# I am living in a crack house
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-living-in-a-crack-house/278615
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [December 7, 2004, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-living-in-a-crack-house/278615 "2004-12-07T20:42:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2004, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-living-in-a-crack-house/278615/21 "2004-12-08T13:23:00Z")
> [@Eve](#):
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> “Brandi-Sue, dahling, I’m your _Auntie Mame!_”
Do you have that great couch designed by Yul Lulu? You know, the one that goes up and down when you pull the cord? How 'bout Peggy Cass? Does she live with you (having been defiled by Robin Hughes)?
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### Author:  [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2004, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-living-in-a-crack-house/278615/22 "2004-12-08T16:51:11Z")
Maybe one of these days you ought to dress like Daphne to match the inflatable Scooby.
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2004, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-living-in-a-crack-house/278615/23 "2004-12-08T17:27:21Z")
I googled Kallikacks and came back with nuthin’.
don’t keep us non-NJ’er dopers in the dark.
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### Author:  [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2004, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-living-in-a-crack-house/278615/24 "2004-12-08T17:42:41Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#):
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> I googled Kallikacks and came back with nuthin’.
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> don’t keep us non-NJ’er dopers in the dark.
It’s Kallikaks, a pseudonym to protect the anonymity of a family living in the Pine Barrens, who were the subjects of a study by eugenicist Henry Goddard that purported to trace the family genetic heritage of feeble-mindedness.
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2004, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-living-in-a-crack-house/278615/25 "2004-12-08T19:12:56Z")
> [@gobear](#):
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> It’s Kallikaks, a pseudonym to protect the anonymity of a family living in the Pine Barrens, who were the subjects of a study by eugenicist Henry Goddard that purported to trace the family genetic heritage of feeble-mindedness.
Oh, THOSE Kallikaks.
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### Author:  [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2004, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-living-in-a-crack-house/278615/26 "2004-12-08T19:39:15Z")
Front lawn? I always thought you lived in Manhattan, Eve. Maybe that’s just what your personality seems like :D.
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### Author:  [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2004, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-living-in-a-crack-house/278615/27 "2004-12-08T19:42:31Z")
> [@Cisco](#):
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> I always thought you lived in Manhattan, Eve. Maybe that’s just what your personality seems like :D.
Aren’t you sweet, dahling. Well, I work in Midtown, and _can_ see the Empire State Building from my living-room window, so I _am_ damn close.
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### Author:  [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2004, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-living-in-a-crack-house/278615/28 "2004-12-08T21:28:08Z")
She gets caught with a little crack and it’s a crack house? Den of iniquity, maybe; terrible place to raise children, certainly (from everything else I’ve heard); but be thankful she doesn’t run an operation out of there. (I’m sure you would be able to tell, what with all the people coming and going all the time.)
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### Author:  [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2004, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-living-in-a-crack-house/278615/29 "2004-12-08T21:39:26Z")
> [@gobear](#):
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> It’s Kallikaks, a pseudonym to protect the anonymity of a family living in the Pine Barrens, who were the subjects of a study by eugenicist Henry Goddard that purported to trace the family genetic heritage of feeble-mindedness.
And I actually understood the reference. I almost did a little dance. I knew \*Weird NJ \* would come in handy.
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### Author:  [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2004, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-living-in-a-crack-house/278615/30 "2004-12-08T21:44:55Z")
> [@Loach](#):
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> And I actually understood the reference. I almost did a little dance. I knew \*Weird NJ \* would come in handy.
Jesus Christ, my house is listed in _Weird NJ_?
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### Author:  [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2004, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-living-in-a-crack-house/278615/31 "2004-12-08T22:19:46Z")
> [@Eve](#):
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> Jesus Christ, my house is listed in _Weird NJ_?
Not yet. I’m still typing.
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2004, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-living-in-a-crack-house/278615/32 "2004-12-09T02:32:35Z")
Does that entitle you to a discount?
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### Author:  [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2004, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-living-in-a-crack-house/278615/33 "2004-12-09T02:47:12Z")
> [@Eve](#):
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> Starring Tom Arnold and Jennifer Coolidge as the Kallikacks. I, I fear, will be played by Dixie Carter.
There’s one way of stopping this.
If you and I can write a pilot script, and then sell it to a network, it would enable the two of us to handpick the cast.
If we don’t do it, someone else will.
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