"Ride The SLUT"

Officially it's the South Lake Union Streetcar, but it's popularly known as the South Lake Union Trolley , or SLUT.

At Kapow! Coffee, 100 T-shirts bearing the words "Ride the SLUT" sold out in days and another 100 are on order.

"We're welcoming the SLUT into the neighborhood," said Jerry Johnson, 29, a part-time barista.

Some claim , incorrectly, according to representatives of Vulcan Inc., a company owned by billionaire Paul G. Allen which is developing the area , that South Lake Union Trolley was the original name and that it was changed when officials belatedly realized the acronym.

Since then Cascade has been ignored in Vulcan brochures that lump the neighborhood together with Denny Park and Denny Triangle under the term South Lake Union.With the streetcar, said Don Clifton, a Cascade resident, "We learned how fun it is to change the name of things."