*ping Suzilem, and Pat and Pamela especially*

[clindau]

Pamela and I have eaten at this restaurant several times, and with Suzilem as well, but there's another reason why this paragraph in the article caught my eye

Comments

[carbonel]

I don't know what made you chuckle, but my internal copyeditor poses the following queries:

How does one burgle a business call, and how can one be en route to it in the first place?

"It collided" appears to be a case of James Thurber's opposite of metonymy -- the thing contained for the container, since the only referent is the officer, but one presumes that the actual collision was performed by the car containing the officer.

There's also the issue of the redundancy in the second sentence ("force of the collision forced"), but I let that pass.

[clindau]

Hee...the latest update to the story seems to have corrected at least one of your concerns, but the "force" redundancy is still there.

[pameladean]

Palmer! Ohmigod! That is too perfect!

I hope the restaurant has adequate insurance and that nobody was badly hurt.

But Palmer! *snort* *giggle*

P.

[clindau]

*dingdingding!!!*

I laughed out loud this morning when I read this and scared both the cat and Tim.

[lblanchard]

And how did the squad feel about being forced into an Indian restaurant?

[clindau]

At least it wasn't a squid--that would have been a farce.

[suzilem]

I wondered if that was where we ate! :-)

[clindau]

Yes, that's the place!

[pameladean]

It's the same location but a different set of owners -- it's now completely vegetarian and a little pricey.

P.

[chakolate]

I got the reference right away, but I couldn't for the life of me remember any of their songs, so I went and googled.

http://popup.lala.com/popup/504684642128243284

Oh, yeah. *grin*