There was absolutely nothing uncivil about my musings over the noxious fumes on the L and wondering if it had anything to do a secret plan hatched by Gov. Cuomo to limit ridership on that line....Just saying.
It is not a smell of “burning oil”, it’s the smell of unburned (albeit, noxious and liquid) gas, mostly similar to gasoline or other similarly refined products.
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I am glad to learn that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority believes there is _some_ limit to bad smells on the subway.
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@Flash Sheridan
Now if only they'd start ignoring the histrionic bleeding hearts and removing the people that create them.
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In your post today you stated that there is no alternate side parking on Monday for Lincoln's birthday. Lincoln's birthday is Tuesday the 12th and there is no alternate side on Tuesday. Monday it is in effect.
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" Gary Coleman, who played a Manhattan boy named Arnold on TV, would have been 51.
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Boggles the mind that even in the 21st century, we felt it was perfectly Ok to make fun of a person for being a "loser" because of a disability, and didn't just stop it even when he died of that disability. it felt like he wanted ti be in in the joke for q while, but the it became clear - he found out there wasn't anything he could legally do to stop it, so he tried to at least be part of the inky that was being made. We all thought - come on, you're a public figure, its the law - have a sense of humor about it, Gary!
As an audience member who found all that funny until it wasn't, which was the point when Gary Coleman became very open about being upset about it - I feel complicit. But how did it not stop at some point?
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@Freddie
He was earning 100k per episode in the early 80's on Diff'rent Strokes.
Sticks&stones may break my bones but words would certainly never hurt me if I was making that kind of money.
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@asdfj - This is very true. When it sounded like Gary Coleman wanted to be part of such a project, as he certainly could have when it was being developed for TV, it felt like a wonderful feeling of laughing at his own misfortune.
But a turn happened at some point, once he realized he would not ever be part of the joke, and he became publicly upset about it.
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@Freddie
I can't say I ever watched Diff'rent Strokes. I found the humor crude and unfunny, the characters stereotypical and unlike any black people in my family or among my acquaintances. I'm sure I didn't know that Coleman had a disability when the program was originally broadcast, but later on, I certainly didn't make fun of him. I felt sorry for him.
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