Hackneyed, trite, banal, are all expressions that come to mind when I hear this expression in media or in a book. Come to think of it what is all this business with mom and pop anyway?
Perhaps harkening to old tales when the social units actually consisted of this arrangement some stories made sense. But to use in the context of Facebook and like investing it reeks of stale incongruous ideas.
For starters there is over 50% divorce rate in the US with more and more people going the way of the singularity. There is no preponderence of mom and pop and if there was its dwindling.
What about the mom and mom or pop and pop arrangements? What about the mom and test tubes? What about the steps (mom and pop)? What about the more than one of each? I tell you there is just no truth in reporting these days. What about those with criminal intents or a skewed bent? Some have hit the low road and abandoned the offsprings of the mom and pop?
I think 'pop goes the weasel' makes more sense don't you?
Here is another essay on the subject of first names. As in birth names. Or names provided to an offspring at birth. While the developed world tends to shy away from the exotic like Refrigerator or Coca Cola for their new production there is a plethora of Jims and Johns and Bobs or Robs. Speaking of which I do not think there is a categoric decision point at the time of birth if a child will be hereafter called as Bob. I mean have not yet met a toddler called Bob or Rob for that matter. At some point though the parental instinct to mouth out multiple syllables runs out and they switch from calling the crawler Robert to simply Robbie to Rob. Now speaking of - it is strange that the name sounds like something you would not want Rob to do - i.e. Rob anyone. Then why call someone that? After all Rob Peter to Pay Paul is not exactly a maxim to live a young life? Is it? Perhaps Peter or Paul might want to have a say in it? Then there is this matter of going to the John. Why degrad...
Singularly disturbing, the sociology...
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