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rf, are you implying that the NY Times shouldn’t be charging for its content??
I bet this is a real dilemma for the liberals who rely on the NYT for their brain input.
By daveinbedstuy on March 17, 2011 11:17 AM
Dona, I used to date a Malaysian Chinese guy who had an irish roomate. He could go into an Irish bar and knew the right moment of drunkeness of the patrons and what song ro play on the jukebox to make tham all cry. We used to do it regularly at Murphy’s on 2nd Ave
That’s pretty funny dibs, but makes perfect sense. All those super drippy songs are “Bronx Irish” songs and appeal to homesickness which I guess was pretty bad once. They are designed to make you cry. For Crissakes, Danny Boy? Hello? It took the Clancy brothers to drum up a few Irish songs which were not Bronx Irish. I used to love all those songs though. I still do sort of, particularly if I am a little inebriated.
By the way, there is a whole class of battle song — rebel songs and patriot songs which they DO NOT play in bars in Dublin. When the drunkenness gets to a certain level, fights break out. It’s sort of like an unspoken rule, according to what I’ve been told.
Slopey – Mickey was an idiot. I have no idea why Max’s took off but the place I worked – Limelight @91 7th Av. S., not the disco – was much hipper at the time.
I was too young to’ve met Dylan Thos. – but I did drink at the Horse.
Clancys Bros had a wonderful porn version of Galway Bay but I can’t find the lyric anywhere.
donatella,
It’s true, the city gives property owners a super hard time. While the city agencies run roughshod all over the place.
Seriously, if anyone calculated the damage done to the streets by these plows going 60 mph it would be staggering.
Cracked pavement, smashed sewer covers and caved-in catchbasins all over the place.
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By rf on March 17, 2011 11:16 AM
Parking muni-meters in Manhattan south of 59th St. are $.50 for every 12 minutes, not the 20 min for a quarter rate in downtown Brooklyn
You shouldn’t be driving into manhattan. It’s people like you that cause the traffic problems here.
Dave, do you enjoy any music or dance (from an esthetic point of view, not talking about sex here)? Opera? Ballet? Musical theater?
“What would I want to do that for? I left that place for a reason”
Maybe she was on the lam
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