Originally published at: Railroads and US Imperialism | Boing Boing
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goes to urban dictonary
Oh… carry on!
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"we must not allow… a railway gap!"
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Pedastools?
Good grief! That is just a horrible abuse of language (urban dictionary or no urban dictionary).
We all know there is no noun a USian will not verbify, but pedestal (noun) to pedastool (verb)?
Nope. it is just plain bad writing. Especially from an author whose thing seems to be long, serious-minded posts.
Why would it have been so difficult to write:
US history puts the names of Robber Barons Andrew Carnegie, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and John D. Rockefeller on a pedestal as the "men that built America,
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And its sequel:
And the song about it:
Notably, one of the earliest uses of the Canadian Pacific Railway was to transport troops to Manitoba to put down the North-West Rebellion of Métis and indigenous people.
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It’s slang… it doesn’t need to fit into a perfect little grammar box.
I suppose we could never use language in anyway except exactly how the grammar books tell us, but it strikes me that that would be an awfully boring and an authoritarian way of communicating. 
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Wait… but the only entry I see for “pedastools” on UD is a poop joke.
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Here is what I saw…
I think the OP was calling the railroad barons of the 19th century shitstains in a nice way…
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Are they saying our idols have feet of… uh…clay?
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Well, they’re not my idols, but sure!
Ohhhhhh like a pun!
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