I offer my all time favorite store name from Itaewon in Korea. Here’s hoping everyone finds exactly what they are looking for…
Long Time Gone
I offer my all time favorite store name from Itaewon in Korea. Here’s hoping everyone finds exactly what they are looking for…
Wow– that place is still around, eh?
Hope you had a great Thanksgiving.
Actually, it finally closed down last year…
One of my classmates in grad school at Catholic U., an Irish priest named Michael McGrath, once told this joke:
The teacher looked out at the class and said, “Class, for this exercise, I want you to think a moment and then use the word ‘lovely’ twice in a sentence.”
After a minute or so of silence, the teacher said, “Glynnis! Give me a sentence.”
Little Glynnis stood and warbled, “On a lovely afternoon, I saw some lovely flowers.”
“Excellent!” the teacher beamed. “And you, Johnny? Have you a sentence, too?”
Johnny stood nervously, then said, “My sis came home one day and told me Da she was pregnant, and ’twas Sean O’Malley who done it. Me Da looked at me sis and said, ‘Lovely; fucking lovely.'”
that’s a great joke!
I often wondered how that sign came to be. I imagine the shopkeeper hired some smart alack waeguk and had no clue how unlovely the phrasing truly was…