From Monday 6pm on my feet will stand
on your ground. looking forward. shake hands, my friends.

zee dearest. so long.
will be online again late september.

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Have fun

new york is impressive and huge huge huge. it makes european metropoles look like metrognomes. but i am so sick and tired of air conditioning EVERYWHERE.... more to come...will be online again soon. btw. why is NY nicknamed "the big apple" -no one could tell me over there..



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Why are you sick of Air Conditioning? It's quite nice :D

Sometimes. It's freaken cold in my office now. I keep turning it down, but my boss will stop and go "It's getting hot in here" and turn it back up again. Plus I have two vents and the big vent blowing in my office.

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bush poo flag

will be back online with travel report next week.....dyler, where the f*** have you been? check your emails, man.

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Originally posted by Evil bush poo flag

oh man, that's so hilarious! Those crazy germans! Oh and by the by, I totally didn't know that that was a link! and then the little hand appeared over it and it turned blue and I was like "ahhhh" yup. what a lovely day for a tea party. . . .It's nice weather out today, my eye's feel weird. . .

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Originally posted by 7cut btw. why is NY nicknamed "the big apple" -no one could tell me over there.. [Edited on 26-9-2005 by 7cut]

Got an hour?

I thought that this would be really straight forward...but it appears not...

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Why Is New York City Called "The Big Apple"? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "When and how did New York City come to be called "The Big Apple'?" This is by far the most frequently asked question submitted to our New York History Hotline. In popular folklore, the name is usually traced to early jazz musicians or long-ago sports figures. Often, the explanation of the so-called "origin" of this phrase is accompanied with plausible-sounding historical or biographical details, giving it an unmistakable (but alas, totally spurious) "ring of truth." Because this question continues to excite curiosity, and because the real facts are quite well known to serious historians, we provide the following authoritative account, based on our unique archival sources. The story may disappoint some readers -- truth, after all, is often less colorful than fiction. But facts are facts. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the early years of the nineteenth century, refugees from war-torn Europe began arriving in New York in great numbers. Many were remnants of the crumbling French aristocracy, forced to seek refuge abroad from the dread "Monsieur Guillotine." Arriving here without funds or friends, many of these were forced to survive, as one contemporary put it, "by their wits or worse." One of these, arriving in late 1803 or early 1804, was Mlle. Evelyn Claudine de Saint-Évremond. Daughter of a noted courtier, wit, and littérateur, and herself a favorite of Marie Antoinette, Evelyn was by all accounts remarkably attractive: beautiful, vivacious, and well-educated, and she was soon a society favorite. For reasons never disclosed, however, a planned marriage the following year to John Hamilton, son of the late Alexander Hamilton, was called off at the last minute. Soon after, with support from several highly placed admirers, she established a salon -- in fact, it appears to have been an elegantly furnished bordello -- in a substantial house that still stands at 142 Bond Street, then one of the city's most exclusive residential districts. Evelyn's establishment quickly won, and for several decades maintained, a formidable reputation as the most entertaining and discreet of the city's many "temples of love," a place not only for lovemaking, but also for elegant dinners, high-stakes gambling, and witty conversation. The girls, many of them fresh arrivals from Paris or London, were noted for their beauty and bearing. More than a few of them, apparently, were actually able to secure wealthy husbands from among the establishment's clientele. When New Yorkers insisted on anglicizing her name to "Eve," Evelyn apparently found the biblical reference highly amusing, and for her part would refer to the temptresses in her employ as "my irresistable apples." The young men-about-town soon got into the habit of referring to their amorous adventures as "having a taste of Eve's Apples." This knowing phrase established the speaker as one of the "in" crowd, and at the same time made it clear he had no need to visit one of the coarser establishments that crowded nearby Mercer Street, for instance. The enigmatic reference in Philip Hone's famous diary to "Ida, sweet as apple cider" (October 4, 1838) has been described as an oblique reference to a visit to what had by then become a notorious but cherished civic institution. The rest, as they say, is etymological history. The sexual connotation of the word "apple" was well known in New York and throughout the country until around World War I. The Gentleman's Directory of New York City, a privately published (1870) guide to the town's "houses of assignation," confidently asserted that "in freshness, sweetness, beauty, and firmness to the touch, New York's apples are superior to any in the New World or indeed the Old." Meanwhile, various "apple" catch-phrases -- "the Apple Tree," "the Real Apple," etc. -- were used as synonyms for New York City itself, which boasted (if that is the term) more houses of ill repute per capita than any other major U.S. municipality. William Jennings Bryan, though hardly the first to denounce New York as a sink of iniquity, appears to have been the first to use the "apple" epithet in public discourse, branding the city, in a widely reprinted 1892 campaign speech, as "the foulest Rotten Apple on the Tree of decadent Federalism." The double-entendre -- i.e., as a reference to both political and sexual corruption -- would have been well understood by voters of the time. The term "Big Apple" or "The Apple" had already passed into general use as a sobriquet for New York City by 1907, when one guidebook included the comment, "Some may think the Apple is losing some of its sap." Interestingly, the phrase had also become pretty well "sanitized" in the process, thanks to a vigorous campaign mounted just after the turn of the century by the Apple Marketing Board, a trade group based in upstate Cortland, New York. Alarmed by sharply declining sales, the Association launched what some believe to be the earliest example of what would now be called a "product positioning campaign." By devising and energetically promoting such slogans as "An apple a day keeps the Doctor away" and "as American as apple pie!" the A.M.B. was able to successfully "rehabilitate" the apple as a popular comestible, free of unsavory associations. It is believed that the group also distributed apples to the poor for sale on the city's streets during the Great Depression (1930-38). No convincing documentary evidence has been produced to support this, however.

Italy is just referred to as the boot for its country shape. didn´t know the big apple was that complicated a story. wee.

here is zee travel report, i have to get it out
of my system:

Our host lives
a 5 minute walk from Ground Zero so it´s
pretty central. And it was so great hanging
out on its rooftop. New York is highly impressive
yet also a little bit intimidating, humid and dirty.
It makes European metropoles look like metrognomes / toy cities. I couldn´t live
there, it´s too large, too "cool" etc.
And as already mentioned I´ve grown to
hate air conditioning, it´s everywhere!
Didn´t catch flu but one of my eyes got
infected and I had to wear an eye patch,
giving a rather silly / pirate impression.
Been to three shows there, (Jon Spencer)
Blues Explosion (judah said i looked hot with
the eye patch --bollocks--), the Zom Zoms
and the Towers Of London (secret show, they directed a music video there....but we were
doing our best NOT to be seen in it and I
think we were successful...couldn´t find
Dyler ).

I like it how the subway is 24/7 and bars
are open till 4am (in Europe they shut down
at 1am among the week), subway, also.
Went to the Resfest to see the screening
of the Beck music videos and people
were applauding after each video, bit
silly. I realized that in the "Devil´s Haircut"
video the 1929 Cyclone rollercoaster of
Coney Island can be seen and WE`VE
BEEN RIDING ON IT! (GREAT!! cracks
like hell). I liked Coney Island, the fun
fair and the sea. What else....there was
a taxi driver who was blasting Barry White.
At Central Park zoo I was bitten by a piglet
(at petting zoo even). The water near
Strawberry fields in Central Park is GREEN.

The food in little Italy is far from being real
Italian, saw the Carlton Arms hotel,
celebrated my birthday at the wonderful
Korova Milk Bar (yes, looking like in "A
Clockwork Orange" --I LOVE MOLOKOS!!!---
and a nice lofi bar with brilliant 80s jukebox.
At midnight it played Duran Duran. *sigh*

Saw the place where "kids" was filmed
- Washington Square Park. Been posing
with "the naked cowboy" at Times Square,
been on the traces of Patrick Bateman on
Wall street --btw. the George Washington
statue there looked like it had a clit.

Invented the term "corpse metal" (for very
hard music). Been at the Negativeland and
Truck art show. Been to the stupid Prada
store in Soho (which looks like a half pipe),
saw a weird staff guy at Patricia Fields and
checked out the glorious Kid Robot store
and St. Marks Place.

Been to the Bronx and Harlem (felt a little endangered there but less bad / dangerous
then expected...2 guys where dancing
to Missy Elliott on the subway with massive ghettoblasters. The guy from Cobrasnake.com
was in NYC but we made a good job avoiding
him.

Took a ferry ride to Staten Island where you
have a marvellous view on the statue of
liberty and Manhattan skyline. Mixed up the
MET with the MOMA (d´oh) and went out
in gorgeous Bedford. And i bought one of
those belts you can programme words into.
Unfortunately I forgot checking out TROMA
headquarters.

okay, you must be bored out of your mind.
i´m cutting it. Or I`m going on and on
and on and on ...i have lots of anecdotes
in the back of my head still.



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who prescribed you an eyepatch?? a conjunctivitis requires ofloxacin drops and ointment - that's it! (but it's cool to look like a pirate. was it a black one?)

doctor noisemonster, right..i forgot!
no, i prescribed it to myself. thought it
would make sense and be cheap - and
besides, back then only one eye was
red so i put my specs out on that one
and used the eye patch so the eye could
relax and wouldn´t be distractded. and it
worked out but now both eyes are slightly
red ---still. i will go to an optometrist asap.

i hated going out with the eye patch (yes,
it was black) coz
people thought i was beinga hipster
whereas i wasn´t !!!! i programmed
"7cut - what da fuck" into that belt
but was too ashamed to leave it turned
on ...i mean, it is silly. so i just turned
it on to let my friends check it out.

been phoning with Dyler back then and
boy, HE DOES HAVE AN ENGLISH
ACCENT !!!!! very broad English ...cool.



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oh yes.. he does! neverhteless it was easy to understand him.

are eyepatches trendy now?? strange.. is that an electronic belt??

yeah, you can´t programme it into the belt but into its buckle. in either red or blue computer style letters. up to 4000 letters it says. god.

ever since Kill Bill and the sailor trend people consider eyepatches sleazy and sexy. On Cobrasnake.com
I spotted people wearing them. *throwing up*
one can be cool but one can also be TOO cool.
you know. the disease of our generation.

Wow, it sounds like you had alot of fun! I must end up visiting New York before I'm to old to do anything fun.

Noise, I didn't know you were a doctor. . . .

too old to do anything fun?
age is nuthin´ but a number.
besides. i´m 23 and i think
you are even younger. eh eh?



verschwende deine jugend!

exactlyyyy! see, i'm 28 and this year was the one i had the most fun - by far! :D

Oh no I mean like before I'm like 40 or 50! 28 is a good age!