"The Pink Taco"

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

Has our society really become even more puritan than before? Words don't just become dirty once they're been used as a "dirty" euphemism.

Yes, but has Pink Taco ever been anything but that euphamism? I honestly don't know and maybe the bar started it all, but if you search the phrase you don't find anything that isn't either a reference to the "naughty" meaning or the restaurant in Vegas (I have no idea and will never find out since you'll never find me in a place with "Planet Hollywood" or "Hard Rock" over the door).

So is this not more like a case of someone naming a bar "Vagina" and saying "Hey, you can't think we were talking about actual vaginas we were just using a word without any meaning."

There are certainly cases like Bob's Big Boy and Juicy Lucy (at least once, in D.C., these two restaurants are next door to each other) where euphamistic meanings have accumulated and others like Hooters and Big Richards where they pretend to have no idea what you're talking about. I assume Pink Taco to be in the latter category.

That doesn't mean I really care if they have that name and if the food is good enough (Lani and I will stop for wings at the local Hooters every once in a while) I'll still go in. And it could be worse, I used to know a guy who referred to it as the furry tuna-fish taco. This was also the guy in the dorm who kept a two-liter soda bottle under his bed so that he wouldn't have to make the 8-foot trek to the common bathroom (and didn't feel it needed to be disposed of until full).

[innerSpaceman]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

I have no idea and will never find out since you'll never find me in a place with "Planet Hollywood" or "Hard Rock" over the door

Hmmm, couldn't Hard Rock itself be considered a sort of sexual euphemism?

[Alex]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Hmmm, couldn't Hard Rock itself be considered a sort of sexual euphemism?

Not really. At least not one that makes any sense. And if it did then it would be one that, like Bob's Big Boy is acquired after the fact and not by intent as it is with Hooters and Pink Taco.

Lisa, if you really think this is an interpretation of the name that is being imposed on the poor owners of the Pink Taco and not something they were thinking of when they picked then name, then yeah I'd have to say you're sheltered.

That said, the people of Scottsdale should grow up and just ignore that which they find annoying. I highly doubt it is the only sexually (or genitally) suggestive name for a business in the area. I bet they have a whole system of pubic libraries.

[Not Afraid]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

Lisa, if you really think this is an interpretation of the name that is being imposed on the poor owners of the Pink Taco and not something they were thinking of when they picked then name, then yeah I'd have to say you're sheltered.

Cool. It's nice to know I'm not as worldly as I think I am.

[€uroMeinke]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

That said, the people of Scottsdale should grow up and just ignore that which they find annoying.

But that presumes they have the free will to do so

[scaeagles]

Is it that people think dirty or that certain words and phrases have become common euphamisms?

[Not Afraid]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

Is it that people think dirty or that certain words and phrases have become common euphamisms?

I don't know. Naughty is fun but then the naughty police come in and the word becomes "bad".

[blueerica]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

Is it that people think dirty or that certain words and phrases have become common euphamisms?

I think it's a combination of both, but it's all in the realm of the individual as to whether it's a bad thing. I think these euphamisms are common enough that even the cleanest of minds can pick up on a great extent of the verbage. Verbage is just that, though... nothing but a bunch of words we assign a personal meaning to.

I just think it's funny. But I think most things are funny.

[innerSpaceman]

Wow, there's nothing inuendo about the Pink Taco in Vegas, other than its name I suppose (but I think that's a stretch). Such great, great food and knock-you-down-if-you-knock-em-down drinks. I never associated the place with any inuendo. Just a name, folks. Tell the peeps in Phoenix to chill.

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Tell the peeps in Phoenix to chill.

It's the mayor of Scottsdale. If she hadn't made such a big deal over it I'd never have heard of it.