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Decoy:
Did he keep his reciept?
(Wed Apr 23, 2003 - 12:53:41 pm)

Heruka:
Concrete Blond in town too. Hmmm, again.
(Wed Apr 23, 2003 - 12:54:39 pm)

Heruka:
blonde
(Wed Apr 23, 2003 - 12:54:57 pm)

Heruka:
will work for bagels.
(Wed Apr 23, 2003 - 12:55:27 pm)

Decoy:
will work for Floyd tickets
(Wed Apr 23, 2003 - 12:55:59 pm)

Decoy:
Breaks over. Later, kids.
(Wed Apr 23, 2003 - 12:56:13 pm)

Queenie:
geez, the guy has like no pictures of himself on his website.
(Wed Apr 23, 2003 - 12:56:54 pm)

Heruka:
later.
(Wed Apr 23, 2003 - 12:57:02 pm)

Queenie:
this is the best I could do -- the guy in the middle...

(Wed Apr 23, 2003 - 12:57:13 pm)

Heruka:
I'm going to buy the easter candy that's on sale now. I need Cadbury eggs.
(Wed Apr 23, 2003 - 12:58:15 pm)

Queenie:
cadbury eggs are so nasty.
(Wed Apr 23, 2003 - 1:01:04 pm)

Queenie:
I used to look forward to easter every year when I was a kid because I would buy them by the dozens, but now when I try to eat them, they just taste so gross.
(Wed Apr 23, 2003 - 1:01:43 pm)

Queenie:
dozen -s
(Wed Apr 23, 2003 - 1:04:56 pm)

Queenie:
my fucking dryer is broken! RAAAAAAAAAGE!
(Wed Apr 23, 2003 - 1:37:27 pm)

(Wed Apr 23, 2003 - 1:43:33 pm)

Chewing Wax:
What did I miss?
(Wed Apr 23, 2003 - 1:53:55 pm)

Heruka:
nothing.
(Wed Apr 23, 2003 - 1:56:53 pm)

Heruka:
nothing that a vast right wing conspiracy would let you know about anyway.
(Wed Apr 23, 2003 - 2:00:42 pm)

bela:
Yesterday when I was in the Duane REades across the street, all these women were in the candy isle buying 1/2 price candy. The things they were saying, it was hilarious. THen I got in line and I saw Waltr's exwife, or wife or whatever she is in line buying a diet coke. She must work around here.
(Wed Apr 23, 2003 - 2:15:55 pm)

bela:
She didn't recognize me, even though she's seen me but we've never been introduced. She was wearing pointy black toe leather boots - 60s style. She has big calves or calfs.
(Wed Apr 23, 2003 - 2:17:13 pm)

bela:
pointy toe black
(Wed Apr 23, 2003 - 2:17:30 pm)

Heruka:
are you and old Walt there doing the horizontal monkey dance together?
(Wed Apr 23, 2003 - 2:20:41 pm)

Heruka:
Transit Agency Accused of Hiding $512.5M
(AP) - The nation's largest transit agency concealed more than half a billion dollars from the public while it was arguing for a fare increase, the state comptroller charged in an audit Wednesday. The audit found that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority kept two sets of books — one public and another for internal use, Comptroller Alan Hevesi said. The public and politicians were left with "a distorted picture created by the MTA to make it easier to push through an increase," Hevesi said
(Wed Apr 23, 2003 - 2:22:18 pm)

Queenie:
so i've got this mp3 -- one version says it's jewel, the other identical version says it's pj harvey -- and i'll be goddamned if I can't tell which it is. You think you'd be able to tell the difference. but it doesn't sound like either.
(Wed Apr 23, 2003 - 2:22:41 pm)

Queenie:
horizontal monkey dance??
(Wed Apr 23, 2003 - 2:23:16 pm)

bela:
No way, not me man.
(Wed Apr 23, 2003 - 2:23:41 pm)

Heruka:
The public and politicians were left with "a distorted picture created by the MTA to make it easier to push through an increase," Hevesi said.

Agency officials disputed the accusations Wednesday and said they would provide a detailed rebuttal at an afternoon press conference with Executive Director Katherine Lapp.

"We categorically deny that there are two sets of books," MTA spokesman Tom Kelly said.

Hevesi said he got the internal books by subpoena and said they showed the agency had moved $512.5 million from its 2002 accounts onto the books for 2003 and 2004. As a result, a potential 2002 surplus of $537 million shrank to $24.6 million, the audit says. Similar accounting moves turned a 2003 surplus of $83 million into a $236 million deficit, Hevesi said.

"Our review proves that, in fact, the MTA has a culture of secrecy, arrogance, lack of accountability and contempt for the public," he said.

The MTA had repeatedly said it faced massive deficits while it was arguing for the fare hike, which was approved in March.

The approved changes raise one-way bus and subway rides by 50 cents to $2 starting May 4. They also increase commuter rail line fares and tolls at bridges and tunnels

(Wed Apr 23, 2003 - 2:23:56 pm)

Heruka:
will someone be held responsible for this? the public was going to be fleeced for half a billion dollars at a time when NYC is at a money crunch. There should be a lot of people going to prison.
(Wed Apr 23, 2003 - 2:25:12 pm)

Heruka:
how come we don't hate these people as much as the big business guys?
(Wed Apr 23, 2003 - 2:26:04 pm)

Queenie:
yet another website says it Chantal Kreviazuk
(Wed Apr 23, 2003 - 2:26:04 pm)

Chewing Wax:
Prison is too good for them
(Wed Apr 23, 2003 - 2:26:59 pm)

bela:
They'll be dealt with. Seems like Bloomberg is cleaning these things up -
(Wed Apr 23, 2003 - 2:29:26 pm)

Heruka:
what would happen if I started taking viagra? does it have an adverse affect on younger men? I'm tired of petering out after an hour and a half or two.
(Wed Apr 23, 2003 - 2:29:35 pm)