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Jun 25, 2018

The Kvetching Professor has no idea what’s going with young people today, but when he was young, kissing was a big deal – especially the “goodnight kiss,” where, on a first date, a guy always wondered, "Do I or don’t I give it a try?" In fact, for some guys not until he heard “I do” at his wedding could he...


Jun 18, 2018

The third person pronoun. What a pain it is to try to get it right when communicating! First it was standard to use the generic masculine: "he." Then it was using "he or she." What about "they?" The Kvetching Professor gets it, but it’s hard. However, back in the mid-1980s, when he was still struggling with shifting...


Jun 11, 2018

Even the Kvetching Professor was a baby once. And he found an old home movie of his parents and him when he was about a year old. Of course there was no sound, but his parents were talking. “What were they saying?!” he wondered. Could an expert lip reader help?

 


Jun 4, 2018

Back when the Kvetching Professor was a young man, marriage proposals were simple. You asked, and she said yes. (Of course, if she didn’t, that could pretty much ruin the evening.) But that is so yesterday. Today, you have to do something new and exciting. Learn about one guy whose plan went very wrong, but she said...