No More Bums in America: Noted in Passing on the Streets

Bull-Goose Raving Lunatics.

Awesome. Hope you don't mind if I help myself to that one, Gerard. Obama says we should share our wealth so I'm sure you won't mind. I'll cite you if I'm sober enough to remember to.

Posted by Velociman at July 17, 2009 4:30 PM

I thought it was 'Skid Row'.

Posted by ahem at July 17, 2009 5:09 PM

Can be and usually is now. But originally "road."

See

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skid_row

Posted by vanderleun at July 17, 2009 5:12 PM

Bull-Goose Raving Lunatics.

Are all in academia now.

Posted by Robohobo at July 17, 2009 5:37 PM

Coulda sworn I saw an expression close to Bull-Goose Raving Lunatics in Sometimes a Great Notion.

Posted by Pete Madsen at July 17, 2009 7:48 PM

I remember "skid rows" from my youth in the Bronx. Believe it or not, ordinary citizens, not official police, were instrumental in making sure that the squalor and dissipation of those places didn't leak out to infect the surrounding society. (See http://www.eternityroad.info/index.php/weblog/single/the_manly_virtues/. )

It sometimes seems as if the entire nation has undergone an orchidectomy.

Posted by Francis W. Porretto at July 18, 2009 4:22 AM

Thanks. Linked you, in a post that mentions a good song, Utah Phillips's Larimer St.

Posted by Hector Owen at July 24, 2009 8:22 PM
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