antitheft badges
English translation: Note
| 15:35 Jan 11, 2003 |
| English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO] / Jonathan Franzen: The Corrections | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
| ||||||
|  Selected response from: JCEC Canada Local time: 02:13 | ||||||
Grading comment
| |||||||
| SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 +3 | Note |
| ||
| 2 +2 | rectangular strips of metal foil |
|
Answers
13 mins confidence: 
peer agreement (net): +2
peer agreement (net): +2rectangular strips of metal foil Explanation: My guess is that rectangular strips of metal foil (like a long tab) are stuck (glued) to products. They are called badges, because they are attached, maybe. At the checkout the strips are swiped, to de-activate them. If someone tries to leave a store without having the strip swiped, an alarm will go off, maybe. Once outside, customers desperate to get at their food, tear of the metallic strips and drop them on the sidewalk, where they then curl up (metallic squared spirals), and attach themselves to the wet sidewalks from the glue used to attach them to the products! hth -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2003-01-11 16:04:27 (GMT) -------------------------------------------------- I\'m reading this book, \"The Corrections\" and there\'s this whole paragraph in which the protagonist goes to NYC. \"Every sidewalk in lower Manhattan was dotted with the metallic squared spirals of antitheft badges. The badges were bonded to the wet paevment with the world\'s strongest glue...\" Our (anti)hero buys some cheese, goes off to lunch and returns to his car \"and discovered that each of his plastic-wrapped cheeses was protected by its own antitheft badge and that, indeed, a fragment of antitheft badge had stuck to the bottom of his left shoe.\" -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2003-01-11 18:15:25 (GMT) -------------------------------------------------- http://www.mrcranky.com/movies/exitwounds/177/201.html |
| |
