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Youll never be as lazy as the person who named the fireplace
by Exuma 5y ago
Youll never be as lazy as the person who named the fireplace
- gryn 5y agoit a good name that's semantically transparent, if all things were named like that NLP would be much easier.
- dylan604 5y agoat least it's accurate as that is the place to put fire. compare that to say 'driveway' where you park your car while the 'parkway' is where you drive your car.
- xref 5y agoWas that a Carlin bit? Think he also said “why is it a ‘pair’ of underwear but only one bra?”
- ziml77 5y agoI know this is a joke, but the "park" in parkway is meant to refer to a common area with neatly kept greenery.
- xtiansimon 5y agoI’m from NorCal and this would be lost on me, save for the fact I’ve been living on Long Island the past 14 years and driving on the Southern State Parkway (1925) and the Meadowbrook Parkway (1924). Though I’ve not been there, the Southern Boulevard Parkway (1904) in PA sounds like the real deal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_State_Parkway?wprov=sfti1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_State_Parkway?wprov=s... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meadowbrook_State_Parkway?wprov=sfti1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meadowbrook_State_Parkway?wpro... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Boulevard_Parkway?wprov=sfti1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Boulevard_Parkway?wpr...
- fisherjeff 5y agoNow this is a joke. Concise, evocative, hilarious, perfect.
- sieste 5y agoHaha, such "lazy" naming of things is super common in German: toys = Spielzeug (play stuff), fridge = Kühlschrank (cooling cupboard), ferris wheel = Riesenrad (giant wheel), etc