Dave on 7th spotted the above on East Sixth Street today... what was, most likely, or not, a Christmas (holiday) tree. "The branches are in the bags," Dave on 7th hopefully pointed out.
Fine. But where is the verification/authentification/random -tion word to prove that this is actually from today?
[Boosting the circulation]
OK, fine. But where is the stump and the bags with the remains of the Christmas (holiday) tree? We called him out on this, said something like FAIL, though in a jovial way that may have been misinterpreted via email.
"Actually, not a fail. Note the same car across the street."
OK. Hold all tickets. This might take awhile.
Current record for Christmas (holiday) tree discarding: June 29-30.
THIS IS NOT REAL! THE FIX IS IN! I and I alone shall find the last tree thrown out on December 24th at 11:59 pm.
ReplyDelete@ Eden
ReplyDeletePlease save your anger for a passive aggressive note that you place on Dave on 7th's front door!
there was a GIANT wreath with holiday trimmings on top of the trash on East 2nd St. just west of Ave B this morning. No photo, I was coming back from a run....
ReplyDeleteI'm not satisfied with this sighting either. Double fail.
ReplyDeleteSigned,
Someone who lost the 2011 Xmas season tree-spotting contest during the summer of 2012 (but I"m not bitter!!!).
@ Someone who lost the 2011 Xmas season tree-spotting contest during the summer of 2012 (but I"m not bitter!!!)
ReplyDeleteLeave your address and we'll send you $5-off coupons for your next Hoboken Hoof purchase!
Hey Grieve- Speaking of Winter you still have that piece of the Icicle Audi?
ReplyDelete@ Makeout
ReplyDeleteUgh! No! It melted during the Sandy blackout. [Fighting back tears] The puddle refroze, and the whole fridge-freezer remains on eBay. (Starting price is $47,500.)
Not a strand of tinsel or bits of broken ornament or a single pine needle. That's a DQ in my book. Rules official?
ReplyDeleteMust have belonged to a DOB Inspector. It's Christmas all year round for them, if you know what I'm sayin'.
ReplyDeleteI'm not convinced. The cars are much closer together in the second picture.
ReplyDeleteWhen is Gruber MacDougal going to weigh in? I believe he is the true authority here, after all....:)
ReplyDeleteOh, I have SEVERAL tersely worded extremely passive aggressive notes I am working on.
ReplyDeleteWith global warming the pine needles tend to drop off much faster these days. On the other hand it could just be a very crudely made walking stick. But since there are just 75 more shopping days until Christmas I bet someone else will beat this one for the annual title soon enough.
ReplyDeleteThe bottom line is that until EV starts using carbon dating or some other scientific testing method then we may never really know if these old dried out Xmas trees are from the most recent Christmas or if they are from another Christmas from a long time ago....for all we know some of these may be antique pre-Obama or Bush-era trees, Rudy Guiliani or Abe Beame-era trees, Cold war trees, or even Depression-era trees full of oldness and history. Sadly, we just may never know.
That's no holiday tree...that's Lady Gaga performing a tribute to John and Yoko.
ReplyDeleteMarty, you just made me crack up and spit coffee all over my keypad.
ReplyDeleteM.B.I.P. is still obsessed w/ Lady GaGa i see...
ReplyDeleterr
This contest has been a travesty for years, Gruber is on the payroll. Its sad to see something that started as a honest venture, for the kids, mutate into its current form. RIP
ReplyDeleteAgreed, 9:39AM (just before me). Gruber can suck a thick dripping one for all I care!
ReplyDelete@ hey19 & anon 4:19
ReplyDeleteNo one feels worse about this than me, probably. Like everything I do, this was for the children.
Now I have to explain to little Cassandra what a "thick dripping one" is.