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Merc,

In that case, let me just tell you that I have read with interest the many postings to you on your Plaza thread. A few people were being mean, but many were being either helpful or kind of amusing. You bristled way too much, dude. The folks who post here aren't here to serve you; they are here to get information, give information, and have fun in the process. Relax, and banter back a bit. You'll like it.

merc

I think I'll leave that to the experts. I'm here to give and receive information which is accurate and helpful. I am certainly not here to be served on as you strangely put it and neither do I expect to read messages which are rude,full of sarcasm and attempt to belittle people. This is not what this forum is about.Humour is one thing, but there are numerous messages which have gone way past that.

kalena

Hey, who stay hu-hu...wassa deal?
Get one Hawaiian kine answer hea... Take one trip to Molokai!

help

KN!,

Any chance you could find the Personal Trainor thread and send it up? I've heard good things, but I just can't seem to discover it.

Thanks.

Noach

i was raised the son of poor mole sharecroppers. please help me!!!!!

KN!

The Personal Trainor was an EMail. I will try and copy/paste if no-one else has a problem with that on the board. I thought it funny and when I forwarded to a few people in the office you could hear the choir type laughter. Let me know. I could add it to this one or set up new.

Cindy

Sure, go ahead and post it as a new thread. I guess there's no sense letting it get in the way of the Moles.

Thanks.

Mr

Here we go again! I must tell all of you Uplanders that I am just sick to death of all of your sick little jokes. We Moles are honest, hard-working law-abiding people, and we just can't get a break. Do any of you sun-lovers send your kids to school with our kids? Do you hire us? Do you invest in our moister communities? Of course not. All I ever see is a few of you who come down following some traitor running a pointless tour, shining those darn lights at us and wrinkling your little noses. Do you ever question anything you are told on these tours? You should. I have heard stories about us Moles that are just bald-faced lies, I tell you, and you all just swallow every word. So let me say this: just go back to where you came from and leave us alone!

MRS MICK MOLEY

I am a mole by marriage, I have a fine husband, he's a good provider and father for our two little mole children, Oogle and Google. Even though I was born "up top", I have completely assimilated into the underground way. I home school several of the neighboring mole kids, teaching them not only how to obtain and prepare food down here, but also about the strange bright land up above. They are free to go up at anytime, but 95% choose to stay down. I would welcome any skeptics to visit us and be our guest for a week or so. Sample my homemade worm pie pate', its the best! Not enough is known about us, it is an acquired lifestyle and environment. Please call me at 1-555-WAY-DOWN to participate in our toplanders/bottomlanders exchange program. It'll turn your life topsy-turvy! Love, Mrs. Moley

Noach

I am Noach. I grew up in the mole tunnels with AMS, Maui Heidi and Garden John. See, we're all normal, just like you.

Souette

While I have never been to NYC...I am planning a trip to Boston in July.
I have read that the trip from the airport will take me through "tunnels" into the city.
Is it a possibility that I might see a Bostonian Mole person?! Would their appearance differ from the New Yorker Mole? This could be the highlight of my trip.

Cindy

Souette,

I'm no expert, mind you, but I don't think you will observe very many differences among the NY Moles and the Boston Moles (who prefer to be called "BMs") just by looking. You would really have to mingle with them to pick up on it. The main difference is in the accent, with the Boston Moles having difficulty with the pronunciation of the last letter in certain words, such as "car." There are similarities, however. For some reason, both the BMs and NY Moles seem to believe they reside at the center of the universe. Very strange.

Mike

Mole people are people too. I always have a bag of crumbs on hand during my subway rides. Never know when you they will come in handy.

Cindy

This one was kinda cute.

Cindy

Uh, never mind.

Topper

Too funny!

xxx

This is the funniest thread ever!

annie

The Mole People by Jennifer Toth was a wonderful book that gave its readers incredible information about the underground. The book was written like a documentary, aimed to inform more than to entertain. Describing the scene she was witnessing, Toth gives her audience a clear picture of what underground life is really like. I think that Toth did an excellant job incorporating the facts along with the stories; making the book a very fun read. Some chapters were committed completely to statistics and opinions of the aboveground variety, while other chapters told the real life stories of inhabitants of the tunnels. The Mole People was fascinating in the sense that it introduced me to a way of life that I never even knew existed. The tunnels underground New York City are filled with thousands of homeless people; some living as far as seven stories beneath the street. With separate communities, some even including doctors, teachers and mayors, the people who live in the tunnels are all unique. Some of the mole people, as they are referred to by those uneducated about the underground, are very independent of each other, while others rely heavily on their tunnel neighbors. I was greatly impressed with the research tactics that Toth used to get information for her book. Risking her life hundreds of times, she traveled deep into the tunnels to speak with all kinds of the underground population. It's an incredibley interesting book that will definitely open up any eyes to the importance of the mole people.

Doug Weller

Annie, I suggest you read the web page at http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/abandoned/mole-people.html

which makes it clear that Jennifer Toth's research methods includes making up stories about places she visited that in fact don't exist.

The web page's author, Joseph Brennan, gives a detailed analysis of the fiction in Toth's book.

Philip

In the late '80s and early '90s, there were some parties that were sponsored in the East Village where you had to climb down through a manhole into the party area. I don't remember anyone ever coming across any of these families of mole people.