The whole story in Brooklyn Paper is hilarious -- they voted to approve NINETEEN other requests for liquor licenses in the neighborhood but raised a stink about a sedate little tapas bar that only wants a wine and beer license. These people deserve to be overrun by weekending frat boys and drunken hipsters vomiting in the gutters.
Dobrivoye Filipovich, getting tossed after calling a staffer for Councilwoman Diana Reyna "a drug dealer" and branding [wine bar opponent] Wechter a "criminal."
Woo-hoo, Serbs making Gawker again! Way to go, homie!
@SidAndFinancy: Ah, he really meant "pulpitudes," not "pompitudes"? The former being a merging of a pulp novel cover girl and one of my favorite words, "pulchritude"? It is all clear now.
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Hamilton, Oh how I love thee!
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Woo-hoo, Serbs making Gawker again! Way to go, homie!
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I highly doubt they will be a threat.
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Do you speak of the pompatus of love?
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[www.straightdope.com]
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Knew I could count on you!
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There were no casualties, only a lot of people with XL Vitamin Water t-shirts.
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Everybody has to start somewhere.
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Also I would hope that some of these answers are weighed differently than others.
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But hey, they scare the shit out of sociologists too.