Comments on: Friday Happy Hour: Your Most Admired List

By: m

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:16:00 +0000

1. Please come south.
2. Firefighters. I’m probably a bit biased because my granddad was a volunteer fire chief, my dad is a division fire chief, and my future husband is a volunteer fire captain.
3. Does a chant count as a speech? Hearing the 9/11 rescue/clean-up workers chant USA brings me to tears to this day.

By: Doug

Doug — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:21:15 +0000

2. Is it bad if I post my own career? I will anyways :P Dispatchers, they deal with all the screaming calls for help and make sure the proper people arrive to your emergency, while rarely getting to hear the thanks that responding units recieve, along with being the first line of support for medical assistance (through emergency medical dispatch).

By: BassMan

BassMan — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:10:32 +0000

As I learned from Rocky & Bullwinkle, the place is actually called Greenpernt.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:32:16 +0000

I’d go, esp. if it’s at the Black Rabbit. I’ve played trivia there before and it’s always a good time.

By: Debbie

Debbie — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:29:25 +0000

1. I ADORE Greenpoint but will unfortunately be out of town. Are you going to Black Rabbit? I know they have trivia on Tuesdays (and offer free absinthe shots if you get bonus questions right)

2. I’m probably 5th-ing volunteer firefighters, and will add cleaning ladies/janitors. I don’t think I could deal with half the shit they put up with.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:38:45 +0000

1. Sorry can’t make.. will be buyin the book though.

2. How bout electricians on service calls , keepin the lights on, and in some cases..turnin the ventilator back on for grandma!!!

3. I saw a one man show a few years back. It was John Ashton doin the life and times of Edgar Allen Poe. still remember it!!

By: adrienne

adrienne — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:48:48 +0000

1. I checked my schedule, and I definitely won’t be in Brooklyn that Tuesday.

2. I admire people who take risks; anyone who leaves a happy, secure place to help others or do something they know is more fulfilling or better in the long-term, for instance.

3. I am a big fan of politics, and speeches in particular. I’ve seen lots of good ones lately, but I’m sticking with Obama’s DNC address in 2004.

By: Val

Val — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:14:14 +0000

#3 – Kurt Vonnegut, early 80’s – but it wasn’t political. Similary, Nikki Giovanni, 1992

By: Mare

Mare — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:11:46 +0000

2. Again with childbirth and nurses:
I had eaten a huge meal prior to my scheduled C-section, I ate all the hospital meals, had yummy ethnic take-out brought in, and after five days of stuffing myself and three days of powerful laxatives and no results, I was desperate. Kudos to the kindhearted nurse who answered my sobbing plea for an enema with a warm hug and: “Of course honey, and don’t cry, you’re my third one tonight!”. Now that IS a caring profession!

By: meag

meag — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:48:26 +0000

1. portland!!! please?!?!

2. i have two. teachers, especially the ones who will go out on a limb for you. and old people (not pc, i know) who are far more interesting and fun to talk to than most people give them credit for.