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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread the box office #41142 09/08/2001 5:10 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,819 Spam Factory Alex Williams Pooh-Bah Alex Williams Pooh-Bah Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,819 Spam Factory Yesterday I faced terrible downtown parking woes in a vain attempt to buy tickets to the Lucinda Williams concert. I finally arrived at my destination only to be informed that I was at the wrong box office; the concert tickets were on sale across town at the Opera House. My only consolation was thinking about the origin of box office for a place where tickets are sold. The best I can come up with is that sometimes tickets are sold at a temporary office. For example, the high school drama club might set up a table each day at lunch to sell tickets, and they might have one of those little gray metal lock boxes to keep the money and unsold tickets in. Move the box, and you've moved the office, hence box office. However, the term also applies to a permanent location for the selling of tickets, as in Call the Rupp Arena box office at 555-1234 for more information. So I am in the dark. Help, anyone? "Is it too much to demand? I want a full house and a rock 'n' roll band" --Lucinda Williams, "Passioante Kisses" Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: the box office #41143 09/08/2001 6:10 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass originally, the box-office was for the hiring of a theatrical box (seating). Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: the box office #41144 09/10/2001 1:38 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York a theatrical box One that emotes? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: emote icons #41145 09/10/2001 3:14 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass I put the parenthetical there just for guise like you, ASp. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: emote icons #41146 09/10/2001 3:54 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky I put the parenthetical there just for guise like you, ASp. Very wise, tsuwm. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: emote icons #41147 09/10/2001 4:25 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York Y'all callin me a wise asp? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Y'all callin me a wise asp? #41148 09/10/2001 4:52 PM Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC Don't knock it. Just give fangs where fangs are due. TEd Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: the box office #41149 09/11/2001 12:01 AM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 866 Perth, Western Australia stales old hand stales old hand Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 866 Perth, Western Australia Who's Lucinda Williams? Obviously not a relative Alex or you wouldn't have had to queue. stales Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: the box office #41150 09/11/2001 4:02 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,819 Spam Factory Alex Williams Pooh-Bah Alex Williams Pooh-Bah Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,819 Spam Factory That's true. If Lucinda Williams was related by either birth or marriage then I'd have a guest pass I should hope. Sadly, she is of no relation. She is a songwriter and performer who has been around for quite a long time; I guess you would call her genre country music but she isn't the sort of act that gets much airplay on country music stations that play Garth Brooks and his ilk. She has written many songs that others have made into hits, most notably the song "Passionate Kisses," which Mary Chapin Carpenter recorded several years ago. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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