Basil Thief on the Loose in Carroll Gardens
This one might not make the police blotter reports but a basil thief is upsetting the equilibrium on one block of Carroll Gardens. According to Lost City, someone has been stealing basil from a planter box in the front yard of a house on President, causing multi-generational distress: “The children are quite disturbed by your…

This one might not make the police blotter reports but a basil thief is upsetting the equilibrium on one block of Carroll Gardens. According to Lost City, someone has been stealing basil from a planter box in the front yard of a house on President, causing multi-generational distress: “The children are quite disturbed by your actions. And so are the adults,” reads the postscript to a sign telling the thief to “Stop taking our basil!” Any word on whether the culprit has been apprehended yet?
My day has been made. Is it possible to make an entire comment chain QOTD?
Voussoir, ditto! You are good with words. Voussoir means “goodnight y’all” in some tyme of architectural curvature of the language.
(referring to one of ditto’s posts yesterday.)
All these bad puns are worse than having a brain tumeric.
Given how scenic Carroll Gardens is, if they ever make a film about this, it might win the Oscar for Best Cinnamontography.
Some of those words are common US parlance but some are noturmerican.
Expert, your should call it the ineffable word lest you incur the What’s wrath. Is your “beet” reference expanding the pun scope here to include all agrarian products?
darn, you beet me to it dittoburg.
Here comes the tirade from what’s his name to spice this up,and I can’t stick around to defend my use of the ‘n-word’ as the n-word.
Yes, “daft” is a great word.
and daft.