Eggs

bluedove · September 2005

Okay, yesterday I just thought it was an accident or some kids having fun or something, but then this morning it happened again: We came out of our apartment building the past two mornings to find broken eggs all over the stairs. Gross and slippery...and dangerous, considering our landlord is blind! We're also a bit sensitive to it because we got egged going in our front door last Halloween and it ruined my husband's down vest.

Has anyone seen anything? It's not a huge deal, but it's weird and annoying.

joshb · September 2005

I know that my roommate was egged once on our doorstep, a few months ago. They were on the roof next door and throwing stunted chicken babies like it was their job.

carnivore · September 2005

Just wait until Halloween. It's an old Brooklyn pastime. :twisted:

black:6a01d30bf0 wrote: "Egg Man"
The Beastie Boys

I looked out the window and seen his bald head
I ran to the fridge and pulled out an egg
Scoped him with my scopes he had no hair
Launched that shot and he was caught out there
Saw the convertible driving by
Loaded up the slingshot and let one fly
He went for his to find he didn't have one
Put him in check correct with my egg gun
The egg a symbol of life
Go inside your house and bust out your wife
Pulled out the jammy he thought it was a joke
The trigger I pulled his face the yolk
Reached in his pocket took all his cash
Left my man standing with an egg moustache
Suckers they come a dime a dozen
And when I say dozen you know what I'm talking about boyee

Yeh, that's right, I'm the Egg Man
Driving Around, King of the town
Always got my windows rolled down
You know, I'm the Egg Man

Once upon a time
Humpty Dumpty was a big fat egg
He was playing the wall and then he broke his leg
Tossed it out the window three minutes hot
Hit the Rastaman he said bloodclot
Which came first the chicken or the egg
I egged the chicken then I ate his leg
Riding the trains in between cars
When I pull out the station you're gonna get yours
Drive by eggings plaguing L.A.
Yo they just got my little cousin ese
Sometimes hard boiled sometimes runny
It comes from a chicken not a bunny dummy
People laugh it's no joke
My name's Yauch and I'm throwing the yolk
Now they got me in a cell but I don't care
It was then that I caught catching people out there

Up on the roof, in my car
Up all night, I'm pulling through signs like Dolomite
The mack, I'm the Egg Man
Taxi Driver, I'm the Egg Man

We all dressed in black we snuck up around the back
We began to attack the eggs did crack on Haze's back
Sam I am down with the program
Green eggs and ham Yosemite Sam
Come Halloween you know I come strapped
I throw it at a sucker K-pap
You made the mistake you judge a man by his race
You go through life with egg on your face
You woke up in the morning with a peculiar feeling
You looked up and saw egg dripping from the ceiling
Families puck rocks the businessman
I'll dog anybody with an egg in my hand
Not like the crack that you put in a pipe
But crack on your forehead here's a towel now wipe
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t-fal · September 2005

i had that song in my head all day after reading the initial post in this thread!

bluedove · September 2005

Carnivore wrote: Just wait until Halloween. It's an old Brooklyn pastime. :twisted:

Yeah, I know. I have the dry-cleaning bills to prove it. :x

marthajoy · September 2005

My husband was egged 2 halloweens ago. On the corner of St. John's & Washington... the next year he went out armed... and there was nothing.

t-fal · September 2005

i'll take an egging over the recreational arson that my mom speaks so fondly of when recalling the devils' nights of her youth back in detroit.

outeraccelerator · October 2005

its not just an old brooklyn past time.. its everywhere! who hasnt had to dodge eggs growing up? if you havn't.. i don't know where you are from.

just a part of life!

rulala · October 2005

hmm i guess i shouldn't have a halloween party here, then. all my friends in manhattan will be freaked out, haha.

cathleen · October 2005

Well...I'm from Washington state, and I've never had to dodge eggs. Maybe it's an East Coast thing?

anonymous · October 2005

Like fireworks around the fourth of July, egg violence peaks on Halloween but occurs duing the weeks building up to the holiday, then dies down. I wonder about the merchants who are selling the eggs to the kids? Do they know or care?

daveb · October 2005

olivia wrote: Like fireworks around the fourth of July, egg violence peaks on Halloween but occurs duing the weeks building up to the holiday, then dies down. I wonder about the merchants who are selling the eggs to the kids? Do they know or care?

In Vermont, during the week before Halloween, you have to be 18 to buy eggs. At least, that was how it was when I was growing up.

nebula78 · October 2005

For sure most vendors, especially here CH, dont give a damn to who or what they sell...money talks...

anonymous · October 2005

Well at least we don't have our mailboxes blown up or otherwise destroyed like in the suburbs. Count your blessings/

carnivore · August 2008

apollonia666 · August 2008

Carnivore wrote: (obnoxious Flash audio thing)

Dude. Springing auto-playing audio on unsuspecting browsers = not cool. That just about knocked me off my chair, and I'm really glad I didn't come across this page while at work.

moominpapa · August 2008

1st things 1st: iloveegg is probably the coolest thing ever, but definitely NOT something to spring on the unsuspecting. Thing is so dang mind-blowing that somebody could get hurt... It morphs!

2nd thing: I don't understand anything about anything. Could somebody explain why hitting somebody with eggs is cool? Or just general destructiveness? I grew up in the suburbs, and nobody blew up my mailbox or egged my house or nothing. Are a goodly proportion of the kids in New York just dicks, or what? I guess poverty, hard streets, and the reality that New York eats its young makes a kid want to spatter an innocent bystander with chicken abortion or something.

em26 · August 2008

Eggs.

I am guilty of egg throwing , ONE TIME , at my cousin's car.
He used to annoy me all the time. He was like freakin' 28 years old and picked on a little 14 year old girl. Asshole. So , one cold winter night he came over to my house. I told one of my cousins that I am gonna egg that bastards car. I went in the fidge and grabbed 6 eggs. We stood outside on the back porch and started tossing them at his beloved car.We were having fun until the porch light came on........BUSTED!! My mommy open the screen door and peeked out and saw us standing there just looking at her. She asked "what are you girls doing out in the cold? Where are your coats? Why aren't you wearing any shoes? Whats wrong with you??" I said "um , I don't know?". So , she yelled at me to get in the house. She never walked all the way out cuz it was freakin cold. We hurried inside and made a run for my bedroom. We sat down laughing and happy cuz we didn't get caught. The next day he called and told her that someone had thrown eggs all over his car when he was over last night. She came to me and said , "That's what you were doing outside lastnight". I asked , "what?" She told me what he told her about his car. I told her yes I did do it. She called me a dummy and then said , " he is coming over again today for dinner , DON'T TOUCH MY EGGS".

He did come over , but he didn't bring his car. He only lived 3 blocks away , so he he walked instead. He said that there were eggs smeared all over his windshield and they froze up. It was too cold for him to stand outside and try to scrub and wash the eggs off. :twisted:

lilbangladesh · August 2008

What sort of dumb ass gets into a car for a three-block trip? Dude deserved what he got, imo.

And he should be thankful that you didn't use shaving cream. That stuff will take the paint right off.

whatchuwant · August 2008

moominpapa wrote:

2nd thing: I don't understand anything about anything. Could somebody explain why hitting somebody with eggs is cool? Or just general destructiveness? I grew up in the suburbs, and nobody blew up my mailbox or egged my house or nothing. Are a goodly proportion of the kids in New York just dicks, or what? I guess poverty, hard streets, and the reality that New York eats its young makes a kid want to spatter an innocent bystander with chicken abortion or something.

You grew up in the suburbs and NEVER saw this?!!? I'm a 'burb girl and eggs and toilet paper on someone's house was the thing to do every Halloween. Or your X. Or some asshat you hated.

Poverty, hard streets, and reality have nothing to do with it.

whatchuwant · August 2008

lilbangladesh wrote: What sort of dumb ass gets into a car for a three-block trip? Dude deserved what he got, imo.

Hey- watch it- that is her cousin you're talking about.

moominpapa · August 2008

I *must* stop posting after 3 cups of coffee and a marathon session of "The Wire". Makes me sound more like a curmudgeonly jerk than I actually am. But it seems like egging a house (which, whatever, get some 409 and a paper towel, nothing really personal), and egging a person (clothes potentially ruined, plus eggs kinda hurt, and some dude laughing at YOU while you stand there with eggs on you and your girl kinda looks embarrassed and you can't do a thing, just laugh it off, but you die a little inside, you die).

My front yard got TP'd once when I was a kid - and then it rained. You have not experienced despair until you have tried to clean gelatinous TP off of a saguaro cactus. Gooey spines, all those gooey spines {shudders}.

whatchuwant · August 2008

Ahhh, a fellow Wirer! I love already! We have so much to talk about! Ok....I'm calm now.

Yea, I've been fortunate to have never been the victim of either hurled eggs or tp, so I can only sympathize externally. I've also never egged or tp'd anyone. Too much trouble- and people used to put the eggs in their closets weeks before so they'd be all rotten and nasty when they hit.

Wet tp on cactus, though. Yea, that's bad.

lilbangladesh · August 2008

Ugg! Every time I go onto this thread, this damn stupid egg song. My neighbors must *hate* me now. And of course, it will play again once I post.

One halloween, someone threw grease on the house. Honestly, I have no CLUE how they managed to do this because they managed to get black grease on the second story above the front door. Considering the front door had a vestibule that stuck out, I don't know how they managed to get this huge grease stain on the house without getting any on the roof of the vestibule or breaking their necks. And it certainly made it impossible for us to get it off so it stayed for many years.

It was kinda convenient in a way. In a street where all the houses are white with red shutters, we could say, "It's the house with the big grease stain in front and the overgrown lawn. You can't miss it." It did, however, mark us as the Overeducated White Trash we really were, though.

Objoke: What are Overeducated White Trash? They have more dead computers in their basement than a redneck has dead cars on their front lawn.

nomad · August 2008

moominpapa wrote: You have not experienced despair until you have tried to clean gelatinous TP off of a saguaro cactus. Gooey spines, all those gooey spines {shudders}.

(Sorry - but this did make LOL!)

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