I think the non-paying party is completely in the right here. Not just morally, which should be obvious, but legally.

Quoting this NYT article: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/15/nyregion/15tipper.html
"As it turns out, a tip is just a tip, even if you put "mandatory" in front of it.

Charges were dropped yesterday against a Long Island man who was arrested last week for failing to leave a required 18 percent gratuity at Soprano's Italian and American Grill in Lake George, N.Y.

The Warren County district attorney, Kathleen B. Hogan, said that she had determined that the man, Humberto A. Taveras, could not be forced to pay a gratuity.

Ms. Hogan said, "A tip or gratuity is discretionary, and that's what the courts have found."

It really chaps me when apologists condone this weasel behavior (mandatory tips) by pretending it's some sort of "contract" because of fine print on a menu. Yay for Internet lawyers who have no idea what a contract is. Here's a tip: the corporations want you to believe that anything they put in fine print or post on a sign is a "contract", but it's not.

My understanding of the term is generally referring to the throngs of identicle-looking spiky-haired muscle-building fake-tanning douchebags that flock to beaches in New Jersey.

Or Long Island, apparently New Jersey's equally retarded cousin:
http://www.videosift.com/video/TDS-Long-Island-wants-to-Secede

Also, according to http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/lee-hotti-and-friends , it's what Carmine Gotti's style is, which is why it's "Guido".

I got to see Bowie at Madison Square Garden in 1976, on the Station to Station tour. I still listen to the bootleg from the Nassau Coliseum Long Island show from that tour, his band was so tight, they were amazing. Then came "Low" which along with "Station to Station" was Bowie at his peak for me. A lot of the "Heroes" album was pretty disposable but the title track really does stand out. I stopped listening to him after "Lodger".

>> ^rottenseed:
Guidos, please stay in Jersey...and if you must leave, go to Miami or something.


They're all from Long Island! There is just so many of them that they spill over INTO NJ.

Pepsi > Coke
RC Cola > Pepsi
Long Island Ice Tea > anything

This is obviously from the annual Long Island Letter Carriers picnic package rolling race.

Human’s mind really is very creative that can even believe in unusual things. The story began with a July 23, 2008 article in a local newspaper, The Independent. Jenna Hewitt, 26, of Montauk, and three friends said they found the creature on July 12 at the Ditch Plains beach, two miles east of the district. The beach is a popular surfing spot at Rheinstein Estate Park owned by the town of East Hampton. And now, the Montauk Monster is starting to make headlines. If you haven't heard about it, don't worry, but the Montauk Monster is a carcass that appeared on the beach of Long Island, New York. It defies classification, as it looks like no animal known to science, and a lot of people would give installment loans to figure out what it is. It washed up not too far away from Plum Island, AKA Anthrax Island, an uninhabited isle home to the Plum Island Animal Disease Center, a known animal testing facility. The corpse is thought to be a hoax, but some insist its real, or Amy Winehouse sunbathing. Still, many would pull out credit cards to unravel the Montauk Monster mystery.

EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN
When trumpets were mellow
And every gal only had one fellow
No need to remember when
Cause everything old is new again

Dancin' at ya
Long Island Jazz Age parties
Waiter, let me have some more Bacardis
Let's order now what they ordered then
Cause everything old is new again

Get out your white suit,
your tap shoes and tails
Let's go backwards when forward fails
And movie stars that you thought were long dead,
Now are framed beside your bed

Don't throw the past away
You might need it some rainy day
Dreams can come true again
When everything old is new again

Get out your white suit,
your tap shoes and tails
Let's go backwards when all else fails
Leave Greta Garbo alone
Be a movie star on your own

And don't throw
Don't throw the past away
We're all gonna need it some rainy day
Dreams can come true again
When everything old is new again

I might fall in love with you again

How Popular Culture Corrupted Nabokov's Little Girl

"Vickers helpfully frequently compares Nabokov's novel with what people made of it and especially its title character, showing where the modern Lolita -- especially in its most ridiculous tabloid incarnations (such as Long Island 'Lolita' Amy Fisher) -- differs entirely from what Nabokov had in mind."
http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/nabokovv/lolita8.htm

Sorry I'm late to post here, but I just woke from my week-long hangover.

But seriously, I understand the plight of wrongly mixed drinks. I once mixed Four-dollar-fifth of gin with Diet 7-Up. I thought I was going to hurl BEFORE I was drunk. Which is a crime in Kuwait, I think.

A short list of great drinks that have made me do terrible things to bar stools:

AMF (Adios, Motherfucker)
Long Island Iced Tea (tip the bartender for that extra special Kelsey Grammer amount)
Cherry Bomb ("Bomb" is right. I think I invaded a sovereign nation while drunk on 13 of those fuckers.)
Rattlesnake (something involving Kahlua, Creme de Cacao and taking off my pants at a house party.)

However, the worst combination I have ever tried:

A six-pack of Bud Light chased with an entire pint of Jagermeister and a few swigs of Goldschlager. You don't even want to know the medium Jackson Pollock used in THAT bathroom!

Now it's time to get drunk on PBR and watch midget porn.

I'm a Long Island Iced Tea man, myself. No sense in screwing around, give me 4-5 hard liquors at once.

And I do love me some Pucker. Liquid Jolly Ranchers is always a good thing.

>> ^bamdrew:
@ the first comments, you're saying we needed 7,500 nuclear weapons to blow up all of Russia? (150,000 x 0.05)


The "total distruction" radius of the Hiroshima bomb was only 1km. Most people 2km to 3km away from ground zero survived. The USSR had a land area of 22 million km^2. Obviously 7,500 would be enough to blow up the centers of the 7,500 biggest cities in Russia, but for example a hiroshima bomb in Manhattan would spare 90% of Long Island.

Those so-called agents aboard the subs in Hitler's operation Pastorius???...a few of those guys we're Americans, who had thoughtthey we're hopping a freighter to somewhere in SA, and ended up in Germany-they we're forced to comply with the plans for the sub mission, and at least 2 of them that landed near Long Island, surrendered immediately to the FBI in Florida, happy to be home...and kinna fucked for a while-

his name is richie and he works at the guitar center in glen cove, long island ...
his money goes towards his collection of " katana swords you can't even imagine man.."
and 2xl novelty t-shirts from hot topic for his fat stoner girlfriend...

Have you been asleep for the last 6 years? You have no fucking idea what you are talking about. Bush privatized and outsourced prisons to all sorts of religious groups.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminon
http://www.xenu-directory.net/documents/scnsecularentities-990used.html
http://www.xenu-directory.net/documents/corporate/990s-narconon-central.html

In each of these fields, an organization affiliated with ABLE International utilizes Mr. Hubbard's technologies to effect social improvement. The assistance ABLE International gives these organizations is integral to their missions of social improvement.

The four key social betterment organizations that ABLE assists are as follows:

* Applied Scholastics International — in the field of literacy and education
* The Way to Happiness Foundation International — in the field of morality and values
* Narconon International — in the field of drug rehabilitation and drug abuse prevention
* Criminon International — in the field of criminal rehabilitation

- ABLE International prepared and submitted an application for, and obtained, federal funding for educational programs in Memphis, Tennessee.

New York Rescue Workers Detoxification but did not know the detox was associated with Scientology. Three other representatives, Charles B. Rangel, (D-New York City), Vito Fossella, (R-Staten Island) and Carol McCarthy, (D-Long Island) had also written letters in support of the detox. Fosella and McCarthy have requested $1.5 million in federal funding for the program.