Kinda lost its impact in the translation. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
Moose wrote:
> On 5/23/2010 6:03 AM, Wayne Harridge wrote:
>> Ok, so we substitute befriend for friend, I still don't understand "THEY
>> WOULD FRIEND EACH OTHER" when applied to a hamburger and some chips.
>>
>
> Let me break it down for you.
>
> "If our burger and our fries were sentient beings who used Facebook,
> they are so perfectly suited to each other that they would inevitably
> choose to be Facebook friends with each other."
>
> I.E. burger and fries/chips are natural together, one incomplete without
> the other, like love & marriage, horse & carriage, etc., to use a
> reference old enough that you may get it. ;-)
>
> It's perfect adspeak, taking a banal given and making it sound new by
> couching it in terms of a contemporary vernacular. An important part of
> it is a subtext that each would choose the other, the attraction being
> mutual.
>
> Moose
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