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politicartoons2013-10-02 01:00 pm
enders-shadow.livejournal.com) wrote in politicartoons2013-10-02 01:00 pm
Rodeo Clown has a new target
For the record, DeBlasio is already elected to citywide office, so the voters of NYC are clearly in disagreement with Beck (as if we didn't know that already)
But it's funny to see the rodeo clown attempt to work his art. Also, there were *plenty* of debates that were attended, televised and watched by voters. Weiner distracted the headlines, but there was plenty of coverage *before* Weiner entered the race, as well as after Carlos Danger made our little local election such a hot topic for pundits all over.
It's also funny that Beck ignores that NYC hasn't had a Dem mayor for *decades*
But he would be a fool to put his money on the Repub this year. Possible, but smart money is on DeBlasio.
Oh, and unrelated NYC humor:
This past week, Time Out London published their newest list of 'Lies to Tell Tourists', a backhanded love letter from residents to visitors, filled with misdirection and miseducation. And while we mostly try to play nice with tourists, even when they ask us where Central Perk is, we can't help but have some fun now and again, like with the Tourist Lane. In that spirit, what are some lies that you tell tourists? Here are our favorites:
"You're required by law to give a cigarette to anyone who requests one."
"You pay for a Metrocard by putting your credit card into the slot at the turnstiles."
"That I Heart New York shirt makes you look like one of us!"
"The Applebees in Times Square is a great place to pick up women."
"Manhattan ends at 125th Street."
"Little Italy is full of authentic Italian stuff."
"Don't forget to tip your subway train conductor."
"The NYU campus is famous for its beautiful architecture."
"When you hear the bells of St. Patrick's ring, you should fire your gun in the air."
"You pronounce Houston Street like the city in Texas."
"You can't have the real New York Experience until you've been to Madam Tussaud's."
"Yeah, the line to the Empire State Building is pretty reasonable."
"It's no big deal to eat on the subway."
"Cops never troll Central Park looking for bikers to ticket."
"Serendipity is definitely worth the wait."
"I live in Woody Allen's old apartment."
"The only open cabs are the ones WITHOUT the lights on."
"The best shopping is on Canal Street."
"Your skirt is too short to ride a bike."
"42nd Street is that way."
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Drop Bears are totally real though, we put them on 'lies to tell tourists' lists to trip up the foreigners reading them.
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B) I don't get it. you just relating nonsense that people tell tourists?
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As I said above, drop bears are very real and very dangerous. Tourists never believe us, though.
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Check the links. Both the photo and the text page are hosted by the official Australian Museum site. The Museum of Natural History in New York doesn't have statues of Bigfoot or chimeras or dragons, does it?
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I am not going to say definitively that they do not exist, but I will wait on verification...I don't know what *real* aussie govt websites look like, and what the YesMen would make a fake-aussie govt website look like.
So, skepticism intact, but that's cause this is the interwebs. If I was down under, and a handful of Aussies told me the same story, I'd be more likely to believe it.
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Published in the Australian Geographer, Dec 2012, by a scientist from the University of Tasmania. Read the full article, if you want (click "download full text").
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A drop bear or dropbear is a fictitious Australian marsupial.[1] Drop bears are commonly said to be unusually large, vicious, carnivorous marsupials related to koalas (although the koala is not a bear) that inhabit treetops and attack their prey by dropping onto their heads from above.[2][3] They are an example of local lore intended to frighten and confuse outsiders and amuse locals, similar to the jackalope, hoop snake, wild haggis or snipe hunt.
Various methods suggested to deter drop bear attacks include placing forks in the hair, having Vegemite or toothpaste spread behind the ears or in the armpits, urinating on yourself, and only speaking English in an Australian accent.
-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_bear
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Ah well. At least we can still tell our visitors about the box jellyfish, electric rays, blue-ring octopuses, freshwater sharks, irukanji syndrome, giant carnivorous reptiles, fire tornados, stonefish, cigutera poisoning (sexually transmitted, no less), throat-ripping cassowaries, kamikazi magpies, cone shells (world's deadliest snail) and, of course, that of the top ten deadliest snakes in the world, we have all ten.
sings our alternative national anthem "Come To Australia, You Might Accidentally Get Killed"
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Oh dear Lord. How do they pronounce it?
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How-ston
Hew-ston.
Think NASA, "Hew-ston we have a problem."
In NYC it's "South of How-ston street."
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Mayor Ed Koch would pronounce "Houston Astros" the NY way just to be a dick.
When I lived there I told tourists there was no such street as "Hewston" ... my other favorite thing was saying Little Italy didn't exist anymore and everything was Chinatown...
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