AaronS Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 tubbs is right. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tubbs Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 3 hours ago, AaronS said: tubbs is right. I miss that place. I don't think I've been in a decade but used to go to the one in Manhattan a lot. Food was so much better than it had to be. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
small h Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 Agreed. We always went there after a movie at the Kip's Bay. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Evelyn Posted April 2 Share Posted April 2 I got my first vaccine shot 3 weeks ago just over the border in AZ, because NV was dragging out bringing the age level down. And because they were fine with taking basically anyone, no matter where you reside, without issue. As an aside, I am still not eligible in NV--too young and too healthy. Which is absolutely nothing to complain about, except for this situation. So today, I drive the 2 hours back to where I got my first shot. Proud of myself to get there 15 minutes before my appointment-the earliest they will allow you to check in. I look at my phone to check in and wonder why is it telling me it's an hour earlier than it should be. Duhhhh. AZ does not observe DST. So I got to wait an extra hour in Bullhead City 😡 But, I (eventually) got my 2nd shot 🥳 🍾. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
voyager Posted April 2 Share Posted April 2 5 minutes ago, Evelyn said: I got my first vaccine shot 3 weeks ago just over the border in AZ, because NV was dragging out bringing the age level down. And because they were fine with taking basically anyone, no matter where you reside, without issue. As an aside, I am still not eligible in NV--too young and too healthy. Which is absolutely nothing to complain about, except for this situation. So today, I drive the 2 hours back to where I got my first shot. Proud of myself to get there 15 minutes before my appointment-the earliest they will allow you to check in. I look at my phone to check in and wonder why is it telling me it's an hour earlier than it should be. Duhhhh. AZ does not observe DST. So I got to wait an extra hour in Bullhead City 😡 But, I (eventually) got my 2nd shot 🥳 🍾. That’s what matters. Well done! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted April 2 Share Posted April 2 Were their cocktails nearby? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Evelyn Posted April 2 Share Posted April 2 Well, a "real" cocktail? 🤣 Not to mention even if there had been, the 2 hour drive back to Las Vegas with lots of State Troopers, some curvy roads and lots of road construction. But, there was a LARGE cocktail after I got home and got in my workout 💪 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wilfrid Posted April 2 Share Posted April 2 Holiday trip to France with a couple of friends years ago. This may come as a surprise, but there's a one hour time difference between the UK and France. We duly adjusted our watches on the ferry going across. Our first day in some little French town turned out a little strange. When we were ready for lunch, no-one was serving it. All the shops closed early for some reason. And when we showed up at a restaurant for dinner, everyone was on dessert. We had adjusted our watches the wrong way and were running two hours behind everyone else in the country. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
voyager Posted April 2 Share Posted April 2 10 hours ago, Wilfrid said: in some little French town ... All the shops closed early for some reason. And when we showed up at a restaurant for dinner, everyone was on dessert. Little French towns are unforgiving. Monday afternoons? Forget it. Dinner after 8pm? Hope you like ethnic. We have had some of our most enjoyable, most welcoming and most unexpected meals in the only kitchen open in town. Turkish, Moroccan, Ethiopian. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stone Posted April 7 Share Posted April 7 On 4/30/2010 at 1:48 PM, Stone said: Why don't they just repaint it. It's not like a picasso or anything. Wasn't there a story awhile back about a crew cleaning up some garbage in a corner of a room in a museum and later finding out that this pile of garbage was supposed to be art? And then people got upset when someone suggested that they just strew more garbage about to replace the first pile of garbage because if they did that it would pretty much be a concession that it was just a pile of garbage to being with? You know what would have been funny, if someone took the hoover off the pedestal, used it to clean up the pile of garbage, and then put it in the stock room, and then when curator found out, he went to the stock room, grabbed the wrong hoover, and put it back on the pedestal, and no one realized that the hoover on the pedestal wasn't a $4 million piece of art, but was just an exactly identical $35 vacuum cleaner, until like, five years later, when some janitor recognized it as his hoover, and then all these people sued because they spent good money to stare at a $4 million hoover on a pedestal not the same $35 hoover they have in their closet even thought it's exactly the same. Just a thought. Graffiti Art Wonders Where to Draw the Line. One is art. One is junk. Can you tell the difference? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
small h Posted April 7 Share Posted April 7 After reading the article, it does seem like the couple made an honest mistake. And I think we need to update the whole "my kid could paint that" thing to encompass NFTs. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
voyager Posted April 8 Share Posted April 8 I have always subscribed to the art/antique rule that something is worth how much I really like/love it in order for its to sustain that value. At the same time, I've turned down quite a few pieces that turned out to have value beyond their price tag at the time. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 I don't click anything, but in this age of newsfeeds you see truncated headlines begging to be misconstrued. I got one a couple of days ago that read, "Doctor Who Treated George Floyd . . . ." I, of course, read that as "Dr. Who treated George Floyd," which certainly would have been newsworthy but seemed odd as The Doctor (a) is a fictional character who (b) is not a medical doctor. I finally realized that there had to be a verb on the other side of that ellipsis, probably "testifies". Then there was "Excessive Drinking Rose During Pandemic". I read this, somehow, as "excessive drinking of rosé", which didn't seem to me to be a big enough problem to attract the attention of the New York Times, but who knows what motivates their editorial policies? When I saw the full headline and accompanying blurb on The Times' website, I realized what they were actually saying. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Steve R. Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 Did I ever mention the name of the Bodega on Hamilton Ave, under the BQE? It was “Solo Pollo”, emblazoned in very large letters on their awning. Followed underneath, in smaller letters, was the listing of things like “eggs, omelette, hero sandwiches...”. that were available. Always good for a chuckle as I passed by. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 Maybe it’s owned by Han Solo? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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