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Mike Exinger's avatar

I'm not a nitpicker, but...shouldn't that last sentence have a question mark, as in:

"You don’t get this kind of helpful stuff from Strunk and White, do you now?"

And no, I don't.

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Benjamin Dreyer's avatar

It ain't really a question, is it.

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Mike Exinger's avatar

He said, rhetorically.

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Timber Fox's avatar

That's the New York I thought still existed, growing up in the '70s...

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Benjamin Dreyer's avatar

I think it still did, a little.

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Timber Fox's avatar

Closest I got was meeting some of the cast after a performance of Cats in 1984 or so, riding in a Checker cab and sitting on the folding side seat, and lunch at O'Neal's Balloon. A few years ago, I explored Times Square with a writer friend who was a peep show girl in the '80s, to see what remained of that era. We found one or two marquees and facades, nothing more.

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Steve Kempson's avatar

Bert seems like a pistol.

I hope their entrances were as memorable as their exit.

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Steven K. Homer's avatar

"[A] gigantic red-haired harlot, swaying her enormous hat, reeking with corrosive cocktails of the West Fifties." #goals

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Benjamin Dreyer's avatar

Riiiiiiggghhhhhhtttt?

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