Greetings

Happy birthday, serendipoz!

I hope you have a wonderful day!

I'd Like to Buy an Interrobang, Pat

There's a new advertising poster I've been seeing all over the Red Line for the boston.com classified section. It has six icons on it: a blue circle with a white suitcase on it, a dark green circle with a car on it, a red circle with a white house on it, an orange circle with a white chest of drawers on it, a purple circle with a white doglike thing on it, and a lime green circle with an exclamation point on it. I have therefore decided that they're touting the ability to buy the following from boston.com classifieds:

-- Luggage
-- Cars
-- Houses
-- Furniture
-- Mutant pets
-- Punctuation

Seriously, though, the first five I can figure out, kinda: travel (or maybe it's a briefcase and it's for jobs), cars, houses, furniture, pets. Those all make some sort of sense. But I can't figure out what the ! is all about.

And I don't want to give Boston.com any satisfaction by going there to find out what they might be trying to sell with that exclamation point.

Another Edition of "Tell gnomi What to Do!"

[Poll #1001939]

Another entry for "No, really. We talk like this."

(Scene: mabfan and gnomi are in the car on the way back from the library.)

gnomi: It seems to be Idiot Crossers Night in Coolidge Corner.

mabfan (narrowly missing another jaywalker dressed in black): Yeah, it does.

gnomi: Idiots in dark clothing should not cross at night in the middle of the street

mabfan (singing): ...With Oriental women!

gnomi and mabfan (singing together): Yeah!