>1900. First car with a steering wheel rather than a tiller</strong>. <span style="font-size:85%;">Phillips.</span><br /><br /><strong>1901. Connecticut passes first auto speed laws</strong>; other states soon follow. <span style="font-size:85%;">Borth.</span><br /><br /><strong>1901. First car with a speedometer</strong>, Oldsmobile. <span style="font-size:85%;">Phillips.</span><br /><br /><strong>1902. First motor vehicle with running boards</strong>; these were added as a safety feature due to the sheer height of seats from the ground. <span style="font-size:85%;">Phillips.</span><br /><br /><strong>1903. First car with a windshield</strong>. <span style="font-size:85%;">Phillips.</span><br /><br /><strong>1903. First car with shock absorbers</strong>, which improve safety by reducing road shock felt by the driver through the steering wheel. <span style="font-size:85%;">Phillips.</span><br /><br /><strong>1903. First car with carbide gas headlights</strong>. <span style="font-size:85%;">Phillips.</span><br /><br /><strong>1906. First car with front bumpers</strong>. <span style="font-size:85%;">Borth, Phillips.</span><br /><br /><strong>1907. First electric turn signal</strong> is patented. Prior to this, a mechanical turn signal was invented but not patented by early movie star Florence Lawrence.<br /><br /><strong>1907. First vehicle with camel-hair brake linings</strong>. <span style="font-size:85%;">Phillips.</span><br /><br /><strong>1907. First speed bumps constructed</strong>, Glencoe, Illinois. <span style="font-size:85%;">Borth.</span><br /><br /><strong>1908. First cars with interchangeable parts</strong>, seen as a safety improvement due to replacement parts being better fits, Cadillac. <span style="font-size:85%;">Phillips.</span><br /><br /><strong>1908. First car with electric headlights with dimmers</strong>. <span style="font-size:85%;">Phillips.</span><br /><br /><strong>1908. First car with a magnetic speedometer</strong>. <span style="font-size:85%;">Phillips.</span><br /><br /><strong>1908. First four-wheel-drive automobile</strong>, made by Otto Zachow and William Besserdich of Clintonville, Wisconsin. <span style="font-size:85%;">Borth.</span><br /><br /><strong>1909. First steering wheel with a corrugated underside</strong> to offer a better grip to the driver. <span style="font-size:85%;">Borth.</span><br /><br /><strong>1909. First mile of concrete pavement opened</strong>, on Woodward Avenue between 6 Mile Road and 7 Mile Road, Detroit, on July 4. <span style="font-size:85%;">Borth.</span><br /><br /><strong>1910. First Standardization Committee is organized</strong>, under the auspices of the Society of Automotive Engineers. <span style="font-size:85%;">Borth.</span><br /><br /><strong>1911. First lane markings</strong>, painted by Edward N. Hines, on River Road near Trenton, Wayne county, Michigan; by 1922 all paved roads in Wayne county (Detroit area) had center lines. <span style="font-size:85%;">Cantor.</span><br /><br /><strong>1911. First car having a rear-view mirror</strong> was used by Ray Harroun in the first Indianapolis 500; he won the race. <span style="font-size:85%;">Phillips.</span><br /><br /><strong>1911. First self-starter mechanism</strong> to become standard is invented by Charles F. Kettering. <span style="font-size:85%;">Phillips.</span><br /><br /><strong>1912. First car with an engine temperate indicator</strong>. <span style="font-size:85%;">Borth.</span><br /><br /><strong>1912. First car with vacuum-operated wipers</strong> rather than those operated by hand. <span style="font-size:85%;">Phillips.</span><br /><br /><strong>1912. First system of markings for major routes</strong>, applied to trunklines, painted on telephone poles by William B. Bachman, Michigan. He started with different colored stripes around telephone poles, but by 1920 he had run out of colors and switched to numbers. <span style="font-size:85%;">Cantor.</span><br /><br /><strong>1913. First wraparound windshield</strong>, offered by Kissel Kar on some of its models. <span style="font-size:85%;">Borth.</span><br /><br /><strong>1914. First adjustable driver seat</strong>, offered by Maxwell. <span style="font-size:85%;">Borth.</span><br /><br /><strong>1914. First stop sign installed</strong>, Detroit. <span style="font-size:85%;">Borth,</span> <span style="font-size:85%;">Phillips.</span><br /><br /><strong>1914. First mechanical traffic signal</strong>, invented by Garrett A. Morgan, installed in Cleveland, Ohio. The signal had signs for Go, Stop, and All Stop. <span style="font-size:85%;">Phillips, Cantor.</span><br /><br /><strong>1915. First tilt-beam headlights</strong>, Cadillac.<br /><br /><strong>1915. First prism lenses for headlights</strong>.<br /><br /><strong>1915. First national highway construction law</strong>, called the Federal Aid Road Act, was signed into law; it paid 50% costs for improvement of any road that carried US mail. <span style="font-size:85%;">Borth.</span><br /><br /><strong>1916. First car with a slanting windshield to reduce glare</strong>. <span style="font-size:85%;">Phillips.</span><br /><br /><strong>1916. First meeting of the first automobile club</strong>, established, in part, carry out a program of service to safety for motorists and tourists, founded by Martin Pulcher, June 24, called the Detroit Automobile Club. <span style="font-size:85%;">Cantor.</span><br /><br /><strong>1916. First safety patrol program established in an elementary school</strong>, Newark, New Jersey. Other cities soon establish similar programs. <span style="font-size:85%;">Cantor.</span><br /><br /><strong>1917. First crow's nest in which a traffic control officer is stationed</strong>, established in Detroit, at the corner of Woodward and Michigan Avenue, 9 October.<br /><br /><strong>1917. First enclosed cars with heating</strong>. <span style="font-size:85%;">Borth.</span><br /><br /><strong>1919. First car with standard front and rear bumpers</strong>, Wescott touring car. <span style="font-size:85%;">Borth.</span><br /><br /><strong>1919. First three-color traffic light</strong>. <span style="font-size:85%;">Borth.</span><br /><br /><strong>1919. First cars with indirect lighting</strong> of dashboard instruments. <span style="font-size:85%;">Borth.</span><br /><br /><strong>1920. First three-color, four-way traffic light</strong>, invented by William L. Potts, a Detroit police lieutenant. <span style="font-size:85%;">Cantor.</span><br /><br /><strong>1920. First car with four-wheel hydraulic brakes</strong>, developed by Malcolm Loughead (Lockheed), Duesenberg. <span style="font-size:85%;">Borth.</span><br /><br /><strong>1921. First system of synchronized traffic signals</strong>, Detroit. <span style="font-size:85%;">Borth.</span><br /><br /><strong>1921. First car with backup lights</strong> that automatically turn on when the car is put into reverse, offered by Wills-St. Claire. <span style="font-size:85%;">Borth.</span><br /><br /><strong>1922. First car with a gas gauge</strong>; or, in other words, a dashboard instrument showing the level of gasoline in tank; thus the driver was no longer forced to pull over and use a dipstick to establish how much gasoline was in the car. <span style="font-size:85%;">Phillips.</span><br /><br /><strong>1922. First electrically interlocked traffic signal system</strong>, established in Houston, Texas. <span style="font-size:85%;">Borth.</span><br /><br /><strong>1922. First time motor-driven vehicles are used to clear snow from roads</strong>. <span style="font-size:85%;">Borth.</span><br /><br /><strong>1924. First cars with headlights with two filaments</strong>, thus allowing headlight bulbs to project low beams and brights.<br /><br /><strong>1925. Uniform markings are standardized for federal highways</strong>: even numbers for east-west roads, odd numbers for north-south roads. <span style="font-size:85%;">Borth.</span><br /><br /><strong>1926. First windshields made of "shock-proof" safety glass</strong> comprised of two layers of glass enclosing a layer of celluloid, Rickenbacker. <span style="font-size:85%;">Borth.</span><br /><br /><strong>1928. First roadways with no-passing zones indicated with yellow lines painted adjacent to white lines</strong>, invented by Michigan governor Fred W. Green; accident rates were significantly lowered after these were deployed.<br /><br /><strong>1927. First research into aerodynamics as applied to auto bodies</strong>, by Carl Breer. <span style="font-size:85%;">Borth.</span><br /><br /><strong>1927. First internal expanding hydraulic brake system</strong>, invented by Malcolm Loughead (Lockheed). <span style="font-size:85%;">Borth.</span><br /><br /><strong>1929. First car with tail lights on both sides of the car</strong>. <span style="font-size:85%;">Borth.</span><br /><br /><strong>1929. First car with front-wheel drive</strong>, Cord. <span style="font-size:85%;">Borth.</span><br /><br /><strong>1929. Detroit establishes the first traffic court</strong>; in other words, a court created solely to hear traffic cases; this was done in order to put an end to the common practice of letting auto thieves and reckless drivers off with a slap on the wrist due to the sheer volume of cases that clogged the Recorder's Court. <span style="font-size:85%;">Cantor.</span><br /><br /><strong>1930. First police cars with radios</strong>. <span style="font-size:85%;">Borth.</span><br /><br /><strong>1932. First car with adjustable inside sun visors</strong>. <span style="font-size:85%;">Phillips.</span><br /><br /><strong>1933. First cars with power brakes</strong>. <span style="font-size:85%;">Borth.</span><br /><br /><strong>1936. Hudson cars are made with a steel torque arm called a "radical safety control" which provides for easier steering and braking</strong>; Hudson also adds an emergency backup braking system that goes into effect if the primary brakes fail. <span style="font-size:85%;">Borth.</span><br /><br /><strong>1937. First windshield washing system</strong>, Studebaker. <span style="font-size:85%;">Borth, Phillips.</span><br /><br /><strong>1937. First car with an adjustable seat that goes not only back and forth but up and down</strong>, Chrysler. <span style="font-size:85%;">Borth.</span><br /><br /><strong>1937. Oldsmobile and Buick both offer an automatic gearshift called an "automatic safety transmission."</strong> <span style="font-size:85%;">Borth.</span><br /><br /><strong>1938. First car with self-canceling turn signals</strong>, Buick. <span style="font-size:85%;">Borth.</span><br /><br /><strong>1940. First car with two-speed windshield wipers</strong>, Chrysler. <span style="font-size:85%;">Borth.</span><br /><br /><strong>1942. National speed limit</strong> set at 40 mph to conserve gasoline; later it is lowered to 35 mph. <span style="font-size:85%;">Borth.</span><br /><br /><strong>1946. First cars with radio-telephones</strong>. <span style="font-size:85%;">Borth.</span><br /><br /><strong>1946. First car with self-adjusting brakes</strong>, Studebaker. <span style="font-size:85%;">Phillips.</span><br /><br /><strong>1948. First trucks with power steering</strong>. <span style="font-size:85%;">Phillips.</span><br /><br /><strong>1948. First dual-control cars</strong> for use in high school driver training classes. <span style="font-size:85%;">Borth.</span><br /><br /><strong>1948. Tucker 48</strong>, a.k.a. Tucker Torpedo, a.k.a. Tucker Sedan, carries a number of innovative and first-time safety features including: seatbelts, roll bar in the roof, crash frame around entire car, padded dashboard, interior free of protruding hooks and handles, directional middle headlight that turns as the front wheels turn, scooped fenders to protect car from being hit by objects thrown up by tires, steering box placed behind front axle to protect driver in front-end collision, pop-out windshield, rear engine to keep exhaust fumes away from passengers, parking brake with its own lock and key. Other safety features which were invented for the car but not included in the final design: disc brakes, self-sealing tubeless tires, fuel injection, torque converter. <span style="font-size:85%;">Borth.</span> (Although it produced 51 vehicles, the Tucker corporation failed before its assembly line was up and running, thus it is not credited with manufacturing a production vehicle.)<br /><br /><strong>1950. First puncture-sealing tubeless tires</strong>, Goodrich. <span style="font-size:85%;">Borth.</span><br /><br /><strong>1951. First car with power steering</strong>. <span style="font-size:85%;">Phillips.</span><br /><br /><strong>1953. First car with power brakes</strong>. <span style="font-size:85%;">Phillips.</span><br /><br /><strong>1954. First car with a "panoramic" wrap-around windshield</strong> to improve visibility for the driver. <span style="font-size:85%;">Phillips.</span><br /><br /><strong>1954. Eisenhower establishes the first President's Action Committee for Highway Safety</strong>. <span style="font-size:85%;">Borth.</span><br /><br /><strong>1955. First production car to offer optional seatbelts</strong>. <span style="font-size:85%;">Phillips.</span><br /><br /><strong>1955. Michigan is the first state to require a driver education class</strong> before issuing a license to anyone under 18. <span style="font-size:85%;">Borth.</span><br /><br /><strong>1956. Interstate Highway Act</strong>, a.k.a Federal Highway Act, is passed, establishing a range of safety standards including limited access, one-way traffic, no roadside obstacles, and safety guardrails.<br /><br /><strong>1958. First double-chambered captive-air safety tire</strong>, Goodyear. <span style="font-size:85%;">Borth.</span><br /><br /><strong>1958. First cars with anti-lock braking systems</strong>, Mercedes-Benz and BMW. <span style="font-size:85%;">Phillips.</span><br /><br /><strong>1959. First vehicles with catalytic converters</strong> are produced for sale in California. <span style="font-size:85%;">Borth.</span><br /><br /><strong>1959. First cars with remote-controlled side-view mirrors</strong>. <span style="font-size:85%;">Phillips.</span><br /><br /><strong>1961. First tires made of budene</strong>, a synthetic rubber that lasts about twice as long as standard rubber, Goodyear. <span style="font-size:85%;">Borth.</span><br /><br /><strong>1961. First national database system</strong>, called the National Driver Register Service, is launched, to cross reference drunk drivers or drivers who cause highway deaths. <span style="font-size:85%;">Borth.</span><br /><br /><strong>1961. Front turn signals are required to be amber rather than white</strong> to improve visibility. <span style="font-size:85%;">Borth.</span><br /><br /><strong>1962 (approx). First "Michigan left" is constructed</strong> at the intersection of 8 Mile Road and Livernois, Detroit; also called a "median U-turn crossover;" the left turn is eliminated and instead the driver turns right, follows a one-way route across a median allowing for a legal U-turn, and then proceeds on the crosstreet. (Called a "P-turn" in Australia, where the design is reversed to eliminate right turns.)<br /><br /><strong>1963. First manufacturer to implement factory-installed seatbelts</strong> as standard equipment in all its vehicles, Studebaker.<br /><br /><strong>1965. HELP, or Highway Emergency Locating Plan</strong>, established by Automobile Manufacturers Association, to provide communications to help motorists in distress, using Channel 9 of the Citizen's Band radio system. <span style="font-size:85%;">Borth.</span><br /><br /><strong>1965. Ralph Nader pens <em>Unsafe at Any Speed</em></strong>, a landmark book exposing dangerous design elements in American-made cars and rampant corruption in safety regulation of US auto manufacturers.<br /><br /><strong>1966. National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act</strong> is passed, spurred in part by Ralph Nader's testimony, to establish and coordinate safety policies in all states. The National Highway Safety Bureau is created by this act. <span style="font-size:85%;">Borth,</span> <span style="font-size:85%;">Phillips.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong>1969. First car with "hesitation" or intermittent windshield wipers</strong>.<br /><br /><strong>1974. President Nixon signs the Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act</strong> and the national speed limit is lowered to 55 mph to conserve gasoline. An unexpected side effect is that highway fatalities drop considerably, thus the law is left in effect until 1987, when the limit is raised to 65 mph; the national speed limit is finally repealed in 1995.<br /><br /><strong>1980. Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD)</strong> is founded by Candice Lightner, whose daughter was killed by a drunk driver; it soon becomes a national movement.<br /><br /><strong>1986. High-mounted stop lights</strong>, a.k.a. centre high mount stop lamps, are required on all US vehicles; these reduce rear-end collisions by greatly improving the ability of rearward drivers to determine if vehicles ahead of them are slowing down; these were ushered in by Elizabeth Dole, secretary of transportation; by 1998 they were required in many other countries.<br /><br /><strong>1991. First car with an integrated child safety seat</strong>, Chrysler. <span style="font-size:85%;">Phillips.</span><br /><br />---0---<br /><br />Primary Sources:<br /><br /><strong>Borth</strong>, Christy, with James J. Bradley, Herry N. Rogan, Stanley K. Yost. <em>Automobiles of America</em>. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1968. Published under auspices of the Automobile Manufacturers Association.<br /><br /><strong>Cantor</strong>, George. <em>Safety, Security and Open Roads: Touring AAA Michigan's History</em>. Troy, MI: Momentum Books, 1998<br /><br /><strong>Phillips</strong>, Suzanne. <em>History of Auto Safety: A Brief Summary</em>. Akron NY: MGA Research Corp, n.d. (c.1995). A 30-pg booklet of reprinted articles on technological improvements to motor vehicles which also improved saftey, from MGA News, a monthly newsletter.<br /><br />---0---<br /><br />Check out the <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/bookscat.asp?catid=69">Automotive Department</a> at <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/">TomFolio.com</a>, where 200 reputable, independent used bookdealers offer their inventories and personalized service.<br /><br />Browse the <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/SearchResults.asp?Key=%20PHF1&memid=518&catid=&subid=&Con=True&QkSrch=&TightSrch=1&Ord=&page=1">Automotive Book Collection</a> at <a href="http://www.gwenfoss.com/">Alan's Used Books</a>.<br /><br />---0---<br /><br /><br /></p></span>Book Doctor Gwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08371670634917502649noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32018540.post-61442535462381522562010-06-06T17:12:00.000-04:002010-06-06T17:15:50.298-04:00<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">80 Foods Named After Other Foods</span></strong><br /><br /><em>Most of the foods listed below are fruits or vegetables named after other fruits or vegetables. I find this form of naming to be very confusing. The cherry tomato may have been the first example of this I ever noticed. The chicken fried steak sounded great until I found out it had no chicken.<br /><br />While compiling this list I imagined that somewhere in the world of high-finance vegetables, someone is chanting the mantra, "If we can name it strawberry, we will."<br /><br />Thanks to Jean Atrill who let me eyeball her seed catalogs where I found some of the most outrageous examples.</em><br /><br /><br />1. Acorn Squash<br /><br />2. Almond Potato<br /><br />3. Apple Green Eggplant<br /><br />4. Asparagus Pea<br /><br />5. Banana Melon<br /><br />6. Banana Pepper<br /><br />7. Beefsteak Tomato<br /><br />8. Beer Banana<br /><br />9. Black Cherry Tomato<br /><br />10. Black Pear Tomato<br /><br />11. Black Plum Tomato<br /><br />12. Brandywine Tomato<br /><br />13. Brown Turkey Hardy Fig<br /><br />14. Butter and Sugar Corn<br /><br />15. Buttercup Squash<br /><br />16. Butternut Squash<br /><br />17. Canary Melon<br /><br />18. Cherry Bomb Pepper<br /><br />19. Cherry Orange<br /><br />20. Chicken Fried Steak<br /><br />21. Currant Tomato<br /><br />22. Curry Banana<br /><br />23. Deer Tongue Lettuce<br /><br />24. Dwarf Orange Quince<br /><br />25. Early White Bush Scallop Squash<br /><br />26. Easter Egg Radish<br /><br />27. Fish Pepper<br /><br />28. Garden Peach Tomato<br /><br />29. German Red Strawberry Tomato<br /><br />30. Golden Cross Bantam Corn<br /><br />31. Golden Orange Apple<br /><br />32. Goose Berry<br /><br />33. Grape Tomato<br /><br />34. Green Grape Tomato<br /><br />35. Green Nutmeg Melon<br /><br />36. Green Pineapple Tomato<br /><br />37. Hawaiian Pineapple Tomato<br /><br />38. Honey and Cream Corn<br /><br />39. Honey Garlic<br /><br />40. Husk Cherry Tomato<br /><br />41. Lemon Cherry Tomato<br /><br />42. Lemon Drop Pepper<br /><br />43. Long Island Cheese Pumpkin<br /><br />44. Miniature Chocolate Bell Pepper<br /><br />45. Myrtle Blueberry<br /><br />46. Nectarine Tomato<br /><br />47. Orange Banana Tomato<br /><br />48. Orange Sun Bell Pepper<br /><br />49. Oregon Honey Fig<br /><br />50. Peaches and Cream Corn<br /><br />51. Pineapple Quince<br /><br />52. Pink Banana Squash<br /><br />53. Plum Cherry<br /><br />54. Plum Purple Radish<br /><br />55. Plum Tomato<br /><br />56. Potato Onion<br /><br />57. Red Cherry Hot Pepper<br /><br />58. Red Grape Sugar Plum Tomato<br /><br />59. Red Pear Tomato<br /><br />60. Red Plum Tomato<br /><br />61. Rose Finn Apple Fingerling Potato<br /><br />62. Royal Acorn Squash<br /><br />63. Sausage Cream Tomato<br /><br />64. Sausage Tomato<br /><br />65. Sheep Berry<br /><br />66. Spaghetti Squash<br /><br />67. Squash Berry<br /><br />68. Strawberry Corn<br /><br />69. Strawberry Spinach<br /><br />70. Sun Cherry Tomato<br /><br />71. Sweet Dumpling Squash<br /><br />72. Sweet Pea Currant Tomato<br /><br />73. Sweet Pickle Pepper<br /><br />74. Sweet Potato Squash<br /><br />75. Vegetable Spaghetti Squash<br /><br />76. Wapsipinicon Peach Tomato<br /><br />77. Watermelon Beefsteak Tomato<br /><br />78. Yellow Currant Tomato<br /><br />79. Yellow Pear Tomato<br /><br />80. Yellow Plum Tomato<br /><br />---0---<br /><br />Browse new and used books on <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/bookscat.asp?catid=18">foods and cooking</a> or any other topic at <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/">TomFolio.com</a>, where 200 reputable, independent used bookdealers offer their inventories and personalized service.<br />Visit <a href="http://www.gwenfoss.com/">my humble used-book store</a>.<br /><br />---0---<br /></span>Book Doctor Gwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08371670634917502649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32018540.post-69491223427932294172010-05-26T14:17:00.004-04:002010-05-26T14:25:12.089-04:00<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">43 POD Publishers</span></strong><br /><br /><em>. . . What is a POD publisher? It stands for Print on Demand. The first POD publisher started in the 1930s and printed books from microfilm but since the 1990s computer technology has made POD printing very affordable. The industry has been mushrooming ever since.<br /><br />Below I list 43 POD publisher names that I have seen on used books. There are plenty more POD publishers out there, but they are not listed here unless I have seen one of their actual books either in person or listed on a used-book website.<br /><br />For some of these companies I have shown what standard publisher they are owned by or affiliated with. For some I have shown the earliest date found on one of their books, or the date they were founded. I have also indicated what country they are located in, if not the US.<br /><br />This is not an exhaustive list because more and more POD publishers seem to spring up daily.<br /></em><br /><br />1. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">AuthorHouse</span></strong>, US and UK branches, owned by Author Solutions<br /><br />2. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Bertrams</span></strong> Print on Demand<br /><br />3. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">BiblioBazaar</span></strong>, 2007<br /><br />4. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">BiblioLife</span></strong>, 2010<br /><br />5. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Blitzprint</span></strong>, Canada<br /><br />6. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Blurb</span></strong>, affiliated with Chronicle Books<br /><br />7. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Book Locker</span></strong><br /><br />8. The <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Book Pub</span></strong><br /><br />9. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">BookMobile</span></strong>, 1996<br /><br />10. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">BookSurge</span></strong>, affiliated with R.R. Bowker<br /><br />11. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">CafePress</span></strong><br /><br />12. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Cambridge Scholars</span></strong> Publishing, 2010<br /><br />13. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Cold Tree Press</span></strong><br /><br />14. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Coral Hub</span></strong> Online Services, 2010<br /><br />15. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">CreateSpace</span></strong>, owned by Amazon<br /><br />16. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Digital Impressions</span></strong><br /><br />17. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Digitz.net</span></strong>, owned by BookSurge<br /><br />18. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Dodo Press</span></strong>, 2008<br /><br />19. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">eBookStand</span></strong>, 1996<br /><br />20. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Echo Library</span></strong>, 2007<br /><br />21. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Ex Libris</span></strong><br /><br />22. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">1stBooks Library</span></strong>, 2007<br /><br />23. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">First Choice Books</span></strong>, Canada<br /><br />24. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">General Books</span></strong>, 2010<br /><br />25. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">GreatUnpublished</span></strong>, owned by BookSurge<br /><br />26. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Impressions Unlimited</span></strong><br /><br />27. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">IndyPublish</span></strong>, 2004<br /><br />28. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Infinity Publishing</span></strong><br /><br />29. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">iUniverse</span></strong>, owned by Author Solutions<br /><br />30. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Kessinger</span></strong> Publishing Company, 2004<br /><br />31. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Lightning Source</span></strong>, owned by new-book distributor Ingram<br /><br />32. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Lulu</span></strong>, 2007<br /><br />33. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">NetPublications</span></strong><br /><br />34. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Outskirts Press</span></strong><br /><br />35. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Page Free Publishing</span></strong><br /><br />36. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Read Books</span></strong>, 2008<br /><br />37. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Replica Books</span></strong>, owned by new-book distributor Baker & Taylor<br /><br />38. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Scribd</span></strong>, 2009, affiliated with Simon & Schuster<br /><br />39. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Sovereign Grace</span></strong> Publishers, owned by IndyPublish<br /><br />40. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Trafford Publishing</span></strong>, Canada, owned by Author Solutions<br /><br />41. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Tutis Digital Publishing</span></strong>, 2008<br /><br />42. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">University Microfilms</span></strong> International, affiliated with University of Michigan, c.1938<br /><br />43. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Xlibris</span></strong>, 2008, owned by Author Solutions, affiliated with Random House<br /><br />---0---<br /><br />Find books on <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/bookscat.asp?catid=5">Publishing</a> or any other topic at <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/">TomFolio.com</a><br /><br />Visit <a href="http://www.gwenfoss.com/">my online bookstore</a><br /><br />---0---<br /></span>Book Doctor Gwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08371670634917502649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32018540.post-14059155170152922102010-05-07T10:40:00.003-04:002010-05-07T10:49:16.662-04:00<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">92 Silly eBay Handles</span></strong><br /><br /><em>. . . Truly, the task of choosing an online name presents some computer users with too many possibilities. These names have been collected over many years of eBay surfing. This list is not an endorsement of eBay or of anyone on eBay. I just think they're funny names.</em><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Can't Think of a Name</span></strong><br />1. blankplastickeyrings<br />2. computer*says*no<br />3. donotchangeuserid<br />4. fed_up_with_chosing_an_id<br />5. i_have_a_really_long_nickname<br />6. knotminame<br />7. namewithoutnumbers<br />8. needtoner<br />9. no-one-in-particular<br />10. notacleverusername<br />11. soundslikethis<br />12. userkeptprivate<br />13. usethisnameplease<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Horrid Puns</span></strong><br />14. brideofgoopenstein<br />15. gnomeplacelikehome<br />16. oddsandendtiques<br />17. perryphernalia<br />18. refried.jeans<br />19. robs-your-uncle<br />20. ultimatoauctions<br />21. youth_in_asia<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Addicted to Shopping</span></strong><br />22. allthetimeonline<br />23. deepinhock<br />24. dontoverbiditsmine<br />25. ebaayismylife<br />26. emptyshoppingbag<br />27. fatauctionfreaks<br />28. gonnagobroke<br />29. idontneedsthis<br />30. iwantcandy2<br />31. iwantyouretrash<br />32. missjunkaholic<br />33. shopaholic-mom<br />34. sir_snipes_alot<br />35. spoiling_my_children<br />36. theguywhopaystoomuchjusttowin<br />37. 30pairsofflipflopsandcounting<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Silly Rhymes</span></strong><br />38. blingblingkingd<br />39. cleanbeanqueen<br />40. funky-retro-monkey<br />41. mamamiaitsmaria<br />42. mr_spoon_on_the_moon<br />43. mydelectable-collectables<br />44. oohaahpinkguitar<br />45. slurpeeherpee<br />46. wizardofgizzard<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">I Love My Pet</span></strong><br />47. frodothecyberdog<br />48. fussygerbil<br />49. ineedadog<br />50. muffythebarkingdog<br />51. thingsthatsqueak<br />52. 3blueyeddashounds<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Cheeky Devil</span></strong><br />53. dead.peoples.stuff<br />54. givemechocolate<br />55. hellcatlouise<br />56. im_going_to_live_forever<br />57. not2old2boogie<br />58. queenofmostthings<br />59. ratherbeonthelake!<br />60. shutupdonnie<br />61. someonesmellsfunky<br />62. thebutlerdidit!<br />63. wopbopaloobopalopbamboom<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">My Stuff is the Best</span></strong><br />64. auctions-under-two-dollars<br />65. buy-it-now-it-bargain-time!<br />66. got2bid2buy<br />67. oooh!babyiamworthit!<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Doctor Who and Monty Python Fans</span></strong><br />68. artur2sheds<br />69. boxtardis<br />70. dalek10<br />71. davros61<br />72. doctor221<br />73. the-black-knigget<br />74. whopunk<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Buyer is Insane</span></strong><br />75. brain.e.ak<br />76. braineatingmaniac<br />77. cross-out-the-eyes<br />78. das_monster_unter_deinem_bett (German: the monster under your bed)<br />79. freakshowof1<br />80. geniessss<br />81. jackseviltwin-edtheripper<br />82. kwaazycat<br />83. madwhacker<br />84. mistress_murder<br />85. newratik_of_the_banana_republic<br />86. psycho666insane<br />87. thedonnerparty<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Amusing Seller Names on Amazon</span></strong><br />88. burnt_biscuit_books<br />89. myfavoriatebook<br />90. qualitybooks_fastshipping_satisfactiongurantee<br />91. student_who_doesnt_want_these_books_anymore<br />92. weresorrybutanothercustomerisalreadyusingyournickname<br /><br />---0---</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;">Come on down to <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/">TomFolio</a> and escape the rat's nest</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">---0---</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span>Book Doctor Gwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08371670634917502649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32018540.post-31046023135436805032010-04-05T10:58:00.004-04:002010-04-05T11:09:08.358-04:00<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">43 Toy Stores with Punny, Cute, and Allusive Names</span></strong><br /><br /><em>I was cataloging some collectible toy magazines from the 1990s when I noticed a lot of ads for toy stores with incredibly silly, punny, or allusive names. So of course I had to make a list.<br /><br />These toy magazines came from the collection of my dad, </em><a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/SearchResults.asp?Key=%20PHF1&memid=518&catid=&subid=&Con=True&QkSrch=&TightSrch=1&Ord=&page=1"><em>Peter H. Foss</em></a><em>, who is letting me sell off a large chunk his book and ephemera collection. (My brother </em><a href="http://www.unicycling.com/"><em>John</em></a><em> is helping him sell off some of his </em><a href="http://www.unicycling.com/toycar/"><em>toy collection</em></a><em>.)<br /><br />My dad is fairly well known among toy car collectors as the founder of at least three clubs for collectors: Toy Car Collectors Club, Model Car Collectors Association, Michigan Model Car Collectors. And, along with Herb Jackson, who owned a toy and hobby store in Farmington Hills, Michigan, my dad was co-founder of the biggest and longest-running series of toy shows in the Detroit area. Well, Dad's retired from running shows now but he still occasionally acquires a new toy.<br /><br />Some of these toy shops may have changed their names, or moved, or gone out of business. I don't know. I just think they have interesting names.</em><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">The Allusive Names</span></strong><br /><br />1. Acme Rocket Company : Tempe AZ<br />2. Amok Time Toys : East Meadow NY<br />3. Emerald City Comics & Collectibles : Seminole FL<br />4. Buy Buy Birdie : Miami FL<br />5. Go Figure! : Lancaster NY<br />6. Monolith Toys : Newhall CA<br />7. Puff N' Stuff : Jeannette PA<br />8. Soitenly Stooges : Skokie IL<br />9. Toon Town : Champaign IL<br />10. Trekibles : Plainfield IN<br />11. Valhalla Collectibles : Stony Plain, Alberta<br />12. Wayback Machine : Hope RI<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">The Bad Puns</span></strong><br /><br />13. Fun Damental : Bloomingdale IN<br />14. Grafik XS : Clifton NJ<br />15. Kimono My House : Emeryville CA<br />16. Land of Ooh's and Oz : Farmingdale NY<br />17. # Won Collectibles : Somerville NJ<br />18. Oh! Zone : Lancaster PA<br />19. Playing Mantis : Cassopolis MI<br />20. Witcraft : Glen Ellyn IL<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">The Gawd-Awful Rhymes</span></strong><br /><br />21. Funk and Junk for All Generations : Alexandria VA<br />22. Joy Toy Man : Wilmington NC<br />23. Mad Stasher's Delectable Collectables : Belfast NY<br />24. Spastic over Plastic : Clifton NJ<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">The Monstrous Names</span></strong><br /><br />25. Fantasmagorical : Los Angeles CA<br />26. Halloween Queen : Winchester NH<br />27. House of Horror : Chandler AZ<br />28. Monsters in Motion : Anaheim CA<br />29. Rotten Corpse : Upland CA<br />30. Toys from the Crypt : Garland TX<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Seriously, Would You Go Into This Store?</span></strong><br /><br />31. Atomic Candy : Boston MA<br />32. Freakie Magnet : Arlington VA<br />33. Village Idiot : Billings MT<br />34. W.A.F. : Kingston NY ("We Are Fun")<br />35. Whatsits Galore : Yatesville PA<br />36. Whiz Bang! : Casselberry FL<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Torturing the English Language</span></strong><br /><br />37. Boomerbilia : Lambertville NJ<br />38. Comitoyz : Lindenwold NJ<br />39. Ifitzgot Wheels : Mc Kinney TX<br />40. Imajico : Jenkintown PA<br />41. Toiz-N-Morr : Dyersville IA<br />42. Toyrareum : Ocean City NJ<br />43. Toyzlvania Collectibles : Anaheim CA<br /><br />---0---<br /><br />Browse the stacks at <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/">TomFolio.com</a><br /><br />Books on <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/bookssub.asp?subid=4710">Toy cars</a><br /><br />Books and ephemera on <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/bookscat.asp?catid=69">Automotive history</a><br /><br />All of my <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/SearchResults.asp?Key=%20PHF1&memid=518&catid=&subid=&Con=True&QkSrch=&TightSrch=1&Ord=&page=1">dad's books for sale</a><br /><br />Dad's <a href="http://www.unicycling.com/toycar/">toys for sale</a><br /><br />Visit <a href="http://www.gwenfoss.com/">my website</a> for used books on all topics.<br /><br />Thanks for stopping by.<br /><br />---0---<br /><br /></span>Book Doctor Gwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08371670634917502649noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32018540.post-83092129126233680442010-03-25T13:37:00.006-04:002010-03-25T13:52:00.357-04:00<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">7 Moon Craters named for Universalists and Unitarians</span></strong><br /><br /><em>. . . Actually this is a list of six craters and one moon ridge named for Us, Us and UUs.<br /><br />Unitarian Universalists (they were two separate denominations in the US until they consolidated in 1961) are two long-lived liberal branches of Protestantism that believe, among other things, that the ideas of religion and science can be in harmony. Thus one finds many scientists among the ranks of UUs. These data are excerpted from my little booklet, <a href="http://www.gwenfoss.com/bookdetails.asp?book=444">A Who's Who of UUs</a>, now in its 4th edition.<br /><br />The following are listed in reverse alphabetical order because doing everything in alphabetical order gets pretty tiresome.<br /></em><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">1. Wiener moon crater</span></strong> named for <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Norbert Wiener</span></strong><br /><br />120 km in diameter, far side of the moon<br /><br />Norbert Wiener (26 Nov 1894-18 Mar 1964), Ph.D. Harvard 1912; American mathematician, communication theorist; created the field of cybernetics and coined the term <em>cybernetics</em> (mathematics applied to feedback, computer control of machines); professor of mathematics at M.I.T. 1919-64 (45 years); honorable Sc.D. Tufts 1946; author <em>Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in Animal and Machine</em> 1948 (seminal work), many other scientific books and hundreds of articles; Wiener process, Wiener filter, Wiener equation and many other items named in his honor; Unitarian of Jewish heritage<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">2. Peirce moon crater</span></strong> named for <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Benjamin Peirce</span></strong><br /><br />18 km in diameter, near side<br /><br />Benjamin Peirce (pronounced purse) (4 Apr 1809-6 Oct 1880), American astronomer, mathematician; researched orbit of Neptune and rings of Saturn; tutor 1829-31, professor of mathematics 1831-80 (49 years) and professor of astronomy 1842-80 (38 years) at Harvard; founded Harvard Observatory 1843; appointed to the organizing committee of the Smithsonian 1847; director of longitudinal determinations 1852-67 and superintendent 1867-74 of the US Coast Survey; author <em>Physical and Celestial Mechanics</em> 1855 (first book in field) and other mathematical textbooks; coined algebra terms <em>idempotent</em> and <em>nilpotent</em> 1870, created Peirce's criterion (in statistics) 1852 and 'Peirce decomposition' (in algebra) 1881; Unitarian<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">3. Mitchell moon crater</span></strong> named for <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Maria Mitchell</span></strong><br /><br />30 km in diameter, near side<br /><br />Maria Mitchell (pronounced ma-RY-ah) (1 Aug 1818-28 Jun 1889), American astronomer, self educated scholar; first person to discover a comet visible only through a telescope 1847; first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1848 (remained the only woman member for 95 years) and to the American Philosophical Society 1869; among first professors at Vassar 1865; as professor of astronomy same 1865-87 became the first woman full professor in the US; one of three women first elected to the American Philosophical Association 1869; cofounded the Association for the Advancement of Women 1875; Gold Medal King of Denmark 1847 (excellence in astronomy); member of the American Hall of Fame; raised Quaker, became Unitarian<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">4. Lyell moon crater</span></strong> named for <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Sir Charles Lyell</span></strong><br /><br />32 km in diameter, on the edge of the Sea of Tranquility, near side<br /><br />Sir Charles Lyell (14 Nov 1797-22 Feb 1875), Scottish Baronet; geologist; chief proponent geological uniformitarianism; author <em>Principles of Geography</em> 1830-33 (3 volumes, standard work), <em>Elements of Geology</em> 1838, <em>Geological Evidences of Antiquity of Man</em> 1863 and many other books and papers; first to explain the cause of earthquakes 1830; professor of geology at King's College, London 1830s; knighted 1848; raised to baronet 1864; Lyell crater on Mars, and also mountains in California, Canada, and Tasmania named in his honor; member of Little Portland Street Chapel, Unitarian, London<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">5. Dorsa Burnet moon ridge</span></strong> named for <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Thomas Burnet</span></strong><br /><br />194 km in length, western ridge of the Oceanus Procellarum, near side<br /><br />Thomas Burnet (c.1635-27 Sep 1715), English scholar, theologian; fellow of Christ's College 1650s; proctor at Cambridge 1660s; master of the Charterhouse 1680s; involved in famous early court case regarding copyright 1721; author <em>Telluris Theoria Sacra</em> (2 volumes, 1681-89) and <em>De Statu Mortuorum et Resurgentium</em> (State of the Dead and Raised, posthumous, 1727), both arguing against eternal hell; published similar works by other authors; Universalist<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">6. Carmichael moon crater</span></strong> named for <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Leonard Carmichael</span></strong><br /><br />20 km in diameter, near side<br /><br />Leonard Carmichael (9 Nov 1898-16 Sep 1973), Ph.D. Harvard 1924; American professor of psychology at Brown 1927-36; honorary Sc.D. from Tufts 1937; trustee of Tufts 1937-73 (36 years); as president of Tufts 1938-52 greatly expanded the size and diversity of the student population; author <em>Manual of Child Psychology</em> 1946 (classic of early childhood development, many editions); as chief executive of the Smithsonian 1952-63 expanded the Museum of Natural History, added the Museum of History and Technology; vice president of research and exploration National Geographic Society 1964- ; president American Psychological Association; president American Philosophical Society 1970-73; Leonard Carmichael Society at Tufts (working to alleviate hunger, homelessness, etc) named in his honor 1958; Universalist<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">7. Giordano Bruno moon crater</span></strong> named for <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Giordano Bruno</span></strong><br /><br />22 km in diameter, far side of the moon<br /><br />Giordano Bruno (also known as Filippo Bruno) (1548-17 Feb 1600), Italian philosopher, cosmologist, author of numerous books; onetime Dominican monk; first to advance the theory of an infinite universe filled with stars like our sun; also believed in a human Christ and that all souls including the Devil will finally be saved; burned at the stake in Rome for heresy; philosophical Universalist and Unitarian<br /><br />---0---<br /><br />Find <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/bookscat.asp?catid=41">books on Astronomy</a> or <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/bookcategories.asp">any other topic</a> at <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/">TomFolio.com</a><br /><br />Visit <a href="http://www.gwenfoss.com/">my online bookstore</a><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;">Please let me know if I have left anyone out who should be on this list.</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />---0---<br /><br /><br /></span>Book Doctor Gwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08371670634917502649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32018540.post-57458331826861096542010-03-10T09:00:00.004-05:002010-03-10T09:11:00.484-05:00<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">250 Words for Groups of People</span></strong><br /><br /><em>. . . I started this list ages ago because I was trying to come up with a cute name for a group or club or something that was being formed at the time. I don't remember anything about the actual group, but the list I created eventually grew to be enormous.<br /><br />This is just a bare-bones list. I have only included a few definitions here and there, and they are as concise as I can make them.<br /><br />Most of these terms could go anywhere in a club name, but some of them only sound good at the end of a name (and some have strict legal definitions). They are: incorporated, limited, unlimited, combined, congolmerated amalgamated, associated, assembled, affiliated, aggregated, allied, collected, concerned, consolidated, delegated, federated.<br /><br />The usefulness of this list is, after you have come up with the best name for your club, you can use this list to help you come up with a phrase that works out as an acronym for the name of your club. (Example: Take the name Moses; build it up into Metropolitan Organizing Strategy Enabling Strength.) (Yes, Moses is a real interfaith urban renewal organization in Detroit, Michigan.)<br /><br />Here, then, is the list.<br /></em><br /><br />1. action<br /><br />2. adjutancy<br /><br />3. administration<br /><br />4. affiliated, affiliation<br /><br />5. agency<br /><br />6. aggregated, aggregate, aggregation<br /><br />7. allied, alliance<br /><br />8. amalgam, amalgamated, amalgamation<br /><br />9. anonymous<br /><br />10. argosy. <em>a fleet of ships</em>.<br /><br />11. aristocracy<br /><br />12. arm<br /><br />13. armada<br /><br />14. army<br /><br />15. assembled, assembly, assemblage<br /><br />16. associated, association<br /><br />17. authority<br /><br />18. band<br /><br />19. base<br /><br />20. bastion<br /><br />21. battalion, battery, battle group<br /><br />22. bevy<br /><br />23. bloc, block<br /><br />24. board<br /><br />25. body<br /><br />26. branch<br /><br />27. brotherhood, brothers, brethren, sons<br /><br />28. brigade<br /><br />29. bunch<br /><br />30. bureau<br /><br />31. business, business group<br /><br />32. cabal. <em>a secret group</em>.<br /><br />33. cabinet<br /><br />34. cadre<br /><br />35. cahoot<br /><br />36. camp<br /><br />37. campaign<br /><br />38. cartel. <em>a group of competing companies or business entities</em>.<br /><br />39. cast<br /><br />40. caste<br /><br />41. caucus<br /><br />42. cavalry<br /><br />43. century<br /><br />44. chamber, chambers<br /><br />45. chapter<br /><br />46. choir, chorale, chorus<br /><br />47. chosen<br /><br />48. church<br /><br />49. circle<br /><br />50. clan<br /><br />51. class<br /><br />52. clique<br /><br />53. cloister<br /><br />54. club<br /><br />55. cluster<br /><br />56. clutch<br /><br />57. coalition<br /><br />58. cohort<br /><br />59. collected, collection, collective<br /><br />60. colony<br /><br />61. column<br /><br />62. combat team<br /><br />63. combined, combine, combination<br /><br />64. command, commandery<br /><br />65. commission<br /><br />66. committee<br /><br />67. common interest group<br /><br />68. commonweal, commonwealth<br /><br />69. commune<br /><br />70. communion<br /><br />71. community<br /><br />72. companionship<br /><br />73. company<br /><br />74. complement<br /><br />75. concern, concerned<br /><br />76. condominium, condo<br /><br />77. confederated, confederate, confederation, confederacy<br /><br />78. conference<br /><br />79. confraternity<br /><br />80. congolmerated, conglomerate, conglomeration<br /><br />81. congregation<br /><br />82. congress<br /><br />83. consolidated, consolidation<br /><br />84. consortium<br /><br />85. constabulary<br /><br />86. constituency<br /><br />87. contingent<br /><br />88. cooperating, cooperation, cooperative, co-op, coop<br /><br />89. copartnership<br /><br />90. corporation<br /><br />91. corps<br /><br />92. coterie<br /><br />93. council<br /><br />94. court<br /><br />95. crew<br /><br />96. crowd<br /><br />97. cult<br /><br />98. delegated, delegate, delegation<br /><br />99. den. <em>Boy Scout term for local group</em>.<br /><br />100. denomination<br /><br />101. department<br /><br />102. deputation<br /><br />103. detachment<br /><br />104. detail<br /><br />105. directorate<br /><br />106. division<br /><br />107. duo, duet. <em>group of two</em>.<br /><br />108. echelon<br /><br />109. electorate<br /><br />110. elite<br /><br />111. ensemblage, ensemble<br /><br />112. entourage<br /><br />113. escadrille. <em>a group of aircraft</em>.<br /><br />114. establishment<br /><br />115. exchange<br /><br />116. extended family<br /><br />117. faction<br /><br />118. family<br /><br />119. fathers, brothers, brotherhood, brethren, sons<br /><br />120. federated, federacy, federation<br /><br />121. fellowship<br /><br />122. file, rank and file<br /><br />123. firm<br /><br />124. fleet<br /><br />125. flight<br /><br />126. flock<br /><br />127. flotilla. <em>a fleet of ships</em>.<br /><br />128. force<br /><br />129. formation<br /><br />130. forum<br /><br />131. foundation<br /><br />132. fraternity, frat<br /><br />133. friends<br /><br />134. fringe<br /><br />135. gaggle<br /><br />136. gang<br /><br />137. garrison<br /><br />138. genos. <em>ancient Athenian term for a clan</em>.<br /><br />139. genus. <em>a group of species with many common characteristics</em>.<br /><br />140. government<br /><br />141. grand jury<br /><br />142. group<br /><br />143. guild<br /><br />144. harem. <em>a group of wives in one household with one husband</em>.<br /><br />145. horde<br /><br />146. house<br /><br />147. incorporated, incorporation<br /><br />148. infantry<br /><br />149. institute, institution<br /><br />150. interest group<br /><br />151. jamboree. <em>Boy Scout term for a large combined gathering</em>.<br /><br />152. joint concern<br /><br />153. junket<br /><br />154. junta. <em>a military government</em>.<br /><br />155. junto. <em>a club</em>.<br /><br />156. jury, grand jury, petit jury<br /><br />157. kaper group. <em>Girl Scout term for small group assigned to do chores together</em>.<br /><br />158. kingdom<br /><br />159. knights<br /><br />160. knot<br /><br />161. league<br /><br />162. legion<br /><br />163. legislature<br /><br />164. limited<br /><br />165. local<br /><br />166. lodge<br /><br />167. lunatic fringe<br /><br />168. maniple. <em>an ancient Roman military division</em>.<br /><br />169. meeting<br /><br />170. ministry<br /><br />171. mission<br /><br />172. mob<br /><br />173. moiety. <em>a subdivision of a tribe</em>.<br /><br />174. mothers, daughters, sisters, sisterhood<br /><br />175. nation, national, nationality<br /><br />176. neighborhood<br /><br />177. nonet. <em>a group of nine</em>.<br /><br />180. nuclear family<br /><br />181. obe. <em>ancient Athenian term for a village and the people who inhabit it</em>.<br /><br />182. octet. <em>a group of eight</em>.<br /><br />183. orchestra<br /><br />184. order<br /><br />185. organizing, organized, organization<br /><br />186. outfit<br /><br />187. outpost<br /><br />188. pack. <em>Boy Scout term for a group of dens</em>.<br /><br />189. pair. <em>a group of two</em>.<br /><br />190. panel<br /><br />191. parliament<br /><br />192. partnership<br /><br />193. party<br /><br />194. patrol<br /><br />195. petit jury<br /><br />196. phalanx. <em>a tactical formation of a military unit</em>.<br /><br />197. phraty. <em>a group of related tribes or clans</em>.<br /><br />198. phylum. <em>biological term for one of the main divisions of species</em>.<br /><br />199. platoon<br /><br />200. pocket<br /><br />201. posse<br /><br />202. post<br /><br />203. quartet. <em>a group of four</em>.<br /><br />204. quintet. <em>a group of five</em>.<br /><br />205. rabble<br /><br />206. race<br /><br />207. rally<br /><br />208. rank, rank and file<br /><br />209. regiment<br /><br />210. religion<br /><br />211. ring<br /><br />212. secretariat<br /><br />213. sect<br /><br />214. section<br /><br />215. senate<br /><br />216. sept. <em>1. a subdivision of a clan; 2. one family within a clan</em>.<br /><br />217. septet. <em>a goup of seven</em>.<br /><br />218. seraglio. <em>1. a harem; 2. the residence of a harem</em>.<br /><br />219. set<br /><br />220. sextet, sestet. <em>a group of six</em>.<br /><br />221. side<br /><br />222. sisterhood, sisters, mothers, daughters<br /><br />223. society<br /><br />224. solo. <em>a group of one</em>.<br /><br />225. sons, brothers, brotherhood, brethren, fathers<br /><br />226. sorority<br /><br />227. special interest group, SIG. <em>term used by members of Mensa for a small group of members with a common interest</em>.<br /><br />228. squad<br /><br />229. squadron<br /><br />230. station<br /><br />231. subdivision, sub. <em>1. a plot of land with a group of single-family homes laid out along several streets; 2. the group who live in a sub</em>.<br /><br />232. sub-unit<br /><br />233. support group<br /><br />234. symphony orchestra, symphony<br /><br />235. task force<br /><br />236. team<br /><br />237. temple<br /><br />238. tontine. <em>a group of mutual investors</em>.<br /><br />239. touch group, T-group. <em>youth camp term for a small group of campers who do activities together</em>.<br /><br />240. tribe<br /><br />241. trio. <em>a group of three</em>.<br /><br />242. troop. <em>Girl Scout term for local group</em>.<br /><br />243. troupe. group of actors.<br /><br />244. trust<br /><br />245. umbrella, umbrella group<br /><br />246. unit, united<br /><br />247. unlimited<br /><br />248. wing<br /><br />249. working group, WG<br /><br />250. wungwa. <em>Hopi term for a clan (Native Americans of southwestern US)</em>.<br /><br />---0---<br /><br />Browse used books on <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/bookscat.asp?catid=1">movements and organizations</a> or used <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/bookscat.asp?catid=38">reference books</a> from reputable independent dealers at <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/">TomFolio.com</a><br /><br />Help a <a href="http://www.gwenfoss.com/">starving bookdealer</a><br /><br />---0---<br /><br /></span>Book Doctor Gwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08371670634917502649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32018540.post-76786927177075407132010-03-08T12:37:00.002-05:002010-03-10T09:14:53.233-05:00<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">Give A Man A Fish</span></strong><br /><br /><em>. . . You have probably heard it said, "Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime." But have you heard these?</em><br /><br />1. Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.<br /><br />2. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach him to use the net and he won't bother you for weeks.<br /><br />3. Give a man a fish and you'll feed him for a day. Give a man religion and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.<br /><br />4. Give a man a fish, then run like hell.<br /><br />---0---<br /><br />Browse the <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/bookscat.asp?catid=23">Humor section</a> at <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/">TomFolio.com </a><br /><br />Help a <a href="http://www.gwenfoss.com/">starving bookdealer</a><br /><br />---0---<br /></span>Book Doctor Gwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08371670634917502649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32018540.post-31317255408083843972010-02-20T12:04:00.003-05:002010-03-10T09:15:19.851-05:00<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">58 Wrong Ways to Spell My Name</span></strong><br /><br /><em>List #126<br /><br />. . . I can understand complete strangers misspelling my name but some of these came from people who have known me for years.</em><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">40 Misspellings of "Gwen"</span></strong><br /><br />1. Bwen<br /><br />2. Dwen<br /><br />3. Gen<br /><br />4. Gern<br /><br />5. Geun<br /><br />6. Gewn<br /><br />7. Glenn<br /><br />8. Gowen<br /><br />9. Gren<br /><br />10. Grwen<br /><br />11. Guen<br /><br />12. Guven<br /><br />13. Gwan<br /><br />14. Gweb<br /><br />15. Gwee<br /><br />16. Gweeb<br /><br />17. Gween<br /><br />18. Gwem<br /><br />19. Gwemn<br /><br />20. Gwench<br /><br />21. Gwenn<br /><br />22. Gweyn<br /><br />23. Gwgen<br /><br />24. Gwin<br /><br />25. Gwn<br /><br />26. Gwuen<br /><br />27. Gwyn<br /><br />28. Gwynn<br /><br />29. Gwyyn<br /><br />30. Gyen<br /><br />31. Gyny<br /><br />32. Gywn<br /><br />33. Jwen<br /><br />34. Quen<br /><br />35. Quinn<br /><br />36. Qwun<br /><br />37. Qwus<br /><br />38. Swen<br /><br />39. Wem<br /><br />40. Wgen<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">18 Misspellings of "Gwyneth"</span></strong><br /><br /><em>. . . Yes, my full name is Gwyneth. I was named after a character in a Welsh book that my mom's penpal was reading some years before I was born. Seriously, though, no one ever calls my Gwyneth except telemarketers and people in gubmint jobs.</em><br /><br />1. Gewnneth<br /><br />2. Geyneth<br /><br />3. Gweenyt<br /><br />4. Gwemith<br /><br />5. Gwendlyn<br /><br />6. Gwendolyn<br /><br />7. Gweneth<br /><br />8. Gwenith<br /><br />9. Gwennith<br /><br />10. Gwenth<br /><br />11. Gwenyth<br /><br />12. Gwneth<br /><br />13. Gwyenth<br /><br />14. Gwynent<br /><br />15. Gwynyth<br /><br />16. Gwyynth<br /><br />17. Gywnith<br /><br />18. Hwyneth<br /><br />---0---<br /><br />Browse <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/bookscat.asp?catid=38">books on names</a> at <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/">TomFolio.com, the world's first and best internet cooperative of independent used bookdealers</a><br /><br />Check out <a href="http://www.gwenfoss.com/">my bookstore</a><br /><br />---0---<br /></span>Book Doctor Gwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08371670634917502649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32018540.post-32854100157633987062010-02-18T11:39:00.002-05:002010-02-18T11:43:17.496-05:00<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">33 Academic Ranks and Titles used at Universities</span></strong><br /><br /><em>. . . Listed in approximate order from highest to lowest. Not every university has every rank and some may use different terms or titles. Many universities outside the US also use the term <strong>docent</strong> as a university rank: in some places it is a high rank, in others it is low; in the US it mainly refers to a volunteer museum tour guide who has specialized training in that museum's exhibits.<br /></em><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">1. university professor / institute professor / distinguished professor<br /><br />2. presidents' professor / regents' professor<br /><br />3. teaching professor<br /><br />4. professor emerita / professor emeritus<br /><br />5. dean / department chair / provost<br /><br />6. professor / full professor<br /><br />7. professorial fellow<br /><br />8. associate professor<br /><br />9. adjunct professor<br /><br />10. affiliated professor<br /><br />11. assistant professor<br /><br />12. visiting professor / nonresident professor<br /><br />13. visiting assistant professor<br /><br />14. research professor / research fellow<br /><br />15. associate research professor<br /><br />16. assistant research professor<br /><br />17. collegiate professor<br /><br />18. post-doctoral fellow<br /><br />19. senior lecturer<br /><br />20. lecturer<br /><br />21. assistant lecturer<br /><br />22. post-doctoral research assistant<br /><br />23. research assistant<br /><br />24. instructor<br /><br />25. visiting instructor<br /><br />26. adjunct instructor<br /><br />27. teaching fellow<br /><br />28. graduate student<br /><br />29. graduate teaching assistant (GTA)<br /><br />30. teaching assistant (TA) / undergraduate teaching assistant (UTA)<br /><br />31. proctor<br /><br />32. tutor<br /><br />33. artist in residence<br /><br />---0---<br /><br />Browse <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/bookscat.asp?catid=12">books about education</a> at <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/">TomFolio.com</a><br /><br />Help a <a href="http://www.gwenfoss.com/">starving bookdealer</a><br /><br />---0---<br /> </span>Book Doctor Gwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08371670634917502649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32018540.post-7779702934059566272010-02-08T08:32:00.001-05:002010-02-08T08:37:47.360-05:00<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">11 Reasons Why People Over 40 Should Be Dead<br /></span></strong><br /><em>. . . Author unknown. Email lore collected six years ago. I have modified it slightly. (It's folklore. That's what you do.)<br /></em><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 1970s or earlier probably shouldn't have survived. Here's why:<br /><br />1. Our baby cribs were covered with <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">lead-based paint</span></strong>.<br /><br />2. We had <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">no childproof lids</span></strong> on medicine bottles.<br /><br />3. We rode our bikes <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">without helmets</span></strong>.<br /><br />4. Sometimes we <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">hitchhiked</span></strong>.<br /><br />5. We rode in cars with <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">no child safety seats</span></strong> and no air bags. Sometimes, as a special treat, we rode in the back of an open pickup.<br /><br />6. We drank water from a <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">garden hose</span></strong>.<br /><br />7. We drank soda pop with <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">sugar</span></strong> in it.<br /><br />8. We <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">shared</span></strong> one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle.<br /><br />9. We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the street lights came on. No one was able to reach us all day. We had <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">no cell phones</span></strong>. Imagine that!<br /><br />10. We did not have Nintendo, Playstation, or X-Box; no 2,000 channels on cable, no home movies on DVD, no surround sound, no personal computers, no internet chat rooms. We had <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">friends</span></strong>! We went outside and found them.<br /><br />11. We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones and teeth, and there were <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">no lawsuits</span></strong> from these accidents. They were accidents. Remember accidents?<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">People under 40 are <em>wimps</em>!</span><br /></span><br />---0---<br /><br />Browse used books on <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/bookscat.asp?catid=17">children and families</a> from reputable independent dealers at <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/">TomFolio.com<br /></a><br />Help a <a href="http://www.gwenfoss.com/">starving bookdealer</a><br /><br />---0---</span>Book Doctor Gwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08371670634917502649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32018540.post-75247176192928371032010-02-02T20:41:00.004-05:002010-02-02T20:51:42.718-05:00<p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">10 Reasons why Shopping at <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/">TomFolio.com</a> is Better than Shopping at Amazon</span></strong><br /><br /><em>. . . I am speaking to those on the internet who are looking for reputable used bookdealers. Those of you who are looking for a place to purchase groceries, stuffed animals, auto parts or such, this list is not for you.</em><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">1. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/">TomFolio.com</a> is The Bookstore at the Center of the Universe</span></strong>. It is owned and operated by a cooperative of independent bookdealers (<a href="http://tomfolio.pbwiki.com/Impossible+Accomplished">click here for more on our history</a>) and has remained true to its goal to be a simple website where booklovers and bookdealers can come together and conduct business the old fashioned way.<br /><br />2. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Talk to a real person before you buy</span></strong>. Our dealers may be contacted by phone, email, or even snail mail. No need to go through a third party to get your questions answered.<br /><br />3. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Dedicated to books</span></strong>. <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/">TomFolio.com</a> is for used books, periodicals, paper ephemera and related media. That's what we know and love. We do not sell washing machines, car insurance, scented candles or anything like that.<br /><br />4. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">No gimmicks</span></strong>. Just good old-fashioned bookselling.<br /><br />5. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Serious specialists</span></strong>. Many of our dealers are experts in their fields. Pick their brains!<br /><br />6. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Less expensive books</span></strong>. Amazon charges its bookdealers commissions, monthly fees, variable closing fees, etc., and many of their vendors raise their prices on that site to compensate. Often you can find the same book listed at <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/">TomFolio.com</a> for a much lower price.<br /><br />7. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Independence</span></strong>. Because <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/">TomFolio.com</a> is dealer owned and operated, you always know who you're dealing with. We are not subject to mergers, buyouts, or corporate shenanigans. If you are one of the growing number of consumers who are committed to buying from independent stores and mom-and-pop shops, <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/">TomFolio.com</a> is the place for you.<br /><br />8. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">No stock photos</span></strong>. Amazon displays images of books which may be new or used, top condition or poor condition, and may even show a different edition than what is listed for sale. <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/">TomFolio.com</a> does not allow stock photos so you know exactly what you're getting before you buy.<br /><br />9. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">No fake books</span></strong>; no mega-listers. Some so-called bookdealers list thousands, even millions of titles but have no actual books in stock. After you order, they scramble to find something to ship to you. Sometimes you get what you ordered, sometimes you get something different, and sometimes you don't get anything at all (<a href="http://tomfolio.pbworks.com/Mega-Listers">click here for more information on mega-listers</a>). We at <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/">TomFolio.com</a> believe this is fraud. We do not allow fake books or mega-listers on our site.<br /><br />10. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">High ethical standards</span></strong>. If you run into an unscrupulous dealer on Amazon, there is, of course, a system in place there through which you can get a refund. We here at <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/">TomFolio.com</a> go one better: we thoroughly screen applicants <em>before</em> they're allowed to join. All our dealers guarantee 100% customer satisfaction and stand by it every day. We have a complaint rate so small it is hardly measurable.<br /><br />---0---<br /><br />Browse the <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/AuthorInfo/AuthorBios.asp">Author Biographies</a> at TomFolio.com<br /><br />Browse the <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/bookcategories.asp">Wonderous Category System</a> at TomFolio.com<br /><br /><a href="http://www.gwenfoss.com/">Help a starving bookdealer</a><br /><br />---0---</span></p>Book Doctor Gwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08371670634917502649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32018540.post-75136226804395230832010-01-28T22:23:00.005-05:002010-01-28T22:35:42.053-05:00<p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>44 Rude Names for Hummers</strong></span><br /><br /><em>. . . collected from friends, enemies, and various sources.<br /><br />According to Keith Bradsher, author of </em><a href="http://www.gwenfoss.com/bookdetails.asp?book=4092"><em>High and Mighty: SUVs: The World's Most Dangerous Vehicles and How They Got That Way</em></a><em>, one in every six new vehicles sold in the US in 2002 was a Sport Utility Vehicle.<br /><br />Of course there are rude names for all sorts of cars, but the Humvee, being the biggest, ugliest, most gas-guzzling SUV on the road, is of necessity singled out for special attention. (Please contact me if I have left any really funny, really rude names off this list, thanks!)<br /></em><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">The Droll Names</span></strong><br /><br />1. bummer<br />2. dummer<br />3. S-U-K<br />4. F-U-Vehicle<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">The Abomination<br /></span></strong><br />5. two-space hog<br />6. three-ton brick<br />7. pavement-hogging beast<br />8. big mofo<br />9. monstrosity<br />10. land yacht<br />11. heavyweight<br />12. gargantuan<br />13. behemoth<br />14. rolling horror<br />15. biggest choad on the road<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">The Assault Vehicle</span></strong><br /><br />16. urban tank<br />17. plastic tank<br />18. death machine<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">The Ego Machine</span></strong><br /><br />19. dick mobile<br />20. small-penis mobile<br />21. white trash rig<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">The Piece of Sh*t</span></strong><br /><br />22. sh*tbox<br />23. slab of sh*t<br />24. five-ton rolling brick of sh*t<br />25. giant steaming pile of sh*t<br />26. turdmobile<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">The Polluter</span></strong><br /><br />27. smog machine<br />28. planet killer<br />29. earth f*cker<br />30. earthraper<br />31. planet raper<br />32. pollute-o-car<br />33. chariot of greed<br />34. crime against nature<br />35. ultimate gas guzzler<br />36. gas-guzzling carbon-emitting oil-dragging monstrosity<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">The Uglymobile</span></strong><br /><br />37. ugly brick<br />38. ugly rubbish skip<br />49. ugly truck<br />40. gaudy heap of crap<br />41. unsightly hunk of sh*t<br />42. overrated Tonka toy<br />43. chrome-fanged monster<br />44. parody of a car</span></p><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">---0---<br /><br />Check out used books and ephemera on <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/bookcategories.asp">transportation</a> and <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/bookscat.asp?catid=69">automotive history</a> at <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/">TomFolio.com</a><br /><br />Browse <a href="http://www.gwenfoss.com/">Alan's Used Books</a> where we have <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/SearchResults.asp?Key=%20PHF1&memid=518&catid=&subid=&Con=True&QkSrch=&TightSrch=1&Ord=&page=1">hundreds of automotive titles</a> for sale<br /><br />---0---</span></p>Book Doctor Gwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08371670634917502649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32018540.post-36955360229426825302010-01-25T09:39:00.003-05:002010-01-25T10:05:44.810-05:00<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">92 Feminine and Masculine Word Pairs</span></strong><br /><br /><em>. . . I have collected hundreds of these word pairs but only 92 are listed below.<br /><br />The separation and exclusion of women by men has led to the creation of countless words which are defined (by men) as the feminine version of some masculine job. Thus was born this list.<br /><br />Without writing a full-on essay about the truly pointless and offensive phenomenon of sexism and all its social implications, I'll just say that, while I do not accept the notion that either sex should be treated as inferior to the other, I am fascinated by some of the very ridiculous gender-specific words that have been invented to perpetuate this notion. Of particular interest are the examples in which the feminine form carries a negative or lower-class connotation as compared to the masculine form (for example: governess / governor) and the examples in which a word has been given an unnecessary suffix or has been twisted into a nearly unpronounceable shape in order to change its gender (for example: chauffeurette / chauffeur).<br /><br />For this list, I have listed the feminine version of each word first, followed by its masculine equivalent, separated by a slash. If there are multiple forms of one gender, they are listed together, separated by a comma. If there is a commonly accepted gender-inclusive or gender-neutral term, it is listed last, after a triple slash. Comments and definitions follow (in parentheses). Terms that are slang or recently coined are marked with an asterisk (*).</em><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Feminine term / Masculine term /// neutral or inclusive term</span></strong><br /><br />1. abbess / abba, abbas, abbot<br /><br />2. accoucheuse / accocheur /// midwife<br /><br />3. alumna / alumnus /// alum<br /><br />4. amicular* / avuncular<br /><br />5. ancestress / ancestor<br /><br />6. anglerette / angler /// fisher<br /><br />7. authoress / author /// author<br /><br />8. aviatrix, aviatress / aviator<br /><br />9. bachelorette / bachelor /// single<br /><br />10. beach bunny / beach bum<br /><br />11. best woman / best man (see also <em>bridesmaid, bride's attendant</em>)<br /><br />12. birth / beget<br /><br />13. bitchma* / dogma<br /><br />14. bitchmatic* / dogmatic<br /><br />15. bride / bridegroom, groom<br /><br />16. bridesmaid, maid of honor, matron of honor / best man, groomsman (see also <em>best woman, bride's attendant</em>)<br /><br />17. bride's attendant / groom's attendant<br /><br />18. cateress / caterer<br /><br />19. centaurette / centaur /// rider (see also <em>equestrienne</em>)<br /><br />20. chauffeurette, chauffeuse / chauffeur<br /><br />21. coed / student /// student<br /><br />22. coiffeuse / coiffeur<br /><br />23. comedienne / comedian<br /><br />24. courtesan / courtier<br /><br />25. creatrix / creator<br /><br />26. cujette* / cujine* (US slang, from Italian: homegirl / homeboy)<br /><br />27. czaritsa, czarina / czar<br /><br />28. danseuse / danseur<br /><br />29. divorcée / divorcé<br /><br />30. doctoress / doctor /// doctor<br /><br />31. doyenne / doyen<br /><br />32. dudette* / dude<br /><br />33. dweebette* / dweeb<br /><br />34. editrix / editor<br /><br />35. eldress / elder<br /><br />36. electress / elector<br /><br />37. emerita / emeritus<br /><br />38. equestrienne, equestriette / equestrian /// rider (see also <em>centaurette</em>)<br /><br />39. executrix / executor<br /><br />40. farmerette / farmer /// farmer<br /><br />41. femcee* / emcee<br /><br />42. feminization / guy-ization*<br /><br />43. fiancée / fiancé<br /><br />44. gal, doll, guyette* / guy<br /><br />45. geekess* / geek<br /><br />46. giantess / giant<br /><br />47. governess / governor<br /><br />48. grumpette* / grump<br /><br />49. guardess / guard<br /><br />50. gynocentric* / androcentric*<br /><br />51. heroine, shero*, hera* / hero /// protagonist<br /><br />52. herstory* / history<br /><br />53. homegirl, homette* / homeboy, homey<br /><br />54. housewife / househusband*<br /><br />55. inheritrix, inheritress / inheritor<br /><br />56. institutrix / institutor<br /><br />57. Latina / Latino<br /><br />58. lumberjill / lumberjack<br /><br />59. maestra / maestro<br /><br />60. maid, maidservant / servant, manservant<br /><br />61. majorette / major<br /><br />62. manageress / manager<br /><br />63. matrimony / patrimony<br /><br />64. matron, patroness / patron<br /><br />65. mayoress / mayor /// mayor<br /><br />66. mediatrix, mediatress / mediator<br /><br />67. misandrist / misogynist<br /><br />68. mistress / master<br /><br />69. murderess / murderer<br /><br />70. Negress / Negro<br /><br />71. neif / serf<br /><br />72. ogress / ogre<br /><br />73. procuress / procurer<br /><br />74. paintress / painter /// painter<br /><br />75. prima ballerina / premier danseur<br /><br />76. prioress / prior<br /><br />77. protectress, protectrice / protector<br /><br />78. protégée / protégé<br /><br />79. seamstress / seamster, tailor<br /><br />80. servitress / servitor<br /><br />81. scripteuse / scriptwriter<br /><br />82. shrewdom / dronedom* (coined by author Mary Daly)<br /><br />83. starlet / star /// star<br /><br />84. stewardess / steward /// flight attendant<br /><br />85. temptress / temptor<br /><br />86. treasuress / treasurer<br /><br />87. tsaritsa, tsarina / tsar<br /><br />88. usherette / usher<br /><br />89. waitress / waiter /// waitperson, waitron, server<br /><br />90. wifey, hussy / hubby<br /><br />91. wimpette* / wimp<br /><br />92. yankette / yankee /// yank<br /><br />---0---<br /><br />Find <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/bookscat.asp?catid=24">new and use books on words and wordlore</a> at <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/">TomFolio.com<br /></a><br />Visit <a href="http://www.gwenfoss.com/">my online bookstore</a><br /><br />---0---<br /></span>Book Doctor Gwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08371670634917502649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32018540.post-87809578422776764292010-01-21T10:15:00.003-05:002010-01-21T10:27:12.348-05:00<p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">28 Nicknames for Detroit Neighborhoods<br /></span></strong><br /><em>. . . I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit and we suburban kids didn't seem to actually go into Detroit all that much, so I never learned these names or places. Now I do business in Detroit and go to church in Detroit and I hear these names in conversation quite a lot.<br /><br />People were sometimes aghast when I told them that I didn't know what part of Detroit they were talking about when they said things like "Boston-Edison" or "Rosedale Park." So, of course, I started a list. I learned that there are in fact over 50 nicknames for various Detroit neighborhoods. I have listed just the ones I hear the most, or find the most interesting, along with their main intersections or border streets.</em><br /> </span></p><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">1. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Art Center</span></strong> -- Woodward and Warren; includes Detroit Institute of Arts, Library, several large museums<br /><br />2. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Bagley</span></strong> -- bounded by West Outer Drive to the north, Livernois to the east, 6 Mile Road to the south, and Wyoming to the west<br /><br />3. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Black Bottom</span></strong> (destroyed 1960s) -- bounded by Gratiot Avenue, Brush Street, Vernor Highway, and the Grand Trunk railroad<br /><br />4. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Boston-Edison</span></strong> -- four streets: Boston, Chicago, Longfellow, and Edison; stretching from Woodward Avenue on the east to Linwood on the west; ritzy homes built 1905-1925, no two alike<br /><br />5. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Brick Town</span></strong> -- Larned and Brush, between Greektown and the Renaissance Center<br /><br />6. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Brightmoor</span></strong> -- from Puritan and Schoolcraft Roads between Telegraph and Evergreen<br /><br />7. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Brush Park</span></strong> -- 24-block area bounded by Mack on the north, Woodward on the west, Beaubien on the east, and the Fisher Freeway on the south.<br /><br />8. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Cass Corridor</span></strong> -- along Cass Avenue from I-75 (south end) to Wayne State University (north end) between Woodward and 3rd Street<br /><br />9. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Chaldean Town</span></strong> -- runs along 7 Mile Road from Woodward Avenue east to John R.<br /><br />10. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Chinatown</span></strong> -- Peterboro and 2nd Street<br /><br />11. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Corktown</span></strong> -- Michigan Avenue and 6th Street<br /><br />12. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Cultural Center</span></strong> -- Warren and Woodward<br /><br />13. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Eastern Market</span></strong> -- Gratiot and Russell<br /><br />14. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Foxtown</span></strong> -- about one mile north of the Renaissance Center, with Grand Circus Park located at its hub, and encompassing the Kales Building, Comerica Park, and Ford Field<br /><br />15. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Greektown</span></strong> -- Monroe and Saint Antoine<br /><br />16. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Indian Village</span></strong> -- bounded on the north and south by Mack and East Jefferson, respectively, along the streets of Burns, Iroquois, and Seminole<br /><br />17. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Medical Center</span></strong> -- Mack and Woodward<br /><br />18. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Mexicantown</span></strong> -- Porter and Bagley, one block north of the Ambassador Bridge<br /><br />19. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Midtown</span></strong> -- new name applied by city, to improve its image, to a large section encompassing Brush Park, Cass Corridor, Medical Center, Art Center; it is bounded by the Ford, Chrysler, Fisher, and Lodge Freeways<br /><br />20. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">New Center</span></strong> -- West Grand Boulevard and 2nd Street<br /><br />21. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">North End</span></strong> -- bounded by Woodward to the west, the city of Highland Park to the north, the Chrysler Freeway to the east, and East Grand Boulevard to the south<br /><br />22. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Old Redford</span></strong> -- stretches from Five Points east to Greenfield Road and from 8 Mile Road to Schoolcraft; annexed by Detroit in 1926; center is Grand River and Lahser<br /><br />23. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Palmer Woods</span></strong> -- bounded by 7 Mile Road, 8 Mile Road, Woodward, and the Sherwood Forest neighborhood<br /><br />24. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Poletown</span></strong> (destroyed 1981) -- bordered on Hamtramck<br /><br />25. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Renaissance Center</span></strong> -- tallest building in Detroit, headquarters of General Motors, although this fact is not on GM's website or in their marketing<br /><br />26. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Rivertown</span></strong> -- East Jefferson and Rivard<br /><br />27. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Rosedale Park</span></strong> -- 5 Mile Road and Southfield in northwest Detroit<br /><br />28. <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Warrendale</span></strong> -- bounded by Joy Road to the north, Ford Road to the south, Greenfield to the east and the River Rouge to the west.<br /><br />---0---<br /><br />Let me know what <a href="http://www.gwenfoss.com/">you want me to blog about next</a><br /><br />Help a <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/">starving bookdealer<br /></a><br />---0---<br /> </span></p>Book Doctor Gwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08371670634917502649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32018540.post-39162006151660086512010-01-19T12:15:00.004-05:002010-01-19T12:25:54.142-05:00<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;"><strong>Busy Busy Busy</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Hi all, haven't been able to blog much lately because I keep buying more books. Books have to be catalogued, and then people tend to buy them, then orders have to be filled and books have to be wrapped up and shipped. It's a never ending grind.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;">Oh, of course, sometimes I read one of the books before I sell it. Yesterday I read <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/bookdetailssu.asp?b=9674&m=518">Anti-Slavery, by Dwight Lowell Dumond</a>. Well, okay, I didn't read the entire book, but I read large chunks of it while I catalogued it. Very in-depth history, just the way I like it.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;">Before that I read <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/bookdetailssu.asp?b=8969&m=518">Great Sayings by Great Lawyers, by G. J. Clark</a>. The author was obviously a lawyer first and a historian second, but still, he compiled quite a lively book. This one was published in 1922 and is full of little-known facts and nuggets.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;">Today I made a nice purchase of about 30 more books. I have to get them catalogued as soon as possible so I'm signing off for now.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;">Cheers,</span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;">Book Doctor Gwen</span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;">One of the friendly dealers at <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/">TomFolio.com</a></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;">---0---</span>Book Doctor Gwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08371670634917502649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32018540.post-39534007650434432612010-01-13T09:50:00.002-05:002010-01-13T09:58:11.683-05:00<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">Eye Halve a Spell Chequer</span></strong><br /><br /><em>. . . Collected some years ago as a specimen of "email lore." As one who supports English spelling reform, and believes that rigid adherence to the notion of "correct" spelling is somewhat silly at times, I do acknowledge the difficulties that can accompany one who ignores intelligent spelling conventions.</em><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:180%;">Eye halve a spell chequer</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Eye halve a spelling chequer<br />It came with my pea sea<br />It plainly marques four my revue<br />Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.<br /><br />Eye strike a key and type a word<br />And weight four it two say<br />Weather eye am wrong oar write<br />It shows me strait a weigh.<br /><br />As soon as a mist ache is maid<br />It nose bee fore two long<br />And eye can put the error rite<br />Its rarely ever wrong.<br /><br />Eye have run this poem threw it<br />I am shore your pleased two no<br />Its letter perfect in it’s weigh<br />My chequer tolled me sew.<br /><br />-- Sauce unknown<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></span><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;">---0---</span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"><a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/bookscat.asp?catid=24">Click here to browse books on Language and Linguistics at TomFolio.com</a></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;">Find used books on all topics at <a href="http://www.gwenfoss.com/">my used bookstore</a></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;">---0---</span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:130%;"></span>Book Doctor Gwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08371670634917502649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32018540.post-44323429469705631162010-01-09T20:52:00.002-05:002010-01-09T21:25:35.478-05:00<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">4 More Reasons Why ATT Sucks</span></strong><br /><br /><em>. . . More on how AT&T slammed my DSL and made my email cease to function.<br /><br />My DSL (high-speed internet connection) was slammed by AT&T (taken over without my permission) on or about November 23, 2009. The minute it was slammed I had no internet connection. Two days later ATT's robot said my "new service" was "up" and it wasn't. That day I spent two hours on the phone with ATT pinheads getting my connection back up, but my email still did not work.<br /><br />(See my post on November 28, 2009 for more on this 2-hour phone call.)<br /><br />Well, time passed, the holidays came and went, and I tackled the problem again on January 7, 2010.<br /><br />This time I was on the phone with them for over four hours (well, in a chat room for half an hour, then on the phone for three and a half hours).<br /><br />And guess what? It still does not work. Not only that, but the workaround that the Level 3 tech set up for me does not work, either.</em><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Date: January 7, 2010</span></strong><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Start Time: 6:54 pm<br /></span></strong><br />I went to the <a href="http://helpme.att.net/chat/chat.php">online tech support chatroom</a> that was emailed to me by AT&T to talk to an AT&T tech person to try to solve my email problem again.<br /><br />Talked to Ryan. I said: "Hello, Ryan. I am a DSL customer and I was told I would be able to use the email address I have had for seven years, but can't get it to send."</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">He said, "Ms. Foss, I am sorry you are experiencing this issue and will be happy to assist you. Do not worry, I will provide you all the information. Do you have AT&T provided e-mail address?"<br /><br />I said, "yes, I do, and I have already tried to set it up, but missing something in the settings."<br /><br />He said, "Ms. Foss, what is your e-mail address?" I gave him the ATT email address I had just set up, that I never had any intention of using, which I shall refer to as "P~".<br /><br />He said, "I will provide you all the information" and asked me for the answer to my security questions. I answered.<br /><br />He sent me to a website and told me to log in. I said, "Okay, but it wants my yahoo ID. Am I giving it my yahoo name or my ATT name?"<br /><br />He said, "No, please use your AT&T provided e-mail address." I did so.<br /><br />"Are you able to login there?" Yes.<br /><br />"Now try to send a test e-mail to your own e-mail address and let me know the result."<br /><br />I said, "okay, where is the email feature on this page?"<br /><br />He said "click on the mail tab."<br /><br />I said, "sorry, i don't see a mail tab. which corner is it in?"<br /><br />He said, "What options do you see there?" I listed a bunch of them.<br /><br />He told me to sign out, then sent me to <a href="http://att.yahoo.com/mail">a new website</a> </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />I asked, "Do i log in as P~ again?" Yes.<br /><br />I got an "Invalid password" message.<br /><br />He said, "Please use P~ there and password of this account."<br /><br />This time I got "Invalid email" message. Tried again and it worked, must have typed it wrong.<br /><br />He said, "check your email folders."<br /><br />I said, "it says i have no emails in my inbox" and added: "well this is a new email address i have not ever used. it was kind of forced upon me. what i want to use is the email i have had for the past 7 years, which is gwenfoss@netrek.net. currently it will receive but can't send. this need to be configured to send."<br /><br />He said, what email client am I using? (<strong>Boy, if I were a computer newbie that would be too much freakin' jargon.</strong>)<br /><br />I said Eudora. (Part of me knew that at this point I knew he would say that he can't help me with Eudora).<br /><br />He said, "I need to inform you that we do not have any tools to configure your e-mail client in Eudora, However I will provide you all the settings to configure the e-mail account."<br /><br />He then said, "You need to use the SMTP server of AT&T and POP server of your "gwenfoss@netrek.net""<br /><br />I said, "not good enough. i was promised that my old email would still work after you took over my DSL account. I did not sign up for ATT. this has to be fixed."<br /><br />He came back with, "Please note down the SMTP server address: smtp.att.yahoo.com"<br /><br />I said, "yes, that is the setting i have."<br /><br />He said, "And for further information we have a dedicated department for this Support+. Please call us at: <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">877-831-2880</span></strong>. They will provide you all the information and help you out."<br /><br />I said, "no, i was already on the phone for 2 hours with them." (After this conversation I realized this is the heavenly "fee-based" Level 3 support that I had not yet tried.)<br /><br />He said, "I apologize for the inconvenience caused to you. I am sorry, we do not have any tools to provide you all the information on this. Please contact them, they will help you out."<br /><br />I said, "okay, i guess i'll try them again. Expletive deleted. bye for now."<br /><br /><strong>Talked to this guy over half an hour. No effin' help.<br /></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">7:30pm</span></strong><br /><br />ATT's customer service survey popped up on my screen, which I filled out. It was only two questions and a comment. I gave both questions a NO, then put in comments: "Ongoing problem. Changing settings in email software so it can send and receive. I did not sign up for DSL from ATT. You took over my DSL without my consent. Now email will receive but not send."<br /><br />I tried to type more into the comments field but it would only erase my text after that, so I assume the box had a character limit in force.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">7:35 pm</span></strong><br /><br />I called the tech support number that Ryan had given me, <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">877-831-2880</span></strong>, got the same stinking a phone maze, and it said, for DSL support, hang up and dial <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">1-800-288-2020</span></strong>, but I just ignored that and pressed 1 for "advanced technical support." Got put on hold.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">7:45 pm</span></strong><br /><br />I heard sound of a phone ringing and got a live human after about 10 rings. I could not understand her name, India accent. I gave her my name, phone, zip code, and so forth, and we discussed the problem, and she said it would be a $99 fee. (I'll admit, I was expecting $30 or $40, not $100!) but get this: <strong>she promised their techs could fix it</strong>. She actually used the word "promise."<br /><br />I argued about the fee and lost. She took my cc info. Back on hold.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">7:53 pm</span></strong><br /><br />She said we had to wait for a ticket number. While waiting for a ticket number, she read me the list of rules that she said she was required to read to me. I did not jot them all down, but these two stood out:<br /><br />1) I am liable for any lost data, etc, if I proceed to this service.<br /><br />2) <strong>Even if they can't fix it they will still bill me $99 for this service</strong>.<br /><br />(<em>First she promised they could fix it, then said it would be $99, then said if they can't fix it, it's still $99?? If this is not illegal it should be</em>.)<br /><br />Well, this is when I hit the roof and started yelling. Problem ongoing for weeks, I did not sign up for this, I was promised my email would work, ATT slammed my DSL, been on the phone already for hours trying to get it fixed, and so on. I also said that I know it's not her fault, she's not a supervisor, and so on. She said she is required to say all the rules. I pointed out again that she just promised me they could fix it, then said, maybe we can't, but it's $99 either way (!).<br /><br />Well, since I can't fix this mess myself, I said let's go ahead, and she gave me a ticket number and said to give that to the technician when they come on the line. She added that if I need to call her back, the number is <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">888-930-3330</span></strong>. She then said, please stay on the line and put me on hold.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">7:58 pm</span></strong><br /><br />On hold. Wow, but they have some really crappy primitive on-hold music!<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">8:42 pm<br /></span></strong><br />After being on hold for <strong>44 minutes</strong> (!) I finally got to the $99-tech, whom I shall call A~. She asked for my ticket number, asked me the problem, and by now I had it down to three words: "Eudora won't send."<br /><br />Tech A~ had me launch Internet Explorer, go to a specific website, put in a code number, and download a utility called "Premium Support" that allowed her to see my desktop on her desktop and take control of my mouse, etc.<br /><br />I watched as she looked at Eudora, tried to send email, no go, looked at the browser, checked some settings under Windows Device Manager and Intel Network Connector, which were all normal, I assume, since she changed nothing.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">8:48 pm<br /></span></strong><br />Tech A~ again looked at Eudora, spent a few minutes looking at all the settings, said she was not familiar with Eudora but would try to figure the problem out, put me on hold, said she was going to find a tech who understands Eudora, came back and said she thinks it's a port problem, and I watched as she checked the port settings in Eudora, making all the changes I had already tried, then trying new settings.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">9:02 pm<br /></span></strong><br />Tech still "looking around" my computer, made changes to the SSL settings (Secure Socket Layer, a security wall), still no go, changed it back, still no go. She then said she has just learned that a lot of other people have had the same problem.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">9:06pm<br /></span></strong><br />A~ said another customer who also uses Eudora tried all sorts of instructions but never found a solution, said Eudora "does not like" the SSL that ATT uses. She continued to try possible solutions, kept trying to send an email with Eudora but just got error messages. She then said she was going to write down and investigate the error message more closely. She checked the SSL Certificate Information Manager, clicked on a certificate, tried several times to solve the problem that the certificate was not being authenticated, and so on.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">9:16 pm</span></strong><br /><br />Tech A~ imported a certificate, tried many other settings, tried changes to certificates and SSL and a slew of other settings. Still no go.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">9:23 pm<br /></span></strong><br />More attempts to fix, then she tried logging in to yahoo mail using my Netrek name and password, no go, she changed the port settings again, no go.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">9:32 pm</span></strong><br /><br />Tech A~ started explaining to me why the incoming mail still worked but the outgoing mail did not work, but stopped herself in the middle as if she had a new idea, and made more changes to the settings. Next she theorized that the problem was with the web-based part (Yahoo), in that she did not know how to "connect" Yahoo to 2020comm (my old internet service provider) or Netrek (my old email domain name). I said I also have an ATT email handle and why don't we try that. She entered that into the Eudora settings, and also the password for that, then put me back on hold.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">9:40 pm</span></strong><br /><br />I saw my mouse moving around by itself again, and watched as she checked all the settings, tried to send an email, no go, she pinged the ATT server, looks like that worked, continued to try different settings.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">9:46 pm</span></strong><br /><br />As I watched her move my mouse around I asked about the old router / new router, and she said the router is not the issue; the problem she's currently trying to solve is getting the SSL settings in Eudora to update or recognize or something like that. Eudora doesn't seem to have standard SSL but something called TSL, perhaps it's an old version of SSL that is too old to function, or something like that.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">9:52 pm<br /></span></strong><br />I watched as tech A~ followed links from Eudora to <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">OpenSSL</span></strong> online, I assume in an attempt to find upgrade info or a fix, no go, she then said that I have a 10 year old version of Eudora and she could set up Outlook for me. (<em>Oh, yes, I knew she was going to tell me to use Outlook!!</em>) I explained that I have used Outlook in the past and really hated it, it was very hard to use, but told her to go ahead and set it up for me, let's see if it works.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">9:58 pm</span></strong><br /><br />I watched as she set up my ATT email with my "real name" and it worked fine, then she set up the Netrek email to see if it would work, put in my old ISP server name, no go, I looked through my old notes from when I set up Eudora, found a different email server, she put that in and by golly it worked! She then set up Outlook to handle my ATT email and my Netrek email and put them all into the same inbox, or at least that's what I expected would happen.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">10:16 pm</span></strong><br /><br />I told tech A~ that I had been promised a solution, not only prior to today, but earlier today, by ATT personnel, and that after I was told of the $99 fee, I was then told, by the same ATT person, that even if they can't fix it, it's still $99. A~ said she would be happy to transfer me to <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">sales</span></strong> so I could let them know that their own personnel are making impossible promises because Eudora is simply incompatible with ATT email, and they can't support Eudora or fix the problem, the problem (apparently) lies with the SSL in Eudora.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">10:36 pm<br /></span></strong><br />Tech A~ said, "Sorry it took so long, nothing else I can do for you." I thanked her for trying her best. She transferred me to sales. I went on hold at 10:37 pm.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">10:44 pm</span></strong><br /><br />I got to a live human (India accent) who asked for my ticket number, which I gave, he said he was a sales rep for "<strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Connect-Tech</span></strong>," then I explained the problem, in that ATT continued to promise me they would fix my email and they simply are unable to, and that they should not be making this promise, especially to Eudora users.<br /><br />He said he can't give me a refund of my $99 but he would ask the supervisor for permission to give me a refund. I also asked what to do with the duplicate modem, he said he can't help me with that, put me on hold, 10:51 pm.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">10:53 pm<br /></span></strong><br />When he came back to the phone I told him that, legally speaking, if a company is liable, the fact that they say they're not liable doesn't make them not liable, they're still liable. He said the best he can do is give me full credit for the $99 fee, then charge me a $29 fee instead, thus giving me a $70 reduction on the fee, which he termed a "partial refund." That still stinks, but I agreed to take the partial refund.<br /><br />He then gave me a transaction number (order reference number) for the current charge, and also gave me the transaction number (order reference number) for the original $99 charge.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">10:59 pm<br /></span></strong><br />Call ended. Counting from my first contact today with ATT via the chat line, that makes <strong>four hours and five minutes</strong> total time spent on this today.<br /><br />---0---<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Date: January 8, 2010</span></strong><br /><br />The next morning, after the day I spent four hours on the phone with ATT, during which they supposedly set up Outlook for me, guess what? Outlook is not sending or receiving my Netrek mail.<br /><br />Expletives!<br /><br />---0---<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Date: January 9, 2010</span></strong><br /><br />A moment of silence for my dead email, thank you.<br /><br />It is no wonder that consumers like myself who are treated like dirt by these giant, faceless, multi-national, evil corporations (with the exception of Tech A~ who was super) are taking their business elsewhere.<br /><br />---0---<br /><br />Please <a href="http://www.gwenfoss.com/">help a starving bookdealer</a>.<br /><br />Sincerely yours,<br />Gwen Foss<br /><br />---0---<br /><br /> </span>Book Doctor Gwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08371670634917502649noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32018540.post-11088838398946907612010-01-05T13:31:00.003-05:002010-01-05T13:45:26.746-05:00<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:180%;"><strong>17 Symbols in The Wizard of Oz</strong></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>. . . Historian Richard Jensen assigns the following symbols to the objects, characters and themes in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, written in 1901 by L. Frank Baum, and filmed in Technicolor by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1939. I'm not sure I agree with all of these correlations but they certainly make for good conversation fodder.<br /></em></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">1. Main theme: <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Populism</span></strong> = The "wizards" of Washington DC are a bunch of charlatans running a scam on the little people of America; ordinary people can take care of themselves if they realize their full potential, work together, and do not put themselves into the thrall of self-professed experts wielding the powers of government<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">2. the bleakness of Kansas = <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Economic depression</span></strong> caused by the gold standard (see below for more on the silver and gold standards)<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">3. Dorothy = <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Everywoman<br /></span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">4. the cyclone = <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Silverite victory</span></strong> at the polls<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">5. Oz = <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Silverites</span></strong>, who supported a standard in which 16 oz = 16 ounces of silver = one ounce of gold<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">6. Wicked Witch of the East = <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Eastern bankers</span></strong><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">7. Munchkins = <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Ordinary people</span></strong> in bondage to East Witch<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">8. Good Witch of the North = <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Northern electorate</span></strong><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">9. Yellow Brick Road = Gold ingots = <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">The gold standard</span></strong>—the notion that only gold, not silver, should be used to back up our paper money—supported by William McKinley.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">10. Silver Slippers = <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">The silver standard</span></strong>, the only thing one may travel the road with. The silver standard—the notion that the federal government should back its paper money with silver as well as gold—was supported by William Jennings Bryan. (For the 1939 movie, these magical slippers were changed from silver to red because, in Technicolor, red simply looks spectacular.)<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">11. Scarecrow = <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Farmers</span></strong>, who think they have no brains, supporters of William Jennings Bryan<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">12. Tin Woodsman = <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Industrial laborers</span></strong>, who think they have no compassion, supporters of William Jennings Bryan<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">13. Cowardly Lion = <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">William Jennings Bryan</span></strong> himself, who ran for president as a Silverite in 1896 (and also ran in 1900 and 1908)<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">14. Dorothy and her three friends = the <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">electoral coalition<br /></span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">15. Emerald City = the <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">national capital</span></strong><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">16. greenish hue of the city, which is an optical illusion = <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Greenback dollars</span></strong>, which are illusory money<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">17. the Wizard's farewell address in the movie = an imitation of <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Franklin Roosevelt</span></strong><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">---0---<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Visit <a href="http://www.gwenfoss.com/">my used bookstore</a><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Browse <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/SearchResults.asp?Title=&Aut=frank%20baum&Pub=&Key=&ISBN=&Att=&BID=0&PriceH=&PriceL=&SDate=0&memid=&catid=&subid=&Con=True&QkSrch=&TightSrch=1&Ord=&page=1">books by L. Frank Baum</a> at <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/">TomFolio.com</a>, a shared website of reputable used-book dealers<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">---0---</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span>Book Doctor Gwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08371670634917502649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32018540.post-26181911763543710252010-01-02T12:19:00.005-05:002010-01-02T13:22:32.662-05:00<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:180%;"><strong>17 Examples of Erasing Universalist History, Ignoring Universalist History, or Burying it under the Label of Unitarian History</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>. . . A collection of examples of Universalism or Universalist history being left out of the picture, destroyed, ignored, misrepresented, treated with substantially less space than Unitarian history, called Unitarian history, or buried under Unitarian history.<br /><br />I have seen so many examples of this casual disregard for Universalist history that I just had to start collecting them. Please note: These are not all the examples I have ever found, just examples from people who should know better.<br /><br />How would it be if, every time someone mentions Channing, Emerson and Parker and implies that they are the whole foundation of UU history, someone snuck in and added Murray, Winchester, Balfour and Ballou? Hmmmm. (Listed in chronological order, more or less.)</em><br /><br />---0---<br /><br /><strong>Exhibit #1</strong><br /><br />1922<br /><br /><em>The City of Detroit, Michigan, 1701-1922, Volume 5</em><br />by Clarence Monroe Burton<br /><br />Page 188, in the biography of Rollin Howard Stevens, states:</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">"Dr. Stevens served on the board of trustees of the Church of Our Father and <strong>has long been identified with the Unitarian faith</strong>."<br /><br />Comment: Church of Our Father was a Universalist church. After this book was published, their name changed (1934) to First Unitarian-Universalist Church when Detroit's Unitarian congregation consolidated with the Universalists. It is incorrect to refer to members of this Universalist church as Unitarians, particularly prior to the 1934 event in which the Unitarians "moved in" with the Universalists.<br /><br />---0---<br /><br /><strong>Exhibit #2</strong><br /><br />1933<br /><br />Of the 34 people who signed <em>Humanist Manifesto I</em>, it is often stated that "<strong>about half (15) were Unitarians</strong>."<br /><br />Comment: This fact is mentioned in the Preface of the <em>Manifesto</em>. In fact, the signers included only 12 Unitarians, 1 Universalist, and 2 individuals who were dually fellowshipped.<br /><br />The sole Universalist is called a Unitarian and the two in dual fellowship are stripped of their Universalism and called solely Unitarian.<br /><br />(Email me if you would like a list of the Universalists and Unitarians who signed the <em>Manifesto</em>.)<br /><br />---0---<br /><br /><strong>Exhibit #3</strong><br /><br />1956<br /><br />The famous group of murals, <em>24 Saints of Liberalism</em>, painted at 3rd Unitarian Chicago 1956–69 by church member Andrene Kauffman, includes 9 Unitarians, 15 non-U/Us, and no Universalists.<br /><br />The Unitarian subjects are: Susan B. Anthony, Edwin T. Buehrer, William Ellery Channing, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Jefferson, James Martineau, Thomas Paine, Theodore Parker, Joseph Priestley.<br /><br />The Non-U/U subjects are: Jane Addams, John Peter Altgeld (progressive governor of IL), Albert Camus, Confucius, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Suddhartha Gautama, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Martin Luther King, Jr., Abraham Lincoln, Jesus of Nazareth, Socrates, Harriet Tubman, Walt Whitman, Woodrow Wilson, Roger Williams.<br /><br />Info from <em>UU World</em>, Summer 2009, pages 36-39<br /><br />---0---<br /><br /><strong>Exhibit #4</strong><br /><br />1991<br /><br />Book title: <em>Thomas Starr King: Eminent Californian, Civil War Statesman, Unitarian Minister</em>, by Robert A. Monzingo. NY: Boxwood Press, 1991<br /><br />Comment: Thomas Starr King was ordained both Universalist and Unitarian but here he is described only as a Unitarian.<br /><br />---0---<br /><br /><strong>Exhibit #5</strong><br /><br />1991<br /><br /><em>The UU Alphabet</em><br /><br />Song lyric by yours truly, listing one famous U/U for each letter of the alphabet.<br /><br />The song lists 14 Unitarians (61%), 3 Universalists (13%), 2 UUs (9%), 3 borderline or wrong names (13%), and three letters (U, X, Z) that I had to fudge entirely, not included in percentages.<br /><br />In my own defense, I wrote the lyric before I knew much Universalist history. I collected the names from list of "famous UUs" that I got from various sources. Since most lists of "famous UUs" at the time were — and still are — approximtely 80% Unitarian, 10% Universalist and 10% wrong, my song lyric ended up being about the same.<br /><br />(Email me if you would like to see the song.)<br /><br />---0---<br /><br /><strong>Exhibit #6</strong><br /><br />1996<br /><br />"[The Rev. James] Stoll was a minister of the Unitarian Universalist Association--<strong>known as the Unitarians</strong>--and his act [coming out] was the first of many that came to mark the Unitarians as the country's most accepting, welcoming denomination for homosexuals."<br /><br />-- Mark Oppenheimer, History Department, Yale University<br /><br />This is the third sentence in his article, <em>"The Inherent Worth and Dignity": Gay Unitarians and the Birth of Sexual Tolerance in Liberal Religion</em>, published in <em>Journal of the History of Sexuality</em>, Vol. 7, 1996<br /><br />Article excerpt found online at Questia at<br /><br />http://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst;jsessionid=L1rMSv1h95SD1n1t0HKQJZp0wqkLYw1TYQ2k7WV0npv33fjFDP1C!-997264469!1888687908?docId=96428120 (viewed online Jan 2, 2010)<br /><br />Should I be shocked that a professor of history at Yale doesn't know or doesn't care about the difference between a Unitarian and a Unitarian Universalist?<br /><br />---0---<br /><br /><strong>Exhibit #7</strong><br /><br />1999<br /><br />"UUs seem to have two conflicting "myth of origin" stories that influence our sense of roots. One is that we began with Akhenaten, Moses and Jesus, and we're the REAL monotheists. (Though that theory is somewhat out of fashion with the change from "one God at most" to "one God more or less.") Then there's the "creation ex nihilo" out of the heads of Servetus and Channing -- this myth is operationally what many members in UU churches believe. It's interesting what you learn by listening at coffee hours and online UU chats, just to understand what the average congregational member really thinks is the history of our idea and association!"<br /><br />-- Jone Johnson Lewis, on the UU Historical Society listserv<br /><br />Comment: She says "UUs" have two origin myths but describes origin myths of Unitarians alone.<br /><br />---0---<br /><br /><strong>Exhibit #8</strong><br /><br />date unknown (circa 2000)<br /><br />I once sat through an entire sermon in a UU church in which the speaker -- a guest and layman -- referred to Walt Whitman three or four times as "<strong>a gay Unitarian minister</strong>." I don't know who the speaker was thinking of but Walt Whitman was not a minister and was not a Unitarian (he was borderline Universalist at best).<br /><br />---0---<br /><br /><strong>Exhibit #9</strong><br /><br />16 Jun 2000<br /><br />David M. Robinson, Distinguished Professor of American Literature, Department of English, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, posted the following to the UU Historical Society listserv:<br /><br />BEGIN QUOTE<br /><br />Dear Fellow UU History Buffs,<br /><br />I'll be giving a talk at GA on UU History in a session sponsored by the Fulfilling the Promise Task Force (session 446). The official title is "What Our History Might Teach Us," but it has evolved over the spring into a paper with the working title "The Five Phases of Unitarian Universalist History." I thought I would put my basic thesis out on this list in advance for possible reaction, and will perhaps be able to speak with some of you at GA. The "Five Phases" will probably not surprise you, but they gave me the best broad overview of the denomination's development that I could work out. What I was interested in developing was a broadly comprehensive, and thus necessarily very general, "big picture" encapsulation of our history. The five phases are:<br /><br />(1) the Unitarian Controversy (Great Awakening to the 1830s)<br /><br />(2) Transcendentalism (1830s to 1860s)<br /><br />(3) Free Religion (1860s to 1890s)<br /><br />(4) Humanism (1920s to 1940s)<br /><br />(5) Social Justice Movements (1960s [or late 1950s?] to the present). . . .<br /><br />END QUOTE<br /><br />Comment: This is not an outline of UU history, it is an outline of Unitarian history. It ignores Universalist history and has almost no direct relevance to Universalism. There's nothing wrong with that except that Professor Robinson refers to it as "UU History" and as a "<strong>broad overview of the denomination's development</strong>."<br /><br />To Robinson's credit, when it was gently pointed out to him by several others on the list that his outline did not apply to Universalist history, he responded, saying:</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">"I also agree with you that it falsifies Universalist history to try to read it through categories derived from Unitarian history, such as Transcendentalism and Free Religion. This need to keep things separate historically of course presents some problems. In one sense, all UUs after the merger must own the histories of each denomination. And the history of the denomination after the merger is of course "Unitarian Universalist." But to own those histories does not mean to merge them or erase their uniqueness."<br /><br />---0---<br /><br /><strong>Exhibit #10</strong><br /><br />27 Dec 2003<br /><br />"Still we, in our dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist biography and elsewhere state that Ralph Waldo Emerson, <strong>Clara Barton</strong>, Horace Mann, John Adams and John Quincy Adams, and others, were 19th century Unitarians. How many Unitarians were there in the 19th century?" [emphasis added]<br /><br />John Keohane, UUHS listserv<br /><br />Comment: Clara Barton was a Universalist but here she is lumped in with Unitarians and called a Unitarian.<br /><br />---0---<br /><br /><strong>Exhibit #11</strong><br /><br />2004<br /><br /><em>This Day in Unitarian Universalist History: A Treasury of Anniversaries and Milestones from 600 Years of Religious Tradition</em>, by Frank Schulman, published by Skinner House Books, an imprint of the Unitarian Universalist Association.<br /><br />Comment: This is, overall, a well written book, with clear, concise entries. It is well laid out and easy to read. It lists, for each day of the calendar year, around two to four milestones in UU history.<br /><br />The problem is that it is almost all Unitarian history and only a little bit Universalist history. And I hazard to say that the Universalist history seems to be based on Unitarian sources.<br /><br />I made a count of how many entries are Unitarian, how many Universalist, and how many are Borderline (regarding someone who was a small-u unitarian, for example) or Both.<br /><br />I was going to count the whole book but stopped after three months (January 1 to March 31) since the trend was obvious.<br /><br />Out of a total of 293 entries for the first three months, I found:<br /><br />85% (248) Unitarian entries<br /><br />10% (28) Universalist entries<br /><br />3% (9) Borderline<br /><br />3% (8) Both (Unitarian Universalist combined) (total is 101% due to rounding)<br /><br />I also checked the bibliography and found a preponderance of Unitarian sources. There were 26 Unitarian, 11 Universalist, and 5 UU history books listed, as well as one general biographical dictionary and one history of the <em>Humanist Manifesto</em> (see Exhibit #2).<br /><br />---0---<br /><br /><strong>Exhibit #12</strong><br /><br />2008 (approx)<br /><br />On the poster entitled <em>100 Unitarians and Universalists</em> there are 79 Unitarians, 9 Universalists, 5 UUs, 1 labeled "you" (with a little mirror instead of a portrait), and 6 who don't even belong on the poster.<br /><br />The nine Univeralists are: Hosea Ballou, P.T. Barnum, Clara Barton, Olympia Brown, Augusta Jane Chapin, Mary Livermore, John Murray, Benjamin Rush, Clarence Skinner.<br /><br />The five UUs are: Tim Berners-Lee, Laurel Salton Clark, Robert Fulghum, Thomas Starr King, Christopher Reeve.<br /><br />The six who shouldn't be on the poster are: Isaac Asimov, Thomas Carlyle, Theodore Giesel, Thomas Huxley, Robert LaFollette, Daniel Webster.<br /><br />I do not know who published this poster. There is a framed copy of it hanging in the First UU Church of Detroit, but no publication data visible.<br /><br />---0---<br /><br /><strong>Exhibit #13</strong><br /><br />7 Apr 2008<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Clint Richmond, on the UU Historical Society listserv, said:</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">BEGIN QUOTE</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />The historic First Church in Boston has invited me to speak as part of their adult RE Learning Community. The illustrated presentation is based on my guidebook 'Political Places of Boston' . . .<br /><br />I will be surveying neighborhood landmarks/events and their UU connections (Boston Pride parade, Boston Common and Faneuil Hall) as well as UU sites (such as UUA headquarters, Beacon Press, Arlington Street Church, and Community Church).<br /><br />UU people to be mentioned will include Emily Greene Balch, Elliot Richardson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Theodore Parker.<br /><br />The UUA bookstore has kindly carried the book since it was released in 2004. Their copies also have a special insert that makes some of these same connections, which allow you to take a similar such "UU Freedom Trail" if you visit Boston.<br /><br />END QUOTE<br /><br />Comment: He calls his book and his talk and his freedom trail all "UU" but with the exception of the UUA headquarters, everything mentioned is 100% Unitarian; there seems to be nothing Universalist included.<br /><br />---0---<br /><br /><strong>Exhibit #14</strong><br /><br />Apr 2009<br /><br />Dictionary of UU Biography<br /><br />Comment: I counted the Unitarians and the Universalists in the <a href="http://www25.uua.org/uuhs/duub/">Dictionary of UU Biography</a> because it seemed as if most of the entries were on Unitarians. I made the count in Apr 2009.<br /><br />Of the 932 Individuals listed:<br /><br />68% (633) are Unitarian<br /><br />18% (172) are Universalist<br /><br />3% (32) are Both<br /><br />11% (98) are Unknown (to me at this time)<br /><br />Comment: The editor in chief of this project specializes in Universalist history, so I am hopeful that as the project goes forward, the difference between the number of Unitarian and Universalist articles will be lessened.<br /><br />(Email me if you would like to see a list the actual names and how I counted them.)<br /><br />---0---<br /><br /><strong>Exhibit #15</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">May 2009</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><a href="http://www.religioustolerance.org/u-u2.htm">This website</a> gives a brief history of "UUism" based solely on Ralph Waldo Emerson who was a Unitarian minister for about 4 years (1829-1833) then withdrew from the denomination.<br /><br />---0---<br /><br /><strong>Exhibit #16</strong><br /><br />Jun 2009<br /><br /><a href="http://www.philosopedia.org/">Philosopedia<br /></a><br />Warren Allen Smith's website has a summary page listing the names of 325 notable Unitarians who are profiled on his site (there are a few doubles and other anomalies so the correct number is about 323), and another summary page listing all the Universalists, of which there are 45.<br /><br />But wait, four of the individuals listed as Universalists were actually Unitarians, so the actual number of Universalists listed is only 41. (The four are Dan McKanan, Winifred Latimer Norman, Arpad Szabo; plus Hosea Ballou I is listed twice, the second time as Josea Ballou.)<br /><br />I also checked the Unitarian list to see if any names belong on the Universalist list and found four (Johannes Auer, Adin Ballou, Angus MacLean, Clinton Lee Scott).<br /><br />Comment: The site is about 85% Unitarian and 15% Universalist.<br /><br />---0---<br /><br /><strong>Exhibit #17</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />4 Nov 2009<br /><br />UU historian John Keohane's proposed four-session "Course in Adult Religious Education on UU History," as posted on the UU Historical Society listserv.<br /><br />BEGIN QUOTE<br /><br />1) Ballou and Channing Both were 19th century Protestant Christian ministers in Boston. Each read the Bible more seriously than their "orthodox" brethren. They were from different strata of society, and they didn't like each other. Hosea Ballou (1771-1852) was a Universalist. He found in the Bible evidence for Universal Salvation. William Ellery Channing (1780-1842) was a Unitarian. He found lack of Biblical evidence lacking for the Trinity. He thought the Bible must be read with the use of reason.<br /><br />2) The Humanists of the mid-20th century Evidence that Unitarians had gone clearly beyond our Christian roots. We'll discuss the Humanist Manifesto (1933), and some of those who signed it, including ministers John Dietrich and Edwin H. Wilson. We'll then go to another Humanist, the distinguished scientist and physiologist Maurice Visscher, learning of some of the early medical missionary work of the Unitarian (now UU) Service Committee. We'll also learn of Visscher's social action, of the science, and his actions to end atmospheric nuclear tests.<br /><br />3) Unitarians and Universalists for Civil Rights We'll discuss UU martyrs at Selma, James Reeb, a minister from Boston, and Viola Liuzzo, a housewife and mother from Michigan, whose Oldsmobile with the Michigan plates stood out in the red clay of Alabama. We'll then move our discussion to a giant of the United States Senate, the Quaker-Unitarian Paul H. Douglas, of Illinois, who led the way for civil rights in his 18 years in the US Senate (1949-67), and each year reported his net worth and income to the penny, while rejecting any gift over $5, and refusing his disability pension from the United States Marines.<br /><br />4) Unitarians and Universalists in the last 50 years Pre-merger cooperation on Religious Education, a hymnal, etc. leading to merger in 1961, to become the Unitarian Universalist Association.<br /><br />END QUOTE<br /><br />Comment: His course includes about 85% Unitarian and 15% Universalist material. The number of Universalist people mentioned here is exactly one: Hosea Ballou, although one could also count Viola Liuzzo who belonged to a joint Unitarian Universalist congregation.<br /><br />---0---<br /><br />Visit <a href="http://www.gwenfoss.com/">my online used bookstore</a> and check out my little booklet, <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/bookdetailssu.asp?b=444&m=518">A Who's Who of UUs</a><br /><br />Thanks and Happy New Year y'all.<br /><br />---0---<br /></span>Book Doctor Gwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08371670634917502649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32018540.post-55629496726794244882009-12-30T14:43:00.001-05:002009-12-30T14:46:38.276-05:00<p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">5 Reasons Against Votes for Men<br /></span></strong><br /><em>. . . I post below a short piece of satire written by Alice Duer Miller (1874-1942) during the woman suffrage movement. One of the principle arguments against allowing women to vote was that the "woman’s sphere" was and should be domestic: that women were "created" to be lovely things, helpful to men, to guide humanity to higher morals, and so on, all of which would be "lost" if they were to get mixed up in the "dirty" world of politics. Miller wrote this in 1915, five years before American women earned the right to vote. Repeat, this is </em>satire<em>.<br /></em><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Why We Oppose Votes For Men<br /></span></strong><br />1. Because a man's place is in the army.<br /><br />2. Because no really manly man wants to settle any question otherwise than by fighting about it.<br /><br />3. Because if men should adopt peaceable methods, women will no longer look up to them.<br /><br />4. Because men will lose their charm if they step out of their natural sphere and interest themselves in other matters than feats of arms, uniforms and drums.<br /><br />5. Because men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions show this, while their innate tendency to appeal to force renders them particularly unfit for the task of government.<br /><br />---0---<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Shameless plug for <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/">TomFolio.com</a>, the world's first cooperatively-owned online marketplace of used and rare books, periodicals, and ephemera</span></p><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />---0---<br /></span></p>Book Doctor Gwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08371670634917502649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32018540.post-14481766895762263152009-12-27T07:27:00.003-05:002009-12-27T07:35:27.378-05:00<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">20 New Quotes about Books (and other topics) from Used Bookdealers</span></strong><br /><br /><em>. . . Collected here and there over the past few years.</em><br /><br />A curse for underhanded bookdealers:<br />1. "<strong>Let them have</strong> a copious variety of urgent, but fraudulent, book orders and increasingly tempting Nigerian schemes richly laden with ornate subordinate clauses, Victorian circumlocutions of cloying sweetness, and semi-plausible misspellings. Furthermore, let their own spellchecker be seeded with random malapropisms." <em>David Anderson</em><br /><br />2. "<strong>People who haggle</strong> over a five dollar book were never going to buy anything anyway." <em>Brian Cassidy</em>, 2008<br /><br />3. "<strong>Creamsicle</strong>. My only reason for living as a child. Well, that and the library." <em>Michelle Palmer</em>, 2003<br /><br />4. "<strong>All the scrapbook stores</strong> seem to have dogs, and all the bookstores seem to have cats." bookdealer and scrapbooker <em>Marilyn Brownjohn<br /></em><br />5. "<strong>I am a firm believer</strong> that a computer needs a Microsoft operating system the way a dog needs bricks tied to its head." <em>Ian J. Kahn<br /></em><br />6. "<strong>I don't know</strong> why they call it Victoria's secret. Everybody already knows about all that stuff." Victoria, 8-year old granddaughter of bookdealer <em>Jim Hart<br /></em><br />7. "<strong>Sometimes being born</strong> without the shopping gene means I feel like a foreigner in my own economy." <em>Charmaine Taylor</em>, 2003<br /><br />8. "<strong>My acquaintances</strong> who are very rich insist that the less advantaged dealers exist to be exploited. The only people who truly count, whose needs and desires should be considered, are the members of the investor class. They all chuckle when I point out they are scum." unnamed bookdealer quoted by <em>Renee Magriel Roberts</em><br /><br />9. "<strong>I believe</strong> most booksellers are, by nature, hoarders." <em>Rock Toews</em><br /><br />10. "<strong>Incipient fascism</strong> is still thought to be curable. When presented with a sufferer of the common bureaucratic malady called cranio-rectal inversion, immediate prophylaxis is indicated." <em>Andris Danielsons<br /></em><br />11. "<strong>The difference between</strong> liberals and right-wing nuts is that right-wing nuts believe that *They* are better than *We and You*, whereas liberals believe that *We and You and They* should be treated equally under the law." <em>Jessie Munro</em><br /><br />12. "<strong>Specializing in</strong> Non-Moveable Type books. Some haven't moved in 17 years." <em>Joe Oprisch</em><br /><br />13. "<strong>The only effective protection</strong> from lies is the developement of critical thinking. Keeping kids in a kind of intellectual padded cell, fed only what their parents believe is true, is a guarantee that they will grow up gullible." <em>Marc de Piolenc</em>, in reply to a news story on parents stealing books from school libraries 'to protect them from lies'<br /><br />14. "<strong>I'm not anti-religion</strong> -- I'm anti people who claim religion and practice cruelty." <em>Shirley Bryant</em><br /><br />15. "<strong>[Vice President Dick] Cheney</strong> is a white cat and an eye patch away from being a Bond Villain." <em>Joyce Godsey</em>, 2008<br /><br />16. "<strong>Pricing [antiquarian and collectible books]</strong> is an acquired skill, an art, as long-time antiquarian specialists can attest. The presence or lack of a single mark on a single page can triple the price. No algorithm will ever take that into account." -- anonymous, quoted by <em>Chris Hartmann</em>, 2003<br /><br />17. "<strong>Some of those books</strong> are too old to have first editions." comment by customer to bookdealer <em>Doreen Steinbeck<br /></em><br />18. "<strong>People with white carpeting</strong> never have good books. I think it's because they care more about appearances than brains." <em>Jessie Munro</em>, only half sarcastically, on how to judge the book potential at an estate sale by the decor in the front room, 2007<br /><br />19. "<strong>These days</strong> if I find a mistake that could have been corrected by an editor, I fling the book across the room with great force. Who am I kidding? I stopped reading modern books when I ran out of spackle back in '02." <em>Joyce Godsey</em>, 2008<br /><br />20. "<strong>Learn something new</strong> every day, if I'm not careful." <em>Christopher Crockett</em><br /><br />---0---<br /><br />Celebrating the ninth anniversary of the all-bookdealer-owned, all-bookdealer-run <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/">TomFolio.com</a>!<br /><br />---0---<br /> </span>Book Doctor Gwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08371670634917502649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32018540.post-88626180579293789422009-12-24T13:52:00.002-05:002009-12-24T14:02:00.589-05:00<p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:180%;"><strong>24 Interfaith Season's Greetings, 2009 Edition</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">1. To my Christian friends, Merry Christmas!<br /><br />2. To my Catholic friends, Happy St. Stephen's Day!<br /><br />3. To my Jewish friends, Happy Chanukah!<br /><br />4. To my Muslim friends, Eid Mubarak!<br /><br />5. To my African American friends, Good Kwanzaa!<br /><br />6. To my Zoroastrian friends, Happy Mithra's Birthday!<br /><br />7. To my Pagan friends, Blessed Solstice!<br /><br />8. To my Malaysian friends, Selamat Hari Raya!<br /><br />9. To my Hindu friends, a belated Shubh Diwali!<br /><br />10. To my friends in the British Commonwealth: Happy Boxing Day early!<br /><br />11. To my Universalist Unitarian friends, Happy Thomas Starr King's Birthday!<br /><br />12. To my interfaith friends, Happy Whichever!<br /><br />13. To my chorister friends: Throw the Yule Log on Uncle John!<br /><br />14. To my scientist friends: Enjoy the Perihelion!<br /><br />15. To my websurfing friends, eGreetings!<br /><br />16. To my folklore-loving friends: Merry Generic Winter Festival!<br /><br />17. To my friends in retail: Happy Non-Specific Holiday!<br /><br />To everyone I haven't mentioned yet, 18. Happy Saturnalia! 19. Happy Brumalia! 20. Oneg Shabbat! 21. Yuletide Greetings! 22. Merry Festivus! 23. Season's Greetings!<br /><br />24. To my Atheist friends, damn it's cold outside!<br /><br />And a Kickass New Year to all.<br /><br />---0---<br /> </span></p>Book Doctor Gwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08371670634917502649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32018540.post-83108712827547208502009-12-21T09:12:00.004-05:002009-12-27T07:27:30.446-05:00<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">9 Stupid Customer Stories</span></strong><br /><br /><em>. . . Sent in by your cheerful, anonymous used-book dealers from around the world.</em><br /><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">1. Customer ordered via Amazon. Spelled his own last name two different ways. Gave the wrong city in his address. Gave the wrong phone number. Title of book ordered: <em>The Story of Stupidity</em>.<br /><br />2. I was in a friend's bookshop one day when a customer came in and asked for a specific title, which was available, brand new, for £3 or some such. The customer exuded great delight and said he had been looking for that book for years, but that he would buy it next time round.<br /><br />3. From the chief of sales at a music publishing company: "I had a customer once who wanted some flute parts, but wasn't sure to what. So she suggested that I read off our entire catalog one at a time for her to then decide if she wanted that title or not. I was flabbergasted and responded that we had over 10,000 titles."<br /><br />4. Customer wrote to say, "So far I have not received the book. I guess it is still within 14 day window. But it ranks as one of the slower shipments from an Amazon bookseller. I bought a book last Thursday night that was shipped on Friday. I got the book on Tuesday from Florida." Oh, by the way, the book he ordered was <em>Shut Up, Stop Whining, and Get a Life</em>. I hope it helps.<br /><br />5. Customer ordered a book, received it, returned it and said it was "the wrong book." This customer had all the following initials after his name, which he put on his order form: M.S., Ph.D., M.P.H., M.A., M.S.B.S. The book he ordered by mistake: <em>Scientific Blunders: A Brief History of How Wrong Scientists Can Sometimes Be</em>.<br /><br />6. Customer in India, ordered the book to be sent from the US by Economy Rate Shipping (via the slow boat, known to take from 1 to 3 months or longer). After seven days, he emailed anxiously: "I ordered my book on 9/7. When is my book due to arrive?????????" Title ordered: <em>Behavior Modification: What It Is and How to Do It</em>. Think he needs that book?<br /><br />7. Dealer joked: "We are thinking about putting in a link to Literacy Volunteers for those people who seem to be unable to read our data entries. The latest example is 'a 1/2" x 2" light brown stain on the front free endpaper.' The question is, 'How large is the stain?'"<br /><br />8. I had a field guide to butterflies returned because the customer complained the pictures were too small. Only problem, all the butterflies were pictured life-size.<br /><br />9. Customer on Amazon, left 2 out of 5 feedback for the dealer, saying, "My order was for a hard cover I received a soft cover." The dealer replied: "You may still return an item for any reason to [address deleted]. This buyer did neither, and wants both the book and the refund. It is somewhat entertaining, as the book's subject is 'forgiveness.'"</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">---0--- </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;">Browse used books, periodicals and paper ephemera from reputable, independent dealers at <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/">TomFolio.com</a></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">---0---</span><br /><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></p>Book Doctor Gwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08371670634917502649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32018540.post-40998935176372778172009-12-18T08:17:00.003-05:002009-12-18T08:45:10.181-05:00<p align="left"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">23 Handy Substitutes for Old Used Book Terms that are Not Correctly Handled by Modern Search Engines and Might Not be Understood by the General Public Either</span></strong><br /><br /><em>. . . Since the used book business went out onto the internet, some dealers have discarded some treasured old bits of jargon due to their embarrassing sound, their potentially misunderstood meaning, or their tendency to get flagged by search engines for the wrong reasons. Here's a small collection. (Please note: In places where a color would generally be indicated I have used blue as an example.)<br /></em><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Old Term > New Term</span></strong><br /><br />1. <strong>appendices > appendixes<br /></strong><br />2. <strong>bastard title > half title<br /></strong><em>Some books have both a bastard title and a half title, but the term bastard title is often avoided, for obvious reasons.</em><br /><br />3. <strong>cocked > slanted</strong> or <strong>askew</strong><br /><br />4. <strong>cutline > caption</strong><br /><em>The old term cutline literally means caption, but since it could be taken to mean the book has been cut up, it is often avoided.</em><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">5. <strong>first</strong> or <strong>1st</strong></span></p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>Any use of the word "first," in any context, will be flagged as a "first edition" and will be returned in a search for a first edition. Thus, where the dealer needs to use the word "first," a number of workarounds have been invented. </em></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>Examples:</em></span></p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>index of first lines > index of f*rst lines </em></span></p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>first volume in series > volume one in series</em></span></p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>author's first book > author's inaugural book</em></span></p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>facsimile reprint of first edition > facsimile reprint of original edition</em></span></p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>textbook for first-year chemistry students > textbook for freshman chemistry students</em></span></p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em>The word "first" should never be used in the description of any used book unless the copy in hand is a true first edition.<br /></em><br />6. <strong>foxed > spotted</strong> or <strong>discolored</strong><br /><em>The term "foxed" or "foxing" is still in wide use but may not always be understood.</em><br /><br />7. <strong>half bound > cloth over spine, blue boards</strong><br /><em>"Half bound" will be understood by serious book collectors but the general public will be completely in the dark.</em><br /><br />8. <strong>indices > indexes</strong><br /><br />9. <strong>inscription > gift note</strong> or <strong>penned note</strong><br /><em>Any use of the word "inscription" or "inscribed," in any context, will be flagged as a "signed book" and will be returned in a search for a signed edition. Therefore the word should never be used in the online description of any used book unless it is in fact signed by the author or by a notable person.<br /></em><br />10. <strong>paste-on > label</strong> or <strong>overlay<br /></strong><em>Having a paste-on generally indicates quality workmanship, but you don't want the buyer thinking the book has been abused by a six-year-old with too much time on their hands.<br /></em><br />11. <strong>quarter bound > leather over spine, blue boards<br /></strong><em>"Quarter bound" will be understood by serious book collectors but the general public will be completely in the dark.</em><br /><br />12. <strong>rag paper > cotton paper</strong><br /><em>Rag paper was common in the 1700s and 1800s but was pushed out of the market by high-acid wood-pulp paper. Rag paper is much more durable than paper made of wood pulp, does not normally turn brown like wood-pulp paper, and does not become brittle over time. However, the term rag paper can potentially evoke an image of a book printed on dirty rags.</em><br /><br />13. <strong>recto > front<br /></strong><em>No comment.<br /></em><br />14. <strong>saddle stitch > fold-and-staple binding</strong> or <strong>stapleback binding</strong><br /><em>This term could easily be misunderstood as some kind of fancy binding when in fact it is one of the cheapest.<br /></em><br />15. <strong>stabbed</strong> or <strong>side stitched > side stapled</strong><br /><em>Saying a book has been stabbed or stitched when in fact it has been stapled (bound with staples near the folded edge) will be misunderstood by a large portion of the general public.<br /></em><br />16. <strong>suede > brushed leather</strong><br /><em>Let's face it, "brushed leather" just sounds a whole lot fancier than "suede."<br /></em><br />17. <strong>three-quarter bound</strong> or <strong>3/4 bound > leather spine and tips</strong><br /><em>Refers to a binding in which the spine is covered in leather, and there is also leather over the corners of the boards, usually placed diagonally, and also that the central parts of the boards are covered in cloth or paper.</em><br /><br />18. <strong>thumb index > thumb notch</strong><br /><br />19. <strong>topstain</strong>, as in:<br /><strong>blue topstain > top edge blue</strong><br /><em>Some books have colored top edges, with the most common colors being black, blue, or red. The correct term is topstain, but this word can be mistaken as a description of an accidental stain.</em><br /><br />20. <strong>unfoliated</strong> or <strong>unpaginated > unnumbered pages</strong><br /><em>Seriously, who but a bookdealer knows that foliation refers to page numbers?<br /></em><br />21. <strong>verso > back</strong><br /><br />22. <strong>vicesimo-quarto</strong> or <strong>24mo ></strong> [size given in centimeters]<br /><em>There are a number of wacky old terms for book sizes, although, technically, these terms do not refer to sizes but to the number of times the original paper stock was folded during the process of printing and manufacturing the book. In any case, the modern method of indicating size is simply to give the height of the book in centimeters, rounded up.</em> <a href="http://tomfolio.pbworks.com/Glossary-Part-B-Size-Terms">Click here for a detailed list of these old size terms.</a><br /><br />23. <strong>wraps, wrappers, paperwraps</strong> or <strong>stiffwraps > paperback</strong> or <strong>softcover<br /></strong><em>Few today understand the old term "wraps" and its variants.</em><br /><br />---0---<br /><br />Check out a <a href="http://tomfolio.pbworks.com/Glossary">complete Glossary of arcane terms for new, used and antiquarian books</a><br /><br />Browse <a href="http://www.tomfolio.com/">used books, periodicals and paper ephemera for sale at TomFolio.com, an international cooperative of reputable independent dealers</a><br /><br />Visit <a href="http://www.gwenfoss.com/">my humble online used-book store</a> and thanks for stopping by!<br /><br />---0---<br /><br /></span></p>Book Doctor Gwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08371670634917502649noreply@blogger.com0