Less lede than first line from a dime-store mystery:
Posted: May 13th, 2011 | Filed under: Followed By A Perplexed Stroke Of The Chin, QueensThe five-alarm fire at O’Neill’s Pub in Maspeth took away a legendary gathering place for some residents of the neighborhood last week, but for others the fire also brought some peace and quiet.
And don’t think this won’t totally backfire when people intentionally speed up in order to see the skeleton, because skeletons are INHERENTLY AWESOME:
Posted: May 13th, 2011 | Filed under: You're Kidding, Right?When a driver exceeds the speed limit, the image of a presumably healthy pedestrian happily crossing the street suddenly changes to a skeleton ominously marching toward the words: “SLOW DOWN.”
I get “Isabella,” but “Michael”? Really?:
Posted: May 11th, 2011 | Filed under: Survey Says!/La Encuesta Dice!Coos and kudos to Isabella and Michael — they were the most popular baby names in New York state last year.
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Isabella was also first place in the nation.
And that means no pink underwear, or .25 caliber Beretta handguns, for that matter:
Posted: May 10th, 2011 | Filed under: New York, New York, It's A Wonderful Town!A woman wearing pink undies on top of her pants set off a brief scare at the Waldorf-Astoria Saturday when a security guard spotted a gun sticking out of her jacket pocket.
Police said [the suspect], 46, was talking to herself in the crowded lobby of the hotel just after 9 a.m. An eagle-eyed security guard walked toward [her] and spotted the butt of a .25-caliber semiautomatic Beretta.
Posted: May 2nd, 2011 | Filed under: Huzzah!This was also around the time a cute blonde girl climbed halfway up the traffic pole and lifted up her shirt.
