This is the thread where the fringster comes back with teeth

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Cletus Miller

I don't see walls b/t "major highways" and residential areas as necessarily objectionable; they're quite common around the US. But I had thought that they built walls b/t ordinary city streets--with sidewalks, bike lanes, etc--and the residential areas. You're talking about the latter, right?

the commercial highways that would have visitors travelling on them- not the expressways.

these are neighborhoods full of tight streets and alleys, and include shops and homes. shop owners near touristy places were looking forward to some increased business and suddenly, a wall separated them from where people might be.

if one walked (and I did) there were doors back into the hutongs. the restaurants there were the only places they kept the "normal" menus ARF! ARF!

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Did I miss the discussion this morning, or was Letterman's reveal about the extortion and sexing of his staff pretty surreal? The clips made it sound like the audience thought it was a gag until close to the end, and then they applauded like it was the best joke ever. If you're in the audience, how can you react with applause for anyone involved?

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)

Did I miss the discussion this morning, or was Letterman's reveal about the extortion and sexing of his staff pretty surreal? The clips made it sound like the audience thought it was a gag until close to the end, and then they applauded like it was the best joke ever. If you're in the audience, how can you react with applause for anyone involved?

You missed the discussion. It was weird.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Adder

You missed the discussion. It was weird.

it was nervous laughter

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

it was nervous laughter

you have to get that, don't you

[notcasesensitive]

Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)

Did I miss the discussion this morning, or was Letterman's reveal about the extortion and sexing of his staff pretty surreal? The clips made it sound like the audience thought it was a gag until close to the end, and then they applauded like it was the best joke ever. If you're in the audience, how can you react with applause for anyone involved?

I think the extortionist should have done better homework on the person he wanted to extort. After all of Letterman's prior experience with crazies, he probably has the Manhattan DA's office on speed dial.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally Posted by LessinSF

Rio will do something about its favelas (shantytown slums), but it will have to be a monumental effort, given that up to 1 million people live there in 500 different slums. http://www.macalester.edu/courses/ge...d/thefavel.htm

What's the point? It's not like the media won't be able to find the poor parts of town if they want to do a story on that. And presumably the olympic venues won't be built right next to those parts of town.