Question re: ‘Snide Remarks’ circus column
Monday, October 2nd, 2006In today’s “Snide Remarks” column (it’s free now, you know, so there’s nothing preventing you from reading it), I asked a question in the “Comments & Reaction” section. We don’t have comments enabled yet on SR columns, so I thought I’d conduct my informal poll here on the blog.
What I said in the column was that the circus I attended did not have “a calliope playing circus music. You know, CIRCUS MUSIC! Doot doot do-do-do-do doot doot do do, doot doot do-do-do-do doot doot do do, DOOT do-do-do-do, DOOT do-do-do-do — you know? (OK, this music.)”
And then afterward I said:
“I’m curious whether you knew what I meant by ‘circus music’ just from reading the words ‘circus music,’ or whether my ‘doot doot’ explanation of it was helpful. Or if neither one helped and you had to click the link and actually hear it before you knew what I was talking about.”
So which is it? I’m actually genuinely curious.