Completely irrelevant to the topic, but just had to be shared.
I was just up in New York visiting my parents in the Adirondacks. A great trip- got to see fireworks go off directly overhead while on a boat, took a brewery tour with my sons, spent a lot of time with Mom and Dad- but at last it was time to go home. My sons were staying an extra day or two, so I left before them.

For a variety of reasons I got delayed getting out the door until about 2pm. It's a good 11 hours of driving, so I elected to stay overnight in a hotel in Pennsylvania. Due to some miscommunication, I ended up with reservations in Lebanon PA a bit out of my usual way. No big deal, but still took a bit of extra driving to get there.

The following morning I got on the road and my GPS tried to take me over toward Washington DC to take me down I-95 rather than down I-81. By the time I realized this I was a bit east of Hershey. I told the GPS to take me to Winchester and followed its directions. The route went directly past the Hershey plant, and included a left turn on Chocolate Avenue.

I texted my son: "Stopped overnight and am going now. Just went through Hershey."

He replied: "Why Hershey? That's out of the way."

I replied: "How often do you get a chance to go up Chocolate Avenue without making santorum?"

His reply: "OH YOU"

...umm, to try to make it at least a little relevant, I'm still out of work and haven't sent out a resume in a few weeks. Mainly because there aren't jobs being posted and because I want more summer vacation.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Fri 8 Jul 2011, 15:28, 19 replies)

i agree...
the i81 is waay better than the i95
( lucosade is counting down the minutes until, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 15:32, closed)

My usual route
is to go down Rte 12 to Binghamton, then 81 to Winchester VA and across 17 to 95. It's a few miles more, but it avoids the I-95 Parking Lot north of Fredericksburg and is a much prettier drive.

At least Pennsylvania has gotten better about when to rip up 81. There was a time when you hit construction at the Maryland border and stayed in construction zones through to New York. Currently only about 50% of it is being redone. Apparently that's the main industry of the state...
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Fri 8 Jul 2011, 15:38, closed)

Kudos for the santorum reference
...though I wouldn't want my dad using that word. Filth.

We have a place near where I am called "Loose Bottom", which always gets similar comments.
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 15:37, closed)

All I read was "I am called Loose Bottom"
(tyrellsOwl, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 15:41, closed)

ambiguous punctuation lols

(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 15:45, closed)

some body summoned me?

( fluffybunnykiller Is feasting on the clitoris of life, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 16:38, closed)

We have a bit of an unusual relationship
in that we trade a lot of rude humor and internet references. The rude humor is something of a family trait- my dad can match me for rude jokes to a point, at least. We stop just short of freaking out Mom.

I do hold back a bit for the sake of my son's sanity, of course, but santorum is fair game.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Fri 8 Jul 2011, 15:42, closed)

Every day's a school day.
Just googled 'santorum'. Yow.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 15:50, closed)

I just had to look up "santorum"
Thanks.
( rofl harris, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 16:05, closed)

so google says that santorum is either an anal sex related poo/lube mix or an American presidential hopeful.
Suppose the same kind of thing would have happened had I googled the last president
( monkeyboyalpha jumping on the bandwagon since, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 16:40, closed)

The excellent columnist Dan Savage started a campaign
...to define the word Santorum - until then just the name of a hate-mongering homophobic fuckwit politician - as something a) for which there was no current word, and b) would hack Mr Santorum off royally.

There was a competition, and the winning definition was chosen. And it has completely moved into the language now. Go Dan!
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 17:11, closed)

If I'd done a little more research I would have found this out, but I couldn't be arsed.
Thanks for making something that seemed a remarkable and humurous coincidence (although I wasn't too sure the two weren't linked) even better.
( monkeyboyalpha jumping on the bandwagon since, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 17:32, closed)

Less than three for Dan
I still get the giggles every time I hear any of the words he's made up. There's only two listed on his wiki page, but I'm certain there's more than that. I could have sworn he coined the word "rimming" as well.
(ladydyani, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 18:02, closed)

Ok, I was wrong
It wasn't rimming, it was pegging he coined the term for. They've got it listed on the wiki page for Savage Love

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage_Love
(ladydyani, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 18:09, closed)

Thank you for saving me the effort.
I had to go run some errands today, otherwise I would have provided the explanation that you did. I consider Dan Savage to be one of the most insightful columnists I've ever read. His advice on relationships, aside from the sexual components, has always been spot-on in my estimation. (His sexual recommendations also sound about right to me, but I'm not enough of an expert to comment intelligently on that.) The link that ladydyani provides is a good one. Unfortunately it doesn't say much about his "It Gets Better" campaign, which is something that I found to be very admirable.

Anyway, yes, that's where "santorum" comes from.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Fri 8 Jul 2011, 20:19, closed)

You went up the Hershey Highway?
(Benzyl, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 20:40, closed)

You know, I had to just look on Google Maps to make sure that there was no such thing there... but no, we were on Chocolate Avenue, which was suggestive enough.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Fri 8 Jul 2011, 20:52, closed)

the American version of Bournville Boulevard or Cadbury Alley
( monkeyboyalpha jumping on the bandwagon since, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 21:02, closed)

Or Marmite Motorway?

( His Popiness the Hole Invaded Poland on, Sat 9 Jul 2011, 19:05, closed)