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Wednesday, June 20, 2018
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Unknown said...
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What's so terrible about sleeping in a chain-link cage? There used to be flophouses down on The Bowery (in particular the chain of Lyons Houses: https://www.etsy.com/ie/listing/593250697/1970s-bowery-nolita-new-york-city-nyc) [Skoonj, do you remember those?] where you got to sleep inside a similar cage (actually made of wood and chicken wire). That cage meant you could sleep without worry of someone robbing you (or worse) in your sleep. Otherwise, in a flophouse, hostel, "detention center", homeless shelter or even jail you'd be wise to sleep with one shoe on and the other under your head for a pillow; that way, when someone tried to pull the shoe off your foot, you could beat him with the other one. I would be very happy to have a chain-link cage to sleep in in such an environment.
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6/20/18, 10:30 AM
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Rodger the Real King of France said...
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Your point aside, the message here is simply "another case of the blackguardly left's capacity for contemptible mendacity. or... spit!
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6/20/18, 11:00 AM
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Skoonj said...
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Stu, I don't recall those. Flop houses yes. My old man said they were either 50 cents or 75 cents a day. Never actually saw one so you may have had more of an idea of them.. I left NYC in 1970, so you may have been there longer. I was down on the Bowery a couple of of times, which is where the old man got his car washed.
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6/20/18, 3:22 PM
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Jess said...
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I've been down around the border during the summer. The cages, with cots, food, and water, beat hell out of tarantulas, prickly pear, feral hogs, rattlesnakes, and dry heat that turns bodies into mummies.
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6/21/18, 9:29 AM
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