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Mr. Softee

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  • flute
    flute
    I happen to like Mr. Softee SO MUCH that I have a Mr. Softee bobblehead on my kitchen table !!! :D
  • park man
    park man
    As I bounce around from corner to corner, the sweet melodic chime of Mr. Softee's anthem reminds me that there is peace here in PH. Children have something to get excited about... in the form of slightly bacterial infested ice cream.
  • flute
    flute

    Subject: Wow !!!

    I simply cannot BELIEVE what amyg has wrought with her simple, seemingly harmless comment ... talk about opening a Pandora's box of emotions ... however, very cool, very cool indeed .... :shock:
  • carnivore
    carnivore
    It seems like if the Mr. Softee guy just turned off the music when he parks, everyone would be happy. The Mr. Softee enthusiasts would have their opportunity for a Pavlovian response to the approaching truck, while others would hear the truck without the Noriega assault-style psychological warfare.
  • drano
    drano
    I'm bumping this golden oldie for the classic nature of its, "I'M MORE BROOKLYN THAN YOU!!!11111!1" hijacking.

    Gentrifconfronted!
  • metulj
    metulj
    Gaaaaaayyummmmmy! Mr. Softeeeeeeeeee.......
  • jaha127
    jaha127

    Subject: Re: The Great Mistake

    Carnivore wrote: I bet you're not even from Brooklyn. You're probably from Long Island.
    ..hey hey hey I am from Long Island... we have plenty of ice cream trucks out there any... and like any normal place kids were always getting ice cream with or w/o their parents… (I’m a little offended :cry: )…

    And also just as an FYI… do not categorize all Long Island as Garden City or Wantagh… I grew up in a town, that over the current generation went from completely white to a community of immigrants/1st generation American(Caribbean, South Asian and Asian)… so Brooklyn isn’t the only place that’s changes… outlying suburbs are following similar trends…
  • stacey
    stacey

    Subject: Re: The Great Mistake

    jaha127 wrote: ..hey hey hey I am from Long Island... we have plenty of ice cream trucks out there any... and like any normal place kids were always getting ice cream with or w/o their parents… (I’m a little offended :cry: )…
    Aw dont be offended - we love you even if your from LI (just kidding). I remember as a kid, thinking that LI was "the country" and I remember my best friend's grandma lived in Hicksville and we used to ask her "are you going to see your grandma in the country?" :)
  • jaha127
    jaha127
    as long as you all still LOVE me its cool!! I am a big city girl now (YeeHaaaa)!!
  • kosherdave
    kosherdave
    I bet that looong before this Forum, loonnnng before Mister Softy, and looonnng before ratner and all the Midwesterners came to PS/PH, people were complaining about gentrification in brooklyn. I bet they were even before the term was coined.
    Now gimme some ice cream ;)
  • meganlibrarian
    meganlibrarian
    How I do love me some GentriConfrontoply. :wink:
  • stacey
    stacey
    kosherdave wrote: I bet that looong before this Forum, loonnnng before Mister Softy, and looonnng before ratner and all the Midwesterners came to PS/PH, people were complaining about gentrification in brooklyn. I bet they were even before the term was coined.
    Now gimme some ice cream ;)
    Kosherdave - this is one of my favorite posts on DH re gentrification submitted by our own BrooklynSwordStyle:

    Man, this whole nabe has gentrified all to hell. I remember when it was a just cooled mass of magma and noxious gasses. Those days rocked. Only the hard-core lived here, and the vibe was great.

    Old school? Fuck that man, we were single celled! I had this kick ass bit of rock, but then these yuppie lung-fish started waddling in on their fancy-pants fin-legs and drove up the cost of everything. I tried dividing myself a few times to share the rent, but then one of me mutated and became a total dick to be around. It's all those damned lung-fishes' fault. If they hadn't moved in then those hairy-assed mammals wouldn't have shown up. Now this place is so lame.
  • ana.log
    ana.log
    Thank you for this new opportunity to vent, as it's that time of year ... I posted this originally and I still HATE Mr. Softee's obnoxious jingle and will always HATE Mr. Softee's obnoxious jingle. It's like nails on chalkboard. And again, I say this WITHOUT apology. I suspect others feel the same and are just afraid to say so.

    I would like to state for the record, however, that I have nothing against ice cream or gentriconfrontation.
  • livetotravel
    livetotravel
    Bet you never actually thought that you'd see the words "gentrification" and "Mr Softee" in a headline - did ya, did ya?? Hehehehe ....

    http://www.gothamgazette.com/community/39/majorissues/141
  • alafairnadia
    alafairnadia
    I don't mind the jingle while the truck is moving, but it drives me totally batshit when the truck parks below my window on Washington for a few hours. this used to happen at my old place in Harlem, too, and it drove me crazy then. don't get me wrong - I love the ice cream. but holy crap - when I can't watch TV or listen to music in my own living room for 3 hours because of that horrible jingle, I get pretty homicidal. I'm actually surprised a Mr. Softee driver doesn't get killed at least once per summer by some psycho in the fierce clutches of jingle-rage.
  • ana.log
    ana.log
    alafairnadia wrote: I don't mind the jingle while the truck is moving, but it drives me totally batshit when the truck parks below my window on Washington for a few hours. this used to happen at my old place in Harlem, too, and it drove me crazy then. don't get me wrong - I love the ice cream. but holy crap - when I can't watch TV or listen to music in my own living room for 3 hours because of that horrible jingle, I get pretty homicidal. I'm actually surprised a Mr. Softee driver doesn't get killed at least once per summer by some psycho in the fierce clutches of jingle-rage.
    thank you. exactly.
  • findcate
    findcate
    Yah, when I lived on Dean St. the truck was passing by at all hours. I'm pretty good at blocking things out, but that stupid jingle drives me nuts. I'm laughing right now, but it's really freaking annoying. Who sells ice cream at 4am? I think they're drug dealers.

    Anyway, I don't see the point of even complaining about gentrification. We happen to live in one of the toughest real estate markets on the planet. Everywhere within 2 hours of NYC is overpriced, because every millionaire on the planet wants a piece of manhattan. People are in PS because they just want a little more space, like me. It's just the market.

    That post by brooklynswordstyle is too funny.
  • apollonia666
    apollonia666
    findcate wrote: Yah, when I lived on Dean St. the truck was passing by at all hours. I'm pretty good at blocking things out, but that stupid jingle drives me nuts. I'm laughing right now, but it's really freaking annoying. Who sells ice cream at 4am? I think they're drug dealers.
    They really oughta change the music for when it's a drug truck. Maybe Curtis Mayfield's "Pusher Man"? I'd love to hear an ice cream truck version of that!
  • homeowner
    homeowner
    I used to think that they had some special type of recording because you can hear that damn jingle in the house with all the doors and windows closed. How the hell does that work?
  • idlewild
    idlewild
    Mister Softee and Kustard King are institutions in NYC. It drove me nuts when Bloomberg (a native Bostonian btw) went after them instead of the real noise makers likediesel trucks/buses city owned and private. Without the jingles, a double cone with a cherry or chocolate shell ain't the same.
  • armchair_warrior
    armchair_warrior
    i wish they find a new tune to play. i hate that tune. i think its the pop goes the wealse or something. i find the tune quite annoying.
  • teddyballgame
    teddyballgame
    outside my window... right... now.

    what torture

    what makes things worse is that I'm recovering from hernia surgery so I can't even get downstairs to get some delicious mr. softee without a ton of pain, and he's been there so damn long now that i'm sure by the time I get there, that's when he'll decide to leave.

    holy crap mr. softee, I hate you.

    I love you.

    I hate you.
  • meganlibrarian
    meganlibrarian
    I hear the Mister Softee tune faintly from my window on Sterling. It's 10:42PM on a Wednesday. Ooooh, the timeliness! ;)
  • apollonia666
    apollonia666
    teddyballgame wrote: outside my window... right... now.

    what torture

    what makes things worse is that I'm recovering from hernia surgery so I can't even get downstairs to get some delicious mr. softee without a ton of pain, and he's been there so damn long now that i'm sure by the time I get there, that's when he'll decide to leave.
    Clearly you need some nearby Brooklynian's cell number; you could then pay the person back after you've recuperated with a late-night condom run or something.
  • alafairnadia
    alafairnadia
    apollonia666 wrote: [quote=teddyballgame]outside my window... right... now.

    what torture

    what makes things worse is that I'm recovering from hernia surgery so I can't even get downstairs to get some delicious mr. softee without a ton of pain, and he's been there so damn long now that i'm sure by the time I get there, that's when he'll decide to leave.
    Clearly you need some nearby Brooklynian's cell number; you could then pay the person back after you've recuperated with a late-night condom run or something.

    "yo, teddy. I'm about to get laid. yeah, finally. could you uh. get me some gear? look, don't be an asshole. I got you that double cone in april, you fuckwad. I *need* some gear. if this guy leaves, it's your fault. and I'll be one cranky anti-ice-cream bitch."
  • doctorj
    doctorj
    Criminal Minded Troll wrote: What has gotten me pissed is that since the birth of Brooklyn, each generation has added to the pot, constantly adding ingredients, to make the soup tastier for their children. But you can not deny, this generation is not adding to the soup, they are switching it to Quiche... It's like us Brooklynites are the Indians and the dam Hipsters are the Dutch.
    From the Brownstoner, that hotbed grupster fomentation:
    http://brownstoner.com/brownstoner/archives/2006/04/market_report_a_1.html#comments

    Posted by: Anonymous at April 12, 2006 03:42 PM"

    Attention natives and sundry poor people!

    I represent a collective of hipsters, gay people, and young white couples with babies and rectangular glasses! Our consortium wishes to acquire a considerable interest in your neighbourhood for the purposes of Gentrification, Coffee-Shop-Building & General Improvement thereof!

    Please secure us an offering of 30 to 40 of your most prime dwellings. Time is of the essence! Rest assured, our offer will permit you and your brood to purchase large televisions and sate your appetites in abodes most palatial in the interior hinterlands!

    Couriers have been dispatched bearing this same offer to the communities of Bushwick, Sunset Park &c! Make haste to accept it! No man shall forestall Progrefs, but Opportunity shall flee like the wind!

    ROTFLSMIPM
  • muteflute
    muteflute
    all i know is, I can never get the tune out of my head, and I can't resist whistling along whenever I hear it. Which is often.

    But I've never succombed. Something about running down three flights of slippery-ass wooden stairs and vaulting over the fence doesn't seem worth an ice cream cone.

    (why is it that my super thinks that it is a good idea to wax the common-area floors by pouring wax on them and letting it dry all week? why? why?)
  • alafairnadia
    alafairnadia
    muteflute wrote: (why is it that my super thinks that it is a good idea to wax the common-area floors by pouring wax on them and letting it dry all week? why? why?)
    look. some people saw basic instinct a FEW too many times. they think wax is ALWAYS nice left to dry on its own. frame of reference? contextual usage? no! wax should just dry! and if the floor is wet, don't step on it, bitch! *inner pathetic dom runs about*
  • muteflute
    muteflute
    alafairnadia wrote: [quote=muteflute](why is it that my super thinks that it is a good idea to wax the common-area floors by pouring wax on them and letting it dry all week? why? why?)
    look. some people saw basic instinct a FEW too many times. they think wax is ALWAYS nice left to dry on its own. frame of reference? contextual usage? no! wax should just dry! and if the floor is wet, don't step on it, bitch! *inner pathetic dom runs about*

    whoa, I am so confused. I also haven't seen basic instinct.
  • alafairnadia
    alafairnadia
    muteflute wrote: [quote=alafairnadia][quote=muteflute](why is it that my super thinks that it is a good idea to wax the common-area floors by pouring wax on them and letting it dry all week? why? why?)
    look. some people saw basic instinct a FEW too many times. they think wax is ALWAYS nice left to dry on its own. frame of reference? contextual usage? no! wax should just dry! and if the floor is wet, don't step on it, bitch! *inner pathetic dom runs about*

    whoa, I am so confused. I also haven't seen basic instinct.

    er. wait. what? how old are you? dvd rental location near ...
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