Post by Braddoc on May 30, 2008 16:28:33 GMT -5
OOC: Pelch, "The Fatman sent me this from Rush Limbaughs website. I had to laugh, but it is a TRUE STORY. Check it yourself if you want."
www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_091907/content/01125104.guest.html
Here is what was written:
Story #4: In Seattle, Now You Can Ride the SLUT
RUSH: In Seattle, they've got a new street car in South Lake (the u word again!), and they're calling it a trolley. The acronym for it is SLUT: South Lake U---- Trolley. And nobody is going to change it. So in Seattle you can ride the SLUT. You can jump on the SLUT. You can do anything you want on the SLUT in Seattle. (Heh-heh.) When they figured out the acronym, they said it's here to stay, "We are not going to change it."
seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/332081_slut18.html
SLUT -- Streetcar's unfortunate acronym seems here to stay
By KERY MURAKAMI
P-I REPORTER
(Editor's note: This story has been changed since it was first published. Jerry Johnson was originally misidentified in a photo caption.)
Related content
Video: The Big Blog's Mónica Guzmán finds out what people around South Lake U---- think of the streetcar's nickname.
There's a story going around South Lake U-----, but a spokeswoman for Vulcan, Paul Allen's development company, says it's just an urban legend.
That aside, the story that the neighborhood's streetcar line now under construction was called the South Lake U----- Trolley until the powers that be realized the unfortunate acronym -- SLUT -- seems here to stay.
Officially, it's now the South Lake U----- Streetcar. But the trolley name already has caught on, and in the old Cascade neighborhood in South Lake U-----, they're waiting for the SLUT.
Ride the S.L.U.T. T-shirts
Zoom Andy Rogers / P-I
Jerry Johnson, foreground, and Don Clifton model the "Ride the S.L.U.T." T-shirts they created to poke fun at the original acronym of the South Lake U---- Streetcar. The shirts are sold at the Kapow! coffee shop in the neighborhood.
At the Kapow! Coffee house on Harrison Street, they're selling T-shirts that read "Ride the SLUT."
"We're welcoming the SLUT into the neighborhood," said Jerry Johnson, 29, a part-time barista. Johnson said the T-shirts were done just for fun, but they seem to have tapped into something: The first 100 sold out in days and now orders for the next 100 are under way.
Behind the ribbing is a little resentment about the changes some residents feel have been pushed on them.
"There was a meeting with representatives from the city several years ago," Johnson recalled. "They asked us what we could do for you. Most people raised their hands and said 'affordable housing,' " he said. "Then the people from the city huddled together -- 'whisper, whisper, whisper,' -- and they said, 'How about a trolley?' "
map
With the tracks laid and the Westlake to South Lake U---- streetcar on schedule to start running in December -- no specific date yet -- there's resignation.
"What's done is done," says Don Clifton of the decision to build the $50.5 million line.
The neighborhood even has lost its name, they said.
In its sales brochures, project developer Vulcan calls the neighborhood the Cascade and refers to South Lake U---- as a broader area bordered by Interstate 5, the Denny Park area, the lake and the Denny Triangle. But outside the neighborhood, it's rarely ever called the Cascade anymore, going instead by ubiquitous South Lake U----.
So, "We learned how fun it is to change the name of things," Clifton said of the streetcar's nickname.
On Wednesday, the neighborhood was filled, as it has been for months, with the clutter of construction from new buildings and the laying of the streetcar's tracks.
Some areas remain blocked during construction.
"It's not so bad," said 32-year-old Jennifer Cea, a student at the nearby Cortiva Institute massage school who was in line at Kapow! "It's more irritating, turning a corner and running into a detour."
The shirts are funny, she said, but she wouldn't wear one. "I'm a mother," she explained.
The construction in the area was more than just inconvenient earlier this month. On Sept. 7, a dump truck from one of the construction projects in the area hit two bicyclists at Fuhrman Avenue East and Eastlake Avenue East, killing one of them.
"I love it," Clifton said of the construction noise. "I was getting too much sleep before."
"I especially like the dust and the big holes in the ground," Johnson said. "But we can't wait to have the SLUT."
Seattle transportation spokesman Gregg Hirakawa and Vulcan spokeswoman Kym Allen say the name "streetcar" wasn't selected to avoid the provocative acronym. Trolley seemed vintage, whereas streetcar sounded more modern, Hirakawa said.
Seattle Trolley 2 photo
Zoom Scott Eklund / P-I
Seattle transportation worker Josh Stepherson, right, peeks at the trolley car moments after it was delivered Monday.
And the streetcars -- the first of which will be unveiled Tuesday -- had the support of 45 businesses that agreed to tax themselves to cover about half the cost, he said.
Indeed, what the SLUT shirts poke fun at depends on the wearer.
For Tom Long, 36, and Michael Giovannoni, 19, who were at the Kapow! during a break from massage lessons, the shirts are a way to mock the years Seattle, a city that's supposedly progressive and environmental, has spent in gridlock while building mass transit.
"Judging by what other cities of our size have, we're way behind," Long said.
"That Krass has got to be fragging insidious. First the holo stations and now this. I guess life is stranger than fiction."
www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_091907/content/01125104.guest.html
Here is what was written:
Story #4: In Seattle, Now You Can Ride the SLUT
RUSH: In Seattle, they've got a new street car in South Lake (the u word again!), and they're calling it a trolley. The acronym for it is SLUT: South Lake U---- Trolley. And nobody is going to change it. So in Seattle you can ride the SLUT. You can jump on the SLUT. You can do anything you want on the SLUT in Seattle. (Heh-heh.) When they figured out the acronym, they said it's here to stay, "We are not going to change it."
seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/332081_slut18.html
SLUT -- Streetcar's unfortunate acronym seems here to stay
By KERY MURAKAMI
P-I REPORTER
(Editor's note: This story has been changed since it was first published. Jerry Johnson was originally misidentified in a photo caption.)
Related content
Video: The Big Blog's Mónica Guzmán finds out what people around South Lake U---- think of the streetcar's nickname.
There's a story going around South Lake U-----, but a spokeswoman for Vulcan, Paul Allen's development company, says it's just an urban legend.
That aside, the story that the neighborhood's streetcar line now under construction was called the South Lake U----- Trolley until the powers that be realized the unfortunate acronym -- SLUT -- seems here to stay.
Officially, it's now the South Lake U----- Streetcar. But the trolley name already has caught on, and in the old Cascade neighborhood in South Lake U-----, they're waiting for the SLUT.
Ride the S.L.U.T. T-shirts
Zoom Andy Rogers / P-I
Jerry Johnson, foreground, and Don Clifton model the "Ride the S.L.U.T." T-shirts they created to poke fun at the original acronym of the South Lake U---- Streetcar. The shirts are sold at the Kapow! coffee shop in the neighborhood.
At the Kapow! Coffee house on Harrison Street, they're selling T-shirts that read "Ride the SLUT."
"We're welcoming the SLUT into the neighborhood," said Jerry Johnson, 29, a part-time barista. Johnson said the T-shirts were done just for fun, but they seem to have tapped into something: The first 100 sold out in days and now orders for the next 100 are under way.
Behind the ribbing is a little resentment about the changes some residents feel have been pushed on them.
"There was a meeting with representatives from the city several years ago," Johnson recalled. "They asked us what we could do for you. Most people raised their hands and said 'affordable housing,' " he said. "Then the people from the city huddled together -- 'whisper, whisper, whisper,' -- and they said, 'How about a trolley?' "
map
With the tracks laid and the Westlake to South Lake U---- streetcar on schedule to start running in December -- no specific date yet -- there's resignation.
"What's done is done," says Don Clifton of the decision to build the $50.5 million line.
The neighborhood even has lost its name, they said.
In its sales brochures, project developer Vulcan calls the neighborhood the Cascade and refers to South Lake U---- as a broader area bordered by Interstate 5, the Denny Park area, the lake and the Denny Triangle. But outside the neighborhood, it's rarely ever called the Cascade anymore, going instead by ubiquitous South Lake U----.
So, "We learned how fun it is to change the name of things," Clifton said of the streetcar's nickname.
On Wednesday, the neighborhood was filled, as it has been for months, with the clutter of construction from new buildings and the laying of the streetcar's tracks.
Some areas remain blocked during construction.
"It's not so bad," said 32-year-old Jennifer Cea, a student at the nearby Cortiva Institute massage school who was in line at Kapow! "It's more irritating, turning a corner and running into a detour."
The shirts are funny, she said, but she wouldn't wear one. "I'm a mother," she explained.
The construction in the area was more than just inconvenient earlier this month. On Sept. 7, a dump truck from one of the construction projects in the area hit two bicyclists at Fuhrman Avenue East and Eastlake Avenue East, killing one of them.
"I love it," Clifton said of the construction noise. "I was getting too much sleep before."
"I especially like the dust and the big holes in the ground," Johnson said. "But we can't wait to have the SLUT."
Seattle transportation spokesman Gregg Hirakawa and Vulcan spokeswoman Kym Allen say the name "streetcar" wasn't selected to avoid the provocative acronym. Trolley seemed vintage, whereas streetcar sounded more modern, Hirakawa said.
Seattle Trolley 2 photo
Zoom Scott Eklund / P-I
Seattle transportation worker Josh Stepherson, right, peeks at the trolley car moments after it was delivered Monday.
And the streetcars -- the first of which will be unveiled Tuesday -- had the support of 45 businesses that agreed to tax themselves to cover about half the cost, he said.
Indeed, what the SLUT shirts poke fun at depends on the wearer.
For Tom Long, 36, and Michael Giovannoni, 19, who were at the Kapow! during a break from massage lessons, the shirts are a way to mock the years Seattle, a city that's supposedly progressive and environmental, has spent in gridlock while building mass transit.
"Judging by what other cities of our size have, we're way behind," Long said.
"That Krass has got to be fragging insidious. First the holo stations and now this. I guess life is stranger than fiction."