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Ribs, purls and beer at NY men's knitting night
Reuters/Yahoo news ^ | Jan. 18,2006 | Sharon Reich

Posted on 02/01/2006 2:20:01 PM PST by Kimmers

NEW YORK (Reuters) - If you're stuck for entertainment in New York on a Friday night, and as long as you're man enough, try learning to rib at "Boyz Nite" at a Greenwich Village venue from 9 until late.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


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I am waiting for the movie "Brokepurl Mountain"
1 posted on 02/01/2006 2:20:03 PM PST by Kimmers
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To: Kimmers


The wussification of the US citizenry knows no end.


2 posted on 02/01/2006 2:22:24 PM PST by in hoc signo vinces ("Houston, TX...a waiting quagmire for jihadis. American gals are worth fighting for!")
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To: Kimmers

Didn't Rosie Greer used to do this?


3 posted on 02/01/2006 2:22:36 PM PST by massgopguy (massgopguy)
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To: Kimmers

"I wish I knew how to knit you!"


4 posted on 02/01/2006 2:22:58 PM PST by wideawake
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To: wideawake

Very Metro........


5 posted on 02/01/2006 2:23:29 PM PST by stocksthatgoup (http://www.busateripens.com)
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To: massgopguy

Yes, but he was the last cool "man-knitter." ;^)


6 posted on 02/01/2006 2:23:33 PM PST by mallardx
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To: in hoc signo vinces

It's like they never heard of a deck of cards.


7 posted on 02/01/2006 2:23:44 PM PST by wideawake
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To: Clemenza

Oh Goody Clemenza! You are moving back to the Tri State just when the night life is revving up!




::laughing! er... maybe crying?::


8 posted on 02/01/2006 2:23:45 PM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: wideawake

Oh baby !!!!


9 posted on 02/01/2006 2:24:11 PM PST by Kimmers
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To: massgopguy

"Didn't Rosie Greer used to do this?"

Naaaah, he was a needlepoint dude...


10 posted on 02/01/2006 2:24:16 PM PST by mrs. a (It's a short life but a merry one...)
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What do their wives do? Go play pool and drink boilermakers at a biker bar?


11 posted on 02/01/2006 2:25:30 PM PST by colorado tanker (I can't comment on things that might come before the Court, but I can tell you my Pinochle strategy)
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To: Kimmers; Mercat; alwaysconservative; wildehunt; IN Farm Girl; proudofthesouth; HarleyLady27; ...

Odd story about men knitting...


12 posted on 02/01/2006 2:25:37 PM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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Knitting worked for John Spartan
13 posted on 02/01/2006 2:26:34 PM PST by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestu s globus, inflammare animos)
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To: massgopguy
Yeah . . . but he also sang that propaganda song they used to play in my kindergarten class entitled "It's All Right To Cry."

Luckily my father was alert enough, and was able to inform me that it's not "all right" for a growing boy to blubber like a little girl.

14 posted on 02/01/2006 2:26:49 PM PST by wideawake
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To: massgopguy; mallardx

Carey Grant made fun of this in the 1943 movie "Mr. Lucky."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036174/


15 posted on 02/01/2006 2:28:12 PM PST by peyton randolph (As long is it does me no harm, I don't care if one worships Elmer Fudd.)
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To: colorado tanker
They'd have a better chance of finding real men on that itinerary.

"I'm knitting now!"

"OK. I just want you to know that this is like, the first of three conversations leading up to the part where you're gay."

16 posted on 02/01/2006 2:28:34 PM PST by wideawake
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To: Dashing Dasher
Looking for a man to keep you in stitches?
17 posted on 02/01/2006 2:32:52 PM PST by rattrap
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To: wideawake

"Dude, you know how I know you're gay? You macromaed yourself a pair of jean shorts."


18 posted on 02/01/2006 2:33:10 PM PST by in hoc signo vinces ("Houston, TX...a waiting quagmire for jihadis. American gals are worth fighting for!")
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To: wideawake

Instead of

"I'd hit that"

you get

"I'd knit that."


19 posted on 02/01/2006 2:33:31 PM PST by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestu s globus, inflammare animos)
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To: wideawake

LOL! I thought about that after I posted. What makes me think those guys are married to women??


20 posted on 02/01/2006 2:35:30 PM PST by colorado tanker (I can't comment on things that might come before the Court, but I can tell you my Pinochle strategy)
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