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  1. Limberger on buttered black rye bread with sliced onions goes great with an ice cold Kautzen Pils
  2. If it's anything like the 1:1 replicas formerly made by LS, it's probably made from ABS. They weren't intended to be painted after assembly.
  3. Those are Micro-Mark's version. They've been known to sell knockoffs of other companies' products.
  4. Back in the mid '70s, Miller Brewing Company was the original importer of Lowenbrau. By pure coincidence , there was a Miller distributor across the Newtown Creek in Long Island City. We used to "find" cases of Lowenbrau which we would take to our favorite grocery store and either exchange the cases for cold ones or sell them to the guy for six bucks/case. Unfortunately, our luck finally ran out. During one of our expeditions, We opened the sliding door at the rear of one of the delivery trucks in expectation of liberating some more suds. There wasn't any beer. There was, however, a very pissed off Doberman Pinscher attached with enough chain to go around both sides of the truck. From that time, we had to settle for the half gallons of Mountain Rhine we got out of the Gallo Brothers warehouse near our hangout in the park. Ah, the folly of yoots!
  5. There used to be many local foundries in NYC that made sewer and manhole covers, the sewer gratings which were located on corner intersections, manhole covers for utility companies and coal chute covers which were found in front of older (100+ years) brownstones. They all went out of business because of cheaper stuff from places like India. The coal chute covers are historically interesting because they contain the names and addresses of the old foundries. My son and I like to see how many different companies we can find when we walk around and find coal chute covers. Believe it or not, these col chute covers can command big bucks at antique shops.
  6. That's classy. Even has a water fountain.
  7. My ex-girlfriend's bathroom. I tiled the master bathroom with Italian Rose and Negro Marquina granite after her family bought a new house in 1989.
  8. This is a result of zombie urbanism. People's aesthetics are conditioned by what government and corporations wish to project as safe, non-threatening, friendly and, at the same time, bland. This is seen in everything from building design, the branding of neighborhoods and other locations to the products we buy, including cars. It's a subliminal way of socially engineering people to conform without being overt about it. Take a look around wherever you happen to live. It's there; you just don't notice it. Look it up if you don't believe it.
  9. I was thinking about Shelly Silver while reading Andy's comment, Mark.
  10. State and local laws here (NYS) prohibit cops from accepting any kind of gifts, gratuities or any discounts from individuals, businesses or organizations. It ain't like the old days when a cop on the beat could get a free meal at the local greasy spoon, get break at the neighborhood furniture store or get a couple of bucks from the owner of the jewelry store in his patrol area for "keeping an eye on things". All that is considered soft graft, which could lead to shaking down or robbing local shylocks, bookies, drug dealers and such under the guise of undocumented and unauthorized search and seizure raids. Look up Michael Dowd, the dirtiest cop in New York, the "Dirty 30", the "Buddy Boys" of the 77th Pct. There's also an excellent, and disturbing, film called "The Seven Five" which documents police corruption in NYC during the 1980s and early 1990s. I have family who are MOS and it pains me to see these dirty cops who tarnish the reputation of the greatest police department in the world.
  11. Ask Buggsy, the granddaddy of what Vegas was to become, about what happens when you skim off the top.
  12. Can't do that here in NYC. The Knapp and Mollen Commissions made sure that not even "grass-eaters" (small graft) would be tolerated. Small "gratuities", like free meals, can lead to some cops turning into "meat-eaters" (big graft). One dirty cop is all it takes to make the whole force look bad.
  13. To quote Leonard " Yumpin' Yimminy" Bergstrom, who was a former boss of mine: "I went to the doctor about my head. They made the scans and gave me good news. The didn't find anything inside."
  14. Do they know where "Blue Jaw" Magoon is buried? Seems that the boys misplaced him somewhere in the desert. You know how that goes.
  15. I remember the organized gangs of kids in Nurnberg, Frankfurt, Berlin, Hamburg and Munich. They'd distract a mark (usually a tourist or a dumb GI ) and the others would snatch his/her stuff before the mark knew what happened. Best place for scoring some loot is at restaurants with outdoor seating that have a table high barrier fence. Most tourists pile their bags on an empty seat or on the table. The little m***********s stroll by, grab whatever they can and disappear into the street crowd. Most people won't hop over that short barrier to tackle them. Don't want to dirty their duds, I guess.
  16. If you constantly buy and stash large numbers of kits of any type, with no realistic expectation of building any of them within your lifetime, that's indicative of a compulsive personality. You're a hoarder. It could also describe women who buy and own so many shoes or handbags that they'll never wear/use most of them.
  17. Little Debbie Honey Buns are really good. Although, at $179/bx, they aren't worth the trip to stir.
  18. I stopped that a long time ago. I stomped the carp out of some ballsy skell who was stupid enough to yank my shoulder demanding some change. There is one exception. There's an old Puerto Rican dude that I've known for almost twenty years. He plays his Strat on the G train. He is a genuine hippie throwback. He has his battery powered amp set up on a luggage cart and plays some of the best guitar this side of Jimi. He doesn't pressure anyone for a handout. Doesn't have to. Everybody loves the guy. My son and I have taken him to lunch a lot of times or we'll hang out at the park with some eats from the cuchifrito store and a couple of beers. This is a good dude and I always appreciate and enjoy his company when we run into each other. I see a lot of "homeless" millennials around in the Village and Lower East Side. What's odd is that almost all of them have Macbooks and iPhones. You can afford s**t like that; yet, you have the nerve to ask me, or anyone else, to feel sorry for your predicament? Sell your stuff, get a job or starve. No skin off my fat Polak *ss.
  19. It does amaze me that, in this day and age, there are people who ignore the fact that we have stuff like deodorant available. It's really noticeable on a crowded Manhattan-bound A train.
  20. Styrene chop shop, Carl. The sum of the parts is greater than the whole.
  21. I've seen those "Psychotic Friends Network" commercials. You know, the scam endorsed by Dionne Warwick. A buck a minute. Nice payday, it is.
  22. You mean to tell us that The Jerry Springer Show is fake?
  23. You're from Chicago. Lots of Poles living there, right? remember those old Polish babci? There were, and still are, plenty of them here in Greenpernt. i remember seeing them knock the living bejesus out of their husbands after dragging them out of the corner bar. Some of those old panis could snap your neck with one swipe of their hand. Parking meters can't kick your *ss.
  24. Use the power of vig. Six for five. Don't make me look for you on payday, see?
  25. You'd need a really long stick to do that in a subway grating. It's about fifteen feet from the sidewalk to the ledge at the bottom. Some of the older guys used to heist parking meters and drill out the locks on the collection cans. The meters were impervious to sledgehammers.
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