Open Thread: Do The Right Thing Edition
The 20th anniversary of the release of Spike Lee’s ground-breaking movie Do The Right Thing, which dealt with a day in the life of a block in Bed Stuy, and in so doing brought the multi-layered issues of gentrification race coexistence and conflict in the inner city to a broader national audience. Two decades later,…
The 20th anniversary of the release of Spike Lee’s ground-breaking movie Do The Right Thing, which dealt with a day in the life of a block in Bed Stuy, and in so doing brought the multi-layered issues of gentrification race coexistence and conflict in the inner city to a broader national audience. Two decades later, how much has changed and how much remains the same?
If they don’t care that this stuff isn’t moving off the shelves (as would be indicative of your sleuthing) then the store is obviously a front for something else.
Snappy, I’m a worrier by nature, and a hypochondriac to boot! These are just the two newest things I have to obsess on till the next one comes along!! ; )
You could start one of those “7 on Your Side” type things! Or, you can sic them on the store!
Bxgirl, I think it did come from King Nimrod from Babylonia
Yes, he was Israeli (referencing the “dead babylonian guy”)
LOL ENY…I my curiosity got the better of me and I just couldn’t help checking things out on my own. I had one of those mini sharpies that come on a keychain and I snuck and made a small mark on the bottom of certain boxes of cereal, yogurt cups, cheese and milk. They were all still there at least one month later, the yogurt remained for 3 months.
I had a statistics professor in grad school whose name was Nimrod Meguido.
Can anyone tell me what nimrod means? Where did that word come from (any relation to the dead Babylonian guy?)
“nimrods”
I love that word.
“I even snuck and marked a few things and went back a month later and sure enough it was there on the shelf again.”
Wow…you did your own investigation! Did you wear a disguise? That was gutsy.
Sorry to make you worry Cobble! But I am an avid date checker. Even in the stores that I generally trust I find myself looking at the dates just in case. If I can’t find a date, I don’t buy it.
Oh, Lordy! Yes, everyone needs a will no matter what. Intestacy leaves behind the biggest mess ever. And when you write your will, be sure to use witnesses who have nothing to gain from the will itself. It was so disgusting to watch grown men and women literally punch each other out because so-and-so ‘twisted Uncle Jed’s arm into leaving him the car and house’ and was also a witness to the will signing.