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Back in the day they met with pols to give them bribes in the lobby of the Willard Hotel in DC. That's where the name "lobbyist" came from.

I'm annoyed by geographic names being reused in different parts of the country. Today's annoyance: the Powder River in Oregon vs. the Powder River in Wyoming. The memoirs of Capt. Bonneville talks about both but never puts in context which one he's referencing.

Mazda's corporate moto: Zoom - Zoom!

I'm just annoyed that some people are annoyed by trivia, not by life threatening health problems. How about those Dodgers, the bums?

Well.... I got a local when they put the needle in. But 4 days later when they yanked it out there was no additional local. Twenty minutes after yanking it out I went into atrial fibrillation which caused yet another Chinese fire drill in my ICU room.

No, that's just a "stock" photo I found on the web. But it's exactly what I went through.

If you want to get annoyed, try getting a pericardiocentesis sometime. I had one last December. They run a huge needle through your ribcage down into the pericardium, guided by ultrasound probe, so they can drain off excess fluid. And you are awake for the entire proceedings.

I hate to read on a can of Henry Weinhard's beer a note that it's made by Blitz-Weinhard Brewing Co., Milwaukee WI/Irwindale CA. This was originally an Oregon beer. Why the pretense that they have a separate brewery from MillerCoors Corp.? It would be much more honest if it read "Brewed...

I'm really annoyed by auto-spell-correct. I have two now-former newspaper journalists in my family. They are the most poorly-educated people in said family. Somehow you can get a degree in "journalism" without taking any substantive coursework.

I hate reading "Gluten Free!!!" on bags of tortilla chips. They are made of corn. Corn is intrinsically gluten free.

I'm annoyed with items that require maintenance but it's not made easy or even disclosed to the purchaser...... Look at my thread about changing out the $15 sacrificial anode rod in a water heater. I certainly didn't know about this until I read the manual carefully. And yet this may more...