This note is inspired by your Chanukah ham post. I noticed that you attributed the story to the AP, which is right and proper — except for this little tidbit, if I may.  On Nov. 30th The Age ran a story about new technology that would allow news site greater control over their content — the old Fair Usage debate. In that article: AP Chief Executive Tom Curley said the news cooperative spends hundreds of millions of US dollars annually covering the world _ and in many cases its employees risk their lives doing so. Technologies such as ACAP, he said, are important to protect the AP’s original news reports from sites that distribute them without permission. “The free riding deprives AP of economic returns on its investments,” he said.  One has to wonder how many employees risked their lives in pursuit of the Chanukah ham story? Note the date on this post, which also provides photos.  What was that about a free ride?
 Hmmm.  Yes.  I see your point.  But keep in mind . . . they’re professionals.ÂÂ
Fix your links.
I think the real story here is why would any idiot shop at Balduccis, where everything is at least twice as expensive as it is anywhere else? No wonder they put up those signs. It’s because they don’t give a shit. They know that the idiots will still show up because it is way “hip” to pay twice the price for anything in NYC.
C’mon! Only some asshole in NYC would shop there in pursuit of the “I’m hip!” image. $8.99 for stinking broccoli? Or is it Brocolli? Who cares? $8.99/lb for broccoli/brocolli is FUCKING RIDICULOUS!
The only people who shop at the Balduccis near my home are assholes who have moved to the “sticks” from NYC, with money flying out of their asses. They are one and the same people who pull in to a gas station and block ALL OF THE FUCKING GAS PUMPS, while they buy their stupid Lotto tickets and then loiter around scratching off their “instant” tickets. But they will lean on THEIR fucking horn if you are in THEIR way when THEY want to leave.
What kind of brain disease is it that is endemic to NYC? Whatever it is, it is a fearful thing to see. It makes people think they are very smart, and WAY hip, while it quietly eats all of their brain cells. Another symptom seems to be having more money than their shrunken (or non-existant) morals can deal with.
Maybe it’s the “Stupid Virus” – which I have heard makes you totally unaware of any other human being within fifteen feet of you. If you are affected with this virus, any person in your immediate area appears to your eyes as dogshit. They also usually have an old “Al Gore For President” on their fucking BMW or Land Rover.
Fucking New Porkers! Too much money, and not enough brains….
I don’t know. Do I appear to have an attitude? I must be a curmudgeon – which actually has been my goal for many years now.
Thank you
(Bow)
You know, after reading this, I hope I haven’t upset the %1800 ratio of the “seven words”.
Sorry. I just came back from “The City”.
Eeww eww eww eww eww!
Seriously, clean up the links. This is fucking up the main page.
Sorry for the sailor talk. I recently heard that this was a “family blog.”
A little winged pig with peot and a shtreimel with a huge shit eating grin, “Pork! It’s whats for Purim.!”