Woodbury Common's Expansion Plan Blocked By The Sweet Smell of Sewage
A look at what's going on with Woodbury Common's proposed expansion and an alleged political stunt at the Town Board meeting.
Oy vey.
You know what’s funny about that phrase? My grandparents all knew Yiddish. I’m not sure if they were fluent in it, since they were second generation Americans at that point. But they knew Yiddish, since that’s what their parents spoke.
The kids, all born here in the United States, would grow up and speak English.
When they didn’t want the kids to understand what was being said, my great grandparents would switch to Russian.
But I never heard my grandparents (any of them) say Oy vey.
Not even once.
They were much, much bigger on “ferkakte” (ridiculous.)
I heard that one a lot.
The Mets have a ferkakte first basemen.
The BQE is a ferkakte highway that should be avoided at all costs.
Long Island is filled with ferkakte people.
You get the point.
Ferkakte is fun to say. It’s pronounced fuh-KAHK-tuh.
Ferkakte is also a good way to describe what’s going on right now in Woodbury.
The stuff we know, officially, that’s going on. And the stuff I know, unofficially, that’s going to happen in the no…