Wrong Island Railroad (Long Island Rail Road or LIRR nickname)
The Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) provides transportation between Manhattan and Suffolk County on Long Island. Some critics have called it the "Wrong Island Rail Road" (or "Wrong…
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Long Island: Largely Incompetent Rail Road (Long Island Rail Road or LIRR nickname)
The Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) provides transportation between Manhattan and Suffolk County on Long Island. "LIRR" has been given several backronyms (back acronyms). "Me thinks the…
Long Island: Long Island Fail Road (Long Island Rail Road or LIRR nickname)
The Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) provides transportation between Manhattan and Suffolk County on Long Island. Some critics of the LIRR have called it the "Long Island Fail Road."…
Melville: Hellville (nickname)
Entry in progress -- B.P. Wikipedia: Melville, NYMelville is an affluent hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Huntington in Suffolk County on Long Island, New York, in the United…
Wrong Island Rail Road (Long Island Rail Road or LIRR nickname)
The Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) provides transportation between Manhattan and Suffolk County on Long Island. Some critics have called it the "Wrong Island Rail Road" (or "Wrong…
Long Island Fail Road (Long Island Rail Road or LIRR nickname)
The Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) provides transportation between Manhattan and Suffolk County on Long Island. Some critics of the LIRR have called it the "Long Island Fail Road."…
Montauk: The End (nickname)
Entry in progress -- B.P. Wikipedia: Montauk, New YorkMontauk /ˈmɒntɔːk/ is a census-designated place (CDP) that includes the hamlet with the same name in the town of East Hampton in Suffolk…
Brookhaven: Crookhaven (nickname)
Entry in progress -- B.P. Wikipedia: Brookhaven, New York
“Only add soy sauce when the chef is standing upright. Never Kikkoman when he’s down”
Kikkoman (a Japanese food manufacturer that makes soy sauce, among other products) sounds like "kick a man," and there have been jokes. The Kikkoman joke has been printed on several…
Matzah-Pizza or Matzoh-Pizza or Matzo-Pizza (Massapequa nickname)
Massapequa, on Long Island, New York, has a large Italian population, and there are many pizzerias. It also has a large Jewish population. Massapequa has been nicknamed…
Massapequa: Matzah-Pizza or Matzoh-Pizza or Matzo-Pizza (nickname)
Massapequa, on Long Island, New York, has a large Italian population, and there are many pizzerias. It also has a large Jewish population. Massapequa has been nicknamed…
Massapequa: Massapizza (nickname)
Massapequa, on Long Island, New York, has a large Italian population, and there are many pizzerias. It also has a large Jewish population. Massapequa has been nicknamed…
Majoritarian (Majoritarianism)
"Majoritarian" is a political philosophy that supports the rights of the majority to govern. "To borrow the terminology of the French Socialists one may say that now on the National…
“What idiot called it ‘car repair’ and not autocorrect?”
"Autocorrect" doesn't correct autos, but there are jokes. This was posted on Twitter by Fridge Boy on June 22, 2014: "What idiot called it 'car repair,' and not…
Albany: Steamed Hams (hamburgers)
The term "steamed hams" ("hamburgers," in the supposed regional dialect of Albany, New York) was coined on the American animated sitcom The Simpsons, on the episode "22…
“If you see your glass half empty, pour it into a smaller glass and stop complaining”
"If you see your glass half empty, pour it into a smaller glass and stop bitching/complaining" is a drinking saying that has been printed on many images. "If you see the glass as…
“If you see your glass half empty, pour it into a smaller glass”
"If you see your glass half empty, pour it into a smaller glass and stop bitching/complaining" is a drinking saying that has been printed on many images. "If you see the glass as…
“If you see your glass half empty, pour it into a smaller glass and stop bitching”
"If you see your glass half empty, pour it into a smaller glass and stop bitching/complaining" is a drinking saying that has been printed on many images. "If you see the glass as…
“It is easier to start a war than to end it”
"It is easier to start a war than to end it" is usually credited to Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014). He wrote in his book, One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967):…
Moxie (slang for having heart, courage)
Moxie is a trademarked beverage that was originally bottled in 1884 and sold as "nerve food." Moxie advertising in 1940 contained the line "He's got Moxie!" -- defined in…