Convenience food
August 12th, 2008From this day forth, should anyone ever criticise my choice of home town (and yes, this does happen, with depressing regularity), I shall simply point out that nowhere outside of Lewisham have I ever seen a drive-thru* German sausage stall. Nowhere else can one purchase several varieties of wurst without having to step outside of one's automobile. Nowhere. Take that, Manhattan.
* Whatever happened to the "o" and "gh" in drive through? Were they quietly murdered, and the bodies dropped in the mid-Atlantic?
4 Responses to “Convenience food”
August 12th, 2008 at 16:53
Or worse, are they all still out there, lost in the ether like so many missing socks?
What if they're organising; fraternising with missing apostrophes, signing a pact of non-aggression with the semi-colon, mobilising a vast army of neglected hyphens?
Will there be some kind of typographical Armageddon where the world's channels of written communication are suddenly overwhelmed by sixty years of dumped letters and jilted punctuation?
August 12th, 2008 at 18:33
No problem – if they do make a move, I'll just fuck them up with one swish of my big red editing biro :)
August 12th, 2008 at 19:11
Ah; print v web – red biro v tracked changes. My nightmare has no silver bullet.
August 17th, 2008 at 13:01
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