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Subject: Re: seafood restaurant in NYC subway Posted on: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:32:29 +0100

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 08:48:23 -0600, yoshore
wrote:

>
>Many unnions in Manhattan, when on strike or simply protesting the
>policies of an employer, will picket with a large plastic rat on the
>sidewalk, in front of the offending espablishment. This rat symbolizes
>a sanitized version of what the worker/union think of the employers. It
>is not a comment on the cleanliness of the place.

No, in this case there were posters explicitly warning potential
diners that the restaurant was infested with vermin and rodents.
Unless that was all metaphorical.

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Barbara Vaughan

My email address is my first initial followed by my last name at libero dot it.