The Bull in Full

Indeed...

It's always funny to go back and read your own words after you wrote them.  Looking back over the past couple of posts, I seem to be on a kick of starting sentences with "Indeed, . . . "  Not that anyone was paying attention... ;)

Meme Propagation

I have hereby decided that "American Tobacco" has too many syllables to say when referring to the location, and needs to be shortened.  Further reasons for not using that term include confusion between the American Tobacco Historic District and the American Tobacco Trail, as well as the company which was historically located there.

In the interest of less tounge twisting and ambiguity, I would like to settle on a common shorthand for the American Tobacco Historic District.  I'm rejecting "AT" because it's such a common acronym (and mainly makes me think of the Appalachian Trail), as well as "ATHD," because the "historic district" bit is something that doesn't exist much outside of the minds of Capital Broadcasting and their pals. 

I also have recently decided that acronyms are an overused method of shortening, and that we should return to word chopping, of the kind that gives you "Soho" and "Tribeca" in New York (South of Houston, Triangle Below Canal).  The first ones that come to mind, "AmTab," or "AmTa," sound kind of silly, and vaguely like either Amtrak or Amway.  Much better, in my mind, is "Ambacco" or "AmBacco," both because it incorporates a variant of the slang "'baccer," which was what mountain folk called the Burley varieties they grew on the hillsides, and because it's more fun to say.

Hence, I propose the following lexicon:

Ambacco - the American Tobacco Historic District
ATT, or Ambacco Trail - The American Tobacco Trail

Please distribute this widely, primarily by using the term "Ambacco" whilst assuming that the other party will naturally know what you are talking about.  This will make you seem hip and with it, and will make it seem like the other party has missed out on something by not knowing that it was called that, which they will immediately try to rectify by using it in conversation with someone else. 

This is how progress happens.

Melancholy tiramisu

From the bulletin at the First Presbyterian Ash Wednesday service tonight:

Jesus, refuge of the weary, Blest redeemer, whom we love,
Fountain of life's dessert dreary, Savior from the world above;

For more wisecracking, and aimless rambling, see below the fold...