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 Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 9:36 am Post subject: SLUT -- Streetcar's unfortunate acronym seems here to stay |
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/332081_slut18.html?source=mypi
SLUT -- Streetcar's unfortunate acronym seems here to stay
By KERY MURAKAMI
P-I REPORTER
(Editor's note: This story has been changed since it was first published. Jerry Johnson was originally misidentified in a photo caption.)
There's a story going around South Lake Union, but a spokeswoman for Vulcan, Paul Allen's development company, says it's just an urban legend.
That aside, the story that the neighborhood's streetcar line now under construction was called the South Lake Union Trolley until the powers that be realized the unfortunate acronym -- SLUT -- seems here to stay.
Officially, it's now the South Lake Union Streetcar. But the trolley name already has caught on, and in the old Cascade neighborhood in South Lake Union, they're waiting for the SLUT.
At the Kapow! Coffee house on Harrison Street, they're selling T-shirts that read "Ride the SLUT."
"We're welcoming the SLUT into the neighborhood," said Jerry Johnson, 29, a part-time barista. Johnson said the T-shirts were done just for fun, but they seem to have tapped into something: The first 100 sold out in days and now orders for the next 100 are under way.
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