DH Weekly part 3 Weds

I'm going, but I won't be there until after 8...

alafairnadia wrote: I'll still be there (even though I was out last night). I brought knitting with me, so look for me in the back room around 8:45ish. I'll be knitting a grey scarf and waiting for you fuckers to show up.

Hmm, is there enough light back there for lame-ass knitters like myself who have to see what they're doing? That could be an added incentive for me to blow off my freelance work tonight and come introduce myself...

Rest assured, I can knit, play games and drink beer all at the same time. I'm talented like that.

Somebody PM me their cell # so I can come knit if I get other stuff done?

there's plenty of light for knitting, at least for me. then again, I sit around in the dark normally. so yeah.

Carnivore wrote: My wife and I plan to come at around 7:30 pm. I will bring Brooklyn Monopoly, but no knitting.

I can play monopoly and knit at the same time. no, really.

Yeah about that ass kicking thing...I was doing okay until I was nearly bankrupted by ______ (Mrs. Carnivore. I missed her name I was late.). She was the Brooklyn Monopoly kingpin to end all kingpins.

alafairnadia wrote: you may want to swing by Soda today -- I don't think any of us were aware of your tab so I don't think anyone covered it.

hmm, this raises an interesting ethical question...

Candicissima wrote: [quote=Cupcake]hmm, this raises an interesting ethical question...

Yeah, you could probably get away with it now! It's not like you just posted it all over the boards that they read or something... :roll:

and it's not like you're going back, right?

Cupcake wrote: D'oh. That's enough sass out of you, Candissima. I left you with a decent monopoly spread. Did you even try to get the fourth rail road off Mrs. Carnivore?

The marrieds had a monopoly on "most likely to be landed on" real estate where they built the equivalent of the Atlantic Yards Project, so the fact I didn't end up dead broke and totally morgaged was a miracle in itself.

And let us not forget that they allowed us to finish our bake sale just on the other side of the window from where we played monopoly last night.

I agree! Agree! I will go back and pay for my four dollar beer!

Muk wrote: Don't leave us hangin'! What went down?

[quote=alafairnadia]have you guys ever seen the bartenders in there go after someone who walks in after stiffing them on a bar tab? a fantastic evening's entertainment, I tell you.

twice I've witnessed some hapless fool walk in after having walked out on a tab and not immediately fess up. it goes down something like this: the idiot walks in and sits down at the bar. the idiot then orders a beer and food. the bartender, knowing the person owes money, rips into the idiot and demands the money. the idiot pays and tries to pretend like they were going to pay all along. the bartender tells the idiot that they can't run a tab anymore, chastises the person loudly for trying to rip off the bar, and demands the tip for the previous balance. then, the bartender will quote the price for the current order and demand that the idiot pay right at that moment. the person will pay and eventually receive the beer. all of this is done loudly, so the entire bar can hear the 'conversation' over the jukebox. the idiot will sit there self-consciously for the rest of that day's visit. it's pretty awesome.

Yeah, I can't really think of other places where they run cash tabs. Either you pay as you go and don't forget, or they keep your credit card and can charge it if you do.

Next week, trivial pursuit? or simpsons clue?

I of course will have to go incognito so the Soda bar staff doesn't run me out with a pitchfork when I dare to show my face.

alafairnadia wrote: [quote=Candicissima]

hrm. I know they showed another one from the Breakin' era that was set in the south bronx and I can't for the life of me remember the name of it, though anthony has the soundtrack.

Beat Street perhaps? I've got that soundtrack too. Or maybe Rappin'? Though I dunno where that was set.

beat street! whoa -- the outfits in that are WHACK!

Wild Style is the movie in question. Also a killer soundtrack.

And what the hell happened to my little out-of-the-way neighborhood I had so carefully crafted before having to bolt? I believe it included the West Indian Day Parade, and two other such 'properties'.