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if people eating in moutarde know it used to be a funeral home................ if people shopping in Union Market (6th ave location), know it used to be a huge bodega where a man was shot................... if diners at La Villa know in it's last life, it was a pharmacy................. What do you wonder?
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how overweight people get out the exit of C-Town on 9th. Seriously - I weigh a good amount less than the "average" American woman and feel like I have to hold my breath and turn sideways to get out of those poles at the exits (the ones to make sure people don't steal the carts).
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I wonder why more places don't have Sunday happy hour like Barrio and Steinof.
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Yeah that C town entrance is a problem. Only one awkward way out with a shopping cart and another awkward way out with a stroller.
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I wonder why they didn't put benches for humans in the new dog run at the old JJ Byrne park
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benches=pee spots. I wonder if the cops will ticket people who insist on tossing their small children into the dog run (parents outside) despite the signs that say "no children". Maybe this belongs in the rant thread...
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Why would they be pee spots? There are dog runs in the city with benches for humans! Well, I must say, my children go in the dog run but I am with them. I wonder why people let their kids who don't have dogs hang out in the dog run while eating lollipops and then act surprised when you say something to them about it.
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I wonder why Bierkraft sells coffee beans labeled as Gorilla Coffee that are most definitely not real Gorilla Coffee beans.
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I wonder why the F train sucks.
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I wonder why my downstairs neighbor is such a weirdo and asked me to drill a hole in my floor to run a cable line down so we can "split" our cable. WEIRDOwhoa hey whoa hey whoa
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LongTimeSloper » if people shopping in Union Market (6th ave location), know it used to be a huge bodega where a man was shot...................
And it was called the Colon Market, which always used to make me laugh, in an infantile way, whenever I'd see it... -
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Posts: 9,622I was around when Moutarde was a funeral home, and then Mike & Tony's steak house (yum). I wonder why all of the neighboring cats keep coming to my yard at night and talking (ok, it's probably because my cats are so cute) and waking my ass up -
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Laura B » [quote="LongTimeSloper"]if people shopping in Union Market (6th ave location), know it used to be a huge bodega where a man was shot...................
And it was called the Colon Market, which always used to make me laugh, in an infantile way, whenever I'd see it...[/quote] I never saw it *that way* until I was walking down the street with a friend from California who busted a gut, so to speak. Before that it was always unquestioningly just a Latino surname. I wish I had a tshirt from that place (the guy who owns Bonnie's has one...) -
I wonder when the G train will start making stops at the 7th Ave station instead of whizzing by every 15 minutes and honking. I also wonder who is going to move into the giant condo building that is almost finished at 3rd Ave & 7th street and what they will pay for that.
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pitu » [quote="Laura B"][quote="LongTimeSloper"]if people shopping in Union Market (6th ave location), know it used to be a huge bodega where a man was shot...................
And it was called the Colon Market, which always used to make me laugh, in an infantile way, whenever I'd see it...[/quote] I never saw it *that way* until I was walking down the street with a friend from California who busted a gut, so to speak. Before that it was always unquestioningly just a Latino surname. I wish I had a tshirt from that place (the guy who owns Bonnie's has one...)[/quote] I never saw it that way either, I had a close friend whose last name was Colon and seeing the name of the deli just used to remind me of her. -
I wonder where all the kids who are going to move into all of these new condos are going to go to school since the zoned school is already jam packed.....
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I wonder when the MTA will make the A train stop at Franklin Ave station (currently only a C train a stop). It would make the shuttle actually useful.For better or worse, the change on Nostrand is going to make the change on Franklin look minor.
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I wonder how those tens of thousands of Park Slope people eating at "Moutarde" and shopping for $14 olives and pita bread at "Union Market" and living in $3500/mo apartments manage to live such expensive lifestyles while at the same time having so much free time on their hands. That's what I wonder.
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I wonder why some dog owners make the effort to pick up their dogs' crap, tie the baggie it's in, and then just leave the bag on the sidewalk...... they've done the hard part - it can't be that difficult to carry it until they find a trash can.Blind cats should never, ever run.
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When ever I passed the Colon Market I always wondered if they sold Colon Blow Cereal. I was a based on a Saturday Night Live commercial that almost made me shit myself http://www.hulu.com/watch/10304/saturday-night-live-colon-blow Now you can buy it for real http://www.colonblow.com/ Maybe the more upscale Union Market actual sells Colin BlowDon't get me started
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I wonder why I never see any Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts around this neighborhood. don't kids around here join those organizations anymore?
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LongTimeSloper » I wonder why I never see any Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts around this neighborhood. don't kids around here join those organizations anymore?
There is a Girl Scout in my building. I think they are mostly undercover.Don't get me started -
I wonder why sushi places keep opening. Are they trying to start some kind of price-cutting war?Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
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LongTimeSloper » I wonder why I never see any Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts around this neighborhood. don't kids around here join those organizations anymore?
Boys Scouts and Girl Scouts blatantly discriminate against little girls and boys respectively (by distinguishing between the two, remember the infamous "Lost Little Boy's Hat?) and thus they are not welcome in our post-gender neighborhood. Not to mention, their uniforms are reminiscent of the military (another big no-no). -
i wonder why, when my college students get in trouble, i end up talking to their mothers. i would have died a thousand deaths before asking my mother to get me out of trouble in college.Bumping ancient threads with bot-like bullshit
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I wonder why in this neighborhood where we have such great public schools (and with this economy too!), I just today saw someone inquiring about Berkeley Carroll for their kindergarten child at a cost of $26k per year!
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I wonder why there are so many salons opening on 7th Ave between 12th and 15th. Are there really THAT many people walking around without a place to get their haircut? -
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LongTimeSloper » if people eating in moutarde know it used to be a funeral home................ if people shopping in Union Market (6th ave location), know it used to be a huge bodega where a man was shot................... if diners at La Villa know in it's last life, it was a pharmacy................. What do you wonder?
If people walking on the sidewalk know that it used to be just dirt.I blame such comments on beer.
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^haha! So funny!
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I wonder if when you say you hate your ex-girlfriend, you are actually stating that you miss her. -therapistFor better or worse, the change on Nostrand is going to make the change on Franklin look minor.
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Does Mrs. Whynot know about this?Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
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raw » [quote="LongTimeSloper"]if people eating in moutarde know it used to be a funeral home................ if people shopping in Union Market (6th ave location), know it used to be a huge bodega where a man was shot................... if diners at La Villa know in it's last life, it was a pharmacy................. What do you wonder?
If people walking on the sidewalk know that it used to be just dirt.[/quote] I do wonder wonder what is was like here in August of 1776.Don't get me started -
I wonder if he got an A.i extend my battery life by turning down the brightness
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FurryGreyBOy » I wonder why some dog owners make the effort to pick up their dogs' crap, tie the baggie it's in, and then just leave the bag on the sidewalk...... they've done the hard part - it can't be that difficult to carry it until they find a trash can.
I think this is more likely the result of the little crap bags not quite making it from the can to the truck on garbage collection days. Which makes me wonder why more people don't line those outdoor cans with big bags and just put the big bags on the curb on garbage days, instead of leaving everyone in the building to put their little kitchen bags/grocery bags filled with garbage/fast food bags/dog mess bags in the can itself and hoping your garbage man is 1) diligent enough to shake it all out, and 2) good enough with the aim to make sure you don't get strays. And from the looks of things in my area the morning after garbage collection - the garbage guys are neither. -
I wonder how so many hair and nail places can stay open on flatbush ave. The only falafel place in the area just shut down and opened up as a salon. It isnt even a fancy one, its just a regular hair and nail place.
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I wonder if there's ever been more than two non-employees inside the T-Mobile store that replaced Video Edge at one time? (same for the Verizon store across the street) I wonder if the annoying guy handing out flyers for Mojo Wireless on Flatbush has ever successfully lured a customer in......or remembered a face? I wonder why my wife runs into all the celebs in PS and I don't. She just saw Leanne from Project Runway on Flatbush this morning.
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Obamanut » I wonder how those tens of thousands of Park Slope people eating at "Moutarde" and shopping for $14 olives and pita bread at "Union Market" and living in $3500/mo apartments manage to live such expensive lifestyles while at the same time having so much free time on their hands. That's what I wonder.
I but you a wondering why there is no Alplebees in Park SlopeIf 95% of dog owners pick it up %99 of the time, that leaves a lot of crap on the sidewalk.
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I wonder why my upstairs neighbors insist on throwing their garbage out the window into the backyard of the building. Seems to me it would be easier to throw trash in the trash can rather than open a window, open a screen, throw said garbage out the window, close the screen, close the window, and return to generating more garbage which leads to a repeat of this same process several times a day. This is not to mention how I wonder how they don't mind looking out into a garbage strewn backyard. And this is also not to mention how I wonder why they deny doing this when confronted when they're the only possible people who could be doing it. I'm moving to a place where I can wonder about more interesting topics.
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winstonsmith » I but you a wondering why there is no Alplebees in Park Slope
Actually, no, of course there is no Applebee's in Park Slope, because the hipster yuppies would picket it and/or burn it down. They are out here trying to run away from and deny their despised suburban roots like Applebee's, Best Buy, etc., and they think "Dub Pies" and the "Wafel" truck are their ticket to being real New Yorkers. -
Toadette » I think this is more likely the result of the little crap bags not quite making it from the can to the truck on garbage collection days. Which makes me wonder why more people don't line those outdoor cans with big bags and just put the big bags on the curb on garbage days, instead of leaving everyone in the building to put their little kitchen bags/grocery bags filled with garbage/fast food bags/dog mess bags in the can itself and hoping your garbage man is 1) diligent enough to shake it all out, and 2) good enough with the aim to make sure you don't get strays. And from the looks of things in my area the morning after garbage collection - the garbage guys are neither.
Ya gotta have some sympathy for those parkside garbage men; they have to empty that entire strip of cans, and every single one is FILLED with dog shit. Every. Single. Can. In the summer it gets to the point that I have to do a running deposit into the can with my dog's dooky in order to avoid gagging from the funk. -
Obamanut » [quote="winstonsmith"] I but you a wondering why there is no Alplebees in Park Slope
Actually, no, of course there is no Applebee's in Park Slope, because the hipster yuppies would picket it and/or burn it down. They are out here trying to run away from and deny their despised suburban roots like Applebee's, Best Buy, etc., and they think "Dub Pies" and the "Wafel" truck are their ticket to being real New Yorkers.[/quote] There's an Applebee's near BAM, if you're really craving riblets. But more to the point, are you suggesting that the presence of an Applebee's would give Park Slope some kind of genuine Brooklyn cred that the presence of the Kennedy's Fried Chicken, Mandee's, and "99-cent Bazar" on 5th Ave somehow fail to establish? I moved here from the Bronx. 5th Ave South of 9th Street looks exactly like Allerton Ave. up there.Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. -
lnelson » [quote="Obamanut"][quote="winstonsmith"] I but you a wondering why there is no Alplebees in Park Slope
Actually, no, of course there is no Applebee's in Park Slope, because the hipster yuppies would picket it and/or burn it down. They are out here trying to run away from and deny their despised suburban roots like Applebee's, Best Buy, etc., and they think "Dub Pies" and the "Wafel" truck are their ticket to being real New Yorkers.[/quote] There's an Applebee's near BAM, if you're really craving riblets. But more to the point, are you suggesting that the presence of an Applebee's would give Park Slope some kind of genuine Brooklyn cred that the presence of the Kennedy's Fried Chicken, Mandee's, and "99-cent Bazar" on 5th Ave somehow fail to establish? I moved here from the Bronx. 5th Ave South of 9th Street looks exactly like Allerton Ave. up there.[/quote] No, I do not want to go to Applebee's. I have met suburban friends there once in some mall. It was a surreal experience. It was my sascastic way of suggesting that Obamanut could go there to avoid her/his neighbors.If 95% of dog owners pick it up %99 of the time, that leaves a lot of crap on the sidewalk.
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I wonder why there is a mysterious "cable snapping/slapping" sound when an F train is about to enter the station
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i wonder why Obamanut lives here yet complains about it continuously on a online message board. I disliked what my home town was turning into so i moved. Its not hard.
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Obamanut » [quote="winstonsmith"] I but you a wondering why there is no Alplebees in Park Slope
Actually, no, of course there is no Applebee's in Park Slope, because the hipster yuppies would picket it and/or burn it down. They are out here trying to run away from and deny their despised suburban roots like Applebee's, Best Buy, etc., and they think "Dub Pies" and the "Wafel" truck are their ticket to being real New Yorkers.[/quote] This is by far my favorie Obamanut post yet...I LOLed at it's complete condescension and Dennis Miller-esqe references. -
Obamanut » [quote="winstonsmith"] I but you a wondering why there is no Alplebees in Park Slope
Actually, no, of course there is no Applebee's in Park Slope, because the hipster yuppies would picket it and/or burn it down. They are out here trying to run away from and deny their despised suburban roots like Applebee's, Best Buy, etc., and they think "Dub Pies" and the "Wafel" truck are their ticket to being real New Yorkers.[/quote] No, personally, I just think the food sucks at Applebee's, if you could even call it food. Not that I am thrilled with the waffle truck or dub pies either, LOL i don't need to eat DUB pies to be a real new Yorker, i was born and raised here. -
I know every time I go to DUB I have my wife take a picture of me so that I have proof that I'm a "real New Yorker."
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I work right across from the BedStuy Applebee's. Nothing wrong with their blackened fish sandwich, except that it's slightly overpriced. There are some things at Ruby Tuesday's that qualify as downright yummy. We act like we despise the chains Obamanut mention but, one opens up somewhere in the city, and everyone's like, "ohmygod....isn't this great....we have a Bed Bath, and Beyond!" Sometimes, NYC's a lot like the suburbs it tries to not be, only it's just more of PITA to do the same things. So let's enjoy both our city, borough, and nabe's individuality, quirks, and inconsistencies.
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I knew people who worked in an Applebee's. The more complicated dishes were frozen dinners. The Weight Watchers meals were the exact same thing you get in the supermarket.Don't get me started
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I wonder how do people fit those huge dogs into their tiny apartments? I have a cat, and the cat is always (of course purposely) in the way.
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