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Lost: big box of crickets on the subway

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Date: 2006-04-08, 11:33PM EDT



oh god oh god oh god i hope sumone can find a big brown cardboard box i left on TTC subway at Bloor station!!!

it was a box of 10000 food crickets for my three bearded dragon pets and oh god oh god oh god if anyone opens it things are really gonna be hoppin on the TTC

if found contact me unless you are angry and covered in crickets


no -- it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests


I hope I don't find a box full of bugs

To: Guy Who Screamed Obscenities at the Ballet the Other Night:



It was Don Quixote, a rather fun full-length ballet, nobody dies like in the dreary Giselle or Swan Lake.

Another fantastic performance by the SF Ballet. I know you enjoyed it. Our whole section knows you enjoyed it. Every time a dancer would perform a particularly impressive jump, or a series of 3+ pirouettes, you would say, "Whoa!" or "Jaysus!"

This, I didn't mind. As a former dancer and now a season-ticket holder of our City's fine company, I get a kick out of hearing others' excitement for an artform I hold dear. Much better than the guy next to me whose head started to fall like a kid in an 8th grade math class.

So, the curtain falls. The end. Applause.

Curtain comes up and the dancers begin to take their bows. You notice a few people standing up. Was it an ovation? NO! They were LEAVING! These people could not WAIT to get to their cars (they were obviously not MUNI riders, walkers or cab-hailers like most of us in the City)! They had no time for CLAPPING! They had to get out now!

It was then you yelled, in your beautiful gray-haired old crotchety man voice, "WILL YOU PEOPLE SIT DOWN AND LET THE *POLITE* PEOPLE SHOW THEIR APPRECIATION?!," slight pause, "YA a**hole!"

Now, I have seen dozens of ballets in my relatively short lifetime of 25 years. Never, not once, have I encountered a fan of ballet quite like you. At the ballgame, sure, that kind of yelling is par for the course. At the ballgame we eat peanuts and leave the shells in piles at our feet.

Sir, this was THE BALLET.

And for your outburst directed at the people who think somewhere in their tiny brains that it is even remotely acceptable to get up and leave during the curtain call, remotely acceptable to not even clap for the world class artists who just performed a most difficult and worthwhile ballet for our enjoyment (artists whose salary is about that of a standard office receptionist), remotely acceptable to WALK OUT while the house lights are up and we can all (including the dancers) see...

Kind sir, for your outburst, screaming at these "a**hole", I thank you from the bottom of my art-loving heart.

I've been wanting to say that for a long time.

And WOW! They sat their asses down, didn't they?! A few were even clapping.

You are the BEST.

Cordially,
Fellow Supporter of the Fine Arts in San Francisco

To: Guy Who Screamed Obscenities at the Ballet the Other Night

Open Letter From a Cop....



I read that one but didn't post it, it was very funny

Now this one really appreciates the Craigs list place


I am nominating Craig for head of FEMA

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This is what Craig has done during his tenure with me:
1. gotten me laid many times
2. found me a boyfriend
3. rid me of my boxes
4. found me roommates
5. rid me of my roommates
6. found me exercise partners
7. did I mention gotten me laid?

I think the fact that Craig achieved #1 and 2 says that this guy can tackle a hefty job. #3 says he can handle movement of supplies. #4 and #5 says he knows how to manage people. Everyone knows that Craig has shown himself the world over to be a superior supplier of housing. In addition, Craig knows toxic waste- I mean, he manages numerous Casual Encounters boards.

There is no better man or woman for this job. Vote Craig!!!

Now I wonder about those women who have dozens of cats

This is a test.

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Date: 2005-09-02, 6:33PM CDT



This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. This is only a test.

Had this been an actual emergency, you would have all been left to die while President Bush finished his vacation, Vice President Cheney went fishing, and Secretary of State Condi Rice went shopping for expensive shoes in Manhattan and took in a Broadway play.

This concludes this test of the Emergency Broadcast System. We now return you to your regularly scheduled disaster.

First annual RnR picnic....