Re: CHAT: Hymn to Ikea (was: Re: Re: CHAT: F.L.O.E.S.

From: "And Rosta" <a.rosta@...>
Subject: Hymn to Ikea (was: Re: Re: CHAT: F.L.O.E.S.


Despite frequently reading your posts, And, I had forgotten where you were
from.  This lapse was quickly banished from my mind, replaced instead with
an unenviable sense of confusion...

> ploughing
Coughing comes to mind, but I doubt there's a connection, given the context.
Maybe it means something like "wading"?

> trolley
I've never seen an Ikea, but I doubt they're large enough that people need
trolleys to get around in them.  What does this mean when it isn't a sort of
train car that runs on a city street (usually pulled by a cable buried in
the asphalt)?

> queue
Already encountered, but always jarring to see it used like this.  It'd be
like if you said "the readying of people waiting to claim one", meaning the
same thing.

> settee
Goatee?  Something that has been set?

> chicanes
Usually that's spelled chicanos here in the US...but you probably don't mean
that, do you?

Despite some curious dialectal barriers to my understanding of your Hymn to
Ikea, I did get the basic message.  Henceforth, I will be sure to have no
part in the fostering of Ikea's evil world empire.

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