7/9/09

"What Coast?"

We recieved this email this morning and I enjoyed it so much that I thought I would share it here. After a busy, hectic start to the summer at the Shop, I needed a good laugh to loosen up a bit.

"Dear Moron, we see that you have made a puzzling selection for your shop name. It is obvious that you do not understand the meaning of the word coast. Based on choosing the number three, you are obviously thinking of east coast, west coast, lake coast. I would offer the Gulf coast is eminently more entitled to the appellation of third coast.

It would behoove you to go to school and learn geography or at least change the name of your shop. Rarely have I seen such a blunder as this. However, according to Merriam Webster, a coast is the land near a shore. I would put it to you that all lakes have coasts. Any of the one thousand lakes of the original 13 colonies would qualify for the third coast long before your state was admitted to the union in 1837 as the 26th state.

Sadly, I doubt you will rise to the occasion to correct this monumental error.

Perhaps you are using coast as a verb and not as a noun as an indication of your third attempt to coast through life with this shop.

Respectfully your friend,
Bob "Cazh Dude" Saunders"

2 comments:

Mike West said...

The Gulf Coast is organized under the Eastern Surfing Association as East Coast. So you have a Left Coast. Right Coast. Still room for a Third Coast!

Ryan said...

For sure! Interestingly, early explorers and fur trappers were referring to these "inland seas" as the Third Coast centuries ago.

Many thanks to Bob for his obvious interest in Third Coast :)