From: elizabeg	Date: November 18th, 2003 08:03 pm (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

Well that's more than a bit frightening. Were I more awake I might just speculate as to how this fits into a re/narrating of orientalist implications in modern production and consumption trends. As it stands, though, I'll offer a tool-centered coincidence of the day instead: My friend Matt tells me "Toolbox" serves him well as an epithet in lieu of calling his male friends by name.

I can only hope "Toolbox" may offset some of the rampant "Dudes" issuing from his lips. Though the thought of "Toolbox" substituted for "Dude" as interjection/censored-expletive, now that I think about it, is rather amusing. "Toolbox! I can't believe he ran that light," he might say. Or, "It'll take her a couple hours to get her across town, I mean, toolbox, what was she thinking leaving so late."