When entering or exiting the SLUT, mind the groove at the portal.
By the way, what sort of ride does the SLUT give you: fast and bouncy, or slow and smooth?
The SLUT gets around, all over town.
Around Ireland there are Institutes of Technology, Cork has one, CIT, Dublin has one DIT, for some reason Tallaght went with IT Tallaght. Strange!
Q: How are you getting in to town today?
A: I think I’ll just go down on the SLUT.
Back when I was working in the documentation / translation business, we did a manual for an oscilliscope manufactuer who wanted to make all the commands into four-letter uppercase appreviation.
They had already used CONT for continuous, so you know what then used for count. :eek:
They’ve upstaged our buses! The South Central Arkansas Transit (Transportation? I forget.) The first time someone asked me to call the SCAT bus for them I almost fainted.
WHERE??? Hubby wants one too. We just heard the tail end (no pun…oh, yes it was) of the news report changing the name to South Lake Union Streetcar.
Ha! Too Late.
Yes, but in my experience (west coast), it’s generally used exclusively to describe transportation at amusement parks, such as this or this. To me, a streetcar is on rails, while a tram is a free-driving vehicle; either could be referred to as a trolley, although that’s more synonymous with streetcar to me.
picunurse, Kapow! Coffee has the S.L.U.T. t-shirts, you can also order via email, details here.
SLUTs just don’t go for what they used to.
Damn gentrification.
Hm. Think I’ll get my S.L.U.T. shirt tonight after work.
The shirts are sold at the Kapow! coffee shop which is in the South Lake Union area.
Underlying the hilarity is the fact that some development corporation (ironically named Vulcan) gentrified a traditionally blue-collar neighborhood (in Vulcan’s words, created a dynamic new destination lifestyle center) and the people elected to represent the, um, people bent over backwards to kiss the development corporation’s asses, seemingly. So who’s the real SLUT here, anyway?
Thanks, We’ll go have coffee a bit later.
Too late… I already came on the SLUT. You know what was weird? Someone left their gum under the seat.
Was it kind of anticlimactic for you?
I already have my SLUTS beer coozy.
But, here, it stands for Souther Lady Under Tremendous Stress.
Fredericksburg, Va’s public transportation is called FRED; FREDericksburg Regional Transit. Doesn’t work well does it? That’s because it was originally supposed to be Fredericksburg Area Regional Transit, or FART.
jjimm:
Would the Roosevelt Island Tramway count, or do you mean specifically for streetcars?
Around Toronto we have York Region Transit, which everyone pronounces “yirt”. So, of course, the wizards in Durham Region decided to amalgamate their transit systems, and name it all “Durham Region Transit”. Of course, it’s now “dirt”.
And don’t forget the O-train in Ottawa. 
I still think one of the most unfortunate transit acronyms is SEPTA.