15 August 2002 - 12:47 p.m.

The time has come, the diarist said, to talk of many things.

Like Dress Barn.

So there's Dress Barn. And then there's Dress Barn Woman.

Dress Barn sounds like a store where large women might shop for large clothing. Not so, though.

Dress Barn Woman is a store where large women shop for large clothing. However, "Dress Barn Woman" sounds like "Sex Farm Woman."

Clearly, the CEO of Dress Barn either has never seen This is Spinal Tap, or has seen it many times and hopes to attract big-bottomed women to the store by seeing to it that the name of the store causes "Sex Farm Woman" to invade their collective consciousness everytime they ride past it on the bus.

Nice try, Dress Barn Woman. You can talk about mud flaps, but I ain't got'em.

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