Alligators and the importance of how you say it.

One thing I think we all learn relatively early on is that what you say can be just as important as how you say it. The sentence “I never said she stole my money” can, indeed, have seven different meanings based on what word you decide to emphasize.

And so it goes with “Love is cheaper than war.” If you say this to me in regular conversation, I will nod along agreeably while quietly wondering if you’ve been partaking in some activities that have recently been legalized in New York City. But if you spray paint it on the side of someone else’s tractor-trailer under a cracked-out alligator, and that someone else then parks his tractor-trailer outside of a pizza place on 28th and 10th, I will take a picture of it and think to myself that you may not be that cool of a guy. “I mean, really, dude?” said both me and the driver, I assume, after walking out with our pizza. So it goes, so it goes.