Open House Picks
Park Slope 516 9th Street Corcoran Sunday 2-4 $1,890,000 GMAP P*Shark Crown Heights 1418 Pacific Street Brooklyn Properties Sat & Sun 12-1:30 $999,999 GMAP P*Shark Bedford Stuyvesant 382 Jefferson Avenue Eva Daniels Sunday 1:30-3:30 $975,000 GMAP P*Shark Ditmas Park West 424 Marlborough Road Archive! Madison Estate Sunday 3-5 $799,000 GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
516 9th Street
Corcoran
Sunday 2-4
$1,890,000
GMAP P*Shark
Crown Heights
1418 Pacific Street
Brooklyn Properties
Sat & Sun 12-1:30
$999,999
GMAP P*Shark
Bedford Stuyvesant
382 Jefferson Avenue
Eva Daniels
Sunday 1:30-3:30
$975,000
GMAP P*Shark
Ditmas Park West
424 Marlborough Road Archive!
Madison Estate
Sunday 3-5
$799,000
GMAP P*Shark
I actually love the 9th street limestone and think it is worth every penny. I’m going to bid on it tonight and hope to be living in the charming little house in the near future. To me it is a great location and has so much potential to be an amazing house to raise a family in once renovations are made to the inside.
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Just wondering when this became the forum on language skills and not the forum for brownstoners….?
No one said that Southern or Carribean world had a corner on the term “bold faced.” Our use of language crosses cultural boundaries. It is interesting that the term is used by the Irish. It would make sense, many Irish families were employed throughout the South and the Caribbean as overseers. Perhaps Tap dancing and the playing of the “fiddle” are other areas where the two cultures crossed.
Actually, come to think of it, the Irish still do use the word “bold” as in “Stop being so bold!” In other words, “Stop being such a brat!”
Thanks, BrooklynJon. We DID hoot in derision when the nuns called us bold-faced liars, but privately since they liked to swing rulers and throw things. But when they called us bold pieces, it was much harder to contain. Thank you for your research and what’s a dangling participle between friends?
After exhaustively researching this for over three minutes, I have concluded that “bold-faced lie” is probably the original term, from which “bald-faced lie” is derived. While technically correct, or at least originally correct, I suspect walking around Brooklyn calling people “bold-faced liars” will engender hoots of derision.
There are a number of circumstaces in which writing or speaking correctly will do nothing but convince people that you are stupid (e.g. correctly pronouncing “forte” with one syllable, or correctly pronouncing the “h” in herb which really isn’t supposed to be silent). This appears to be just another one.
P.S. Sorry about my dangling participle above!
Yeah, I am not sure the Caribbean or Southern world has a corner on using “bold-faced” as in liars etc. I remember this from Irish nuns, eyes bulging and yelling at their unruly charges. Also, liked to call us “bold pieces,” which I always thought was very funny.
It’s true that a “bold-faced” lie makes more sense than a “bald-faced” lie but I think snotty is right about common usage.
Have people’s type-key identities really been compromised though? Because when Bob Marvin (type-keyed) is going around threating to kick people’s asses who have said anything to offend him, it’s hard to know what to believe anymore.