Colonel Mustard, In the Grocery Store, with the Scissors

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I knew siphyllis makes people do some batshitcrazy things, but I had no idea that crotch crickets do this as well.

Reg on January 17, 2011 at 3:54 PM

Megan dear, I hate to sound nit-picky, but there is no South Mercer Street. There's an East Mercer St, a West Mercer St, and just plain Mercer Street. That QFC is on plain Mercer St.

It's important because if things don't work out in your literary career, you may end up in city work like me, and they test you on things like that.

Catalina Vel-DuRay on January 17, 2011 at 3:58 PM

@2 -- You are so right. Thanks for letting me know. I fixed it.

Guest Author on January 17, 2011 at 4:11 PM Stranger Staff

Catalina, how I love your gift of phrase.

gloomy gus on January 17, 2011 at 4:14 PM

that's like the man who killed his father in a public library with a crossbow in Toronto a few months ago...

KittyPuzzle on January 17, 2011 at 4:17 PM

You're welcome, dear.

It's so nice to have an unpaid intern who doesn't refer to me as a genocidal troll.....

Catalina Vel-DuRay on January 17, 2011 at 4:17 PM

"crotch crickets" is my new favourite description...

Canuck on January 17, 2011 at 4:24 PM

I think you mean "cowed", not "kowtowed".
To cow (transitive verb) is to intimidate (related, I believe, to the words "cower" and possibly "coward"). To kowtow (intransitive verb) is to prostrate oneself in such a way as to touch one's forehead to the ground (the usual obeisance with which the Emperors of China were greeted).

venomlash on January 17, 2011 at 4:33 PM

"kowtow", does not mean does not mean "intimidate", but rather "make obeisance". I think the word you are looking for is "cowed".
Thus, "The employees were not cowed by the suspect, and thus they did not kowtow to him."

Eric from Boulder on January 17, 2011 at 4:35 PM

I am totally cowed by venomlash's typing speed. He has out-pedanted me, sure.

Eric from Boulder on January 17, 2011 at 4:37 PM

Or alternatively, the story could go:

It sucks to have mental health problems, live on the streets, be eaten up with crawlies, have addiction issues and have society ignore your pleas for help because they don't want to pay more taxes.

Christi S on January 17, 2011 at 4:38 PM

@10 But are you kowtowing to him??

Canuck on January 17, 2011 at 4:44 PM

@11, as much as I agree with your alternate reality, in the real world it still sucks to constantly have bums brazenly stealing shit and threatening to stab people. A lot of these nutters on the street want to be ignored, or at least think they do, and unless we change the way we do involuntary commitments it's going to stay this way.

SPG on January 17, 2011 at 4:46 PM

@10: http://i.zdnet.com/blogs/smoking-gun.jpg

venomlash on January 17, 2011 at 6:42 PM

@14: Lucky shot.

Eric from Boulder on January 17, 2011 at 8:21 PM

hmmm... Complete assholery, intern. Way to exploit/ridicule the mentally unstable. Good thing that the events in Tuscon did not in any way alter the way the Stranger handles discourse on matters related to the mentally unstable.

on January 18, 2011 at 5:37 AM

@16: FUCKING HELL, TOO MANY PEOPLE SAYING "TUSCON" ALL UP IN THIS BITCH. SPELL THE FUCKING WORD RIGHT, DAMMIT.

venomlash on January 18, 2011 at 8:19 AM

Colonel Mustard, In the Grocery Store, with the Scissors

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