I was just reading some stuff on Brownstoner today. The Barney’s thread. Minard refers to downtown Brooklyn as DoBro and ET asks Minard to please not say DoBro, repeats the request…begging….. Benson responds:
By benson on October 14, 2010 1:25 PM
I’m going to advise my mother-in-law in Bensonhurst to talk up a new name for the hood: “BenHo”. Needs some cachet so that she can fetch more for her house.
I started to laugh so hard I gave myself the hiccups.
So Dirty Hipster (long gone to Walter Foods, I’m sure), are you thinking of going to the Bed Stuy house tour? Steve and I are going around 11 or 12. It was wonderful last year. You kinda gotta stick w the shuttle bus, cuz BS is huge.
Gemini, is that the crazy rabbi who wrote the anti gay Paladino speech in the first place? I was totally cracking up over his quotes. Example: “He discovered now he has a gay nephew? Mazel tov! We’ll make a coming-out party.”
My heart belongs to the artichokes, Snappy, but Corner Burger sometime yes?
I’m reading ihatestarbucks and it is hilarious:
Explaining the sizes:
“basically there were two original sizes Short and tall, coffee and especially espresso are served in small servings, this is because no human being needs more than 12 ounces of anything unless its water, coffee culture comes to america and of course the over indulging americans demanded bigger so here comes grande italian for big, still not big enough so here comes venti italian for twenty.”
Annoying ex-workers:
“back to me hating ex-partners… there’s this nerdy looking chick who comes in every so often and orders like a vanilla bean frappuccino with caramel on the bottom an extra pump of something and 2 shots mocha affogato style. and after she says “mocha affogato,” she says “do you know what that means? it means the mocha drizzle goes on BEFORE you pour the shots on top, NOT after.” and then she also gets whipped cream, which seems to defeat the purpose of anything. and then she’s all “i’m an ex-partner.” … she’s such a nerd! i hate it! i hate starbucks!!!”
How wonderful regulars can be:
“love them. The true every day regulars. Some of them gave us Christmas presents this year and even stick up for us against irate bitches. I haven’t worked at any other job where regulars would go out of their way to be nice to us. There is a lot of bs as far as administration goes at my store, but i so love my regular customers.”
Me, Lechacal. …working here…nice to have company…
So who’s in for lunch tomorrow? Grand Szechuan at 1145 am. So far it’s:
– Donatella
– Mopar
– M4L (to be confirmed)
– DIBS
– lechacal
Pete how about you? Denton? Anyone else?
I was just reading some stuff on Brownstoner today. The Barney’s thread. Minard refers to downtown Brooklyn as DoBro and ET asks Minard to please not say DoBro, repeats the request…begging….. Benson responds:
By benson on October 14, 2010 1:25 PM
I’m going to advise my mother-in-law in Bensonhurst to talk up a new name for the hood: “BenHo”. Needs some cachet so that she can fetch more for her house.
I started to laugh so hard I gave myself the hiccups.
Damn, I see you’re all out at Walter Foods! In this rain!
Donatella, food = good.
(iPhone, drinking.)
Rain, rain, rain! Will it ever stop? This can’t be good for the new roses. Or the basement swimming pool.
So Dirty Hipster (long gone to Walter Foods, I’m sure), are you thinking of going to the Bed Stuy house tour? Steve and I are going around 11 or 12. It was wonderful last year. You kinda gotta stick w the shuttle bus, cuz BS is huge.
Is anyone else going?
Starbucks = health insurance.
Donatella, that sounds food — so October-y.
Gemini, is that the crazy rabbi who wrote the anti gay Paladino speech in the first place? I was totally cracking up over his quotes. Example: “He discovered now he has a gay nephew? Mazel tov! We’ll make a coming-out party.”
My heart belongs to the artichokes, Snappy, but Corner Burger sometime yes?
I’m reading ihatestarbucks and it is hilarious:
Explaining the sizes:
“basically there were two original sizes Short and tall, coffee and especially espresso are served in small servings, this is because no human being needs more than 12 ounces of anything unless its water, coffee culture comes to america and of course the over indulging americans demanded bigger so here comes grande italian for big, still not big enough so here comes venti italian for twenty.”
Annoying ex-workers:
“back to me hating ex-partners… there’s this nerdy looking chick who comes in every so often and orders like a vanilla bean frappuccino with caramel on the bottom an extra pump of something and 2 shots mocha affogato style. and after she says “mocha affogato,” she says “do you know what that means? it means the mocha drizzle goes on BEFORE you pour the shots on top, NOT after.” and then she also gets whipped cream, which seems to defeat the purpose of anything. and then she’s all “i’m an ex-partner.” … she’s such a nerd! i hate it! i hate starbucks!!!”
How wonderful regulars can be:
“love them. The true every day regulars. Some of them gave us Christmas presents this year and even stick up for us against irate bitches. I haven’t worked at any other job where regulars would go out of their way to be nice to us. There is a lot of bs as far as administration goes at my store, but i so love my regular customers.”