An open letter to Steve from Boerum Hill

[Laurie]

Erika, I too grew up in a teeny weeny house. It was in a townhouse complex in Kendall. Across the street was a strip mall. In this strip mall, there was a Navarro supermarket (a Cuban grocery store type place), a Dollar Store, and a Blue Sky by the Pound food store. So, not exactly a ritzy neighboorhood. Also, there was a Kenny Rogers restaurant on the corner. After the Kenny Rogers restaurant closed, a shitty sex store moved in. Fact.

It wasn't a bad place, though. There were playgrounds, a swimming pool, and two lakes with lots of ducks and ducklings every spring!

[Wes]

After the Kenny Rogers restaurant closed, a shitty sex store moved in.

Also owned by Kenny Rogers.

[erika]

I'm listening to the show right now for the first time and I think these Laurie haters are a bunch of sullen bullies!

You're all in my hate pits. I have multiple*.








*Because I can afford such a thing.

[dave from knoxville]

Laurie,

I think I have made clear how intensely I love you. Ignore these haters. And remember, in your will, it's Knox, not Knocks or Nox

Love,

dave

[Emily]

After the Kenny Rogers restaurant closed, a shitty sex store moved in. Fact.

so that's how it all began.

[Sarah]

Very astute, emily.  I can see how a shitty sex store would be pretty attractive to a growing girl if it also offered playgrounds, a swimming pool, and two lakes.

That's how they get you, you know:  ducks and ducklings.

[Miss]

Erika, I too grew up in a teeny weeny house. It was in a townhouse complex in Kendall. Across the street was a strip mall. In this strip mall, there was a Navarro supermarket (a Cuban grocery store type place), a Dollar Store, and a Blue Sky by the Pound food store. So, not exactly a ritzy neighboorhood. Also, there was a Kenny Rogers restaurant on the corner. After the Kenny Rogers restaurant closed, a shitty sex store moved in. Fact.

... Did you grow up in Jefferton?

[Rainer]

By the way, my maternal grandfather was from Holland and also an asshole.

Sounds like my maternal grandfather, only he was from Dundee.  He was such a horror that, in 1948, my mother, my Aunt Margaret and my grandmother left for Canada, with a pot of stew wrapped in a towel on the kitchen table. I always wonder if he ate that when he got home from work that day.

Laurie4E

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

After the Kenny Rogers restaurant closed, a shitty sex store moved in.

Also owned by Kenny Rogers.

Oh, Wes, you slay me.

[masterofsparks]

It's one thing for the rest of us hardcore FOTs to make fun of painting-buying, vodka-swilling, monocle-wearing Laurie, but it's another for some yutz to call in with his hoi polloi nonsense.

So what you're saying is that the FOT are like a Philly sports team?

Seriously, though, Laurie is aces as far as my opinion matters. Her calls are always entertaining, even when she gets GOMP'd.

[Tim K in DC]

I heart Laurie.

[dave from knoxville]

That guy must have been ONE OF US ONE OF US though, no? I mean, did she ever talk about the dessert get-together on the air?

My memory being not so good.

[jane]

He was such a horror that, in 1948, my mother, my Aunt Margaret and my grandmother left for Canada, with a pot of stew wrapped in a towel on the kitchen table.

How did they get the kitchen table on the plane?

(sorry, Rainer)

[masterofsparks]

I mean, did she ever talk about the dessert get-together on the air?

I think she did. I remember Tom teasing her about it.

[pigasus]

Laurie, you got the bum's rush this week. Shame on those fools!