More fearsome than a double-chinned Balrog
Posted on August 30, 2003 @ 3:30 pm
We’ve had a bit of controversy here on campus lately, and I just can’t resist posting about it any longer. To make an extremely long story short, UGA has been home to a beloved hot dog vendor for the past couple of decades–a vendor known affectionately as the Hot Dog Man. Recently, the local authorities discovered that the Hot Dog Man was setting up his cart a hundred feet or so outside the area where his permit allowed him to operate. As a result, the police asked the Hot Dog Man to move his cart, he refused (rather vociferously), and the police ended up arresting the Hot Dog Man and removing him from campus. When the news got around, students went nuts, there were widespread protests around campus (including people dressed up in hot dog costumes), and the Hot Dog Man is now back in action, slingin’ frankfurters despite threats of daily fines from the county government.
Now that we’re all up to speed on this rather contentious situation, the Hot Dog Man’s wife and business partner was quoted in the campus newspaper yesterday as saying, “This is an absolute vicious attack. It is like there is a two-headed Goliath up against us–one head is the University and the other head is Athens-Clarke County.” Is it just me or does the imagery of a two-headed Goliath strike anyone else as funny? I mean, a Goliath is pretty tough, so a two-headed Goliath must be twice as menacing, right? Plus, it reminds me of Dante’s depiction of Satan in The Inferno. In fact, I’m almost certain that was the Hot Dog Wife’s intention when she said it.
Posted by Jess | Filed Under In the News, Random Musings |
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