"YOUR blahyaddablah HAS SHIPPED!"

But the point is this: young people are learning the confounding stupidity of "It depends on the meaning of the word 'is'". Say what you mean and mean what you say.

I guess it was and is my aptitude that led me into my profession. I sneer at people or businesses that Blow Smoke.

"I need those battery tests sooner than I expected!"

"Can you do something for me?"

"What?"

"Make the earth spin faster"

But younger folks take this in stride. They fall head-over-heels for buzzwords and con jobs. I believe the vernacular at one time was "Shining It On"

I live in the land of "Posible Manana". It is used to keep up a person's spirits because manana may come and 5,000 following mananas later the conversation is forgotten and things usually work out.

But eBay isn't Mexico. It's young people bowing and scraping to the unreality of "It depends on the meaning of the word 'is'". In school if a teacher caught us "Shining It On" we got a birch pointer rapped sharply across the knuckles.

And things get slower and more unreal and words are meaningless never mind promises. Today Amazon is making a fortune because for the most part their "Prime" does what stores of 30 years ago did normally

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God wotta joke...