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October 23, 2008

Quote of the Day

quotation-icon.jpgI just gave in and turned my furnace on. I try to wait util Nov. 1, but I seldom make it. BTW, I've had cock-a-leekie soup AND haggis, even though I have absolutely no Scottish connection :-)

— by Bob Marvin in Streetlevel: Adjusting for the Cold Weather




Posted by Brownstoner at 3:24 PM | Comments (16)
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No offense to Bob but it must have been a VERY slow day here today.

Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 23, 2008 3:39 PM

Now now Dave, that was unkind!

I remember it was usually after Halloween when my dad would crank up the furnace and we'd bleed the radiators on the top floor. We'd station someone on each floor to listen for the air and bleed them just so.

And if you were cold he told you to put on another sweater!

And to this day...I HATE TO BE COLD!

Posted by: cobblehiller at October 23, 2008 4:01 PM

My thought exactly, even though it's my quote.

I had hoped that when I made "Q of the D" it'd be for something that was actually meaningful :-)

Nevertheless, Mr. B, I'm honored [I think].

Posted by: Bob Marvin at October 23, 2008 4:02 PM

We were hoping people would chime in about whether they'd started using their heat yet!

Posted by: brownstoner at October 23, 2008 4:07 PM

OK Mr B--now I get it--you're not looking for comments about haggis :-)

Posted by: Bob Marvin at October 23, 2008 4:10 PM

Our building turned the heat on yesterday. First winter in the apartment, so we're unsure yet whether it's going to be too warm or too cold. Right now our bathroom has become a sauna (it's the top of a pipe and it's just jetting steam constantly whenever the boiler kicks on), but our bedroom is still an icebox. The living room and office are pretty tolerable, though, which is good since even mighty Hercules couldn't turn the knob on the radiator in the office ...

Posted by: cwbuecheler at October 23, 2008 4:18 PM

Never had haggis but I do love menudo and italian versions of tripe.

Like I said in the original post, I have a pretty bad cold this week so I did turn on my heat.

Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 23, 2008 4:19 PM

I had to laugh at this QotD because my son has the same "thing" about making it to November 1st, and he never does. Been close a couple of times, but he always caves in.

The flip side:
How about the people in my hair salon yesterday groaning about their $200 electric bills and in the next breath saying that they just turned off the air conditioning two weeks ago?

This thread is so much better than all those reminding me that my retirement account has effectively been wiped out and that my apartment will soon be worth nothing. I may have to teach until I am 80, but I'll turn the damn heat on whenever I want!

Posted by: QuartersB at October 23, 2008 4:24 PM

QuartersB...don't fret about the retirement account; unless of course you're already pushing 70. It'll come back.

On the hair salon I had a vision of that salon in Summer of Sam where all the girls have big hair and are always chewing gum...and then there was John Leguazzano (sp?)!!!

Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 23, 2008 4:28 PM

DIBS: Menudo - Toda Va Bien, Toda Va Bien.

Posted by: bayridgegirl at October 23, 2008 4:45 PM

Nah, it's an "old Brooklyn" salon in many ways with some really nice people--who evidently need to keep really cool--but there's no "big hair" there.

Sorry about the cold, Dave. Just got over it myself, and the chills that came with it meant many blankies or better yet, HEAT.

You seem to know about these things (and food too!), so I sure hope you are right. I had fifteen years to go at my first real "pension-type" job, so I went for the high-risk almost-all equities option, and just as I started accumulating a little something, I got wiped out. I didn't bail because the way I saw it I'd either have a stock account with nothing or enough in a money market to get me through about six months of retirement. When I went in with the market so high a few years ago, I jokingly said to the CREF rep that what I needed was a crash and and then a rebound in the next fifteen years. Well, I got the crash, all right, and now I am telling myself that I am buying more stock at cheaper prices. But I feel sick about what's happening.

My Italian grandmother owned a bakery in East Harlem during the Depression. People who could not afford to feed the gas meter brought their bread to her, unbaked. She baked it for them for free. To identify the family loaf, people put a "marker" in the top of the dough--a holy medal or coin. That way they got the right loaf when they picked it up. For Italians, the bread and gravy recipe is unique to each family and no one else's would do.

Let's hope you don't have to install ovens at the new place.

Posted by: QuartersB at October 23, 2008 5:02 PM

Leekie Cock Soup? You're kidding, right?

Posted by: bmfesq at October 23, 2008 5:24 PM

No...cock a leekie soup...google it.

Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 23, 2008 5:47 PM

In Scotland the Agga was always on, so it was difficult to say when the heat turned on. Dreary place Scotland. I lived in Perthshire, it may as well have been Lapland. I mean, maybe three hours of sunlight a week in the winter. All there was to do was drink. No wonder they fled to settle in America, Australia, South Africa, New Zeeland, Tasmania, anywhere!!!

Posted by: sam at October 23, 2008 6:41 PM


I always wait until I get two telephone calls from tenants complaining that it's too cold before I turn on the boilers.

Every year it's the same people. They balk when I tell them to just put on jackets.

Posted by: IronBalls at October 23, 2008 8:22 PM

What a prince among men you are, Iron Balls. You must make your mom so proud.

Posted by: I_haz_TWO_toilets at October 24, 2008 11:49 AM

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