Klarinet Archive - Posting 000336.txt from 2004/03

From: Andy Raibeck <klari_1@------.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] English and American
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 17:23:11 -0500

From your descreption, that billboard could be anything, even an ad for
V=1=a=g=r=a ;-)

Andy

--- Ormondtoby Montoya <ormondtoby@------.net> wrote:
> The two posts about the "park-and-ride" connection to "kiss-and-fly"
> show how localized dialect can become. I live only 100 miles away from
> a metropolis where "park and ride" exists, and yet I was totally unaware
> of what the billboard intended to say. All I saw was a man & lady
> kissing, a seashore or similar, and an airplane soaring up into the sky.
>
> You learn something every day.
>
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