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By Biff Champion on January 18, 2011 12:17 PM
Did anyone ever burn their bra?
No but I melted one once.
Ishtar;
Slopey alluded to a now-forgotten image of NYC: manufacturing city. Up until the 70’s, the top sector in NYC was manufacturing, and large swaths of the city had a working-class culture. It was simply a different city than the one today.
dont know if it’s cause it rains all the freaking time but Portland and Seattle are super clean
“high piloting costs”
When I found out how much a riverboat pilot makes I signed up for swimming classes. Hey, it’s a first step.
It’s almost obscene what they make.
There’s a 3 and a 5 and 0 0 0 0 in the salary.
wow, C is taken out the woodshed. did they miss earning bad?
Did anyone ever burn their bra?
Well, benson, I see you’re still quite young. NYC just appeared to be quite different from what I understood the laws to be where I grew up. Burning garbage in urban areas of California was outlawed long before 1973. Can you imagine allowing people in that parched state to burn garbage? The entire place would combust.
I have a burn pile in PA.
That was part of autumn; you raked leaves, put them in a pile and burned them. Ah, the strange and other worldly joys of mid 20th Century.