Haven't heard that in ages! Liked to choke on my coffee.
Posted on 11/24/2012 11:20:04 AM PST by Dallas59
LIPA customers who spent weeks without power got zapped with their normal electric bills — as if the outages never happened.
The clueless utility charged Sandy-soaked Long Island residents an estimated rate that covered the entire billing cycle, and the statements made no mention of potential refunds to account for the prolonged blackouts.
Jonathan Saporta was slapped with a double whammy by the Long Island Power Authority — a $649 bill for the Long Beach home he left in October and a $281 bill for his new Great Neck pad.
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I’m hip.
I could picture the whole situation just as you described it down to his facial expression.
If that’s a problem, portraying an accent, and it is sometimes, then Mark Twain wasted his whole adult life, but it’s what made “Tom Sawyer” a classic story.
I love our accents. I grew up in an Irish-cop family where they really spoke with “d’s and dem’s” - as well as saying “erl” for “oil” and “terlet” for “toilet.” (The Irish, I believe, have no “th” sound in their language so it became a “d” sound. When they controlled NYC, they controlled the accent.) Most of that is gone now, but the “d” for “th” remains.
It’s so nice to meet a fellow Conservative New Yorker!
I am a New Yorker at large.
My students often say, en masse, “say kwafee”. I tell them to “get back to work”.
Irish indeed.
I never noticed the linguistics re the Irish. I believe you have a good point. I know the German influence is there. They cannot say “th”. Used to drive them crazy (Germans) when I would get them prepared for a visit from a cousin “Marybeth, Kathleen”- Of curse, Caitlin in the Irish.
German, Yiddish, Dutch, Irish, I guess Italian, and the need for speed in communicating all contribute.
“And I’ll go further: cops need to lose weight and stop holding up the line at Dunkin’ Donuts
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There you go stereotyping again. My son just ran the Marine Corps Marathon. Hates donuts.
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Small world story - -
We are conservative ex-Long Islanders (Queens Village; and Plainview/Hicksville and E. Northport), out in So. Calif. now, 43 years.
A few years ago we were in Manhattan, and our CA son-in-law asked why there were mounteds in NYC.
Entering a subway ramp, I saw 2 cops leaning against the wall, one twirling a billy-club. I went up to him and asked the question about mounteds. Got answers, we chatted, and eventually one asked me: “Where ya frum??”
Told him a small town in So. CA and he said, “That’s where my Aunt Marion lives!’
My family had continued walking, so I called them back and told them this.
Husband says, ‘Your aunt Marion??? I just played golf last week with your Uncle Paul!!!’
For precisely what?
Read the replies, take another look at the article and get back to me.
Go read what you claimed, an equal payment plan which is trued up at the end of a year.
Then go look at what was reported.
Now explain why apology is called for?
See #69. (Crickets)
You were still wrong, even if in a different way. The article says nothing about budget plan participants.
Has anyone ever suggested that you’re a tad neurotic, lol? Drumming your fingers, counting the seconds, are you? Hurry up, hurry UP it’s been two minutes already, lol.
Surely you can maintain your composure and wait for my reply just as long as I waited for yours?
You can do it. Hang in there. It’ll be OK.
Crickets remain chirping for anything logical...
No, those aren’t crickets, it’s your stopwatch ticking. Try not to grit your teeth, you’ll get a headache. Wouldn’t want that.
Haven't heard that in ages! Liked to choke on my coffee.
The crickets will chirp forever before you can prove you were right about the annually trued up budget plan being the source of the uproar.
Put the stopwatch down and back away s l o w l y.
There's no way to opt out because they don't have enough meter readers like in the old days. This is why they've been pushing for "smart meters" so the data is available to them wirelessly.
Estimated billing is a scam that works in their favor; customers can be compelled to essentially loan money to the utility every other bill.
It's the first time I've ever heard of Breezy Point referred to as a village, locals just call it Breezy and not everything burned to the ground, just a portion of the 'wedge'.
Meanwhile, the city’s Department of Buildings has slapped violations on the owners of condemned homes and there have been several robberies in the past few days.
Santee Cooper in SC still reads the meters. I get a bill every month with the actual meter reading on it.
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