Too lazy to come up with a title derail from Sagan thread

[Cow Poke]

Our apologies. We would never want to disrupt your thread. We know you are very careful about not derailing the threads of others.

EGGcellent point, CD. I now repent with bitter tears.

[rogue06]

What if I bought my car from Carl Sagan?

A Ford Galaxy with billions and billions of miles?

[Cow Poke]

A Ford Galaxy with billions and billions of miles?

[CivilDiscourse]

EGGcellent point, CD. I now repent with bitter tears.

But, what kind of tears?

[Cow Poke]

Back to Sagan.... He didn't drive a Prescience - I think it was a Porsche 914.

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[Faber]

A Ford Galaxy with billions and billions of miles?

Mandela Effect there. That was actually Johnny Carson who said that. Sagan just borrowed it for a title of a book he published in 1997.

Now if it were Trump or Biden, or even Pelosi, it would be "Trillions and Trillions!"

[NorrinRadd]

The latter is expressed in the slow extinction of writing in cursive. In another generation or two folks will need translators to read what previous generations of ancestors wrote. Or there'll be an app for that

There has also emerged a mentality that it isn't really necessary to learn anything since one can use their phone to look it up for them.

One of my Big Giant Baby Cousins is a microbiology professor. At a recent family gathering, he recounted how appalled he was in reading answers to essay questions by most of his students. Not only was there no attempt at "cursive," they reportedly printed in big block letters like one would find in early elementary school.

On the "look it up" thing, I can't tell you how many times I've wished for a Google for my brain, to try to find childhood memories of which I can only recall tiny scraps.

[NorrinRadd]

They can't even dress a rabbit, never mind a deer...

I hate it when people put clothes on animals.

[Terraceth]

One of my Big Giant Baby Cousins is a microbiology professor. At a recent family gathering, he recounted how appalled he was in reading answers to essay questions by most of his students. Not only was there no attempt at "cursive," they reportedly printed in big block letters like one would find in early elementary school.

It is surprising to me that he would have a problem with that. "Big block letters" are, at least in my experience, far easier to read than cursive.

The only thing I use cursive for is signatures, so I've forgotten every single letter that isn't in my name.