OT: Those rubber things for glasses, what are they called?
Berkeley Brett
For a long time, I've used these tiny little rubber "gaskets" -- which
isn't really what they're called, I think -- to keep my glasses from
sliding down my nose. They are black and look like tiny, cylindrical
rubber bands. You slip them over the hinges of the eyeglasses, and
they create an inward pressure on the arms of the glasses which keeps
them from sliding down.
Trouble is, my most recent pair of these things -- whatever they are
called -- just gave up their respective ghosts.
It used to be that I could always find them in drugstores, but I don't
seem to be able to find them anymore.
Any guess what these little "rubber bands" are called?
Thanks in advance....
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"hinge rings".
I don't see a way of buying them separately -- it seems that they only
come in eyeglass repair kits, like this one at Amazon.com:
They usually last a few years. Even so, cheapskate that I am, I'd
like to be able to buy more than two at a time, and without the
unnecessary repair kit.
Thanks all....
Leslie Danks
> Well, I guess it is *somewhat* about english usage....
>
> For a long time, I've used these tiny little rubber "gaskets" -- which
> isn't really what they're called, I think -- to keep my glasses from
> sliding down my nose. They are black and look like tiny, cylindrical
> rubber bands. You slip them over the hinges of the eyeglasses, and
> they create an inward pressure on the arms of the glasses which keeps
> them from sliding down.
>
> Trouble is, my most recent pair of these things -- whatever they are
> called -- just gave up their respective ghosts.
>
> It used to be that I could always find them in drugstores, but I don't
> seem to be able to find them anymore.
>
> Any guess what these little "rubber bands" are called?
>
> Thanks in advance....
They might be called "hinge stiffeners", though the only ones I've found by
Googling are for car and fridge doors. Why not buy some narrow-bore rubber
tube and cut it to size?
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(BrE)
Leslie Danks
Did you find this?
<http://www.healthaccessories.com/php/products.php?prod_id=EH-104>
and
<http://www.healthaccessories.com/php/products.php?prod_id=TE-01>
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Les
(BrE)
Berkeley Brett
I wish they were available through Amazon.com. I don't like to open
too many online accounts that require a credit card number.
But this definitely looks like it would serve the purpose!
Best wishes....
Brett
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> Well, thank you, Les! I haven't seen clear ones before.
>
> I wish they were available through Amazon.com. I don't like to open
> too many online accounts that require a credit card number.
If you're concerned, most cards offer one-time numbers for online use.
Brian
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Berkeley Brett
Best....
Brett
Mark Brader
> For a long time, I've used these tiny little rubber "gaskets" -- which
> isn't really what they're called, I think -- to keep my glasses from
> sliding down my nose. They are black and look like tiny, cylindrical
> rubber bands. You slip them over the hinges of the eyeglasses, and
> they create an inward pressure on the arms of the glasses which keeps
> them from sliding down.
ObAUE: "arms". (That's what I call them too, but some use other terms.)
> It used to be that I could always find them in drugstores, but I don't
> seem to be able to find them anymore.
Well, I'd go to an optician's store if I wanted something like that, not
a drugstore.
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annily
I've worn glasses for about 50 years, and had never heard of anything
like these. Why not just get the frames adjusted, or frames that fit better?
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which probably influences my opinions.
Skitt
> Berkeley Brett wrote:
>> Well, I guess it is *somewhat* about english usage....
>>
>> For a long time, I've used these tiny little rubber "gaskets" -- which
>> isn't really what they're called, I think -- to keep my glasses from
>> sliding down my nose. They are black and look like tiny, cylindrical
>> rubber bands. You slip them over the hinges of the eyeglasses, and
>> they create an inward pressure on the arms of the glasses which keeps
>> them from sliding down.
>>
>> Trouble is, my most recent pair of these things -- whatever they are
>> called -- just gave up their respective ghosts.
>>
>> It used to be that I could always find them in drugstores, but I don't
>> seem to be able to find them anymore.
>>
>> Any guess what these little "rubber bands" are called?
>
> I've worn glasses for about 50 years, and had never heard of anything
> like these. Why not just get the frames adjusted, or frames that fit
> better?
Just yesterday, my wife came to me and asked me to do something about
her glasses that kept sliding down her nose or falling off her face when
she leaned forward. I took them, turned away foe a moment and then
handed them back to her. "They now fit perfectly", she said.
What I did was bend the two legs slightly inward, that's all.
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tony cooper
"Legs" is bothering me. They are "temples".
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>
> Just yesterday, my wife came to me and asked me to do something about
> her glasses that kept sliding down her nose or falling off her face
> when she leaned forward. I took them, turned away foe a moment and
> then handed them back to her. "They now fit perfectly", she said.
>
> What I did was bend the two legs slightly inward, that's all.
>
are metallic. If they are plastic, they may or will *crack* when you
bend them or they'll return to the previous shape.
If they are plastic, it's best to heat and soften the legs with a hair
dryer and *then* bend them gently. Opticians have a device that blows
hot air, and they hold the glasses' legs one at a time over it until the
plastic is soft enough to bend, then hold them in the new shape until
they are cooled off.
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tony cooper
<am...@sonic.net> wrote:
>Skitt wrote:
>>
>> Just yesterday, my wife came to me and asked me to do something about
>> her glasses that kept sliding down her nose or falling off her face
>> when she leaned forward. I took them, turned away foe a moment and
>> then handed them back to her. "They now fit perfectly", she said.
>>
>> What I did was bend the two legs slightly inward, that's all.
>>
>Caution! That works only if the "legs" ([frame] temples) of the glasses
>are metallic. If they are plastic, they may or will *crack* when you
>bend them or they'll return to the previous shape.
>
>If they are plastic, it's best to heat and soften the legs with a hair
>dryer and *then* bend them gently. Opticians have a device that blows
>hot air, and they hold the glasses' legs one at a time over it until the
>plastic is soft enough to bend, then hold them in the new shape until
>they are cooled off.
The optical shop where I take mine to be re-curved immerses them in
what looks like a heater filled with sand. The hot sand - or whatever
it is - softens the temples.
I take my glasses off when I'm at the computer, and do so by pulling
on one temple bar rather than pulling them straight off as I'm
supposed to. So, mine need frequent adjustment.
Peter Duncanson (BrE)
<tony_co...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 20:11:15 -0800, Reinhold {Rey} Aman
><am...@sonic.net> wrote:
>
>>Skitt wrote:
>>>
>>> Just yesterday, my wife came to me and asked me to do something about
>>> her glasses that kept sliding down her nose or falling off her face
>>> when she leaned forward. I took them, turned away foe a moment and
>>> then handed them back to her. "They now fit perfectly", she said.
>>>
>>> What I did was bend the two legs slightly inward, that's all.
>>>
>>Caution! That works only if the "legs" ([frame] temples) of the glasses
>>are metallic. If they are plastic, they may or will *crack* when you
>>bend them or they'll return to the previous shape.
>>
>>If they are plastic, it's best to heat and soften the legs with a hair
>>dryer and *then* bend them gently. Opticians have a device that blows
>>hot air, and they hold the glasses' legs one at a time over it until the
>>plastic is soft enough to bend, then hold them in the new shape until
>>they are cooled off.
>
>The optical shop where I take mine to be re-curved immerses them in
>what looks like a heater filled with sand. The hot sand - or whatever
>it is - softens the temples.
>
The method of warming that I'm familiar with uses a small steam
generator.
I've not previously met "temple" used for what I would understand by
"arms". Temples are the parts of the human head.
>I take my glasses off when I'm at the computer, and do so by pulling
>on one temple bar rather than pulling them straight off as I'm
>supposed to. So, mine need frequent adjustment.
Temple Bar is a place in London.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Bar,_London
Temple Bar is the barrier (real or imaginary) marking the
westernmost extent of the City of London on the road to Westminster,
where Fleet Street (extending westwards) becomes the Strand.
There is also an area of that name in Dublin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Bar,_Dublin
The first performance of Handel's Messiah was held there.
http://www.templebar.ie/Events-37/in_handels_day
--
Peter Duncanson, UK
(in alt.usage.english)
tony cooper
<ma...@peterduncanson.net> wrote:
>On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 23:42:29 -0500, tony cooper
><tony_co...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>
>I've not previously met "temple" used for what I would understand by
>"arms". Temples are the parts of the human head.
You accept "arms" to describe the objects, but not "temples" because
temples are parts of the human body? Hmmm.
Peter Duncanson (BrE)
<tony_co...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 12:22:13 +0000, "Peter Duncanson (BrE)"
><ma...@peterduncanson.net> wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 23:42:29 -0500, tony cooper
>><tony_co...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>I've not previously met "temple" used for what I would understand by
>>"arms". Temples are the parts of the human head.
>
>You accept "arms" to describe the objects, but not "temples" because
>temples are parts of the human body? Hmmm.
Strange, innit?
John O'Flaherty
<roya...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Well, I guess it is *somewhat* about english usage....
>
>For a long time, I've used these tiny little rubber "gaskets" -- which
>isn't really what they're called, I think -- to keep my glasses from
>sliding down my nose. They are black and look like tiny, cylindrical
>rubber bands. You slip them over the hinges of the eyeglasses, and
>they create an inward pressure on the arms of the glasses which keeps
>them from sliding down.
>
>Trouble is, my most recent pair of these things -- whatever they are
>called -- just gave up their respective ghosts.
>
>It used to be that I could always find them in drugstores, but I don't
>seem to be able to find them anymore.
>
>Any guess what these little "rubber bands" are called?
>
>Thanks in advance....
For the past thirty years or so, I've always gotten metal frames with
spring-loaded earpieces, like this:
I never have the problem of glasses sliding down. The springs may
break, but usually not before it's time to replace the glasses.
They're not particularly more expensive than frames without that
feature.
--
John
Skitt
> Skitt wrote:
>> Just yesterday, my wife came to me and asked me to do something about
>> her glasses that kept sliding down her nose or falling off her face
>> when she leaned forward. I took them, turned away foe a moment and
>> then handed them back to her. "They now fit perfectly", she said.
>>
>> What I did was bend the two legs slightly inward, that's all.
>>
> Caution! That works only if the "legs" ([frame] temples) of the glasses
> are metallic. If they are plastic, they may or will *crack* when you
> bend them or they'll return to the previous shape.
>
> If they are plastic, it's best to heat and soften the legs with a hair
> dryer and *then* bend them gently. Opticians have a device that blows
> hot air, and they hold the glasses' legs one at a time over it until the
> plastic is soft enough to bend, then hold them in the new shape until
> they are cooled off.
Correct, of course. The ones my wife handed me were metal.
Skitt
I did not know that, Wild. I thought that temples were only the parts
of the head that glasses fit next to. Oh, and prayer places ...
So, I learned something today. I should read more stuff about glasses
-- the optical kind.
I think I may have subconsciously translated the "legs" from Latvian.
R H Draney
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pig's shoulder....r
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Peter Moylan
> tony cooper wrote:
>> Skitt wrote:
>>>
>>> Just yesterday, my wife came to me and asked me to do something about
>>> her glasses that kept sliding down her nose or falling off her face when
>>> she leaned forward. I took them, turned away foe a moment and then
>>> handed them back to her. "They now fit perfectly", she said.
>>>
>>> What I did was bend the two legs slightly inward, that's all.
>>
>> "Legs" is bothering me. They are "temples".
>
> I did not know that, Wild. I thought that temples were only the parts
> of the head that glasses fit next to. Oh, and prayer places ...
I used to dream about having legs wrapped around my temples. Oh well,
time moves on.
My glasses have arms.
--
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Skitt
> Skitt wrote:
>> tony cooper wrote:
>>> Skitt wrote:
>>>> Just yesterday, my wife came to me and asked me to do something about
>>>> her glasses that kept sliding down her nose or falling off her face when
>>>> she leaned forward. I took them, turned away foe a moment and then
>>>> handed them back to her. "They now fit perfectly", she said.
>>>>
>>>> What I did was bend the two legs slightly inward, that's all.
>>>
>>> "Legs" is bothering me. They are "temples".
>>
>> I did not know that, Wild. I thought that temples were only the parts
>> of the head that glasses fit next to. Oh, and prayer places ...
>
> I used to dream about having legs wrapped around my temples. Oh well,
> time moves on.
Well, yeah ...
> My glasses have arms.
Yes, yes, and your right to arms shall not be infringed. Wait -- that's
another thread for another place. Never mind, then.
Pat Durkin
"Peter Moylan" <pe...@pmoylan.org.invalid> wrote in message
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> Skitt wrote:
>> tony cooper wrote:
>>> Skitt wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Just yesterday, my wife came to me and asked me to do something
>>>> about
>>>> her glasses that kept sliding down her nose or falling off her
>>>> face when
>>>> she leaned forward. I took them, turned away foe a moment and
>>>> then
>>>> handed them back to her. "They now fit perfectly", she said.
>>>>
>>>> What I did was bend the two legs slightly inward, that's all.
>>>
>>> "Legs" is bothering me. They are "temples".
>>
>> I did not know that, Wild. I thought that temples were only the
>> parts
>> of the head that glasses fit next to. Oh, and prayer places ...
>
> I used to dream about having legs wrapped around my temples. Oh
> well,
> time moves on.
>
> My glasses have arms.
mine have "bows":
http://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-image-prop-glasses-bows-folded-image9981526
Joe Fineman
> tony cooper wrote:
>> "Legs" is bothering me. They are "temples".
>
> I did not know that, Wild. I thought that temples were only the
> parts of the head that glasses fit next to. Oh, and prayer places
> ...
"Temples" is indeed the jargon of opticians for those parts of
spectacles. Retailers talk in code.
It used to be that you could get glasses whose temples curved into a
semicircle behind your ears and thus prevented the glasses from
slipping down your nose. When they went off the market, I had several
successive pairs of lenses installed in the old frames, until they
wore out. My guess at why they went off the market is that the
glasses business was taken over by the fashion industry, with its
built-in contempt for the customer.
Since then I have imitated the hooks with short lengths of plastic
tubing buckled over a flame, and slipped over the ends of the
temples. Grommets of suitable size can also do the job. I have never
heard of the recourse of increasing the inward pressure of the
temples. Offhand it seems bad engineering to depend on friction in
that way, but if it works, it works.
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I read the report of a violent head-on automobile collision in which the
front-seat passenger was secured by his seat/shoulder belt but his skull
separated at the line imprinted by years of wearing glasses that depended on
temple-pressure to stay situated.
--
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Robert Bannister
> Skitt wrote:
>>
>> Just yesterday, my wife came to me and asked me to do something about
>> her glasses that kept sliding down her nose or falling off her face
>> when she leaned forward. I took them, turned away foe a moment and
>> then handed them back to her. "They now fit perfectly", she said.
>>
>> What I did was bend the two legs slightly inward, that's all.
>>
> Caution! That works only if the "legs" ([frame] temples) of the glasses
> are metallic. If they are plastic, they may or will *crack* when you
> bend them or they'll return to the previous shape.
>
> If they are plastic, it's best to heat and soften the legs with a hair
> dryer and *then* bend them gently. Opticians have a device that blows
> hot air, and they hold the glasses' legs one at a time over it until the
> plastic is soft enough to bend, then hold them in the new shape until
> they are cooled off.
>
I have not seen an optician do that for decades. They just bend them
with their hands without any pre-warming. It's just that they are better
at than I am. Perhaps in the more glacial parts of the world, however,
the plastic does go brittle - I don't want to find out.
--
Rob Bannister
Berkeley Brett
Wow! "Temples" used in this way is *completely* unfamiliar to me.
Good to have learned of this usage.
Thanks....
>
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Richard Bollard
<pe...@pmoylan.org.invalid> wrote:
>Skitt wrote:
>> tony cooper wrote:
>>> Skitt wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Just yesterday, my wife came to me and asked me to do something about
>>>> her glasses that kept sliding down her nose or falling off her face when
>>>> she leaned forward. I took them, turned away foe a moment and then
>>>> handed them back to her. "They now fit perfectly", she said.
>>>>
>>>> What I did was bend the two legs slightly inward, that's all.
>>>
>>> "Legs" is bothering me. They are "temples".
>>
>> I did not know that, Wild. I thought that temples were only the parts
>> of the head that glasses fit next to. Oh, and prayer places ...
>
>I used to dream about having legs wrapped around my temples. Oh well,
>time moves on.
>
>My glasses have arms.
I have always known them as wings, since I were a lad of eight.
--
Richard Bollard
Canberra Australia
To email, I'm at AMT not spAMT.
Robert Bannister
"Arms" for me.
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Robert Bannister
> I read the report of a violent head-on automobile collision in which the
> front-seat passenger was secured by his seat/shoulder belt but his skull
> separated at the line imprinted by years of wearing glasses that
> depended on temple-pressure to stay situated.
>
Those temple priests have a lot to answer for.
--
Rob Bannister
Peter Moylan
My optometrist once gave me a pair with wings, but they kept flying off.
Evan Kirshenbaum
"Temples" for me. I got my first pair around 1969 or so, and I think
I've known that term about that long.
The OED cites it to 1877. They also have an earlier (ca. 1430)
obsolete ense of
Ornaments of jewellery or needlework formerly worn by ladies on
the sides of the forehead
And, interestingly,
spectacles having jointed sidelimbs that grasp the temples.
were "temple-spectacles" from 1762.
Looking at Google Books, I can antedate the sense a bit
[Attn Jesse Sheidlower: OED antedating]
In 1849, Joseph J. Low got U.S. patent no. 6,315 for "Improvement in
Spectacle Fames":
What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by letters
patent, is making the _temples_ of spectacles, either in whole or
in part, _hollow or tubular_, of either a cylindrical, squre, or
any other shape, said temples operating substantially in the
manner and for the purpose herein above set forth.
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Richard Bollard
Asked around the afternoon-tea table yesterday and both respondents
when asked "what do you call this?" immediately said "wing". So three
out of three in my jurisdiction. May be regional, one is a
Queenslander, t'other is from Sydney.
harry...@gmail.com
> Well, I guess it is *somewhat* about english usage....
>
> For a long time, I've used these tiny little rubber "gaskets" -- which
> isn't really what they're called, I think -- to keep my glasses from
> sliding down my nose. They are black and look like tiny, cylindrical
> rubber bands. You slip them over the hinges of the eyeglasses, and
> they create an inward pressure on the arms of the glasses which keeps
> them from sliding down.
>
> Trouble is, my most recent pair of these things -- whatever they are
> called -- just gave up their respective ghosts.
>
> It used to be that I could always find them in drugstores, but I don't
> seem to be able to find them anymore.
>
> Any guess what these little "rubber bands" are called?
>
> --
> Brett (in Berkeley, California, USA)
> Pictorial election results for every U.S. Presidential Election from
> George Washington to Barack Obama.
Don Phillipson
>> For a long time, I've used these tiny little rubber "gaskets" -- which
>> isn't really what they're called, I think -- to keep my glasses from
>> sliding down my nose. They are black and look like tiny, cylindrical
>> rubber bands. You slip them over the hinges of the eyeglasses, and
>> they create an inward pressure on the arms of the glasses which keeps
>> them from sliding down.
news:a0002242-05c5-4e42...@googlegroups.com...
> nose pads
Probably not. Nose pads touch the nose. The part of eyeglasses that
touches the ear is called a temple: so the name of attachments that fit
onto the temples is probably a temple X. Professional opticians can tell
us.
--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)
micky
>On Thursday, January 13, 2011 6:00:40 PM UTC-4, Berkeley Brett wrote:
>> Well, I guess it is *somewhat* about english usage....
>>
>> For a long time, I've used these tiny little rubber "gaskets" -- which
>> isn't really what they're called, I think -- to keep my glasses from
>> sliding down my nose. They are black and look like tiny, cylindrical
>> rubber bands. You slip them over the hinges of the eyeglasses, and
>> they create an inward pressure on the arms of the glasses which keeps
>> them from sliding down.
>>
>> Trouble is, my most recent pair of these things -- whatever they are
>> called -- just gave up their respective ghosts.
>>
>> It used to be that I could always find them in drugstores, but I don't
>> seem to be able to find them anymore.
other things. Makes them very expensive. I see them at the checkout
line at the supermarket.
I found a dental supply store online and bought about 500 of them for
maybe 5 dollars maybe 5 years ago. Maybe 7 with postage, but maybe
more by now. They sold everything a dentist could want, but had no
objection to just selling me rubber bands (for braces, I guess.)
>> Any guess what these little "rubber bands" are called?
>>
>> Thanks in advance....
>>
No. Rubber bands, I think.
Tony Cooper
http://www.comfees.com/shop/pc/Frame-Tighteners-p308.htm
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Peter T. Daniels
>
> I found a dental supply store online and bought about 500 of them for
> maybe 5 dollars maybe 5 years ago. Maybe 7 with postage, but maybe
> more by now. They sold everything a dentist could want, but had no
> objection to just selling me rubber bands (for braces, I guess.)
to the teeth) that were involved in my braces (50 years ago) were
much bigger than the "frame tighteners" [as discovered by Tony] that
roll into the glasses hinges.
Iain Archer
locks" on the same site. The photographs are pretty bad, so it's
difficult to see either type well or how they work.
<http://www.comfees.com/shop/pc/Frame-Locks-89p309.htm#.UkAQoa4pvMo>
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Traddict
<harry...@gmail.com> a �crit dans le message de groupe de discussion :
a0002242-05c5-4e42...@googlegroups.com...
>> Well, I guess it is *somewhat* about english usage....
>>
>> For a long time, I've used these tiny little rubber "gaskets" -- which
>> isn't really what they're called, I think -- to keep my glasses from
>> sliding down my nose. They are black and look like tiny, cylindrical
>> rubber bands. You slip them over the hinges of the eyeglasses, and
>> they create an inward pressure on the arms of the glasses which keeps
>> them from sliding down.
>>
>> Trouble is, my most recent pair of these things -- whatever they are
>> called -- just gave up their respective ghosts.
>>
>> It used to be that I could always find them in drugstores, but I don't
>> seem to be able to find them anymore.
>>
>> Any guess what these little "rubber bands" are called?
gap), couldn't they be called "rubber beads?"
micky
<gram...@verizon.net> wrote:
>On Sunday, September 22, 2013 8:06:15 PM UTC-4, micky wrote:
>>
>> I found a dental supply store online and bought about 500 of them for
>> maybe 5 dollars maybe 5 years ago. Maybe 7 with postage, but maybe
>> more by now. They sold everything a dentist could want, but had no
>> objection to just selling me rubber bands (for braces, I guess.)
>
>But the "elastics" (not "bands"; those were the metal rings cemented
>to the teeth)
orthodontist never used the term elastic, afaicr.
> that were involved in my braces (50 years ago) were
>much bigger than the "frame tighteners" [as discovered by Tony] that
>roll into the glasses hinges.
but since bigger was about the same price, I bought a size that could
be used twice-looped,. I figure that would give me twice as much
tightening for the same money, and it would be better than putting on
two at the same time.
IIRC they didnt' have black, though. I guess they would clash with
teeth. The ones I bought are cream colored (bearing in mind that
cream color is two different colors. One is light tan, but afaik the
color of cream itself is white. These are very light tan, or I
would have just called them white.
Peter T. Daniels
> On Sun, 22 Sep 2013 20:40:38 -0700 (PDT), "Peter T. Daniels"
> <gram...@verizon.net> wrote:
> >On Sunday, September 22, 2013 8:06:15 PM UTC-4, micky wrote:
>
> >> I found a dental supply store online and bought about 500 of them for
> >> maybe 5 dollars maybe 5 years ago. Maybe 7 with postage, but maybe
> >> more by now. They sold everything a dentist could want, but had no
> >> objection to just selling me rubber bands (for braces, I guess.)
>
> >But the "elastics" (not "bands"; those were the metal rings cemented
> >to the teeth)
>
> Those may well have been bands but they were not rubber bands. My
> orthodontist never used the term elastic, afaicr.
the uppers and the back of the lowers, presumably to exert continual
pressure on the uppers.
> > that were involved in my braces (50 years ago) were
> >much bigger than the "frame tighteners" [as discovered by Tony] that
> >roll into the glasses hinges.
>
> They have all sizes. I'm pretty sure they had smaller than I bought,
> but since bigger was about the same price, I bought a size that could
> be used twice-looped,. I figure that would give me twice as much
> tightening for the same money, and it would be better than putting on
> two at the same time.
have been sliced from a very-thick-walled tube.
Joe Fineman
>>
>>http://www.comfees.com/shop/pc/Frame-Tighteners-p308.htm
>>
> Hurrah, naming by function. But I'm wondering if it might be the
> "frame locks" on the same site. The photographs are pretty bad, so
> it's difficult to see either type well or how they work.
> <http://www.comfees.com/shop/pc/Frame-Locks-89p309.htm#.UkAQoa4pvMo>
this problem. There used to be a solution satisfactory to me, but it
has been done away with: You could get frames with temples that curved
down around your ears; with a little heat, you could shape them to fit
your ears. Then they stopped making them (my guess is, because the
fashion industry -- may its name be blotted out -- took over the design
of spectacles). For a while, when I got new lenses I had them installed
in the old frames, but at last the frames gave out, and I was cast back
on my own ingenuity. On one of my pairs of glasses, it turned out that
some plastic tubing (bought for another purpose & resident in my
hellbox) fitted over the ends of the temples & could be bent in a candle
flame to do the job. For the other, I bought some of those little
rubber disks with a hole thru them & a slot around the circumference,
whose purpose is to line a hole in a sheet-metal chassis & provide a
nonabrasive, insulating passage for a wire (now what the hell do you
call *those*? feedthroughs?) & epoxied them to the ends of the temples.
||: Two stupidities: "This is old, and therefore good." "This :||
||: is new, and therefore better." :||
quia...@yahoo.com
wrote:
spring-loaded temples. I've used those for years, and don't have
problems with glasses sliding down.
--
John
R H Draney
>
>
><harry...@gmail.com> a �crit dans le message de groupe de discussion :
>a0002242-05c5-4e42...@googlegroups.com...
>> On Thursday, January 13, 2011 6:00:40 PM UTC-4, Berkeley Brett wrote:
>>> Well, I guess it is *somewhat* about english usage....
>>>
>>> For a long time, I've used these tiny little rubber "gaskets" -- which
>>> isn't really what they're called, I think -- to keep my glasses from
>>> sliding down my nose. They are black and look like tiny, cylindrical
>>> rubber bands. You slip them over the hinges of the eyeglasses, and
>>> they create an inward pressure on the arms of the glasses which keeps
>>> them from sliding down.
>>>
>>> Trouble is, my most recent pair of these things -- whatever they are
>>> called -- just gave up their respective ghosts.
>>>
>>> It used to be that I could always find them in drugstores, but I don't
>>> seem to be able to find them anymore.
>>>
>>> Any guess what these little "rubber bands" are called?
>
>Just a thought but, based on their shape (cylindrical) and function (fill a
>gap), couldn't they be called "rubber beads?"
Peter T. Daniels
>
> I am delighted to see that the grand world of commerce is working on
> this problem. There used to be a solution satisfactory to me, but it
> has been done away with: You could get frames with temples that curved
> down around your ears; with a little heat, you could shape them to fit
> your ears.
> Then they stopped making them (my guess is, because the
> fashion industry -- may its name be blotted out -- took over the design
> of spectacles).
When I was ten or so, we were always going back to the optometrist to try
to keep the hooks from digging into my ears.
Joe Fineman
> On Monday, September 23, 2013 5:48:39 PM UTC-4, Joe Fineman wrote:
>>
>> I am delighted to see that the grand world of commerce is working on
>> this problem. There used to be a solution satisfactory to me, but it
>> has been done away with: You could get frames with temples that curved
>> down around your ears; with a little heat, you could shape them to fit
>> your ears.
>
> They were very painful.
||: Only a unique solution need have all the symmetries of the :||
||: problem. :||
CDB
with three other families...
Peter T. Daniels
back, uphill in both directions?
CDB
broken tarmac that surrounded our home, dodging with the ease of long
practice the garbage-trucks that were all our society, we dragged our
less-conscious siblings across two wolverine-haunted mountain ranges and
a volcanically-active glacier to the medical laboratory where we worked
as unpaid janitors, experimental subjects, and (in some cases) doorstops.
Robin Bignall
--
Robin Bignall
Herts, England (BrE)
Peter T. Daniels
the editing of purple prose (show your work) ...
the Omrud
dream of shark-infested custard during the 10 minutes sleep time we were
allocated once every forty days, whilst using our body weight as motive
power for a huge clock which was deliberately set to run slow to make
sure that the workers were busy for 110% of their time.
--
David
CDB
been a mistake.
Mike L
Sorry, John: I'm piggybacking on your message.
[...]
>>rubber disks with a hole thru them & a slot around the circumference,
>>whose purpose is to line a hole in a sheet-metal chassis & provide a
>>nonabrasive, insulating passage for a wire (now what the hell do you
>>call *those*? feedthroughs?) & epoxied them to the ends of the temples.
>
>Maybe for your next pair of glasses, you can get metal frames with
>spring-loaded temples. I've used those for years, and don't have
>problems with glasses sliding down.
--
Robin Bignall
wrote:
Robin Bignall
Herts, England (BrE)
Katy et al are looking in.
Mack A. Damia
Joe Fineman
> On Tue, 24 Sep 2013 00:09:53 -0500, quia...@yahoo.com wrote:
>
> Sorry, John: I'm piggybacking on your message.
>
>>On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 17:48:39 -0400, Joe Fineman <jo...@verizon.net>
>>wrote:
> [...]
>>> For the other, I bought some of those little
>>>rubber disks with a hole thru them & a slot around the circumference,
>>>whose purpose is to line a hole in a sheet-metal chassis & provide a
>>>nonabrasive, insulating passage for a wire (now what the hell do you
>>>call *those*? feedthroughs?) & epoxied them to the ends of the temples.
>
> We call them "grommets".
to common nouns. (I once read about somebody who had a stroke & lost
*all* his nouns at once. The damnedest things have their own blood
supply.)
ObAUE: At Caltech in the '50s, "up the grommet" was a euphemism for "up
the ass" = "to an extreme degree".
||: When tempted to make a generalization about Christians, try :||
||: it out on Communists, and vice versa. :||
Robin Bignall
Ronald Searle original.
Katy Jennison
--
Katy Jennison
Truly Donovan
>
> "Legs" is bothering me. They are "temples".
NO, they're "ear pieces."
Peter Moylan
after an absence.
Welcome back.
--
Peter Moylan, Newcastle, NSW, Australia. http://www.pmoylan.org
For an e-mail address, see my web page.
R H Draney
>On Thursday, January 13, 2011 8:16:24 PM UTC-7, Tony wrote:
>
>>
>> "Legs" is bothering me. They are "temples".
>
>NO, they're "ear pieces."
http://www.tiger-tiger.com/eCart/catalog/294/%28294%29large_ear04.jpg
Glenn Knickerbocker
>On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 11:41:43 +0100, the Omrud <usenet...@gmail.com>
>wrote:
>>dream of shark-infested custard during the 10 minutes sleep time we were
>>allocated once every forty days, whilst using our body weight as motive
>>power for a huge clock which was deliberately set to run slow to make
>>sure that the workers were busy for 110% of their time.
>What's a clock?
strike?
¬R / Darla: Leftovers aren't the mark of a man. \ www.bestweb.net/~notr
Andrew Reid: Actually, they are, because that's how men's shirts button.
Mark Brader
> after an absence.
>
> Welcome back.
I didn't notice when Hugo reactivated the thread that he was responding to
a 2-year-old article, but I did notice when Truly responded this time to a
different 2-year-old article in the same thread. Truly weird. :-)
--
Mark Brader "You have a truly warped mind.
Toronto I admire that in a person."
m...@vex.net -- Bill Davidsen
Mike L
<No...@bestweb.net> wrote:
>On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 21:53:52 +0100, Robin Bignall wrote:
>
>It's a knockout. If looks could kill, they probably will. What's a
>strike?
>
--
Mike.
Robin Bignall
[And what's this game called?]
Robin Bignall
>Truly Donovan:
>> > NO, they're "ear pieces."
>
>Peter Moylan:
>> Truly, I think you've just set some sort of record for a return to AUE
>> after an absence.
>>
>> Welcome back.
>
>Hear, hear.
>
never knowingly meet. Dr Rey lurked for quite a while, a few years ago.
R H Draney
>On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 21:06:39 +0100, Mike L <n...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 00:22:57 -0400, Glenn Knickerbocker
>><No...@bestweb.net> wrote:
>>
>>>On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 21:53:52 +0100, Robin Bignall wrote:
>>[...]
>>>>What's a clock?
>>>
>>>It's a knockout. If looks could kill, they probably will. What's a
>>>strike?
>>>
>>Lucky. What's toasted?
>
>Someone who's lucky and supplies the champers. What's a gin sling?
>[And what's this game called?]
Robin Bignall
>Robin Bignall filted:
>>
>>On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 21:06:39 +0100, Mike L <n...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 00:22:57 -0400, Glenn Knickerbocker
>>><No...@bestweb.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 21:53:52 +0100, Robin Bignall wrote:
>>>[...]
>>>>>What's a clock?
>>>>
>>>>It's a knockout. If looks could kill, they probably will. What's a
>>>>strike?
>>>>
>>>Lucky. What's toasted?
>>
>>Someone who's lucky and supplies the champers. What's a gin sling?
>
>Something Eli Whitney put on a broken arm. What's a combine harvester?
>
What bowls a maiden over?
>>[And what's this game called?]
>
>"Govende", pronounced "goo-vain"....r
CDB
> Robin Bignall filted:
>> Mike L <n...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> Robin Bignall wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>>> What's a clock?
>>>> It's a knockout. If looks could kill, they probably will. What's a
>>>> strike?
>>> Lucky. What's toasted?
>> Someone who's lucky and supplies the champers. What's a gin sling?
> Something Eli Whitney put on a broken arm. What's a combine harvester?
>> [And what's this game called?]
> "Govende", pronounced "goo-vain"....r
details explained anywhere?
One who collects undergarments. What's frilly?
musika
From: dmcg...@yahoo.com (Daniel McGrath)
Subject: Re: "GOVENDE"
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Mark Daniels <markdtheobv...@eunet.yu> wrote:
>
>
>Daniel McGrath wrote:
>>
>> Evan Kirshenbaum <ev...@garrett.hpl.hp.com> wrote:
>>
>> >dmcg...@yahoo.com (Daniel McGrath) writes:
>> >
>> >> Anyway, I don't know how you got to "just know" this, because you're
>> >> wrong. It *is* something like "Cholmondeley" (= Chum-lee). The
>> >> correct pronunciation of "govende" is: goo-vain' (/gu'veIn/)
>> >
>> >No. Sorry. You're wrong.
>> I'm right. It's /gu'veIn/ (goo-VAIN). It's my word. I made it up.
>> I cannot be wrong on the pronunciation.
>>
>> - Denyore
>
>You sir, troll, if troll you be, are a poor troll. Was not the point of
>your original post to request the correct pronunciation of said word (I
>avoid using it when possible)? WHY then, Mr. McGovende, do you now GIVE
>us the correct pronunciation. Unless, of course, you are LYING about
>the correct pronunciation!!! Fraud.
>
>Mark D.
I know how to pronounce it. Every once in a while I post this
question, waiting for someone to respond to this and say it's
goo-VAIN. Then they know how to pronounce it. They will know from my
telling them and remembering it (or perhaps they could look in
DejaNews!) and that's why I keep giving the correct pronunciation.
--
Ray
UK
CDB
There's no arguing with Authority.
musika
there.
--
Ray
UK
R H Draney
longer possible to find anything there via Google....r
musika
--
Ray
UK
John Holmes
> On 28/09/2013 19:24, R H Draney wrote:
>> musika filted:
>>>
>>> stop there.
>>
>> Besides, it wouldn't have worked...the answer was found on Usenet,
>> and it is no longer possible to find anything there via Google....r
>>
>>
> The answer was found via Google Groups.
it is no longer possible to rely on finding anything there via Google.
You can be lucky sometimes.
--
Regards
John
for mail: my initials plus a u e
at tpg dot com dot au
Glenn Knickerbocker
> On 27 Sep 2013 14:57:37 -0700, R H Draney <dado...@spamcop.net> wrote:
>>Robin Bignall filted:
>>>On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 21:06:39 +0100, Mike L <n...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>>><No...@bestweb.net> wrote:
>>>>>On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 21:53:52 +0100, Robin Bignall wrote:
>>>>>>What's a clock?
>>>>>It's a knockout. If looks could kill, they probably will. What's a
>>>>>strike?
>>>>Lucky. What's toasted?
>>>Someone who's lucky and supplies the champers. What's a gin sling?
>>Something Eli Whitney put on a broken arm. What's a combine harvester?
> A man-made improvement to natural selection, to weed out slow bunnies.
> What bowls a maiden over?
ŹR
an...@alum.wpi.edi
AN "Sorry" McC
Katy Jennison
works. Thus, eg: "Half the time it's Roald Dahl, and half the time it's
bollocks. What's a peach?"
--
Katy Jennison
Robin Bignall
an...@alum.wpi.edi
ANMcC
Robin Bignall
shift?
an...@alum.wpi.edi
ANMcC
an...@alum.wpi.edi
Ant'ny M' Cafferty, Mac to my friends. I was one of the peripheral
creatures on AFU, back when there was such a thing, so I know most of
you, so to speak, from cross-over between the group.
>You've omitted to provide a follow-on question. That's how it
>works.
I am sometimes a Mac of very little brane.
ANMcC
David D S
Oddyssey?
--
David D S: UK and PR China. (Native BrEng speaker)
Use Reply-To header for email. This email address will be
valid for at least 2 weeks from 2013/10/1 9:11:42
R H Draney
>Oddyssey?
ser...@proopticsgroup.com
> Nevermind! I think I found my answer. They appear to be called
> "hinge rings".
>
> I don't see a way of buying them separately -- it seems that they only
> come in eyeglass repair kits, like this one at Amazon.com:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/4h69xgc
>
> They usually last a few years. Even so, cheapskate that I am, I'd
> like to be able to buy more than two at a time, and without the
> unnecessary repair kit.
>
> Thanks all....
>
> --
> Brett (in Berkeley, California, USA)
Anyone looking for this product go to www.ProOpticsGroup.com look under Optic Shop Comfort and Repair.
9iwi...@gmail.com
> Well, I guess it is *somewhat* about english usage....
>
> For a long time, I've used these tiny little rubber "gaskets" -- which
> isn't really what they're called, I think -- to keep my glasses from
> sliding down my nose. They are black and look like tiny, cylindrical
> rubber bands. You slip them over the hinges of the eyeglasses, and
> they create an inward pressure on the arms of the glasses which keeps
> them from sliding down.
>
> Trouble is, my most recent pair of these things -- whatever they are
> called -- just gave up their respective ghosts.
>
> It used to be that I could always find them in drugstores, but I don't
> seem to be able to find them anymore.
>
> Any guess what these little "rubber bands" are called?
>
> Thanks in advance....
> --
> Brett (in Berkeley, California, USA)
> Pictorial election results for every U.S. Presidential Election from
> George Washington to Barack Obama.
AWESOME! I was just searching to find out what these are for, wish I'd known sooner. Thank you!
dcg...@msn.com
> Well, I guess it is *somewhat* about english usage....
>
> For a long time, I've used these tiny little rubber "gaskets" -- which
> isn't really what they're called, I think -- to keep my glasses from
> sliding down my nose. They are black and look like tiny, cylindrical
> rubber bands. You slip them over the hinges of the eyeglasses, and
> they create an inward pressure on the arms of the glasses which keeps
> them from sliding down.
>
> Trouble is, my most recent pair of these things -- whatever they are
> called -- just gave up their respective ghosts.
>
> It used to be that I could always find them in drugstores, but I don't
> seem to be able to find them anymore.
>
> Any guess what these little "rubber bands" are called?
>
> Thanks in advance....
>
> --
> Brett (in Berkeley, California, USA)
> http://www.electoralmaps.org/
> Pictorial election results for every U.S. Presidential Election from
> George Washington to Barack Obama.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000RB7B72/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1