• When one borrows money, be it a few hundred pennies or hundred thousand pounds, it's a bit untactful to ask the lender to go pick up your purchases as well.
• 'White Russians'' were those who opposed the Bolsheviks. I suppose that's what Gramma means.
• Go with Soviet hip on this one. Trust me.

• My proposal for a better time measurement system:

• Each trip around the sun will be divided by 10 months.
• Each of these new months will be divided into 30 days.
  
• Each rotation of the earth will be divided in 20 hours.
  
• Each of these new hours will be divide by 50 minutes.
• Each of these new minutes will be divided by 50 seconds.
• I really don't care about what the moon has to say about it.
  
  Deal with it.

• Thanks to Tivo I don't have to sit thru a whole SuperBowl just to watch the funny commercials.
• I like cereal but don't care for serial. I'm tired of having to do one project just so I can work on a different project.

• I've ranted about loyalty, but today I am reminded (while they are often confused) loyalty and obligation are not the same. However, it would often appear there is an element of symbiosis between the two. {More}
  

• loy·al·ty

1. The state or quality of being loyal; faithfulness to commitments or obligations.
2. Faithful adherence to a sovereign, government, leader, cause, etc.
3. An example or instance of faithfulness, adherence, or the like: a man with fierce loyalties.