San Fran Randoms
10May2006
Just some quick things I have seen or heard during my trip to the West Coast:
1) Sign on a bus: No Standees Permitted. I had a seat – does that make me a “sittee”?
2) Chalkboard in a Restaurant: Stressed? Is just desserts spelled backwards. That made me smile.
3) Line from a TV Advert: Plavix – because no matter how formidable you are, you are no match for a dangerous clot. I suspect they are not using the British idiomatic version of the word “clot” here, which means “idiot” or “dim wit”. But if you are British, you just chuckle when you hear this line – or at least I did…
4) Sign in a Park: Humanitarian Garden. If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat? And do they grow them in this garden?
Answers on a postcard please…
I love “stressed is the opposite for desserts”! I will use that moto to myself the moments of self stress realization.
Plavix is an anticoagulant that I ‘d never think could be used in a way to bring laugh! I thought only doctors laugh at such anecdotes..! (I catch the pun with clot)
If humanitarians are people who promote human welfare then I suppose vegetarians would, in a way, be animaltarians as well. Although the title of vegetarian would be then be inappropriate since technically the vegetarian population does nothing but raise vegtables simply to kill and consume them. Much like farmers whose raise chicken and cattle for consumption. So really, the meat eaters should be vegetarians for their promotion of vegetable welfare and vegetarians should from this point on be named animaltarians…
Wrap your mind around that one!
OMG. Clot is totally my new word!
Humanitarian Garden? Is that where they grow humanitarians?
Paul
Dessert. That sounds really nice right about now. AND I love British slang/terms.