Recently a shop
opened in the grey stretch I walk from
the train station to my office. It’s a storefront with a sign over the window that says
Nails America in script next to a waving American flag.
So while the periphery of my brain struggles with whether this is a verb-object situation, or if one word is modifying the other, the main station is asking “is America famous for its fingernails?”
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personally, I like the verb-object relationship simply for its many implications. Who doesn't like getting nailed? *foot in mouth*
“is America famous for its fingernails?”
No, but New Jersey is!
(used to live there, mine were woefully inadequete).
I know of a "salon" with the name
"What I Want."
Something about that makes me laugh and annoys me at the same time.
It is located in a strip mall near a WalMart.
MP
ha, well I'm from New Jersey and don't have any special recollections of fingernails, but strip malls near WalMarts ring a bell.
"What I Want" -
Is it a question with the "do" dropped?
What I want?
Many of my friends' mothers had their nails done. One of them had a real diamond inserted into the nail. Must have made quite an impression on me. May have been more of the time period than a state
thing...
I do not have great nails.
RE: Lack of punctuation in " "What I Want" salon sign- I do not know. The is probably why it annoys me. Next time I'm in the area, I'll go in and ask.
perhaps an apostrophe is missing?
nail's america
nails' america
?
m
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