Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Mama Said Box You Out

Is it weird that boxed wine is really bagged wine? Because on the inside, it's a plastic bag holding all the wine, not the box. Like, if you came home with a box of cereal but were carrying it in a shopping bag, and someone asked, "Hey, whatcha got there?" you wouldn't say, "Why, I've got a bag of cereal!"

And not just because you don't start declarative sentences with the word "why."

It's because you're thinking of the box inside of the bag that's actually constraining the cereal, preventing it from going all over the place. Why can't we do that with bagged, er, boxed wine?

I don't know. Maybe it's just all the boxed wine talking, but we should be able to get this done.

1 Comments:

At 10:43 PM, Blogger Unknown said...

Yeah, but what about the bag of cereal that's inside the box that's inside the shopping bag? I feel like that inner bag somehow throws a wrench into your whole analogy...

 

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