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Name: Chris Tyrrell Responds
Subject: Re: The Pederastic Proofreader
-- Jul 24, 1999 at 1:00AM
Please. Can't we all get along?
Name: Chchchris
Subject: Re: The Pederastic Proofreader
-- Jul 23, 1999 at 7:19PM
Yeah, but then the pun on "pederasty" would be lost.
Name: The Pedantic Proofreader
Subject: Re: Beantown
-- Jul 23, 1999 at 6:15PM
Your obloquy was quite amusing. However, if you are going to use words such as "pedanticly," you ought to learn how to spell them: try "pedantically."
Name: Chris Tyrrell Responds
Subject: Re: Beantown
-- Jul 22, 1999 at 12:19AM
I like double hyphens too!
I'm not sure what to make of all that. Very nice prose, I will say. So good, perhaps I'll just be genuine for once in my god-damned life.
I had my bar-hopping--if you want to call them that--(see: double hyphens!), in your good town, NYC. I spent the largest part of my life in the suburbs of D.C., but I consider New York to be just about the best damned place there is, and I was privileged enough to spend 5 wonderful years there. Money & love forced me to Beantown about 3 years ago--but it's not much of a hometown to me.
On the other hand, you are correct. The "T", unlike my good old 2-3AM N&R train trips to Brooklyn, does cease service at some ridiculous hour.
More importantly, however, is the lack of 24-hour NY-ish delis. We have Walgreens. Hence my bitterness.
But I don't hate Boston, Chris. And I love the Kennedys, if we're being completely honest. And John-John, like you and myself, probably felt more a New Yorker than a New Englander.
What's the point? I don't know. But I'm glad you dumped that friends of yours, because it seems like he really didn't know when to shut up.
Chris
Name: Chris in NYC
Subject: Beantown
-- Jul 21, 1999 at 11:34PM
An ex-Bostonite friend would comment -- well, he won't talk to me any more, so an ex-Bostonite ex-friend would comment -- drolly -- for this was a very droll ex-Bostonite -- that -- and I may be misremembering the specifics -- for it is not the exact hours that are important here, but rather their relationship -- although I suppose it could be argued -- pointlessly, but accurately -- in a word, pedanticly -- it could be pedanticly argued that since this is a rip -- bad choice of words, perhaps -- a joke at the expense -- a dis, if you will -- a dis of a specific and actual town -- Boston -- the town where you, Chris who is not me -- you are "based" -- per your mini bio on this very article -- which I must assume to be accurate -- factchecked, even -- more factchecked than the following figures -- that Boston -- remember, this is my ex-Bostonite ex-friend -- well, he was still a friend at the time -- although he probably still says this now, as it was one of his favorite lines -- speaking -- Boston, he would say -- he hated Boston, I might note -- Boston is the kind of town where the bars -- see where this ties in with the "ripping"? -- the bars close at 1 a.m. -- small caps are impossible in this text box -- the bars -- and I have a feeling you may be familiar with this type of establishment -- they close at 1 a.m., but -- and this is the typical thing, the echt-Boston quality that the entire anecdote -- one which I am borrowing, as I've said, from an ex-friend -- which would presumably anger him -- but whatever! -- the entire anecdote hangs upon this -- that whereas the bars -- in Boston, remember -- your hometown -- where they close at 1 a.m. -- a bit early for us Manhattanites -- but then I am not a bar-hopping fellow -- so the fact that they close at 1 a.m. -- and I seem to recall, from my trips there -- though they generally did not involve bars -- that they do, in fact, close at or about 1 a.m. -- but that the subways -- the "T", as you Bostonians -- have I been saying "Bostonites"? -- as you Bostonians, as I believe you -- not just you, Chris of Boston, but you Bostonians in general -- you prefer to be called -- the subway, the "T" -- here I could put a joke about the Boston "T" Party -- but why? -- the "T" closes at 12:30.
(at 12:30 a.m., that is -- thirty minutes before the bars close -- if that wasn't clear -- for the joke -- such as it is -- the joke depends upon understanding this -- but a funny fellow such as yourself -- you know this.)
Name: Chris Tyrrell Responds
Subject: Re: John-John the Ripper
-- Jul 21, 1999 at 10:17PM
Touche, Chris-that's-not-me. Touche.
Though your "rip" pun is quite charming, however, I feel it's absolutely tasteless. If the Kennedys--and, as I've said before, the dirty Irish people as a whole--do have a proclivity to drink, we must at least be sensitive to them in their time of need.
That time is now, Other Chris, and I'm afraid your off-color pun leaves a bad taste in the mouth of any of us who weep at all cursed Camelot-ian tragedies.
Shame.
Chris "Yes It's Me" Tyrrell
Chris
Name: Chris, but not Chris Tyrrell
Subject: John-John the Ripper
-- Jul 21, 1999 at 1:00PM
Well, with a Kennedy there, it seems pretty likely that they're all going to get ripped at some point...
Name: Chris Tyrrell Responds
Subject: Re: Rip
-- Jul 21, 1999 at 12:31AM
Good question, Other Chris.
Rip is short for Riplancibald. As in the famous confetti-throwing Riplancibald Taylor, or Larry Sanders' stodgy producer, played by Riplancibald Torn.
Let us not forget that we hope John-John, Mario, and Stanley all RIP themselves.
Name: Other Chris
Subject: Rip
-- Jul 20, 1999 at 3:51AM
You know, I used to get Rip Torn and Rip Taylor confused.
I mean, what the hell kind of name is "Rip", anyhow? Is it short for something? "Ripbert"?
Name: Chris Tyrrell Responds
Subject: Re: JFK Jr
-- Jul 19, 1999 at 10:20PM
Funny you should say that--I said the same thing myself today.
And if I do indeed go to hell, Andy S., you're more than welcome to write a funny piece about it. Is Rip Taylor dead? If he is--he might be a great second character, to kind of "spice up the comedy."
Anyway, I look forward to reading your piece about me in hell, when I'm dead and in hell.
Thanks for the comments!
Chris
Name: Andy S.
Subject: JFK Jr
-- Jul 19, 1999 at 1:59PM
You are going to hell.
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