President Obama went shopping at the Bunch of Grapes bookstore in Mahhhthaaahhs Vineyahhhd yesterday during his ten-day vacation.
Why does the bookstore have a name that sounds sorta like a produce market or winery? I dunno.
Maybe it's because everything on the Vineyard is so chic.
When you're chic, you can't be obvious.
So, nothing can be what it seems. It's gotta be more subtle, more complicated.
Thus, places have unusual names.
You have to know. You have to understand what a place is. You can't tell just by it's name.
That way, if you don't know, you obviously don't belong there and you'll leave.
So, if you're an outsider (or not "in the know") and you go into Bunch of Grapes looking for say, well, uhhhh . . . . a bunch of grapes -- you'll feel like a damned fool. And hopefully you'll turn tail and leave.
You don't know. You're not an insider. Go home.
Of course, the Obamas KNOW. They're Vinyard regulars. They understand these things.
Obviously you've heard that the President is VERY intelligent, very sophisticated. And so he is.
Mind you, they've NEVER have a Barnes & Nobles or a Borders or even a Borders Express or (worse yet) a Books-A-Million on Martha's Vineyard. Horrors!
But I'm wondering: If the local bookstore is called Bunch of Grapes, what do they call the produce market?
PS - Ya think I could buy one of Glenn Beck's books there at the Bunch of Grapes? Huh?
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