Fire Ravages Olympic Shop

Another reason, at this time of year,( and all year long ) we should all say Thank You to the MFD, and MPD..for all they give and do for our community.

A tragic thing...it seems like nobody was hurt...something else to be thankful for.

Let's be thankful for fire investigators, too.

That explains all the sirens I heard this morning. I'm along one of the fire truck routes, and I can say by the sheer amount of times I hear them driving past, they are definitely a hard-working group.

hmmm, they can't sell or lease it in this turbulent real estate market, so i guess a fire's the next best thing!

"Raj says the entire inventory of donuts and baked goods had to be trashed because of smoke damage."

Perhaps the cost of demolition is now going to be taken care of with the insurance money.

Not Dunkin' Donuts...No, No, No!!!

I could be wrong about this, but the original owners of The Olympic Shop did sell this to a guy who had plans to split the property into several retail units, correct? Let's make sure we accuse the right people of insurance fraud.

Let's also be thankful to the taxpayers (us) who give so generously so that our public servants may enjoy the good salaries, benefits, and pensions that they have!

I know a guy who knows a guy who describes his work as "building vacant lots."

An insurance fire would have made sense when the store was filled with inventory that the owners needed to liquidate. But wouldn't insurance just pay to get the property back to the same condition it was in prior to the fire? Given that the store was empty and under construction, what would be the benefit of burning it down? The owner would still be stuck with the property, right?

I preface this with all respect to firemen and, for that matter, any of the people that save us as something they do. Thank you.

So a businessman decides it might be time to retire. He figures it would be best to do a little investigating as he's thinking of moving to Florida. He takes a vacation to check things out and ends up sitting next to another older man on a bench at the beach and strikes up a conversation.
"So you live here or just vacationing like me"
"Oh I live here now, came here when I retired a few years ago."
"You like it?"
"Can't complain, worse places to live."
Thinking to loosen him up he asks "What did you used to do"
"Had my own business in textiles"
"Really, so do I!"
"Sold it 4 years ago"
"You seem to have done well"
"Yea, I guess, I had 3 fires and flood"
The businessman contemplates this for a minute and then turns to him and says "so, how do you start a flood?"

I first heard Pokey's joke more than 20 years ago, but it was told in an attempt at a Yiddish accent and specifically concerned three retired "garmemtos" back then.

Plus ca change.....

Thank G-d for Rich Murnick!

I never said it was new...

And what's with the G-d I see all over now, has the swearword been shortened? It's God, it doesn?t matter which one or if you even believe, is that so hard? J-s-s C-r-s- A-l-i-h-y!

Pokey,

Religious Jews consider it sacreligious to write the word God, therefore, many people, write G-d, in order to not be offensive. Is it hard to hyphenate so as not to purposely offend anyone? I didn't think so.

great news! tomorrow's best buy at dunkin donuts is day-old "smokies"!

I know some people take great pleasure in other's misfortunes, but before you stick your head out from underneath that rock where you've been living, get your facts straight!!

I know some people take great pleasure in other's misfortunes, but before you stick your head out from underneath that rock where you've been living, get your facts straight!! The building has been sold for three months!!

Right on, Cather! It *IS* an old Jewish Joke, best told in Yiddish, actually, where it also includes a couple of "racy" words!

Lets be thankful for people like Pork Roll. Do you notice the amount of employees in Supervisory Positions? THAT'S what is killing us in Town.

Eliminate a third of the supervisors in our town. Or just demote. Does our Town really need the work force we have?

Having done due diligence, it basically boils down to not writing the word as the paper might be in someway desecrated and a certain someone up there might be offended. It is ok on a computer even if you delete or whatever, but since it might be printed out by some deity torturing miscreant who has a passion for getting black marks on your eternal record, it's better to insinuate the word referring to you know who, than take the chance.
Got it.
Sorry if at any time I, thru my ignorance, might have given someone a demerit.
As George Carlin said (paraphrased), what if you have a credit account with heaven with a fixed amount to start and every time you commit a sin the account is debited. Naturally, a large sin like murder or adultery would really cost. Smaller sins would be valued less, like masturbation, which would be like a quarter.
So what a jerkoff you'd feel like if at the pearly gates you were short by a quarter.
Well I certainly hope all the paper that I've sent to the recycling plant hasn't been a problem for anyone, especially myself. I'm sure those other deities happily go their way when confronted with Deuteronomy 12:3.
It's nice to have clarity.

"Thank G-d for Rich Murnick!'

Translation - Thank God Rich Murnick and his cronies on the council did not follow through with their plan to shutter the fire house that is right down the block!

Otherwise -

"The whole block could've gone, but now it's under control, The whole interior of the Olympic store is destroyed, and next door, Dunkin' Donuts has suffered extensive smoke damage, says Murnick.