Yes, it’s true you can get a $99 oil change just anywhere.Visit Import Auto Maintenance for their $60/Winter Special importautomaintenance dot com for this special — local shuttle service is available.They are more than the usual kid in the pit,  quick-change shop.Import Auto Maintenance creates a vehicle service report, including any recommended services.If your car is under factory warranty, you need this record of service.Import Auto creates a service reminder to send to your registered e-mail account.Import Auto Maintenance @ 490 Craighead Street, Nashville, TN 37204 If you are old-time Nashville, that’s in the Melrose area — Craighead connects Nolensville Pike with eighth/Ave/south/Franklin Road. Call today @ six one five — three two seven — nine six — zero zero that’s six one five — three two seven — nine six — zero zero to schedule your vehicle maintenance appointment.Thats six one five — three two seven — nine six — zero zero that’s six one five — three two seven — nine six — zero 

Yes, it’s true you can get a $99 oil change just anywhere.Visit Import Auto Maintenance for their $60/Winter Special importautomaintenance dot com for this special — local shuttle service is available.They are more than the usual kid in the quick-change shops.Import Auto Maintenance creates a vehicle service report, including any recommended services.If your car is under factory warranty, you need this record of service.Import Auto creates a service reminder to send to your registered e-mail account.Import Auto Maintenance @ 490 Craighead Street, Nashville, TN 37204 If you are old-time Nashville, that’s in the Melrose area — Craighead connects Nolensville Pike with eighth/Ave/south/Franklin Road. Call today @ six one five — three two seven — nine six — zero zero that’s six one five — three two seven — nine six — zero zero to schedule your vehicle maintenance appointment.Thats six one five — three two seven — nine six — zero zero that’s six one five — three two seven — nine six — zero 

This podcast series is sponsored by your friends at Import Auto Maintenance. They would like to see you. Actually, they want to see your favorite ride to give it that once-over lightly.  You know to change your oil and inspect those all-important belts and hoses.  No computer can do preventive maintenance; a computer fault is a failure. Seri might be too late. Visit ImportAuto.com for a $20 first visit coupon. Or call them on the phone at 615/327-9600 or visit their new location, 490 Craighead Street, 37204, for your navigator.  If you are old-time Nashville, that's in Melrose -- Craighead St connects Eighth Avenue South with Nolonsville Rd. If you are coming North on 65, exit at Wedgewood, turn right. Right at the next light, that's Bransford, and turn right when you see the  Coca-Cola plant -- that's Craighead.

Piano music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church. Closing Banjo music courtesy of Banjo HangOut Alabama Jubilee,, used with permission. In September (17 87), during the ratification of the Constitution,  Delaware’s lone delegate voted “No” 🗳️ to seal the doom of that “racist” document! A “new” republic assembly elected to govern as a Senate ( in the fashion of the Roman Republic) meets at noon the following day; present are delegates from: New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island & Delaware.  

Closing music by Blair string quartet recorded live by iPhone at Harpeth Church in 20-23Here’s the problem — there’s no upper case function on a Morse key, it’s strictly binary (dots and dashes). Everyone knows that Thomas Edison invented the incandescent light bulb, but he made his fortune in the world of telegraphy.  His seminal invention is still in use today, and if you watch Fox News business or Bloomberg, it’s that scroll on the bottom of the screen, a stock ticker. Edison invented that before his lightbulb.By this time, the new world and the old had been linked by the Atlantic Cable (18-58). It was not a single wire, but a bundle of insulated wires, bound in gutta-purcha a forerunner of what we would call plastic. It connected London, in England to New York City, in the US. Messages were transmitted by electric current by Morse code (dots and dashes). 

Closing music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church.Jessie Owen personally ruined Hitler’s Olympics by winning three gold medals. 100 Yard Dash, 200 Yard, and anchor man of the 4 by 400 Relay. At the time unheard of in track and field events.If you would like to read the whole story for yourself, you can find Nazi Games or Berlin Games, look for them on Amazon. I donated my copies to a church library. Meanwhile, Olympic Americans, who shouldn’t have been there, were also winning gold. Read The Boys In The Boat.Next time on the Podcast Word Doctor, I’ll explain to my colleague Grammar Girl, the origin of the term “full stop”/UK — There is no upper case on a Morse key.

Music courtesy of Dr. Ming Wang, recorded live at Steinway Piano Gallery in 2026, used with permission. We begin with a shopping note you might like to have.I’m a subscriber to Consumer Reports, and this month, March/April is the automotive annual and I found this advice on P/39 Brighten up the headlights and a product recommended by Sylvania Headlight restoration kit / $28/USI visit a local bank weekly, it’s in a strip mall near my home, and I pass an Auto Zone, so I trotted in there with my copy of Consumer Reports — I had circled the magazine text. Yes, they had the product, but other brands for less than $28, including one Turtle Wax for $19.99, now I know Sylvania might know more about lights, but Turtle Wax knows car finishes.Volia, I get to the counter and discover an additional store discount of 20%, because I had joined before the advent of “club” shopping. PS You won’t find this deal at Costco either. 

Opening music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church -- closing Down by The Riverside, played on a Spiro/Steinway Piano, recorded live by iPhone at the Apple Store in Green Hills (2014), used with permission. Here’s your digital tip of the day:One of the most powerful features of your iPhone is Contacts, but saving texting links is “not supported”; at least there’s no field for it, but like every other feature of any Apple device. There is a workaround, and here it is,First, create a Contact using “company,” ie NES —  Hit edit, and add the text number in FIRST name — Complete the listing with the message 6 3 7 7 9 7  O U TVolia, now the number and message show up in boldface. Of course, you still have to type in the number, but now you have a prompt and can switch between screens. (As long as you remembered to keep your phone charged). You don’t have to struggle through NES messages to report an outage.

Opening & closing piano music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church. In every war movie (and M*A*S*H) medics carry no weapon of any description. That goes for nurses & doctors, too. Medics wear distinctive helmets with a red cross. Hoping the enemy won’t fire on them. They don’t even carry extra ammunition.  They are in the business of saving lives, not taking them. In Tennessee, we even have a law prohibiting carrying a weapon "for the purposes of being armed..." & concealed carry is allowed. 

Piano music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church; closing music: Dr. Ming Wang plays "A Mighty Fortress is Our God" on a two-string Chinese violin, recorded live by iPhone at Steinway Piano Studio, used with permission. Kroger and Publix don’t want you to use cash; they prefer their payment app. At my local Publix, they “verify” every $20 bill.FYI/Before our money said: “In God We Trust”. Franklin’s notes said: “’tis Death to Counterfeit”.