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All righty Cargar…I’ll borrow Biff’s blue ruffled shirt and Gene Rayburn style long microphone and try another hook up. I make a great hostess…ask 6years and Jessi 🙂
“guess the rent”
Good lord. I can see an on-air fistfight breaking out over something like that. It must have taken guts to even air a show like that! Then again, you said it was public TV.
bxgrl: no dissonance there. ‘green’ is being energy-conscious, low carbon footprint etc., and I do subscribe to tthe indoor-air-quality thing, which is where smoking would come in.
‘smoke stinks’…the nose of the snifee. many people think beer stinks. my father, smoker that he was, thought wine had the most horrible taste and smell. It’s only this generation that reviles smoking.
I’m not glamorizing it, nor suggesting that the Majority L of the anti-smoking rules are not acceptable. But why (to you free-marketers) we don’t let bars, for example, institute their own smoking rules is beyond me. You and I might never be able to meet for a drink unless one of us compromises, but that’s ok too. And it might bring back tolerance, a virtue sadly lacking nowadays.
What tipped you off, Snappy? My quest for eye candy on the Brooklyn Bridge?!
Herki…now there’s a game show!
CarGar, are you single? We gotta get you over to Excelsior and find you a hunk-o-man!
CMU, I wasn’t boasting about fighting but rather that I wouldn’t mind fighting if people start with me. Just because I’m not the type to “just take it” doesn’t make me boasting about fighting. Like now, I don’t agree with your comments and I’m saying I don’t agree. I didn’t throw out holier than thou. You threw it at me and expect me to just take it? as you like to say, if you expect to walk over people and expect them to take it, you dont belong in NYC. as for “holier than thou” reference – Return to Sender.
“The New York Daily News recently tested two pairs of flip-flops as well, ones that traipsed through bars in New York’s West Village, plodded through Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, rode the F, A, C, G, 2 and 3 subway trains, attended a Brooklyn Cyclones game in Coney Island and rode the Cyclone roller coaster. One pair wandered into the Coney Island subway station’s public restroom.”
Bogus…..they didn’t survey Williamsburg OR Bushwick, where 78% of flip-flop wearers reside.
snappy, for some reason that reminds of a public access gameshow from the 80’s that a friend told me about the other day called “guess the rent” where they’d go into people’s apartments (shitty east village hovels) and look around at all their stuff, weird bathrooms, tubs in the kitchen, closets, etc. People had to call in and guess how much rent they were paying. I guess what made it interesting was 1) access to people’s homes/lifestyles and 2) the absurd rents that were commanded (OK, still are…) for total dumps. Slumlords were special in the 80’s though.