Common white girls/black dreads Contest!

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Yesterday, after reading the - common: "i like to have sex with white chicks, i just dont like to date them" - thread, I went for a little stroll around my neighborhood. I walked maybe 10 blocks. During that time, I saw 3 black male/white female pairings. Maybe couples? Who knows. All of the guys had dreads.

Also, I've seen common a few times in the deli on my block.

Where do i live? City & neighborhood. What gender, race am I? Do I have dreads?

Winner gets unfettered access to my vast digital music library.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 10 June 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

You are an alien from the planet Tharg and you live in Spitsbergen. Your one dread grows from between your nipples. Gender means nothing to you as the word which describes your state of sexual being is unpronounceable by humans.

Can I get access to YMO sessions first?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 10 June 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

You live in Shinjuku district, Tokyo, Japan. Your father was hungarian, your mother Cambodian. You do not have dreads, although you wash your hair very infrequently.

― deej.., Friday, 10 June 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

Vienna?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 10 June 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

That means nothing to him.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 10 June 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

Maybe that type of interracial coupling is more common for some reason? I don't know...

― bob n0pe (bobnope), Friday, 10 June 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

more common than Common

I dunno: Chicago, southside, black male, no?

― zebedee (zebedee), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

more common than Common

http://www.9inchnails.net/remix-files/pictures/white_zombie_astro_creep.jpg

Er, wait.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

He said "deli," so he's not from Chicago.

I'll bet you live in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. You're Thai and don't have dreads.

― nabiscothingy, Friday, 10 June 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

Thai? With a last name like O'Shea?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

Lots of photos of Thailand on his website, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

Alternately, you live in Buckhead, Atlanta. Alternately, you're Jewish.

― nabiscothingy, Friday, 10 June 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

Ha, I wasn't properly parsing that as O'Shea! I couldn't figure out how to break down "jhoshea," but it had that Biblical sound -- hence the alternate-Judaism guess.

― nabiscothingy, Friday, 10 June 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

Brooklyn NY, White Male, No Dreads. I win!

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

Joe is originally from Massachusetts but now lives in Ft. Greene, near 7 corners.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

haha there's no way Common still lives in Chicago.

― deej.., Friday, 10 June 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

Chicago, Hyde Park, you're a Ukranian guy with a crew cut

― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

He sometimes dines in Chinatown.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

Lives on Grand Ave.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

What do you say instead of "deli"?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

Big basketball fan.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

Your one dread grows from between your nipples

Oh God, not another "nipple hair" thread...

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

Avid poker player.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think I've ever seen Chicagoans, or really any midwesterners, use "deli" in the casual sense that east-coasters do. If you say "deli" in the Midwest, you tend to mean a proper, self-conscious, sandwich-serving near-restaurant deli, right? Which isn't an every-corner phenomenon there. New York has a lot more deli-like establishments to begin with, plus New Yorkers seem willing to use "deli" as the casual word for anything that has a couple pieces of food in a case -- the kind of thing that, in the Midwest, would more likely be referred to as a "convenience store" (or, in Chicago, a "White Hen"). Am I totally out of whack on that one, or does that seem true to others? I felt like I could always spot New Yorkers in Chicago, cause around 2 am they'd start saying "Isn't there a deli open around here? Don't you guys have any bodegas around?"

― nabiscothingy, Friday, 10 June 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

Nabisco OTM. Do they have those hotdog/polish/gyros stands with garish (in a good way!) yellow signs all over NY like they do in Chicago?

― deej.., Friday, 10 June 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

Er not "stands," i mean ... uh.... "restaurants."

― deej.., Friday, 10 June 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah Nabisco, that's my definition of deli (the Midwestern sandwich shop one that you mention). I just assumed that's what he meant.

I was picturing, like, Ashkenaz in Chicago because it's the only deli there that I've been to. Of course, that would mean that the poster is Jewish and lives in a million dollar condo downtown.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, there's not as much point in having regular-old delis in the midwest, since there's room to have full-scale groceries in most neighborhoods; people doing "delis" tend to go for the authentic-NY-deli "get yr Reuben here" thing. I dunno, maybe downtown Chicago has a few ordinary delis in among the condo areas. NYC has enough regular crappity delis on the corner that the term blurs with "corner store" and "bodega" and becomes some generalized thing -- there are establishments here that people call "delis" when in any sensible Midwestern world they would be called what they actually are, which is "liquor stores."

― nabiscothingy, Friday, 10 June 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

You live in North Oakland and you drive an art car.

I don't need any conscious ragga mp3s, thanks.

― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Friday, 10 June 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

Nabisco is right, y'all. (I was going to explain myself, but I figured you had a better understanding having lived in both places.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 10 June 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

When is jhoshea gonna come back and call me out on my cyberstalking?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 10 June 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

You'd be depressed if you had any idea how much of my mental space is wasted with banal sub-Seinfeld teasings-out of the differences between New York and Chicago. It's like an eternal version of the college-freshman "you call it soda" conversation. I could write the dumbest book in the world.

― nabiscothingy, Friday, 10 June 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

And dude, did your stalk confirm that he lives in Fort Greene? I totally feel like the man now. I was kidding about the Thai part, dude, give me mp3s!

― nabiscothingy, Friday, 10 June 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

Seriously though, those Chicago-y hot dog joints - do they have them in NY or no?

― deej.., Friday, 10 June 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

xpost - fuck a person that says Pop

― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Friday, 10 June 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

I miss the Midwest!

xp - I say "fizzy drink".

― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Friday, 10 June 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

(I don't really, but I would if I was MORE English)

― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Friday, 10 June 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

OK - jaymc please don't steal my identity - I need it. Although, it might help to clear up that driving without a license charge.

OK nabiscothingy - since you were just kidding about the thai part you win:

Ft Green - White, dreadless male.

email me to claim your mp3s

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 10 June 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

How much was I right about?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 10 June 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

Omigod omigod I've totally never won anything before. I wanna thank John and Jordan, for talking about delis when I needed it most ... Ultragrrl and the Believers, for keeping me on ILM when I might have given up and done some work ... who am I forgetting ... my agent, my mama, yo mama, Yo-Yo Ma ... fight the real enemy!

Deej: Yeah, sure, you get some of that kind of burger / hotdog / gyro stuff. Sure. Hot dogs especially -- Gray's Papaya kind of things. There's just fewer of them, I think, cause (a) you can get similar things from street vendors, and more importantly (b) the quick-eats market is way more about cheap-Chinese and cheap-pizza. Those are the two-a-block go-to options.

― nabiscothingy, Friday, 10 June 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

true:
Joe is originally from Massachusetts but now lives in Ft. Greene, near 7 corners.
He sometimes dines in Chinatown.
Big basketball fan.
Avid poker player - I'm more of a binger than avid - but close enough

false:
Lives on Grand Ave. - i live on greene

The ft greene 7 corners thing is obviously from the silly sight with the little cars - the poker and basketball were reveled by googling scoopsnoodle - Chinatown and mass? please enlighten me.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 10 June 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

Orig. from Massachusetts = post on CelticsBlog.com. Not that you said anything explicitly, I just figured a Celtics fan in Brooklyn would be from Mass.

Chinatown = post on OverheardinNewYork.com.

Grand/Greene Ave. = I couldn't make out the address label on the defamed Sports Illustrated cover.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 10 June 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

jaymc -you are too good

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 10 June 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

I guess New Yorkers probably don't do things like take a giant beef sandwich and actually dunk it in its own juices before serving it.

― raj, Friday, 10 June 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I can't say I've seen dips of any sort since coming here. I mean, I'm sure you can get them somewhere or other, but yeah.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 10 June 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

Would it surprise you to learn that I'm employed as a fact-checker?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 10 June 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

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