Fer mented thinking

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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So I find myself in an Applebee’s in Tewksbury, Massachusetts for reasons that don’t much bear explaining, and in the waiting area is a mural about wonderful Tewksbury, with a quaint town ID sign prominent in the foreground reading:
ENTERING
inc. 1734
[small line of type here]
TEWKSBURY

The small line of type, which may or may not appear on the real town ID signs, reads:

Fermenting social media leaders since the 1960s

Besides suspecting that they meant “Fomenting” - maybe - I have no idea what this bizarre sentence means. According to the Scottish Wiki, the most famous person to come from Tewksbury is Helen Keller’s tutor Annie Sullivan, and not a notable social media or other “leader” of any type. Or why they would be fermented there, or fermented anywhere.

It made for a weird and puzzled drive home.

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Just don’t look in the cellar. Or ask how their vinaigrette dressing is made.

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According to the dictionary, “ferment” is a synonym for “foment,” and can also mean “to cause agitation or excitement in.”

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  • that seems to explain it. A ‘joke’ that only 2 or 3 people would get.

Twitter people are odd.

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Thanks very much for the find.

Marketing people who twit are odder than most twits.

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Ah, sweet, sweet, Tewksbury! The land of pizza shops and strip malls. Up through the early-mid 90s, there were only two stop lights on all on Main St. It’s truly bizarre to see it mentioned ANYWHERE online.

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What do you mean? Tewksbury has America’s FIRST public-health museum, on the grounds of the glamorous Tewksbury State Hospital. It’s worth a day-trip from Dracut, for sure.