He asked the waiter what "a la Hugo" meant.
What a la carte Christians must accept is that all sin is the same, no worse, no better.
What a la carte would do is make pay-TV channels work a whole lot harder to attract and hang on to viewers.
What a la carte really would do is put consumers in control of the pay-TV market, ending an oligopoly that for too long has resulted in people being forced to purchase products they don't want.
That's exactly what a La Center, Washington high school student did on Monday when he asked a girl to prom by donning a fake suicide bomb and holding up a sign saying, "I know it's a little late, but I'm kind of the bomb!
This is what a Las Vegas casino can teach you about marketing.
But shabby is not really what a Shangri-La-Dee-Da place like the Gasparilla Inn is all about.
"Well, I was hoping maybe we could have Louis Armstrong playing in the background, 'You say po-tay-to, I say po-tah-to.' But now I know what a gay-la is, what a gala is, we all have our favorites.
I'm keen to see what an ex-La Bécasse chef can do.
We strive to make sure our paper is not too London-centric, but the fact is that the cutting edge of British gastronomy is in the capital (and don't write in from Ludlow, Cartmel or Padstow: I know you have fine restaurants there, too) and we are sure you'd want to know what's a la mode, even if you're less than likely to sample 72-hour beef with smoked anchovy and onion puree.
Apps for existing subscribers who still buy plans based on the old way of "here's a bunch of stuff, some of which you need," is all well and good, but what about a la carte content?
