That was the correct way to do it on a typewriter, but with word processing software the space is already longer after a period, so it’s no longer necessary. But as Scott says, “It IS Rita, after all.”
In the US they still have the old credit card format where you have to sign for the transaction. If you’re in a restaurant, for instance, you give your card to the waiter/waitress, they take it away to run it through something or other, then they bring it back and you sign for it. It amazes me every time I go to the States. For all the cutting-edge breakthroughs the US has done, credit cards and the metric system are the two ways they’re still in the mid-twentieth century.
Actually, it doesn’t. While there is a doughnut in Germany called a Berliner, nobody in the crowd would have thought Kennedy made a mistake. This is according to a German who now lives in the US and who was shocked the first time someone said how embarrasing Kennedy’s mistake was. Her YouTube channel is Feli from Germany and there’s a whole video about it. I don’t know why I can’t post a link to the YouTube video here, but she does explain it well.
For those uncertain, that’s the Death Star from the original Star Wars in which there was a line, “That’s no moon!” just before said Death Star blew up a planet.
714 was Joe Friday’s badge number. The LAPD retired it when Jack Webb died.
I’m not about the connection to today, though. The TV show premiered Dec 16, 1951 and ended Aug 23, 1959, then returned in 1967 and ran from Jan 12, 1967 to Apr 16, 1970. The radio show ran from Jun 3, 1949 to Oct 30, 1956.
My wife and I got married at 21. When I looked at our three sons when they were each 21, I thought, “What were we thinking?”
Nevertheless, we’re still very much in love and about to celebrate our 40th anniversary.