Comments | wwidsith: In which I get off to several dull starts.

wwidsith

In which I get off to several dull starts.

Dec 10, 2010 17:28

Here is that meme of first-lines-of-the-month, in my case a staggeringly boring selection - apologies:

Random memories of the honeymoon, in no order: Stopping at a tiny railroad town in southern Tennessee and going to a proper old soda fountain, where the waitress thought we were French because we said we lived in Paris ( Read more... )

while you're busy making other plans, family, always roaming with a hungry heart, b

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muckefuck December 10 2010, 16:32:17 UTC

Mostly, we just want to be away with family for a while.

Speaking of linguistic misunderstandings, I read this as "Mostly, we just want to be away from family for a while", which shows you where my brain is at.

wwidsith December 10 2010, 17:06:16 UTC

Heheh. I shouldn't think it'll take us long to get there...

ruakh December 10 2010, 16:49:31 UTC

Wait, what is "please remove thongs before entering" supposed to mean? I think I would take it as a joke. There's a restaurant near me with this sign. (I realize that "thong" sometimes refers to thong sandals, but even that doesn't make sense to me: why would a restaurant forbid such sandals?)

wwidsith December 10 2010, 17:05:06 UTC

I was getting carried away there, what the signs actually say is usually "no thongs allowed", ie where it's trying to enforce some semblance of smartness on the pathologically laid-back Australian populace

ruakh December 10 2010, 17:42:28 UTC

So is it forbidding thong underwear, in which case, how would they know? Or thong sandals? Or visible thong underwear?

(I don't wear any of these things, so I suppose I'm not going to give you the erotolinguistic misunderstanding you desire, but I still don't get it!)

herself_nyc December 10 2010, 16:53:02 UTC

Have a marvelous time. What will you be reading?

wwidsith December 10 2010, 17:01:41 UTC

Excellent question. I'm taking Wolf Hall and The Inheritors by William Golding. I also have Durrell's Avignon Quintet to read, but I don't know if I can fit it in the bag.

herself_nyc December 10 2010, 17:04:20 UTC

It's awfully large, and the paperback (a UK import edition) I almost bought of it recently was so HEAVY that I left it. I wish it was available as an ebook. The Durrell, I'm talking about. I adored WOLF HALL, I hope you do too.

Predictable hipster guff muckefuck December 10 2010, 19:04:47 UTC

I liked the early stuff from Wolf Hall And The Inheritors, but after Golding left they kinda started to suck.