George H. Smith Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Roger Bissell just sent me the link to this video. It is very clever, and I thought OLers would enjoy it. Ghs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Backlighting Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Funny indeed. I left Brooklyn in 1977 and headed to Calif.I returned for a visit in 2005. Everything looked run down, even the people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 They forgot the East River.--Brant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Brant wrote:They forgot the East River.End quote Oh yeah. They forgot the sampans on the river. Some days it looks like Hong Kong Harbor – industries, restaurants, gambling joints, and house boats all crowded together to create a foot bridge from the farthest out boat to the island. The East River Rats say “Arrrr!”I haven’t listened to the tape yet, but my sister in law is from Lon Gighland. Keep going east on Long Island and you get into the Hamptons with speech patterns resembling those of Hollywood.Semper cogitans fidele,Peter Taylor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 They forgot the sampans on the river. Some days it looks like Hong Kong Harbor – industries, restaurants, gambling joints, and house boats all crowded together to create a foot bridge from the farthest out boat to the island. This image that you advance is patently untrue. It never looks anything like that and I am a native New Yorker.I traverse that river several times a week. Some of my friends traverse it daily. None of them would agree with this statement.Adam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Adam wrote:I traverse that river several times a week. Some of my friends traverse it daily. None of them would agree with this statement. end quote Then they have no imagination. Semper cogitans fidele, Peter Taylor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaalChatzaf Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Brant wrote:They forgot the East River.End quote Oh yeah. They forgot the sampans on the river. Some days it looks like Hong Kong Harbor – industries, restaurants, gambling joints, and house boats all crowded together to create a foot bridge from the farthest out boat to the island. The East River Rats say “Arrrr!”Where did you ever get that idea?Ba'al Chatzaf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Brant wrote:They forgot the East River.End quote Oh yeah. They forgot the sampans on the river. Some days it looks like Hong Kong Harbor – industries, restaurants, gambling joints, and house boats all crowded together to create a foot bridge from the farthest out boat to the island. The East River Rats say “Arrrr!”Where did you ever get that idea?Ba'al ChatzafFrom his bigot box. It seems to be standard issue on the Maryland peninsula. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Brant wrote: They forgot the East River. end quote I responded, “Oh yeah. They forgot the sampans on the river. Some days it looks like Hong Kong Harbor . . .”Ba'al Chatzaf asked me:Where did you ever get that idea?end quoteThis thread is titled, “The accents of the 5 boroughs of NYC” and The East River is not a borough, so I decided to go along with Brant’s joke and populate The East River so that it “seemed like” a borough. The most obvious floating city I could think of was Hong Kong, the one I mentioned, so I likened it to that.Now, back to business.As everyone knows The East River Borough accent is likened to a cross between Louisiana Creole where the denizens live on stilt houses and Venice, Italy where the houses float or are anchored to the bottom, and these Italians differ from Rome’s manner of speaking by rolling their “R’s.” . . . Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Adam wrote about where I get my thoughts:From his bigot box. It seems to be standard issue on the Maryland peninsula.end quoteAdam, over the years you have said you were a veteran, an anarchist, not an anarchist, marched with Martin Luther King, been a teacher, been a campaign manager, have a business and a payroll to meet, had three students killed in the freedom marches, and the bull shit just keeps marching on. Adam, which is an alias, why don’t you use your real name? You know the one that appears on your various indictments? Michael has stated you should be given a chance, but what other scams are you hatching to bilk or hoodwink honest people?Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Adam wrote about where I get my thoughts:From his bigot box. It seems to be standard issue on the Maryland peninsula.end quote"...veteran; marched with Martin Luther King, been a campaign manager, have a business and a payroll to meet, had three students killed in the freedom marches." Peter:1) I have never said I was a veteran;2) I have never said I "...marched with Martin Luther King Jr.".;3) I was a student at the college when Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Cheney were killed in Mississippi. At least one of them went to the same college I went to in 1964;4) I owned a business for over ten years that had a payroll of twelve people (12);5) I have been a field campaign manager in five plus (5+) campaigns; Now, would you care to put these statements to a test?We could both put up a dollar amount that we could agree to. We could provide the money to be held by Michael.Then I could provide the proof to both yourself and Michael and he can send the money to me.Adam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 I don't remember a previous time an obvious joke--except to Adam and Ba'al, it seems--would subsume a flame war on OL. --BrantI'm surprised by Adam, not BobAdam beat me to 9500 posts, darn it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Now, would you care to put these statements to a test?We could both put up a dollar amount that we could agree to. We could provide the money to be held by Michael.Then I could provide the proof to both yourself and Michael and he can send the money to me.AdamMichael can make money on the float.--Brantor 10%, whichever is more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 I don't remember a previous time an obvious joke--except to Adam and Ba'al, it seems--would subsume a flame war on OL. --BrantI'm surprised by Adam, not BobAdam beat me to 9500 posts, darn it!lol, that is because I have a penchant for childish jokes and retorts.As to a "flame war," one would have to have a worthy opponent for a war, this is a childish skirmish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Now, would you care to put these statements to a test?We could both put up a dollar amount that we could agree to. We could provide the money to be held by Michael.Then I could provide the proof to both yourself and Michael and he can send the money to me.AdamMichael can make money on the float.--Brantor 10%, whichever is moreexcellent idea Brant, we would both have to put up an extra 5% to 10% for the "vig," this is a free market capitalist, anarcho-capitalist and even objectivist solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Dear Allen Cappellazzi a.k.a., Adam Cappellazzi a.k.a., Adam Selene.Can we allegedly meet at a Forest Hills, Queens, restaurant where you will give me alleged proof of your accomplishments signed by Justice Charles Thomas with the correct index numbers on the documents? We could both then put up a dollar amount that we could agree to. We could provide the money to be held by someone who must flash their driver’s license for verification. Then I could come back after verification or lack thereof and get all my money from the guy who flashed his driver’s license. Sounds like a good plan. Olive Garden ok with you? Or maybe Lombardi’s?Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Dear Allen Cappellazzi a.k.a., Adam Cappellazzi a.k.a., Adam Selene.Can we allegedly meet at a Forest Hills, Queens, restaurant where you will give me alleged proof of your accomplishments signed by Justice Charles Thomas with the correct index numbers on the documents? We could both then put up a dollar amount that we could agree to. We could provide the money to be held by someone who must flash their driver’s license for verification. Then I could come back after verification or lack thereof and get all my money from the guy who flashed his driver’s license. Sounds like a good plan. Olive Garden ok with you? Or maybe Lombardi’s?PeterPeter:Not acceptable because as we both know, they are facts as they appeared in the press.Adam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Peter defaults into viciousness.--Brant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Brant wrote:Peter defaults into viciousness.end quote Ahhh. I’m a teddy bear, private eye from Da Bronx. Lying is vicious. Deceit is vicious. A crook is a crook no matter what Burrow he hides in. "The accents of the 5 boroughs of NYC -- or how to by a native". Now that title is vicious. So, George, let me misunderstand some more like Brant, the citizens of New York are “natives.” What does that conjure up? Grass skirts? Brown skins? Primitive? Bones in their noses? Well, let me pretend to take offense. How dare you! Now everybody pile on for some fun.Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caroljane Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Brant wrote:Peter defaults into viciousness.end quote Ahhh. I’m a teddy bear, private eye from Da Bronx. Lying is vicious. Deceit is vicious. A crook is a crook no matter what Burrow he hides in. "The accents of the 5 boroughs of NYC -- or how to by a native". Now that title is vicious. So, George, let me misunderstand some more like Brant, the citizens of New York are “natives.” What does that conjure up? Grass skirts? Brown skins? Primitive? Bones in their noses? Well, let me pretend to take offense. How dare you! Now everybody pile on for some fun.Peter You deserve to have fun, Peter. Even a poor Taylor is entitled to some happiness.Carolwatching Fiddler on the Roof again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Carol wrote in rapport:You deserve to have fun, Peter. Even a poor Taylor is entitled to some happiness . . . watching Fiddler on the Roof again.end quote If I was a rich man, all day long I would yadda yadda do.Thank you Carol Yadda yadda do . . . huh, what? Oh yeah. Well the little kicker gets even smaller. Baltimore lost. Bow your heads in sympathy. Ah, Edgar. The Ravens failed you.It was many and many a year ago,In a kingdom by the seaThat a maiden there lived whom you may knowBy the name of Annabel Lee;And this maiden she lived with no other thoughtThan to love and be loved by me.I was a child and she was a child,In this kingdom by the sea;But we loved with a love that was more than love-I and my Annabel Lee;With a love that the winged seraphs of heavenCoveted her and me.And this was the reason that, long ago,In this kingdom by the sea,A wind blew out of a cloud, chillingMy beautiful Annabel Lee;So that her highborn kinsman cameAnd bore her away from me,To shut her up in a sepulchreIn this kingdom by the sea.The angels, not half so happy in heaven,Went envying her and me-Yes!- that was the reason (as all men know,In this kingdom by the sea)That the wind came out of the cloud by night,Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.But our love it was stronger by far than the loveOf those who were older than we-Of many far wiser than we-And neither the angels in heaven above,Nor the demons down under the sea,Can ever dissever my soul from the soulOf the beautiful Annabel Lee.For the moon never beams without bringing me dreamsOf the beautiful Annabel Lee;And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyesOf the beautiful Annabel Lee;And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the sideOf my darling- my darling- my life and my bride,In the sepulchre there by the sea,In her tomb by the sounding sea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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