Re: Re: GREAZY and GREASY

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

In a message dated 3/11/05 11:42:36 AM, bgzimmer at RCI.RUTGERS.EDU writes:


> Ah, then you never had the pleasure of eating at the sub shop known as
> "Greasy Tony's" in New Brunswick, NJ.  Their motto was: "No charge for
> extra grease."  (I even had the T-shirt.)  Covert prestige, that.
> 
> Checking online, I see that "Greasy Tony's" was transplanted to Tucscon,
> AZ after the New Brunswick establishment was torn down in 1994.  But do
> Arizonans appreciate the joys of grease as intensely as New Jerseyans?
> 

These are obviously ironic uses of "greasy." I doubt that people reading 
Tony's sign think (with Dennis)--ah! this food must be lightly and delicately 
oiled!