Read on to hear (no pun intended) about the brief history of the hearing aid from one who knows…
This is a lengthy comment to a blog posted by the imminent eminent wordsmith known as Evil Squirrel. Squirrel’s blog “For whom the Beltones ... “ was a humorous look at the history of aids for the hearing-impaired and the advertising of the 1980s.
Squirrel, this is truly evil. Maybe even blatantly racist if I can find an angle. I love it! You’re yelling to the choir with this one.
As you may know, I have needed hearing aids since I was a kid, back to the days when they were the small portable radios with a wire and earpiece. It was damned humiliating for a young guy.
As time went by, technology upgraded me to tiny, all in the ear aids. They were invisible on TV so it was great for me since I wore my aids all the time at work — except when I did live shots. Then, I…
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I knew what you meant! LOLOL
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I have terminal typo-itis.
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I go through stages of that. What slays me is when I have gone over an article about six or seven times and then discover later, with a flush of almost painful embarrassment, that a typo has slipped past me! It is always, “Edit! Now!” LOL
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It seems endless. Literally, no matter how many times I go over a piece, there’s always something I missed. it’s like a mental hole.
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I know what you mean. I’ve found that it happens more now that I can’t read my stuff out loud. I could, but I think the staff at Burger King would get annoyed and I’d lose my privileged customer status! LOL Having said that, the reading out loud thing still allows the occasional boo-boo through! Oh well!
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Garry read my entire book out loud and he STILL missed typos.
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Yeah, I’ve found that only works after the reading it backwards bit and then still allows a few zingers to get through! Editing it, and always will be, the bane of the writer’s existence! LOL
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Some people are good at it. I’m not.
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I’m pretty good at doing other folks’ stuff and close to abysmal editing my own. That old, “I expect to see it the right way, so I do,” thing…
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I suspect that is typical. I’m much better on someone else’s stuff because I really SEE it. My own stuff, I see what I meant to say, not necessarily what’s really written.
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Yup! My issue exactly, because I know what I wrote in my mind, my eyes see that when reading it.
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I think you. Evil Squirrel thanks you. And Garry would thank you, but he’s watching NCIS and I can’t interrupt him. It’s a religious thing.
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