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Friday Funny: Just Like The Village Trolley -- Everybody Gets A Ride

Posted by: Nate Berg

21 September 2007 - 2:00pm

Before its planners had realized what they'd done, a proposed name for a planned streetcar system in Seattle -- the South Lake Union Trolley, or SLUT -- had already slipped out into the public.

"The story that the neighborhood's streetcar line now under construction was called the South Lake Union Trolley until the powers that be realized the unfortunate acronym -- SLUT -- seems here to stay."

"Officially, it's now the South Lake Union Streetcar. But the trolley name already has caught on, and in the old Cascade neighborhood in South Lake Union, they're waiting for the SLUT."

"At the Kapow! Coffee house on Harrison Street, they're selling T-shirts that read 'Ride the SLUT.'"

"'We're welcoming the SLUT into the neighborhood,' said Jerry Johnson, 29, a part-time barista."

Full Story: SLUT -- Streetcar's unfortunate acronym seems here to stay
Source: , September 19, 2007
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