Subj : Inventions
To   : August Abolins
From : George Pope
Date : Thu Jan 27 2022 09:44:04

> That's something I should try with the phone number when I
> create invoices in Excel.   xxx.xxx.xxxx

If you think of it when creating it, you can define a column as phone number, & it'll format anything you put in there that's not xxx-xxx-xxxx (or "(xxx)" for  the first 3)

I generally don't, as I'm putting in a lot of overseas numbers; most are xxx- xxxx-xxxx, but not all; I tend to format so country & city code form the first  block (612 for northern Australia, e.g.) & have no idea how they natively  formsat their numbers, when writing for international callers.

Like mine is country code of 1, followed by area code(778), exchange(882) &  phone number "POPE"

So I write it, for non-USA foreigners:
+1-778-882-7673
(I used to put "POPE" for the last 4,. but nobody has those phones with the  alphabet on the keys any more (I've got it memorized, so don't need it; if I  ever forget it, I know how to use Google)

> When I was a grade school age, I really enjoyed receiving
> personal letters addressed to me as Esq.

Was it to "Master August Abolines, Esq."?

I had the "Master"(spelled out, to differentiate from Mr. George Pope(my dad))  but no esq; I always thought esquire was for educated(university grad or  Masters) folk alone.

Ny strict definition, that's not necessary to validly use it, so I occasionally might tack it onto my name in especially formal communications where I don't  mind an assumption being made that I'm a lawyer.

>> Life's short (or is it? It's the longest thing any of us will ever
>> experience,  barring metaphysical afterlife theories, of course);
> That's pretty good! (and funny).  I'll have to remember that
> one.  Dad jokes (or puns) only go so far. And sometimes I feel
> that I need to switch things up.
> "I went to the zoo the other day, but all I saw was a dog in a
> cage. It was a shih tzu."

One of my faves that shih tzu one. . .

People get freaked out over saying that breed's name -- it's shih-tzu --  exactly as written & properly pronounced! They knmow they can't pronounce tz as a starter sound, so they adjust the entire phrase to suit them.

I can teach anyone to say that right -- just say cats...soup & drop the ca & op

Just like I can teach Newfie on one card:

WHALE
OIL
BEEF
HOOKED

Say that as often as you need to get the accent into your mouth, then start  calling everyone buddy ("Buddy was filling my gas tank & 'accidentally' went  over the 30L limit by $1, so I tipped it to him & another as thanks" Nah,  Newfies don't tip. . *LOL*)

I can get along anywhere I might suddenly wind up, unless it's a culture firmly against cripples, then I'll beef hooked for sure!

In any major city, there'll be a small core of English speakers somewhere, &  I'll find them.

Easy to find a major city -- follow any stream orcreek(or crick) downstream til it hits a river, then follow that downstream to a port city near the mouth.-



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