# I loathe Manhattan... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 2, 2003, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-loathe-manhattan/146315 "2003-01-02T23:57:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2003, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-loathe-manhattan/146315/1 "2003-01-02T23:57:01Z")
[I mean, I was TOLD to do this!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=2797379#post2797379) [Manhattan (1979)](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0079522) [Manhattan (1924)](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0015117) [Manhattan (1949)](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0041632) [Manhattan Butterfly](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0025462) [Manhattan By Numbers](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0107508) [And the rest of the fuhggers, too!](http://us.imdb.com/Tsearch?manhattan) He just won’t. Go. Away. 😉 14 an’ countin’… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-loathe-manhattan/146315/2 "2003-01-03T01:12:50Z")
Damnit that wasn’t funny. I wanted to hear someone call him **Ban** hattan! :.D&R:: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-loathe-manhattan/146315/3 "2003-01-03T01:23:19Z")
Baybe if they start baking some of those bovies in Bollywood? ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-loathe-manhattan/146315/4 "2003-01-03T01:31:37Z")
…naive me, I thought you meant the island…'cause then I’d’ve agreed with you. ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-loathe-manhattan/146315/5 "2003-01-03T02:48:34Z")
I like his beach, but that project of his was obscene… ---
**Author:** ![reprise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@reprise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/reprise)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-loathe-manhattan/146315/6 "2003-01-03T03:32:34Z")
…_the Bronx, and Staten Island too…_ ::d&r:: ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-loathe-manhattan/146315/7 "2003-01-03T03:37:16Z")
Especially [Loin de Manhattan](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0123973). Keep it in your pants, you filthy bugger! ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-loathe-manhattan/146315/8 "2003-01-03T03:44:57Z")
What’s worse is that he willingly dresses like [Jennifer Lopez](http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/maidinmanhattan/) in some misguided attempt to make fun of poorly paid hotel workers. And. And. And. AND! And there’s already an “institute” [named after him,](http://www.manhattan-institute.org/) clearly proving that he’s famously insane. (Which just goes to prove my oft-stated point that an anagram of “manhattan” is “Bedlam”. If you ignore all rules associated with anagrams, that is.) ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-loathe-manhattan/146315/9 "2003-01-03T04:30:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by happyheathen \* > \*\*I like his beach \*\* Ju bess be keep’n away from heese beaches, vato. He doan like knowan mess’n weeth heese woman. JuknowhatImean? ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-loathe-manhattan/146315/10 "2003-01-03T06:59:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by reprise \* > …_the Bronx, and Staten Island too…_ Yeah, but Queens kicks ass. [sub]OK, and Brooklyn too.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-loathe-manhattan/146315/11 "2003-01-03T08:50:48Z")
Let’s blame him for Woody Allen! ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-loathe-manhattan/146315/12 "2003-01-03T13:00:51Z")
Don’t forget those harmonies with his [Transfer](http://www.themanhattantransfer.com/). Busy man, eh? ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-loathe-manhattan/146315/13 "2003-01-03T13:43:17Z")
You know what loathing Manny leads to, don’t you? Right. First, you hate Manhattan. Then you hate Berlin… _d&r_ ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-loathe-manhattan/146315/14 "2003-01-03T13:57:41Z")
Dude, I’ve _never_ liked [Berlin.](http://www.allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?p=amg&sql=B3663)😉 ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-loathe-manhattan/146315/15 "2003-01-03T15:10:30Z")
What, precisely, is the pit rant here? [Well, _somebody_ had to say it!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=1049377#post1049377) ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-loathe-manhattan/146315/16 "2003-01-03T15:30:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cornflakes \* > \*\*What, precisely, is the pit rant here? > > \*\* Chemists hate Manhatten? Chemists from Manhatten need the shit beaten out of them? Ricky Ricardo still gets on my nerves, and he was from Manhatten and now he’s dead, so fat lot of good leaving Cuba did him, not being a chemist and all? Manhatten’s breath smells like… ah, fahgitaboutit… ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-loathe-manhattan/146315/17 "2003-01-03T15:33:55Z")
Hey, **Mahattan**! You like my spelling gaffs? :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Desmostylus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-loathe-manhattan/146315/18 "2003-01-03T15:37:52Z")
That shoud be “gaffes”. Smack yourself in the head again **NoClueBoy**. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-loathe-manhattan/146315/19 "2003-01-03T15:42:14Z")
:smack: I’m beginning to like this, you know… :smack: :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-loathe-manhattan/146315/20 "2003-01-03T18:03:28Z")
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