Showing posts with label xmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label xmas. Show all posts

Monday, December 25, 2023

A bunch Christmas nonsense I saved up





Monday, December 19, 2022

Today's funny posts



@dhappyrex Unnecessarily necessary##WorldCup##fyp##Argentina##goldenglove#g#goalkeepere#emilianomartinez ♬ original sound - Ayieeeks




Saturday, December 10, 2022

Secrets of the Christmas tree racket in New York, including "Willie the Hat, a diminutive man known for wearing fedoras and sharkskin gloves because sharkskin is the only material thin enough to count cash with"

Long article at Curbed about the history of Christmas trees:

[His] innovation was simple: He was the first to go over the heads of the middlemen and source trees himself and the first to discover the power of an obscure city ordinance called the Coniferous Tree Exception. Adopted in 1938 amid a dispute between Mayor Fiorello La Guardia and street peddlers, it says that anyone can sell trees on the sidewalk if they get permission from the nearest business. 

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I’ve met several people who’ve sold Christmas trees for [him]. Almost all of them asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals. They said that to work for [him], there is no interview and there is no application. The only way to enter his network is to be referred by an insider. You and a partner — [his] sellers always work in pairs — call a number around October, and a voice instructs you both to show up at a certain location (typically a sidewalk outside a bodega) around Thanksgiving. When you arrive, the two of you wait, possibly hours, potentially days, for another phone call from a different number. A new voice instructs you to construct a small shack out of pallets, plywood, even garbage, then continue waiting for the arrival of hundreds of Christmas trees, which will soon appear overnight along with clippers, chain saws, and plastic netting. You are instructed to sell each tree at the highest possible price.

It’s cash only. The money is collected each day by a person who pulls up in a black SUV unannounced.

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[He] is said to occasionally appear to buy trees from himself. He doesn’t use a disguise because no one knows what he looks like.

Saturday, December 25, 2021

Christmas tree in the hot cell; Annual Christmas puzzle; Christmas by Emberley

























Techno-nightmare Christmas tree?; Eldritch Christmas tree; Michael Caine Muppet

































Saturday, December 18, 2021

This week's best Warhamer 40k miniatures and other hobby creations














































*See more miniatures.