Big Orange SLUT

Yeah you read that right. What of it?

Only it's not talking about a promiscuous someone but an Orange something, namely a street car in Seattle. The photo and explanations are provided by BOVB superstar Shannon Houghton.

"Toby and I were in downtown Seattle yesterday, where we saw no fewer than a dozen BOVs," she wrote a week or two back. "I'm sending my favorite to you first. This is the Seattle Streetcar."

Orange Nation is glad you did because the street car is cool and because it launches a whole new category of vehicle: trains/streetcars. I've been after an Orange train for some time. I spotted one in Missouri back in February but was unable to get a pic. This photo definitely scratches that itch.

Shannon, a teacher and former reporter, even provided a link to learn more about Seattle's transit system. She also explains that all the cars in the system are not Orange, but they are bright, cheerfully-colored vehicles.

And where does "slut" come into it?

"Originally, it was called the South Lake Union Trolley, because it circles the south part of Lake Union. Which turns into the convenient acronym of SLUT."

Ha ha, awesome. Click here here and here to read more about that.

Thanks Shannon (and Toby, for putting up with Shannon's OV hunting).

Jeff