non-verbal communications

[Victor Steinbok]

The biggest rat I've seen in Manhattan was 2-ft long--I thought it was a
stray dog. As for the inflatable rats, first time I saw one, I thought
it was the kangaroo from Tom&Jerry.

     VS-)

On 3/11/2012 1:35 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> I saw my first monster rat in 2003 in midtown Manhattan. I mean the
> inflatable kind.
>
> A few years before that (I can't say how many, probably five or so), I saw
> my first inflatable monster gorilla advertising a "monster" sale, possibly
> in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.
>
> Where a monster inflatable pigeon might have been expected by the unknowing.
>
>
>
> JL

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org