A BBC News summer fluff piece coordinating a literal and a figurative sense of transitive drop (in the passive):
The southern Californian city of Laguna Niguel has been enjoying an annual ritual, in which locals and visitors bare their bottoms at passing trains.
For 30 years, the city has hosted “Mooning Amtrak” as crowds line up along the railway tracks, dropping their trousers when a train passes by. [there is a photo]
… The event even has its own website, this year proudly headed “31st Annual Mooning of Amtrak”…
It features directions to Camino Capistrano, the road where trousers and dignity are dropped each year, and helpfully lists train times through the day, so that people can schedule their disrobing.
Hey, boy! Drop your dignity and show us what you’ve got!
(Hat tip to Chris Ambidge on soc.motss.)
July 13, 2010 at 2:00 pm |
Just heard another today on NPR’s Talk of the Nation:
“Informed citizens make better voters and better decisions”
July 13, 2010 at 5:57 pm |
Zeugma on legs, White things with their legs in the air.
July 1, 2012 at 3:42 am |
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