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Reggie Mental - 2008-07-25 18:34:27
Y'know, until now, I had no idea that Veronica's boyfriend's full name was "Reggie Mantle." Did you know that when you named me? It's weird also because many years ago I was in a band and we decided that each of the bandmembers resembled an Archie, and I was deemed Reggie.
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Paula - 2008-07-25 18:50:14
Did you know that when you named me?
Yep, that was half the pun!!
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Ian of Bay Ridge - 2008-07-25 22:02:12
I saw the Bay Ridge story on the news - I was tipped off that it would be on Fox5 because I saw them filming while I was shopping there - in fact, if you look closely at the picture from this article you'll see that it is actually me leaving the store! it must be a still from the news reel.
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Paula - 2008-07-26 03:49:11
Oh, wow--that is you! Too bad you weren't wearing a Larch t-shirt.
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Reggie Mental - 2008-07-26 04:19:00
I thought the pun was entirely based on "regimental." Har!
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Ian of Bay Ridge - 2008-07-26 04:36:00
Yes, damn it! I didn't think of that - I even changed into one later that day! Oh, well I doubt it would've set many folks Googling the Larch anyway...
As a side note I've always marveled at the name of this grocery store "Meat Market" - a bit basic I've always thought - kind of selling themselves short as they sell all kinds of grocery items actually. And there's the whole negative connotation: trashy discos etc...
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Baby Party - 2008-07-26 13:15:18
Veronica says: Don�t get the wrong idea � it was just a friendly date � dinner and a movie.
So, no sex?
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MacGregor - 2008-07-26 14:59:22
Baby Party: That actually made me laugh out loud. I wonder though... there are all these new fangled euphemisms and I think "friendly" might be one of them.
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Paula - 2008-07-26 16:43:35
Re: "Meat Market"--Ian, my perennial joke when I pass that place is to say, "I've heard that place is a real meat market." That joke never, ever stops being funny, except to others.
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grigorss - 2008-07-27 17:29:06
By inclination and character a "hard circle" kind of guy -- but must admit that I'm probably happier when I soften it up a bit; or better yet, just let somebody else do all the planning (hard, soft or medium, for that matter).
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MacGregor - 2008-07-28 02:32:24
I must be old school in the business world where "soft circle" translated as non-commital. It's not hard to see though where the soft circle approach could be construed as open minded and thinking outside the box. My experience in my personal life though is that women are put off by men who soft circle... but I don't know that this isn't perhaps a new social development. There seems to have been a bit of a reversal because I remember a time when being decisive and forward was construed as controlling and somewhat sexist.
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Paula - 2008-07-28 06:40:05
Affirmative--soft circle is not for dating, it is strictly for friends, family, creditors.
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Dan - 2008-07-29 23:29:52
Re: the "meat market" joke, I am fascinated by humor that returns a metaphor to its original, literal state. Unlike in your joke, many of these returns are done unintentionally. The locus classicus is someone saying, "Let's shed some light on the subject" when turning on a light switch. I find this very amusing, but I think I'm laughing at rather than with the joke teller. Baby Party once found an excellent example of this phenomenon, in a lurid commercial for a TV show called "When Animals Attack": the tag line of the commercial was "Why do you think they call them animals?"
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Paula - 2008-07-30 14:28:38
I vividly remember that Fox 5 commercial, its tagline became part of my everyday conversation.
Another example: one time I was talking to someone about my ideal job situation, and the well-meaning person said, "Well, no job is perfect--that's why they call it 'work.'" In the right tone of voice, it would have been funny, but I got the uncomfortable sense that they weren't kidding.
A related joke trope is the retronym, like Homer Simpson's line "I'm like a chocaholic, but for booze."
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