# Just another New York City morning **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 28, 2003, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-another-new-york-city-morning/210056 "2003-10-28T17:21:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-another-new-york-city-morning/210056/1 "2003-10-28T17:21:13Z")
So I’m riding the 2nd avenue bus to work. Today I chose to sit on the left side of the bus so I can watch traffic (I’m easily entertained), as the bus generally travels on the right side of the avenue. Usually I sit on the right so I can gaze upon and appreciate the multitude of humanity on the sidewalk. And the multitude of beautiful women, too. But I digress… I’m sitting there, traffic’s crawling along, and up the middle of the avenue comes a person jogging against the flow of traffic. I thought the person looked pretty normal, except for the being in the middle of rush hour traffic thing. I watched the person go by and lo and behold I beheld this person’s naked ass. After the initial oh…kay…, this set me to thinking. Man or woman? The person was older and had shortish greying hair, so from the neck up it have gone either way. The person was wearing a top that a woman would wear, and would be unusual for a man, but not unusual for a certain type of man, I guess. I didn’t notice the family jewels and whatnot flopping around when the person came up the avenue, I think the person’s top may have covered that area and well, at the time, I didn’t really occur to me to look. I really would like to have seen a replay. It also occurred to me that this was the sort of thing I would have seen 10 years ago, certainly not in the spiffed up New York City of today. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-another-new-york-city-morning/210056/2 "2003-10-28T17:37:15Z")
Have you ever seen the Dog with No Nose? My coworkers and I see it periodically. It’s a big, healthy-looking Golden Retriever, gets walked in midtown (usually Park or Madison in the 30s). Perfectly normal, till you do a double-take and realize _its entire upper snout is missing_. Can _not_ figure out how it eats or drinks. I am always tempted to shout out, “_Hey, lady! Your dog has no nose! How does it smell?_” ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-another-new-york-city-morning/210056/3 "2003-10-28T18:05:46Z")
Back in my NYC days I sometimes saw the Nun With No Nose in the Wall Street area. Sorry to top you, . **Eve** ---
**Author:** ![TaxGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@TaxGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TaxGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-another-new-york-city-morning/210056/4 "2003-10-28T18:13:52Z")
Oh Jesus that was funny, **Eve**. Forget that damn interrupting cow; the \ without a nose line of jokes is my absoulte favorite. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-another-new-york-city-morning/210056/5 "2003-10-28T18:55:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Caricci \* > \*\*Back in my NYC days I sometimes saw the Nun With No Nose in the Wall Street area. **Eve** \*\* A nun with no nose? _How did she smell?_ ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-another-new-york-city-morning/210056/6 "2003-10-28T19:09:56Z")
Like she’d been bathing in unholy water. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-another-new-york-city-morning/210056/7 "2003-10-28T22:44:48Z")
This thread got me to thinking, it has been about 10 years since I was last in New York City. Man, time flies. So what’s changed? Aside from the obvious, I mean. Did Rudy really clean things up as much as I’ve heard? Just curious … ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-another-new-york-city-morning/210056/8 "2003-10-28T23:29:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ponder Stibbons \* > \*\*This thread got me to thinking, it has been about 10 years since I was last in New York City. Man, time flies. So what’s changed? \*\* Well, we’ve got ourselves a bare-ass jogger and a noseless dog since you’ve left . . . ---
**Author:** ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-another-new-york-city-morning/210056/9 "2003-10-28T23:32:42Z")
You wouldn’t recognize 42nd street. The city’s a bit less wild. The club scene ain’t what it used to be (like I would know…). More chain stores have moved in (Gap, Best Buy, etc.) You still have to hit half a dozen stores and shops before you have your full complement of groceries. There’s hardly a block without a Duane Reade. There’s very little of Manhattan that’s _not_ fair game, real estate-wise. The Mexican food still sucks, but at least there’s more of it. I still can’t find a decent plate of huevos rancheros. I’m still trying to visualize a dog with no nose. ---
**Author:** ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-another-new-york-city-morning/210056/10 "2003-10-28T23:36:06Z")
You wouldn’t recognize 42nd street. The city’s a bit less wild. The club scene ain’t what it used to be (like I would know…). More chain stores have moved in (Gap, Best Buy, Bed Bath & Beyond, etc.) I still have to hit half a dozen stores and shops before I have a full complement of groceries. There’s hardly a block without a Duane Reade. There’s very little of Manhattan that’s _not_ fair game, real estate-wise. The Mexican food still sucks, but now there’s more of it. I still can’t find a decent plate of huevos rancheros. I’m still trying to visualize a dog with no nose. ---
**Author:** ![saramamalana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@saramamalana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saramamalana)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-another-new-york-city-morning/210056/11 "2003-10-29T04:45:28Z")
Has everyone at least seen the singing mostly-naked cowboy in Times Square? He even auditioned for American Idol. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-another-new-york-city-morning/210056/12 "2003-10-29T04:53:10Z")
No. But as I live in Sydney Australia that’s hardly surprising.