Friday, April 15, 2011

For anyone worried about the yuppies taking over the Tompkins Square Park ping-pong table




Photographed in the Park yesterday by EV Grieve Ping Pong Correspondent Bobby Williams.
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8 comments:

  1. Jeremiah MossApril 15, 2011 at 7:46 AM

    nice scene.

    i have to say, from the looks of the stroller and the child's whimsical, fashionable hat, those might very well be the parents of yuppies looking after their grandchild for the afternoon while mommy and daddy go to their IntenSati class, where they do yoga moves while shouting affirmations like "I am powerful!" and "I will succeed!"

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  2. KurtApril 15, 2011 at 8:45 AM

    That kid looks like a future FRAT BOY to me, uggh! This ping pong table is just terrible! Tear it out!

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  3. Ken from Ken's KitchenApril 15, 2011 at 9:13 AM

    What a bunch of "self-absorbed narcicists who moved here from St Elsewhere!"

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  4. KimberleyApril 15, 2011 at 9:53 AM

    So hateful. Toward a child even. You should be ashamed of yourself.

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  5. AnonymousApril 15, 2011 at 10:11 AM

    I can only presume that no one is seriously arguing about the yuppification of the ping pong table, or the ping pong table yuppifying the park.

    If so, these people are just as much fools in the culture war as the Tea Party. Go make a case for housing education public transport no war and health care. And to hell with policing stroller models.

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  6. Ken from Ken's KitchenApril 15, 2011 at 11:05 AM

    I was being sarcastic, Kimberley. Thought that might have been obvious considering the nice looking people and the little kid being in the pics and all. Maybe not. Hope that clears things up.

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  7. JeremyApril 15, 2011 at 6:21 PM

    For those that don't understand the reason for the sarcasm, please read the comments at the original ping pong table post: http://evgrieve.com/2011/03/table-tennis-comes-to-tompkins-square.html

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  8. AnonymousApril 15, 2011 at 10:16 PM

    Thank you, Jeremy, for posting a link to background information that will help correct our failure to understand. Surely there was no failure in the sarcasm itself.

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