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Radishes:
Sliced thin, covered with vinegar, salt and pepper.
Here's a definition of 'radish' from urbandictionary.com with one of the words censored by me to protect the innocent:
Term usually used in Panama City Beach, Florida, at Spring Break, meaning "really awfully drunk in a shi**y hotel." This term was coined by a large group of spring breakers from south Alabama and the "Radish phenomenon" has begun to spread rapidly.
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I seem to remember a couple of teen-age girls in The World of Henry Orient who expressed a desire to be radished by the Peter Sellers title character.
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You are right about the word, Faldage. I LOVED that movie when I saw it--I was about the same age as the girls in it--, so much so that not too long after we got a VCR I got the video store to special-order it for me. And I still like it. They are pretending to be war nurses, not wanting to be discovered for fear of being "radished". Utter innocence, wonderfully portrayed.
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What do you call the men who patrol the meters?
In Oz, they're called Brown Bombers. When they changed their uniforms, they just got re-named to Blue Bombers. Not sure why the "bombers" bit though.
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In town there is a huge nightclub called The Ritz, it is aged and scuzzy in the extreme. Every one who grew up in Manchester who has ever been to a nightclub went there first. This is due to it's relaxed door and everything a pound pricing policy (I think the average age is about fifteen). This has resulted in ritzy meaning not posh, but grim, in a sticky-underfoot-teenage-bedroom-stinks-of-lynx type way.
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In 1986 I vacationed on the Gold Coast, in Australia, in a delightful city called Surfers Paradise. (no apostrophe, if I remember correctly.)
The downtown merchants association has hired tall slim blonde ladies (of whom Australia had FAR more than their fair share I might add), dressed them in gold lame (with that funny little mark over the e) bikinis,and paid them to go around putting money into parking meters so tourists shopping downtown would not be inconvenienced by a ticket. IMy firends who live there had told me about them, but I didn't believe it until I actually saw them.
Darryl's nephew, about 18 at the time we visited, was son entranced by one of these ladies that he fell off a roof and broke his arm.
Somewhere I have a postcard showing two of these winsome lasses caressing a parking meter, and I think they were just called meter maids.
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Down-town Montréal (note the e with the funny little mark  ) merchants tried that for a while but with a clown. The clown got ticketed for hindering justice. Handing out parking tickets is a money-making scheme for the city and they are not shy to admit it - and to take steps to protect it. They say the money goes to keep the streets clean. They have to get the money somewhere so I guess it's alright - but it does suck to get a ticket. Ah, the wishy-washyness of life.
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Same here, Gin. My daughter once was threatened with arrest for doing the same thing in Kalamazoo. She was running just ahead of the parking Nazis
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