Why the hell it means so much to me

[sovay]

On the second day of my stomach flu, my true love brought to me a ninety-five-year-old timetable for the Boston and Albany Railroad.

(Today was actually, noticeably better. I'm still more or less on liquids, but miso soup, goat's milk custard, and beef broth are a substantive improvement on ginger beer. My fever came down a full degree. I no longer feel as though my only options are active nausea or exhaustion.)

The timetable is "Corrected to June 29, 1919." derspatchel picked it up on his way home from a recording session at Harvard. I needed information on B&M's Western Division for a story, but it was also just a wonderful thing to be handed among the new bottles of ginger beer and seltzer.

I shall now attempt to sleep the same number of hours as last night, only hurting much less.

Comments

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

The 20th century played that game with airline acronyms, which now sound nearly as quaint.

TWA: Try Walking Across

BOAC: Better On A Camel

I hope the mandarin orange seltzer arrives iced.

Nine

[ron_newman]

remember 'Agony Airlines' ?

[ckd]

USAir: Unfortunately, still Allegheny in reality.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

No but I did fly on CAAC (China Airlines Always Crash).

[spatch]

The other night when we watched a bus leave five minutes earlier than expected (it is always heartbreaking to see your bus go past the upper busway windows as you're taking the steps down into Harvard Station) we had plenty of time to come up with a few good alternate reverse acronyms for the MBTA. The two clear winners were Many Broken Trains Ahead and the one sovay mentioned previously: Missed Bus? Tough. Adjust.

In a similar vein, one of the old cast member chestnuts at Disney World is that EPCOT stands for Every Person Comes Out Tired. You want to believe it. You really really do.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I like these!

[sovay]

The 20th century played that game with airline acronyms, which now sound nearly as quaint.

I hope there was one for Republic, which I associate inextricably with a jaunty, pissed-off Tom Paxton.

TWA: Try Walking Across

That I'd heard!