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So says modern bourgeois America, which has turned the pet into a full-fledged member of the nuclear family, even more sacred than other human beings (such as curmudgeonly aunts).
Perhaps we may soon be hearing Nice day (meaning Have a nice day, not, as it already does, It is a nice day, to the latter of which our curmudgeonly response is usually, Yes, if you like warm, sunny, breezy spring days).
People are forever discovering such quotations for the first time and should not be excoriated for it by a dyspeptic, curmudgeonly reviewer.
And the NYT follows up yesterday's curmudgeonly editorial describing the mission as "a testament more to past eminence than present value" with today's "Editorial Observer" saying that even Glenn's original blast-off wasn't that important.