Tell an Ish person to show up around 9 a.m., and you'll see them somewhere around 9 a.m. Tell them to show up at 9ish, and you'll see them anywhere from 9:05 to 9:20. You have given them license to dilly dally, and who wouldn't take advantage of that? The other night at the big shindig dinner party, one of the drummers said the rehearsal the next morning would begin at 9ish. "I am an ish person," he says. Immediately the clanker goes off in my head--oh, good, I thought. I can deliver my daughter a little late. No Ish person is early, so if you say 9ish, that does not mean give or take 5, 10, 15 minutes. It's exclusively a taking phrase. Take an extra 10 minutes to drink your cup of coffee. We won't mind. We're Ish people. Sunday's rehearsal started at 2:00. Because it was conducted by the same people who conducted the Saturday rehearsal, my understanding was 2-ISH. My daughter is worse than I am about taking liberties with Ish time frames, so she d...
Happy Birthday to Albert Einstein
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I love that photo.
other notable march 14th birthdays:
georg phillip telemann (if it's not baroque...)
johann strauss (the elder)
lucy hobbs taylor (1st US female dentist)
les brown (and his band of renown)
quincy jones ('we are the world')
michael caine (such a great actor)
billy crystal (a very witty fellow)
megan follows (anne with an 'e')
and i'll toss this one on for dive, since albert stole his hair...
olive netta parsons (co-founder of the radical british 'collet's bookshop') :)