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Saturday, March 29. 2014

I still find this amusing: The Murray Hill Song

I posted this once before, but it still cracks me up. Besides being a slice of life of a piece of NYC, it does a great job of depicting/satirizing one subculture of NYC. You have to know a bit about the Jewish subculture of the NYC environs to fully get it.  More real than satire, though, according to a BD daughter who is not Jewish but knows the scene.


The real message of this is that, no matter how dorky you are, a strong self-confidence can go a long way. Lubel does a great job with that. He's a very cool dork, with a posse, too. I knew guys like him, and always wondered why they got so many chicks. As Sipp emailed me, rhyming Giapetto with Warsaw Ghetto gets a gold star.


Acting confident is a chick magnet, no matter what you look like or what your resume looks like.




Posted by Bird Dog in Our Essays, The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 18:11 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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Porn moment with the woman getting the Tasti-D-Lite facial.
#1 GG on 2014-03-29 19:51 (Reply)
The traditional meaning of dork -- Slang. A stupid, inept, or foolish person:

So, if the term's definition were expanded to include self confident chick magnets with the talent and skills to make popular videos, the word could be applied to nearly anyone. If this condition were allowed to fester, where would the confusion end? No, I'm afraid this sloppy and misleading use of dork is a rather serious matter.

I propose we agree on a clarified meaning right away or risk losing an essential element of the keystone to the bedrock of civilization itself. You know, flirting.
#2 W. C. Taqiyya on 2014-03-29 22:29 (Reply)
Oy.
#3 scullman on 2014-03-30 11:05 (Reply)

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