I have a new (old) laptop

given to me by my parents - or is it an old (new) laptop? - to replace the one given to me several years ago by my wife's parents.

Either way, my new old laptop is much quicker than my old new one, and doesn't insist on shutting down at random intervals.

At the moment, of course, it's sitting on the floor, just playing Spotify. But still: this is progress.

Biblical mondegreen / David - in context

SAUL: Young man, whose son art thou?
DAVID: The son of Jesse, thy faithful servant, and a Bedlamite.

Substitution

Liz Weston: A nanny is not a substitute for a parent.
Jed Bartlet: I thought that's exactly what a nanny was...?

- The West Wing, 5;3

DECREE: generic title for use on all memoirs here on in

Don't Let Other People Make The Tea

[with thanks to SG - who likes it as a 'meta statement' - and to my father, who probably would've used this title anyway]

InDefinition - 40

forebearance, n. putting up with one's elderly relatives

[With thanks to AC.]