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("A butcheh," muses Sally. "I could do t'at. What's to it? Ya take a knife an' ya slice off ya steaks an' ya chops an' ya wrap it up an' sennit on its way." "Don'f'getcha put ya t'um' onna scale," adds Joe. "Nah," says Sally. "Bohack's don' do t'at, 'at'sem bums at Roulston's." "Might be a good idea at'tat," shrugs Joe. "Ev'n if we can't get no meat, lea's y'd come home at night smellin' like it.")
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Mrs. O'Brien better hope her husband doesn't "fall" against a knife a second time and die as she's gonna have a tough time explaining that one away.
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A remarkable assortment of items ranging from a three-stone diamond ring to 24 pounds of Ehler's Coffee will be sold to the highest bidders at Dave Elman's Victory Auction, to be personally conducted by the star of radio's "Hobby Lobby" program, starting at 2pm Monday in the Grand Ballroom of the Hotel St. George. The auction benefitting the "Brooklyn Bombs Berlin" campaign is scheduled to run for twelve hours, will include many articles donated by leading Brooklyn stores and manufacturers, including nylon hose, shoes and clothing items, and assorted household items donated by Martin's, Namm's, Loeser's, and A. S. Beck, cases of Rhiengold Beer donated by Liebmann Breweries, 50 pounds of candy donated by Rockwood Confections, and other hard-to-get items. Mr. Elman himself has also contributed unique collectors' items for the occasion, including articles of silverware salvaged from the battleship Arizona, sunk at Pearl Harbor, along with a framed water-soaked newspaper the captain of the Arizona had in his pocket at the time of that backstabbing attack. Mr. Elman has also contributed several original Chinese war posters and several express money orders bearing the signature of Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, which the aviator had on his person while adrift on a life raft in the Pacific. It is indicated that Mr. Elman is making every effort to get Capt. Rickenbacker to donate the actual raft itself to the auction. Organizers note that all bids for rationed goods must be accompanied by the appropriate number of ration stamps. Admission to the auction will be the purchase of one war savings stamp.
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As I was reading this, I was wondering if they'd require rationing coupons for bidding. Had they not, they'd have raised a heck of a lot more money. Might even had made sense since the proceeds are going to the war effort. Imagine what 24 pounds of coffee or 50 pounds of candy, free of ration coupons, would raise.
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("Countess Delicatesse?" And what of her husband, Lord Pastrami?)
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A diamond-fencing caper is so wonderfully 1940s.
And in the Daily News...
Those regulation Civilian Defense uniforms are cut different out on the Coast.
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Yes they are. "Miss Flame Girl," Elyse Knox, who looks so cute in her specially tailored uniform - it helps to have her specially tailored body to fit into it - is actor Mark Harmon's mother.
No kidding, Mark, your mom was The Flame Girl of 1943
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SLACKER!
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Even in the NY Press, albeit grudgingly, there have been so many exposes and stories, over the years, about how the recycled garbage that we wash and then painstakingly separate into different colored bins is either thrown together after being picked up or is simply not recycle because of the economics (plus, now, all the extra energy used for running separate trucks for different garbage has become an issue), that while good liberal New Yorkers still go through the motions of recycling, there is no real enthusiasm left for it. But when it first started, so many years ago now, woe be the neighbor who put a can or scrap of paper in the wrong bin.
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Feel the quicksand.
And later...
Shadow: "You're going to marry Cynthia?"
Harold: "Well, it's a long story."
Shadow: "I always thought, one day, you'd marry Lillums."
Harold: "Umm, yes, but right now I really want to marry Joan."
Shadow: "Joan! Who the h*ll is Joan?"
Harold: "She's, uh, umm, uh Cynthia's sister."
Shadow: "That's it. I'm going back to Covina."