Stuck on Repeats

[Shape Shifter]

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

I don't recall Vonnegut ever referring to it as that. He did, however, often call it the "Island of Manhattan".

Of course, he was originally from the Great State of Indiana.

Vonnegut was a dumb-ass hick. He spent way, way too much time on Cape Cod.

His stupid hippie kids spent too much time there, too.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by Shape Shifter

People from the boroughs call it The Island all the time. Because it is an island.

No one in the boroughs, from the boroughs, calls it that. They call it "the city." Because it's a city.

TM

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Shape Shifter

I have been sauteeing them with spinach and garlic, I've been steaming them, I've been putting them on pizza and in my salsa. I made a casserole when there wasn't even a funeral to attend, and I've been giving it away from the chicks at the coffee shop that keep pestering me for straws.

Tasty, for sure (the squash, not the coffee shop chicks, as far as I know), but how much yellow squash can you eat? It's really something of a burden at this point.

Don't you have some retirees you can give that squash to?

[Shape Shifter]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

No one in the boroughs, from the boroughs, calls it that. They call it "the city." Because it's a city.

TM

That's cute pretending like you've been slumming like that.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

No one in the boroughs, from the boroughs, calls it that. They call it "the city." Because it's a city.

TM

the original peoples "from all boroughs" would disagree: The name Manhattan derives from the word Manna-hata, as written in the 1609 logbook of Robert Juet, an officer on Henry Hudson's yacht Halve Maen (Half Moon).[12] A 1610 map depicts the name as Manna-hata, twice, on both the west and east sides of the Mauritius River (later named the Hudson River). The word "Manhattan" has been translated as "island of many hills" from the Lenape language.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

Don't you have some retirees you can give that squash to?

They have been bringing me squash. If they could poop as big as they're growing their squash the seats on their motorized wheelchairs would take up a lot less room in the aisles at Wal-Mart.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by Shape Shifter

They have been bringing me squash. If they could poop as big as they're growing their squash the seats on their motorized wheelchairs would take up a lot less room in the aisles at Wal-Mart.

Thanks for the visual.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch

Eeeesh. Didn't know that. Thanks for harshing my mellow. What's next, Roald Dahl being kind of a dickhole?

Roald Dahl calls it an island when he's not too fucked up to call it a city.

[Icky Thump]

Originally Posted by Shape Shifter

People from the boroughs call it The Island all the time. Because it is an island.

Not a fucking chance. "The City" or "Manhattan." A or B. This isn't a short answer essay test.

Edited to concur with TM: Who fucking knows what the idiot Hipsters who currently infest Brooklyn call it but no one who grew up in the Boroughs who had a parent who lived in the Boroughs called it the Island.

The Island starts at Nassau and includes Suffolk to the end of the LIE. After that it's the Hamptons or Montauk -- places we never go unless it's fishing.

Staten Island is called just that or "The land across the Guinea Gangplank"

[taxwonk]

Originally Posted by Icky Thump

Not a fucking chance. "The City" or "Manhattan." A or B. This isn't a short answer essay test.

Manhattan Island: a borough of New York City, capital of pretense, pomposity, and current home of some pretty cool people who are just fine thank you.

manhattan: a cocktail, made of whisky, sweet vermouth, and perhaps a silly fruit garnish.

Context, people. Context.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Icky Thump

Not a fucking chance. "The City" or "Manhattan." A or B. This isn't a short answer essay test.

Edited to concur with TM: Who fucking knows what the idiot Hipsters who currently infest Brooklyn call it but no one who grew up in the Boroughs who had a parent who lived in the Boroughs called it the Island.

The Island starts at Nassau and includes Suffolk to the end of the LIE. After that it's the Hamptons or Montauk -- places we never go unless it's fishing.

Staten Island is called just that or "The land across the Guinea Gangplank"

All I know is that my relations for the most part talk about "inwood" and "the city" meaning "us" and "them" and every day refuse to acknowledge that they share an island with the likes of the people who inhabit this board. It may be an island, but there is a gulf within it.

[Icky Thump]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

All I know is that my relations for the most part talk about "inwood" and "the city" meaning "us" and "them" and every day refuse to acknowledge that they share an island with the likes of the people who inhabit this board. It may be an island, but there is a gulf within it.

Inwood doesn't count. Yes, technically it is Manhattan just like Molokai is Hawaii, but, you know.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

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[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Icky Thump

Inwood doesn't count. Yes, technically it is Manhattan just like Molokai is Hawaii, but, you know.

is that near the cloisters? are the cloisters worth the trip? should I spend time in Inwood?

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch

Eeeesh. Didn't know that. Thanks for harshing my mellow. What's next, Roald Dahl being kind of a dickhole?

Heard an NPR interview with Maurice Sendak yesterday. I don't when it was from but he probably did it before he was dead. Anyway, he at least seemed like a good guy.