Boing Boing is so Punny

image via @Scheidel

Nice work, Boing Boing. Even though a dusty lump of coal sits where my beating heart used to be, you still managed to get a chuckle out of me over this new sign of yours. 

Love it when the old neighborhood local business guard embraces a good pun. 

Guessing this won out over "Breast in service?"

Buh Bye Eagles Clothes Sign

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The Eagles Clothes sign, atop the factory building on 3rd Avenue and 6th Street, was a part of the Brooklyn skyline since 1951. U-haul, owner of the building since the late-1980’s, brought down the vintage sign last week to make space for a two floor expansion. With the Eagles sign goes another piece of its generation’s audacious, historic Brooklyn.

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CULTURE GETS DISSED BY ERIC RIPERT

From left, Eric Ripert, Maria Loi, and Orhan Yegen.  (Photo: Danny Kim)

Yep, and so now I hate Eric Ripert.

Here's what happened: NY Mag decided to do a Greek yogurt head-to-head taste test in their conference room, and they enlisted a "panel of experts" to help them decide which one was best: "the headstrong, tough-grading Turkish chef Orhan Yegen of Sip Sak and Bi Lokma, who considers “Greek yogurt” more a marketing gimmick than a bona fide foodstuff; Maria Loi, a.k.a. the Martha Stewart of Greece; and, as informal referee, the suave, diplomatic Eric Ripert, who begins each day with a tub of nonfat Fage, topped with nuts and honey."

In the nonfat taste test they put Culture up against Fage and Chobani yogurts, and Culture came in 2nd, behind Fage and in front of Chobani! Ok! Now we're talkin! Loi said: "if you go to the Villages in Greece, this is how you get the yogurt."

But in the full fat taste test, our neighborhood darling came in 4th (out of 6 yogurts) and Eric Ripert said it tasted "industrial."

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Who Gives a Shit: Do you think Park Slope's Historic District Should be Expanded?

Current historic district in black / Proposed expansion shown in green / Yellow and red indicate possible future expansions.Today is a big night for the Slope, you guys. For today, the Landmarks Preservation Committee will vote to expand the Park Slope Historic District. What does this mean for us who live just outside the current historic borders?

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Bare Foot Organics CSA Is Back in Park Slope

Bare Foot Organics wants you to sign-up for their CSA, and THERE IS NO WORK SHIFT INVOLVED. I repeat: n-o  w-o-r-k-s-h-i-f-t whatsoever.

Here's the deal: You can join the Pennsylvania's farm's CSA (community supported agriculture) program and get you and your hungry ass family 21 weeks of locally grown/produced vegetables, fruits, cheese, eggs and meat at Greystone Farm by farmer Phil. Pick-ups will be Tues nights starting in early June at the Triomph Gym at 540 President Street. 

This is their second year, and apparently the first one went off like gangbusters. 

If you participate in the program, you're sorta buying a share of the farm for the season and showing your support, which is a pretty nice thing to do these days as being a farmer ain't so easy, ya know?

The CSA costs $32-$39/week, and you have to sign-up by April 15th if you wanna join in on all the fun. 

You can read more and download a contract here if you are interested.