Go to Diamond District and comment, "Look at all the Amish people living in New York!"

Fat Lady

off topic - Aduchamp1 - ate at the Orchard - very good)

Thanks for the suggestion. Have you been to Perbacco or inoteca? You may like them.

BTW
That is pretty funny Thin. Do you remember an an awful film with Melanie Griffith when she goes undercover as a Hasid to capture a murderer? It was commonly called Vitness.

Shush!

I am not Thin today. I am hiding out from the Microsoft Worm by using my Moxilla Firefox Browser. It still logs me in under PP. :)

Fat Lady

PS
Adu, I think Witness was the movie with Harrison Ford. He goes to Lancaster to protect Amish boy Lucas Haas to protect him from bad guys. You are think of "A Stranger Among Us."

<i>At least, it sounds like you agree with me about the use of initials instead of the "full" versions.</i>

Howard, I do - funny story, my college roommate used her initials instead of her full two-word first name. I couldn't bring myself to call her that and I ALWAYS called her by her full name!

An Amish group from Lancaster recently visited a Hasidic community in Brooklyn. Here is a link to the news story: http://tinyurl.com/dbyazc

>> Have you been to Perbacco or inoteca? <<

No, but I will one day - sounds good.

What about people who ride around in those pedacarts rickshaw things or whatever they are called?

I love the Amish on 47th Street comment!

But I do not understand the third comment down from the top:

"Go anywhere near Union Square."

Does that mean that only tourists go to Union Square?

I don't understand the Union Square comment either since most people who would go out and buy flowers, baked goods, veggies, etc. from the Green Market would live in the area.

I can't see tourists taking corn on the cob back to their hotel rooms and boiling it for dinner. :)

I also don't see tourists going to ABC Carpet/Home to buy furniture.

My friend's parents live in an apartment on Union Square. Obviously, they aren't tourists.

Fat Bitch

I haven't been a New Yorker for a long time, but when I was, nobody referred to the city as the Big Apple, and we called the Museum of Modern Art by its full name rather than MOMA. Those things still sound off to me.

Nikki - I'm a native; everyone I know says MOMA.

Nikki, MOMA is one exception to my above "rule" about the use of abbreviations. New Yorkers often/frequently refer to the museum by that acronym.....at least, when talking to other New Yorkers! (Note, however, that we do not assume that everyone knows what MOMA stands for. So, when recommending the museum to visitors/tourists, we do give the full name.)
However, you are right about Big Apple.

Sometimes people call MOMA, momma. You going to momma's?

The Union Square greenmarket is packed on Saturday, especially on a nice day, and used by many NYC restaurant chefs. In Union Square or near it, there are NY institutions like The Strand, Forbidden Planet, Irving Plaza...

Don't just walk outside Alice Tully - take in a concert. It's like looking at the chocolate bar and not eating it.

I use the colors of subway lines when explaining to out of towners.

I get it. Union Square, SF is a touristy, shopping mall place.

Whoa! Wait a minute. You mean to tell me it's not Hyuustun St.? No wonder I could never find it. And those guys on 47th St. are not Penna. Deutsch? Which brings to mind a great movie. "The Frisco Kid" a Gene Wilder movie.
Incidentally, the "Vitness" joke was LOL.

Wave at every cab that goes by, regardless of whether the correct light is lit on top, and wonder why they none of them will stop. (I have actually tried to help people with this and have been ignored.)

Go through a revolving door with a friend in the same section.

Walk through Times Square for fun. (I only walk through Times Square if there is absolutely no other way I can get where I'm going.)

I will admit to looking up from time to time because really, we have such great architecture here, it would be a shame not to appreciate it!

Ok, this is a little bit mean, but on the matter of dress, there are a few ways that tourists from some other parts of the US distinguish themselves:

Teased hairdos--usually some shade of blonde

Pastel clothing--pants and top the same color

LOTS of heavy foundation make up on women

So that is my snarky comment for this morning!

Most of these same things apply to tourists (perhaps not visitors, but that is another thread) in most large cities.

I see it in Boston (four abreast, pastel clothes), and I see it in Paris. Gawking is understandable as is looking at guidebooks or looking around in a confused way trying to get your bearings. Many of my London friends consult their "A to Z's" frequently, once out of their own neighborhoods, and I have seen Parisians looking at Plans de Paris or bus guides.

What I have never understood is the propensity of tourists to wear clothing with local logos, team names, cartoons or funny sayings on a visit someplace else. It just makes them look like hicks.

I love to go in the UK/European equivalents of mall shops when I am there (Jaeger, for example) and our overseas visitors always like to do the same thing here, but I can't for the life of me understand why someone would come to Boston from Dubuque and go to the Gap or Victoria's Secret.

End of this particular rant.

"Go to Diamond District and comment, "Look at all the Amish people living in New York!"


giggle me silly fat chica

Hehe

Now I know what NOT to do and say when I come over....

stefarr, you're a quick study! Good thing this thread was started just in time for your trip.