SOUP TO NUTS: Enjoy Some Nutty Bits Before Halloween!

Late breaking bits of New York nuttiness!… All the nuts that’s fit to print… Odds and ends our Nuts in NY interns might not have time to investigate fully… But don’t miss these… Hot off the press from New York City… Sometimes weird, often wacky… And remember don’t be shy about clicking here to share your own nutty bits with the rest of the class…

A MORE APPEALING CHOKING VICTIM POSTER

Most people are familiar enough with the standard, required Choking Victim poster which hangs in most restaurants around town, informing us how to save such a victim using the Heimlich maneuver. Well here’s an alternative version:

This version hangs in Porchetta in the East Village. According to Slashfood, it was designed by Alex Holden for a Cuban-themed bar, because they couldn’t deal with the standard version. He had this extra copy, which he passed on to Porchetta.

Source: Slashfood
Photo credit: Joe DiStefano

A LESSON FROM SNL ON THE STATE OF COMEDY

Somewhere in NYC, Carla Thompson teaches something, but I’m not sure what or where. Anyway, the following, which reportedly happened to her in her classroom the other day, is the kind of thing that can happen to a New Yorker at some point:

Last Friday, sick as mangy dog, I hauled myself into class to teach… Just as I was about to sit…one of my students burst into the room, talking mile a minute about Saturday Night Live and…could they come in and shoot…

SNL’s Andy Samberg

Andy Samberg, dressed as a Rasta Man and singing…sat among the students as they pretended to take a test. They even got into the act a bit “singing” a few words and waving their arms… [I]t aired on Saturday Night Live. I am happy for my students, but I am so sad for the state of comedy.

Source: Carla Thompson’s The Ride
Photo credit: James Dittiger/Paramount Pictures

UPPER EAST SIDE RECESSION: BOTOX, VACATIONS, HAIR COLOR AND DOGGY BAGS

Former Cosmopolitan Magazine senior editor Betsy Perry, now NYC’s Commissioner for Women’s Issues, brings us this heart-wrenching tale of upscale economizing from the Upper East Side:

I was part of a conversation at Settemezzo about what one might give up first in hard times — Botox or a vacation. The vacation was first to go… There’s still a lot of Upper East Side streaked blond hair, but I’m now into the trashy rock star look myself with lots of roots thanks to my color wizard Frank Friscioni at Madison Avenue’s Oscar Blandi salon.

Betsy Perry

While I never pay less than $250 for a half head of streaks, I’m still saving since I gave up the perfect blond look which needed $100 touch ups every two weeks. Frank confided that even his laid off Goldman Sachs clients — men and women — aren’t giving up hair color. What he does hear is economizing in other areas including taking doggy bags home with unfinished dinners to be recycled for next day’s lunch…

Source: Huffington Post
Photo credit: New York magazine

FOR THOSE WHO ARE SERIOUS ABOUT THEIR LOOKS

Photo credit: sharon.sk

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Keep Entertaining Us, Oh Crazy Hyped Up Girl!

The buzz around the watercooler here at Nuts In NY Plaza today has been this report filed by Ashley Tiffany-Amber yesterday. Just the kind of wackiness that gets folks here talking, some fine nut gathering.

Ashley writes:

I am a graduate student at New York University… In one class, there is a crazy girl. She talks so much. Every class… she just sounds a bit hyped up on coffee. Or speed. Everything she says is frantic, complete with hand gestures and bobbing (in and out of her seat). She comes off as oddly excited and inquisitive…

Remember in high school when taking standardized tests? Students would always ask about how to fill in bubbles? Even though, for the most part, it is self-explanatory? She asks questions like that. And then asks for oh-so-much clarification. On everything…

The teacher…listens politely and is neither dismissive nor, you know, interested in what she is saying. She hasn’t, as of yet, been so irritating that students hate her because while she sounds moderately insane, she limits herself to 1-2 bursts per class… Either people really don’t mind, or they are polite enough not to snicker when she speaks. I think it is a little of both. Until last class…

Professor was explaining something, using an example, but not saying who’s paper it was in order to be polite. Crazy girl started asking questions. Then said to us, “Just so you know, it’s my paper he’s talking about.”

To which our professor responds, “I didn’t want to embarrass you.”

Crazy assures him, “You’re not embarrassing me,” and continues, while the student next to me whispers, “No, she is doing fine on her own.”

Crazy continues to argue that her paper was clear, etc., etc., and “I think you should read it again,” offering her assignment back to the teacher.

At the end of her frenzied protest, she apologized to the class, as she was taking up our time with her individual concern. However, I gathered from the class’s general reaction to her that we all thought what she did was very much worth our time with its entertainment value…

Thanks to Ashley for the keen reportage, for acting as our eyes and ears at NYU, and for finding such a perfect nut!

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Mayor Bloomberg: NY Does Not Exist Til Jess Returns

New York City is missing a nut, and vice versa.

Jess, a 20 year old NYU undergrad, loves Paris but she is homesick for New York. She writes home comparing the two cities, two cultures:

People actually amble when they get off the Metro here! If you do that in New York you get run over or verbally abused. But I think all these things contribute to an attitude that is in contrast to one that people used to living in New York have cultivated. I have no patience, a strikingly entitled outlook (I don’t care how Catholic you are, stores should be open on Sundays!), a hurried, intense way of living and an arbitrary sense of safety even in the most dangerous situations.

The no-24-hour-metro thing is a problem in the sense that I am broke and can’t afford to take a cab home every time I go out. (Not to mention it’s not like cabs swarm the streets like in New York)…

It’s not that I hate Paris: quite the contrary. I love it here. It’s just that New York has been so woven into the person that I am that the very idea of it existing without me makes me homesick. My friends here from NYU and I talk about it constantly, and Parisians or people we know from different schools stare at us like we are legit insane. Perhaps we are. We get this dreamy look in our eyes like we are reminiscing about some long ago high school romance… a high school romance with a 24 hour subway system and an intense delivery network that can allow for anything your heart desires to appear on your doorstep within the hour.

I was browsing through friends’ Facebook albums this morning and saw a picture of someone walking up Astor Place towards Broadway. I suddenly experienced this dramatic lurch in my stomach and felt like I might cry. It’s almost as if I’m in this one sided long distance relationship or something, wherein I desperately miss this place and it just ignores me and continues to spit out pollution and embarrassingly pun-laden Post headlines…

Jess et une amie a Paris

Jess, I think I speak for 8 million New Yorkers when I say it’s just not the same without you here. Hurry home!

Photo credit: Jess and Josh Talk About Stuff

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Lather, Rinse, Repeat, Infinity…

This NYU student is a nut right up our own alley here at Nuts in NY Plaza… We believe her when she tells us the following on the About page of her blog:

My name is Nicole. I am a student at New York University, and sometimes, when I’m showering, I forget whether I’ve shampooed my hair or not, so I’ll do it, but then I’ll remember that I already did, so my hair just ends up clean to the point of unhealthiness.

Not to mention it’s a good excuse to include a photo of a babe taking a shower!…

Photo credit: pixelateit

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