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December 1, 2008

Closing Bell: Hanging Out on the Stoop

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For most of us, it's getting too cold to partake in that great Brooklyn activity known as hangin' out on the stoop. Not so at this sweet, freestanding home in South Slope where someone has parked their doll with the big-ole-head in their stead. Might it stay there 'til spring?




Posted by lisa at 4:00 PM | Comments (33)
Categories: Closing Bell

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I hope there's a lock on that gate. A note to parents though...Keep your daughter off the stoop and off the pole.

Posted by: daveinbedstuy at December 1, 2008 4:17 PM

i think that's a Bratz doll!!!

*rob*

Posted by: PitbullNYC at December 1, 2008 4:18 PM

actually, that's a heavily-botoxed little person.

Posted by: z at December 1, 2008 4:22 PM

Wow, Lisa...sometimes I don't know if Brownstoner should fire you or give you a raise. You somehow managed to turn a total NOTHING story into something thread worthy.

Posted by: Prodigal_Son at December 1, 2008 4:25 PM

im oddly mesmerized by her. and the fact that it may indeed be a botoxed little person intrigues me even more. look into her eyes, she's captivating. i just go and dollnap her.

*Rob*

Posted by: PitbullNYC at December 1, 2008 4:35 PM

"The thought of having anything to do with other people's deranged children is particularly unappealing to me."
-Posted by: sam at December 1, 2008 10:45 AM (Utopia in the City)

Posted by: bayridgegirl at December 1, 2008 4:37 PM

lisa, are you sure this is South Slope? The child's hair resembles something one is more likely to see in Staten Island, the Jersey Shore, a mall in the Midwest or Bay Ridge.

Posted by: Biff Champion at December 1, 2008 4:41 PM

And BRG, please don't respond with the predictable, "if anyone knows anything about dolls, it's Biff"...

Posted by: Biff Champion at December 1, 2008 4:42 PM

Am I that predictable, Biff?
Except I think this one is out of your league. She's kinda cute.

I didn't want to go down this route with you today. I was trying to be civil with you all day. Why do you tease me incessantly? Please stop!

Posted by: bayridgegirl at December 1, 2008 4:48 PM

"Why do you tease me incessantly?"

Are you talking to me or is that your hair talking to you?

Posted by: Biff Champion at December 1, 2008 4:50 PM

She doesn't look like she's concerned about the implosion of the Mutant Asset Bubble. You think maybe she's just trying to score some crack? Is she barefoot?

Posted by: daveinbedstuy at December 1, 2008 4:55 PM

We've had this hair discussion before. I think even if I shaved it all off, you'd still drive your points into me.

Posted by: bayridgegirl at December 1, 2008 4:58 PM

"You think maybe she's just trying to score some crack?"

I think she's just trying to score...looks like she's wearing black leather!!

Posted by: bayridgegirl at December 1, 2008 5:01 PM

All this talk about driving points into you once again has that Corcoran line from the HOTD ringing in my ears, "There's no better feeling than pulling into your own gated parking."

Posted by: Biff Champion at December 1, 2008 5:02 PM

"where someone has parked their doll with the big-ole-head in their stead."
- Posted by lisa at 4:00 PM

Posted by: bayridgegirl at December 1, 2008 5:09 PM

Aarrgghh!! Biff, I didn't want to go at with you again. Please, retract your posts and leave me, alone.

Posted by: bayridgegirl at December 1, 2008 5:11 PM

This stoop is my throne
This hood is my home
And the sky’s always blue by the brownstones
We in Brooklyn, it ain’t no Beverly Hills
Basically we pay bills, then chill...

Posted by: SnarkSlope at December 1, 2008 5:15 PM

I'm ridin' in a tank I'm blowin' hella dank
So whether ridin' in ya lo-lo or smokin' on some doe doe
spread the word and take the fo' door
The Last Don done hooked up with the muthafuckin'
King of the coast with the most here's a toast
and Snoop Dogg is the representer
through the niggas & G's through the LBC's
and the Calio projects Brooklyn to Queens

- Stoop Dogg

Posted by: Biff Champion at December 1, 2008 5:22 PM

On your mark, get set, go, let me go, let me stoop
To the next man in the three-piece suit
I spend all my dough, ray me, cutie
Stoop stoop a-doobie like scoobie doobie doo
I love you in your big jeans, you give me nice dreams
You make me wanna scream, oooo, oooo, oooo!
I like what ya do when you do what ya do
You make me wanna stoop

Stoop stoop ba-doop
Stoop ba-doop
Stoop ba-doop ba-doop ba-doop
Stoop stoop ba-doop
Stoop ba-doop
Stoop ba-doop ba-doop ba-doop

Posted by: bayridgegirl at December 1, 2008 5:29 PM

Biff, you frighten me sometimes. :)

Posted by: Montrose Morris at December 1, 2008 5:30 PM

MM - he has NO idea what any of it means!!

Posted by: bayridgegirl at December 1, 2008 5:32 PM

She's my little deuce stoop
You don't know what I got
(My little deuce stoop)
(You don't know what I got)
She's my little deuce stoop
You don't know what I got
(My little deuce stoop)
(You don't know what I got)
She's my little deuce stoop
You don't know what I got.

- Brownstoner Boys

Posted by: Biff Champion at December 1, 2008 5:33 PM

MM, only sometimes??

Posted by: Biff Champion at December 1, 2008 5:33 PM

Biff, I'm sure to everyone you're always frightening!

Posted by: bayridgegirl at December 1, 2008 6:09 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpmlDhIDkqA

Too lazy to write the lyrics.

Little Jackie is Imani Coppola.

Posted by: 11233 at December 1, 2008 6:30 PM

You think she can have a beer without getting a ticket?

Posted by: denton at December 1, 2008 6:45 PM

"Sitting on my stoop, watching the world go by...
Too bad I can't have a beer to nurse,
Since the cops keep on me as I let the tickets fly."

Posted by: Action Jackson at December 1, 2008 7:13 PM

Maybe one of the person's that think everybody should be allowed to drink beer outside of their house/home
hollowed out the doll and filled her up with beer.
I first thought it was Giada DeLaurentis in a wig.

Posted by: richierich at December 1, 2008 8:14 PM

It's a life-size Christina Aguilera doll.

Posted by: TownhouseLady at December 1, 2008 8:30 PM

I'd hit it.

Posted by: Polemicist at December 2, 2008 10:24 AM

Polemicist, that actually made me laugh out loud.

Posted by: Biff Champion at December 2, 2008 10:28 AM

Doll abuse begins at a very young age.

From The TimesDecember 19, 2005

Barbarism begins with Barbie, the doll children love to hate
By Alexandra Frean, Social Affairs Correspondent
BARBIE, that plastic icon of girlhood fantasy play, is routinely tortured by children, research has found.
The methods of mutilation are varied and creative, ranging from scalping to decapitation, burning, breaking and even microwaving, according to academics from the University of Bath.

The findings were revealed as part of an in-depth look by psychologists and management academics into the role of brands among 7 to 11-year-old schoolchildren.

The researchers had not intended to focus on Barbie, but they were taken aback by the rejection, hatred and violence she provoked when they asked the children about their feelings for the doll.

Violence and torture against Barbie were repeatedly reported across age, school and gender. No other toy or brand name provoked such a negative response.

“You might expect little girls to love their Barbie and expect an imaginary love in return. Instead girls feel violence and hatred towards their Barbie,” Agnes Nairn, one of the researchers, said

Here's the whole story...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article767739.ece

Posted by: daveinbedstuy at December 2, 2008 10:32 AM

Could be worse: It could have been KLAUS Barbie sitting on the steps. . .talk about your Stoop Nazi!

Posted by: Gallstoner at December 2, 2008 11:00 AM

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