I’m thinking the script said “retired” and she blew her line.
Otherwise, huh??
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Yeah, the only way this makes any sense is with “retired”. I’m also a little bothered by “grandkids” as two words.
Worse still, I’m gonna be stuck with Harry Chapin for the rest of the day.
Yeah, I was thinking along the Harry Chapin lines as well.
He was a self-absorbed workaholic. This alienated him from his kids, and eventually cost him his marriage. M.G. suggests that perhaps now he can focus all his energy into salvaging his relationships with his grandkids. Mr. Oblivious was unaware he had any.
To me, the “divorced” thing needlessly complicates the joke (“retired” would work better from that perspective). But it also leaves us with a rather tiny modification to what is a really old joke:
First Banana: I worked so hard my wife left me.
Second Banana: Well, now you can make it up to your kids…
First Banana: I have kids?!
Yeah- what Ja said ! That was how I saw it.
DemetriosX, maybe she actually meant his kids, who are grand.
Re the missing apostrophe: This seems to be a corporate marketing thing. The grocery chain is “Wegmans”, not “Wegman’s” as it should be. There are other examples. Just more cases of marketroids feeling they have to do SOMETHING to earn their pay, I think. Baffling; are there classes in Marketing School on how to take something meaningless and expensive and sell companies on wasting time, money, and energy on making such changes? I understand that marketing is about doing that to customers, but to one’s own company?!
Do bird people have grandkids or grandchicks?
OK, it’s early and I posted this on the wrong cartoon. Pretend I put it on the KFC/General Tso/Popeyes one please. Oy.
The two largest supermarket chains locally are Schnucks and Dierbergs. Both were founded and are still operated by families with the respective name, sans ‘s’.
I am pretty sure I have seen older Dierbergs logos with apostrophes, but I can’t find any online. Shnucks has apparently spelled it that way for a long time. Prior to that it was Schnuck Markets.
“Shnucks has apparently spelled it that way . . .”
Well, not THAT way.
There’s nothing wrong with plural names for grocery stores. It’s just “Wegmans”, after all, not “[Robert] Wegman’s store” or anything like that. There were multiple Wegman family members involved so “Wegmans” makes sense.
Nearby Wegmans’ home market, in Buffalo, it’s common in speech to slap an apostrophe-s on the end of any store’s name. “Penney’s” is common everywhere, of course, but in Buffalo you’ll hear “Target’s” or “K-Mart’s”. Sometimes even restaurants get that treatment.
I believe we now have a quorum for moving the apostrophe thread here.
“I believe we now have a quorum for moving the apostrophe thread here.”
You mean a quoru’m?
“Just more cases of marketroids feeling they have to do SOMETHING to earn their pay, I think.”
Wellll, maybe they did earn their pay. The ire expressed here is also laced with the names of the stores clearly remembered.,,,Wegmans, Schnucks, Dierbergs. I have no idea the name of the names of the supermarkets/shops I frequented in the past. They probably used the apostrophe correctly.
I actually did read it as “divorced”, because that was the obvious word to use.
I probably would still remember the store names from days past, as I have a good memory for details. In my younger days in St. Louis we had other stores, including A&P, Kroger, and National.
For Schnucks and Dierbergs, those are ones where I still shop.
Blinky – if it helps your question – some of my teddy bears have grandcubs. :-)
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Yeah, the only way this makes any sense is with “retired”. I’m also a little bothered by “grandkids” as two words.
Worse still, I’m gonna be stuck with Harry Chapin for the rest of the day.
Yeah, I was thinking along the Harry Chapin lines as well.
He was a self-absorbed workaholic. This alienated him from his kids, and eventually cost him his marriage. M.G. suggests that perhaps now he can focus all his energy into salvaging his relationships with his grandkids. Mr. Oblivious was unaware he had any.
To me, the “divorced” thing needlessly complicates the joke (“retired” would work better from that perspective). But it also leaves us with a rather tiny modification to what is a really old joke:
First Banana: I worked so hard my wife left me.
Second Banana: Well, now you can make it up to your kids…
First Banana: I have kids?!
Yeah- what Ja said ! That was how I saw it.
DemetriosX, maybe she actually meant his kids, who are grand.
Re the missing apostrophe: This seems to be a corporate marketing thing. The grocery chain is “Wegmans”, not “Wegman’s” as it should be. There are other examples. Just more cases of marketroids feeling they have to do SOMETHING to earn their pay, I think. Baffling; are there classes in Marketing School on how to take something meaningless and expensive and sell companies on wasting time, money, and energy on making such changes? I understand that marketing is about doing that to customers, but to one’s own company?!
Do bird people have grandkids or grandchicks?
OK, it’s early and I posted this on the wrong cartoon. Pretend I put it on the KFC/General Tso/Popeyes one please. Oy.
The two largest supermarket chains locally are Schnucks and Dierbergs. Both were founded and are still operated by families with the respective name, sans ‘s’.
I am pretty sure I have seen older Dierbergs logos with apostrophes, but I can’t find any online. Shnucks has apparently spelled it that way for a long time. Prior to that it was Schnuck Markets.
“Shnucks has apparently spelled it that way . . .”
Well, not THAT way.
There’s nothing wrong with plural names for grocery stores. It’s just “Wegmans”, after all, not “[Robert] Wegman’s store” or anything like that. There were multiple Wegman family members involved so “Wegmans” makes sense.
Nearby Wegmans’ home market, in Buffalo, it’s common in speech to slap an apostrophe-s on the end of any store’s name. “Penney’s” is common everywhere, of course, but in Buffalo you’ll hear “Target’s” or “K-Mart’s”. Sometimes even restaurants get that treatment.
http://wyrk.com/how-to-sound-like-a-buffalonian/
I believe we now have a quorum for moving the apostrophe thread here.
“I believe we now have a quorum for moving the apostrophe thread here.”
You mean a quoru’m?
“Just more cases of marketroids feeling they have to do SOMETHING to earn their pay, I think.”
Wellll, maybe they did earn their pay. The ire expressed here is also laced with the names of the stores clearly remembered.,,,Wegmans, Schnucks, Dierbergs. I have no idea the name of the names of the supermarkets/shops I frequented in the past. They probably used the apostrophe correctly.
I actually did read it as “divorced”, because that was the obvious word to use.
I probably would still remember the store names from days past, as I have a good memory for details. In my younger days in St. Louis we had other stores, including A&P, Kroger, and National.
For Schnucks and Dierbergs, those are ones where I still shop.
Blinky – if it helps your question – some of my teddy bears have grandcubs. :-)