The sweets shop reference is appropriate, since the movie is the cinematic equivalent of a plate made of spun sugar.
A large portion of the film revolves around the pawn shop referenced in the title, where a knockabout Aussie bloke, Les John Brumptonn), barters with cash-hungry clientele and occasionally dishes out favours for people he likes.
Once Roland Mouret got past the kinky sex-shop references and breast contraptions (an improbable blend, one, inferred from his show notes, of Walt Disney and the art director Jean-Paul Goude), he had something fresh to say with draped jersey tops and dresses clinging with delicious lewdness to the body.
I get it and all about this book, but it was also very American set, what with its American shop references, the fact it's completely centred on AOL (which, by the way, no longer exists here in the UK as a broadband company, since it got bought by TalkTalk) and its many other references and even, to an extent, the character's mannerisms.
Discussions on the role of general shops referenced relative merits of alternative providers and assumed lack of technical knowledge on illness or medicine use among PMRs.
The usual 'social shopping' site of reference is ThisNext, where people recommend their favorite products so others can discover what's best to buy online.
*You use the terms "getting signed" or "shopping around" in reference to soliciting your music.
"Nipper is finally home," said the sticker on the shop window, in reference to the HMV mascot, the famous white terrier depicted gazing into an Edison Bell cylinder phonograph.
An article on Page 44 of The Times Magazine today about patents and Amazon.com's patented 1-Click method of online shopping makes several references to the 20-year duration of patents and the potential for stifling innovation in e-commerce.
The new South Wing will house a cafe, an auditorium, an expanded museum shop, an art reference library, a works-on-paper viewing room, state-of-the-art storage for the collection, and handicapped-accessible restrooms.
