Another extraordinary coordination

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:58 PM -0400 8/5/04, RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:
>This one is interesting because the author is both trying to be funny and
>clearly worried that the audience won't get it, so he puts the
>coordinated items
>in scare quotes:
>
>Husband (on vacation): Biking, hiking, swimming. Why don't we ever get this
>much exercise at home?
>
>Wife: How quickly we discount the calories burned running "errands" and
>"late."
>
>  >From the cartoon strip "Sally Forth," Created by Francesco Marciuliano, in
>the Orlando (FL) SENTINEL August 4, 2004.
>

this really is a weird use of the scare quotes, which really go on
"running" here if anything (on the assumption that that's the word
being used metaphorically, not "errands" or "late"

larry, wondering why they couldn't burn calories running numbers
while they're at it