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OK – favorite candidate TV AD you love to hate:
Here’s mine:
I think it’s an ad for Tom Foley against Dan Molloy and it’s this old Greek lady who owns a diner who really can’t speak English very well and she’s just soooooo dead pan in her delivery and mumbling and just plain old annoying, and then I think she says at the end something like ” dan molloy forced all the mamas and papas stores out of stamford. Dan Molloy hurt me”
UGH – for crissakes! if I was a CT resident I would vote for Dan Molloy just b/c this greek lady is sooo bad
am sorry
Re Overland Park, I didn’t say anything about being colorful, but Overland Park and Johnson Park is very wealthy, very affluent. I love NYC but I am not a NYC chauvanist. It is very beautiful here and Jackson County (Missouri) where I lived is much more colorful and layered with history, like NY and I liked it more. Also, Kansas City Missouri is really lovely in terms of urban planning — built largely in the 1920s, it is full of parks, beautiful roads, lovely stone houses, public sculpture and gardens and fountains. It is interesting in its own way — big box stores don’t tell the story and you know it.
Plus, you exaggerate for effect (like you said everybody was eating stuff dripping with cheese and you hadn’t had a good meal here for a week when you came)….THAT wasnt true.
Park Sloper, if you had to cooperate with anyone from any place in this country other than the coasts (i.e. sell, trade, organize something…) you probably would have a hard time if you really think what you say. Everywhere I have gone and tried to do anything in my business outside of the coasts I have had to work hard to combat peoples’ image of New Yorkers. It is just different that’s all.
…I first learned about Ikebana
while working for the Japanese Firm
Diawa Securities in the 80’s.
They were located in the buildings across from
the WTC.
Hookah bars are I guess used by middle-easterners to sit around and chit chat and smoke strawberry flavored tobacco
however it become a fad about 10 years ago amongst hipsters, nerdy NYU kids and then B&T peeps and then it sorta died. I don’t know anyone who would go to a hookah bar now
“Annoys me that many people refer to midwest as the ‘heartland’. I think heartland is where the country and culture originated from. Like the first 13 states.
The east coast in the heartland. Country just spread out from there. And acccording to some the tend to spread out quite a bit in the midwest.”
Actually, Pete, read a book called Albion’s seed. It talks about where our “culture” came from. There were four distinct migrations from the UK to the colonies in teh 17th century, each from a different region bringing different culture, folkways, political and social sensibilities and understandings of liberty. Middle class puritans settled the Mass Bay area, rich and poor Anglicans from the south of England settled Virginia with a highly developed sense of social caste, Quakers from the midlands settled the Delaware Valley, and northern peasants toughened from centuries of border warfare between England and Scotland came after and were pushed into the Appalachians by the Virginians and Quakers who wanted nothing to do with them. You can see all the strains of these four different conceptions of how individuals and society should be organized and function in today’s politics. Many of the early immigrant groups acculturated to the folkways and understandings fo the regions into which they migrated. A really great book — a bit academic, though.
OK – favorite candidate TV AD you love to hate:
Here’s mine:
I think it’s an ad for Tom Foley against Dan Molloy and it’s this old Greek lady who owns a diner who really can’t speak English very well and she’s just soooooo dead pan in her delivery and mumbling and just plain old annoying, and then I think she says at the end something like ” dan molloy forced all the mamas and papas stores out of stamford. Dan Molloy hurt me”
UGH – for crissakes! if I was a CT resident I would vote for Dan Molloy just b/c this greek lady is sooo bad
am sorry
Chindogu floor sweeper booties for cats.
gem you really shouldnt eat food off of trucks. those people NEVER wash their hands and they never wear hair nets or beard guards!! guh-ROSS
*rob*
Ikebana, beautiful.
Shindogu, Self described at “unuseless”. Look up Chingdogu floor sweeper booties for cats.
Lech,
Re Overland Park, I didn’t say anything about being colorful, but Overland Park and Johnson Park is very wealthy, very affluent. I love NYC but I am not a NYC chauvanist. It is very beautiful here and Jackson County (Missouri) where I lived is much more colorful and layered with history, like NY and I liked it more. Also, Kansas City Missouri is really lovely in terms of urban planning — built largely in the 1920s, it is full of parks, beautiful roads, lovely stone houses, public sculpture and gardens and fountains. It is interesting in its own way — big box stores don’t tell the story and you know it.
Plus, you exaggerate for effect (like you said everybody was eating stuff dripping with cheese and you hadn’t had a good meal here for a week when you came)….THAT wasnt true.
Park Sloper, if you had to cooperate with anyone from any place in this country other than the coasts (i.e. sell, trade, organize something…) you probably would have a hard time if you really think what you say. Everywhere I have gone and tried to do anything in my business outside of the coasts I have had to work hard to combat peoples’ image of New Yorkers. It is just different that’s all.
…I first learned about Ikebana
while working for the Japanese Firm
Diawa Securities in the 80’s.
They were located in the buildings across from
the WTC.
I had millions in my hands daily.
…I worked in the mailroom.
Hookah bars are I guess used by middle-easterners to sit around and chit chat and smoke strawberry flavored tobacco
however it become a fad about 10 years ago amongst hipsters, nerdy NYU kids and then B&T peeps and then it sorta died. I don’t know anyone who would go to a hookah bar now
“Annoys me that many people refer to midwest as the ‘heartland’. I think heartland is where the country and culture originated from. Like the first 13 states.
The east coast in the heartland. Country just spread out from there. And acccording to some the tend to spread out quite a bit in the midwest.”
Actually, Pete, read a book called Albion’s seed. It talks about where our “culture” came from. There were four distinct migrations from the UK to the colonies in teh 17th century, each from a different region bringing different culture, folkways, political and social sensibilities and understandings of liberty. Middle class puritans settled the Mass Bay area, rich and poor Anglicans from the south of England settled Virginia with a highly developed sense of social caste, Quakers from the midlands settled the Delaware Valley, and northern peasants toughened from centuries of border warfare between England and Scotland came after and were pushed into the Appalachians by the Virginians and Quakers who wanted nothing to do with them. You can see all the strains of these four different conceptions of how individuals and society should be organized and function in today’s politics. Many of the early immigrant groups acculturated to the folkways and understandings fo the regions into which they migrated. A really great book — a bit academic, though.
“CPR is like having a media blitz right now and apparently you are supposed to sing “Stayin Alive” while doing chest compressions”
Cripes, did I hear this and not remember it?