While I’m on the subject of public utilities (vide yesterday’s post), I do like one thing about Texas Pacific’s bid, which is that the buyer has a name composed of plain ordinary words. I compare it to the names of our telephone companies — Verizon, Qwest, and Cingular — which read to me like the late-night products of a drunken typesetter.
One good thing about Texas Pacific
While I’m on the subject of public utilities (vide yesterday’s post), I do like one thing about Texas Pacific’s bid, which is that the buyer has a name composed of…
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Oh, come on. If you can handle “vide,” you can handle “PUD.”
I’m good with “Public Utility District” as long as it isn’t prefaced by something like PublkPwr or WillaWatt. Companies (maybe even public agencies) with names that say what they do tend to do better than those that don’t.
Some days I can’t win. I drop a word of Latin into a post, and the first complaint comes from a law professor.
Semper ubi sub ubi.
Sic semper Hanes?