In which we are concerned with cephalopod logistics though it is no longer hockey season.

[mrissa]

mrissa: And then markgritter was listing the places Vernor Vinge could have gone to see a live lobster. He went on at quite some length. Like, Byerly's, Red Lobster, the aquarium. Boston Gardens.
timprov: Um.
M: Okay, he didn't quite get so far as Boston Gardens.
T: Good. It's not like octopuses and Detroit.
M: I am concerned--I am suddenly quite concerned about the octopuses and Detroit.*
T: Like how at any moment--
M: Yes.
T: At any moment some guy there in Detroit has an octopus in his pants and you don't know it.
M: Yes. This concerns me greatly. Please tell me that Ziploc is involved.
T: I'm thinking no.
M: Or that nice friendly people such as the Detroit equivalent of United Noodle have sold the Red Wings fans some lovely dried octopus for their flinging needs?
T: Clearly not.
M: Oh, oh, oh, I am concerned. So in a regular plastic bag like a Target bag, just a whole dead octopus.
T: Possibly. If it was me I would use a thermos.
M: This is heartening.
T: But thermoses are not allowed in the arenas.
M: Not heartening!
T: But it's not like things that are not allowed in arenas never get in arenas.
M: And something like a smuggle-in beer belly contraption would be difficult to get the octopus out of--and although I hear octopuses are good at wriggling in and out of confined spaces, I expect that's mostly the live ones.
T: Never underestimate the power of the undead octopus.
M: No, I am concerned.
T: I think they have official Red Wings jackets with special pockets for the octopuses.
M, heartened: Do you? Like duck hunting jackets? Oh, I am relieved.
[pause]
M: Wait! I am not relieved! Oh why was I relieved?
T, laughing: If they don't, it's a marketing opportunity waiting to happen.
M: Now I really have to ask the internet how this works. And fear that it will answer me.

*Detroit Red Wings fans have been known to fling dead octopuses upon the ice. No, I cannot explain this to you. I am not a Detroit Red Wings fan.

Comments

[zelda888.livejournal.com]

I am oddly heartened to know that you are not bothering with Some Bank.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

None of us bothers with Some Bank, Some Company, etc., unless it is to snark. Things that have been named a thing for a long time are named that thing. Things that never got a real name need one. I feel so sorry for the San Francisco Giants in their new Whatever Park that should have been Mays Park or Mays Field and have done with it.

[zelda888.livejournal.com]

Here in Chicago we have this Tower (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis_Tower). It feels a little hypocritical to be all outraged about the Evil Corporate Overlords stripping it of its Proper Name when, after all, it *was* a corporate structure in the first place. But it's been emblematic of the city itself for several decades, and it doesn't seem quite right to change it.

Jury's still out on how well the name will stick-- the death of Marshall Field's at Macy's hands caused fiery outrage and fury-- for about fifteen minutes, apparently.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

We here in Mpls had Chicago people attempting to enlist us in the fiery outrage and fury. And we laughed and laughed. Because Marshall Field's took away our Dayton's.

I mean, officially. It's not like I don't still confuse the heck out of people by calling it Dayton's two name-changes later. And there's still an elevator downtown where the metal plate indicates what floor for Dayton's.