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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: SkyRock on June 10, 2008, 04:36:03 PM
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A few of us Muppets will be meeting in manhattan on the 12th of July. Who else is in the area that would be game?
Sky Rock
Wax
Scot12b
Platano
so far
Mark
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i would come if i wasnt so afraid of platano
<3 freez
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I would go, but I'm afraid that Skyrock might "own" me.
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I am a quick Metro North train ride away. I might be open, would love to meet you guys!
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We're having a bonfire up near Rome, NY on the weekend of the 12th. Ya'll come up here :P
(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s162/spikesx/IMG_0452.jpg)
Currently standing at 19 feet tall :)
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hmm i am an hour and a half away from manhattan
:noid
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hmm i am an hour and a half away from manhattan
:noid
You might get tired riding that bike dontya think?
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You might get tired riding that bike dontya think?
:rofl
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You might get tired riding that bike dontya think?
zing!
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OMG teh ghey bars will never be teh same, not that there is anything wrong with that LOLH :)
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You might get tired riding that bike dontya think?
:rofl
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i would, is there anyplace in particular you want to see?
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i would, is there anyplace in particular you want to see?
Well, I'll be bringing the family in earlier in the day of the 12th, then we were going to meet the Muppets later on that evening. We'll be spending the 13th in the city as well. We haven't set a place to meet yet, nor a time. I figured we'd let others in the are know so that we might get to meet a few more peeps from the area. Any suggestions?
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mom told me I'm not allowed to meet troublemakers.
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Well, I'll be bringing the family in earlier in the day of the 12th, then we were going to meet the Muppets later on that evening. We'll be spending the 13th in the city as well. We haven't set a place to meet yet, nor a time. I figured we'd let others in the are know so that we might get to meet a few more peeps from the area. Any suggestions?
mark you cant go wrong with 42nd st or somewhere in central park. :aok
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mark you cant go wrong with 42nd st or somewhere in central park. :aok
yeah, that's what Im thinking. Any resturants or bars around there you are familiar with?
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i"m about an hour or so away from the city.
No way I could make it though. Sounds like fun. Deff. should go see the Statue of Liberty though.
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yeah, that's what Im thinking. Any resturants or bars around there you are familiar with?
Its a trap mark....dark forested area!
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I already met Wax ... ONCE (that's all I needed) ... so I will pass ... as I would suggest anyone else who might be bothered by laughing too much.
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Times Square should be fun. I just checked, and the intrepid wont be back in port until nov. :( to bad.
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Skyrock in NYC....
Why does this float through my mind?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG57mMXfreA
:D :p
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Skyrock in NYC....
Why does this float through my mind?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG57mMXfreA
:D :p
:furious
What exactly are trying to say?
this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNz2I2LO-AQ
:noid
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I would I'm in Watertown NY. To far of a drive on such short notice.
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Well, I'll be bringing the family in earlier in the day of the 12th, then we were going to meet the Muppets later on that evening. We'll be spending the 13th in the city as well. We haven't set a place to meet yet, nor a time. I figured we'd let others in the are know so that we might get to meet a few more peeps from the area. Any suggestions?
Chelsea pears resturaunt/bar. Fresh made beer! :O :aok
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I already met Wax ... ONCE (that's all I needed) ... so I will pass ... as I would suggest anyone else who might be bothered by laughing too much.
:furious
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Why do I think Mark has participated in more than a few of these antics?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNzbBSK9u6Y
:rofl :D
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anyone else gonna try and make it?
(cough..bump...cough)
:noid
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:aok Sounds kewl. I normally have a class on sat, but i think thats the weekend were off. A good meeting spot would be MSG, In front of the library. Penn Station is under the Garden, and I'll be arriving by train. Let me know. Sounds very kewl. Should check out hogs and heffers too. Thats the place they made a movie about called cayote ugly. Never saw the movie, but looked about right from the coming attractions.
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one vote for MSG as meeting spot
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Lol try and find nath
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Geographically, I no nothing about downtown New York but if it is not too far from where you will meet, I would strongly recommend going to ...
McSorley's Old Ale House - 15 East 7th Street
They serve only "Ale" - light or dark - and their Cheese Platter with their own Hot Mustard is off the hook. The place is steeped in history. It opened in 1854 and is New York’s oldest continuously operated saloon. They have Houdini's handcuffs still locked to the bar rail and even have an original wanted poster for ''the Murderer,'' John Wilkes Booth.
Most mesmerizing thing I saw there were the "Wishbones" ... here is an article on the "Wishbones".
About New York; At McSorley's, Dusty Bones Conjure Ghosts
By DAN BARRY
Published: February 18, 2004
CONSIDER the wishbones as you drink from your mug. As you sit at a wooden table with cheese and onions fresh on your breath. As you stand at the bar, jostled by college students in baseball caps who are old enough to vote, old enough to die in war, and now, at 21, finally old enough to drink.
As all around you, stories spill onto the sawdust floors of McSorley's Old Ale House, just as they have for 150 years this week. Stories about Lincoln and about Dempsey, about ghosts who stroke the house cats and about that mounted fluke behind the bar, blackened by decades of smoke and steam. Most stories last no longer than the day's sawdust; some linger a while in the beer-pungent air; a few get better with age.
So consider the wishbones, about two dozen of them, dangling upon an old gas lamp at the far end of this Bowery bar, all but one of them covered with dust so thick and dark that it looks like moss.
They appear out of place at McSorley's, where there are so many artifacts adorning the walls that the distinct beauty of each item dulls in the frequent retelling of the bar's history. The wanted poster for ''the Murderer,'' John Wilkes Booth. The tribute to another assassinated president, William McKinley. The handcuffs of Harry Houdini. In such company the wishbones seem insignificant, even grotesque.
But the wishbones do belong, including that one without dust. Hovering as if in suspended animation, they have invited generations of patrons to ponder their meaning. Are they just remnants of dinners long since digested, or do they represent something else, like wishes never granted?
Here is one story, as recorded by the writer Joseph Mitchell more than 60 years ago. The founder, John McSorley, had a ''remarkable passion for memorabilia,'' and he saved the wishbones of holiday turkeys. The ''dusty bones,'' Mitchell wrote back in 1940, ''are invariably the first thing a new customer gets inquisitive about.''
Mitchell, a fine man, knew some things but not everything, says the current owner, Matthew Maher, who began working at McSorley's nearly 40 years ago. The wishbones actually date to World War I, he says, when departing doughboys enjoyed one last meal, then hung the bones above the bar to symbolize their hope -- their wish -- that they would make it back home.
The men who returned from France would take down their small trophies, then drink to those now represented only by poultry bones dangling from above. There the bones have stayed, he says, through all the wars since the war that was to end war, their significance lost to most.
It is a poignant story, but is it true? Or are we in the territory of invented tradition, myth -- what the Roman historian Sallust was referring to when, roughly translated, he wrote: ''Now these things never happened, but always are.''
The question is asked of Geoffrey Bartholomew, barman and bard. In his collection, ''The McSorley Poems'' (Charlton Street Press, 2001), the first poem, ''The Wishbones,'' suggests that either story could be ''the bone truth.''
In the requisite shirt of white, Mr. Bartholomew leans across the ale-wet counter to acknowledge that he did not know for certain the provenance of those bones that have been part of his workplace for more than 30 years. Still, he says, John Smith, the bartender who trained him, is the one who shared the doughboy story, and John Smith -- ''His picture's on the wall here somewhere'' -- began working at McSorley's sometime around the Great Depression.
''And John didn't say much,'' Mr. Bartholomew says, as if to distinguish his mentor from the common spinners of barroom blather.
What Mr. Bartholomew does know is that the wishbones are sacred. Every so often a beery patron will reach up and -- ''and I'll grab his wrist and say, 'Don't touch,''' he says. ''We get very territorial about it.''
EVEN so, last fall a patron managed to knock a wishbone into a sink, washing away nearly a century's worth of cobwebs. The bartenders returned the bone to the gas lamp, where it dangles in alabaster distinction from its dusty mates.
Perhaps this cleaned but ancient wishbone will come to be a bar's odd tribute to another generation of soldiers who never returned. Ours, in Iraq, some 540 so far, including several from New York City. Riayan Tejeda from Washington Heights, for example, and Rasheed Sahib, from Brooklyn. And Linda Jimenez. And others.
Consider the wishbones as you drink from your mug. Consider too the last line of Mr. Bartholomew's wishbone poem: godspeed to all ghosts.
(http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/bars/mcsorleys8.jpg)
(http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/cushman/full/P02710.jpg)
(http://www.dustandrust.com/images/mcsorleys_3.jpg)
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Perfect, Mcsorley's it is, thanks Slap. :aok
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Damn, that place is on my list of "Things to do before I die". The history in there is incredible.
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So who all is in?
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So who all is in?
A little more info on what time you will be there ... and definite place to meet ... may help in deciding.
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A little more info on what time you will be there ... and definite place to meet ... may help in deciding.
You're right slap, I am just testing the water as to make a definite plan. I am going to be there all day and sunday. I definitely want to see McSorleys now, but I will meet wherever the group wants.
:salute
Mark
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You're right slap, I am just testing the water as to make a definite plan. I am going to be there all day and sunday. I definitely want to see McSorleys now, but I will meet wherever the group wants.
:salute
Mark
OK ... my reasons for asking is that if I do come, I will be taking the train and the train schedule from po-dunk Waterbury has limited times ... to and from Grand Central.
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from po-dunk
LMAO, I played in a band called Po-Dunk.
Well, as far as the meeting goes, we have several in the city, and I will be driving in from Williamsport, PA with the family. I am going to call scot12b who is coming in from Boston and see if we can't nail down a time and a place.
:salute
Mark
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I'm probably in SR, just a quick train ride for me but like Slap I have limited windows on weekends. Only a 90 minute car ride though so I might be in no matter what....I could use a night out in the city :devil
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will do DaPup, we'll keep you updated on the meeting time and place.
:salute
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I'm 40 min train ride to grand central. I have to check to see if I'm working. plus I have to see if my wife will drive me to train station. The last time I went to the city it got a little ugly. I will explain when I see you guys. hint sleeping outside of grand central was the start.
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two weeks to go and I haven't heard anything on the trip. Are you guys still meeting up? when and where.
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even though I haven't flown for what seems an eternity, I would love to sink a few beers with you chaps in NYC. Let me know where and when..
Spiffing.
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hmm i am an hour and a half away from manhattan
:noid
Meeting canceled.
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meeting is still on, I'm calling wax to set a time and we'll all go from there.
:aok
Mark
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I live on the island so im in..
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I just spoke to Mark aka Skyrock. We are looking to get a time to meet on the 12th he would like it to be around 5 or 6pm. I was thinking the best place to meet would be MSG since penn station is there also. I just wanted to give a heads up to the guys that are going to meet. I think a few are coming from LI like me and 1 from CT and BOS . Check the train sch and see what works for you guys.. you can PM me if ya like or post here. Mark is away for a few days he asked me to post this.. Who is in? :rock
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I will be there around 5ish depending on train schedule. any plave at msg it pretty big place
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Myself, Wax, and Platano will be at the BubbaGump Shrimp resturant between 5 and 6pm Saturday evening July 12th on Times Square. We might decide to go somewhere else after everyone gets there but that seemed to be a place that everyone should be able to find easily to start off with. PM me with your cell # between now and Friday 6pm or so and that way we will know who to be expecting.
Cyas Saturday,
Mark
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Thanks for the bump, Mom! :aok
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YW :aok
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I do live in manhattan, but you wont catch me anywhere near Times Square!
Do let me know if you go to that bar on 7th St. Been there before, and its great. No frills, good beer.
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cya there :aok
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I do live in manhattan, but you wont catch me anywhere near Times Square!
Do let me know if you go to that bar on 7th St. Been there before, and its great. No frills, good beer.
Emu, we plan on going there but we have to get everyone together first. If you'll PM me your cell# I'll call you when we all meet at Times Square and let you know.
Cyas
Mark
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I live on the island so im in..
Snake, PM me your cell# or just meet us at BubbaGumps at or around 5:00pm Saturday!
Mark
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emu, you going to try and be there?
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Mark,
Do this again in August and come on up to Saratoga. Spend a day downing Beck's and betting ponies at the track. Saratoga in August is worth the trip. :aok
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Sounds like a great idea. Shame I didn't see it until Now. :cry I'm outside of Philly