tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Aug 23 08:15:02 1997
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Re: A KGT Pun
qaSDI' 07:58 AM 8/23/97 -0700, ghItlh qeSHIr:
>On 22 Aug 97 at 19:52, Joel Peter Anderson wrote:
>World-spanning? Definately not in the Netherlands. The above is near
>to complete jibberish to me, as far as actualy meaning is concerned.
>Nearly everything referenced in it seems to be something cultural
>and/or local that I've never heard of before.
You're quite right. In America a "subway" or "sub" is a large sandwich,
usually about a foot long. It is also sometimes called a "hero sandwhich."
Hence the pun.
SuSvaj