Last week came the devastating (and, in all seriousness, surprising) news that as a result of the recession, Greenwich’s Christmas lights display would likely be taking a hit this year, having only raised $30,000 for a display that costs a minimum of $45,000 to put on, if we’re talking bare bones, $60,000 if we want it done up right. 2,000 letters had been sent out, begging for more money, to no avail. Though we ourselves didn’t want to admit it, it was obvious that things were not looking good. But then first Selectman Peter Tesei made this statement:
“I’m sure that some angel will come down to provide the money to put them up,” Tesei said. “I’m optimistic that will happen.”
At first it seemed like the deluded talk of a crazy man but then we were like, hey wait a second, Pedro is right! Greenwich is filled with angels who could easily write a check. Tall ones, short ones, crazy ones, kingly ones! We figured one of them had to have wired the money after hearing the story and called up the Greenwich Chamber of Commerce earlier to find out who it was. You want to know who it was?
NO ONE! Basically. Since the plea-for-g ran in the local rag last week, a grand total of $500 in donations have come in. According to Mary Ann Morrison, the lights they could afford have already gone up, but many streets stand dark. And so, we wait.
holy shit that picture is going to haunt me for days.
They should go to Walmart and stop complaining!
Why do I feel I am being “guilted” to give money away?? Let the town start its own 2/20 shop or trade 1 effing company or demand inside edge from the sell side like certain firms allegedly tried to do. I’ll put it to you this way: The day fucking Warren Buffett and Bill Gates give away THEIR money is the day I’ll start helping Greenwich.
~Ebenezer “Ebby” Scrooge
Scrooge Capital Management & Advisors, LLC
Greenwich, CT
It’s just like LIBERALS to want us to reach into our CONSERVATIVE pockets and help the cvommunity. If God wanted someone to go around helping people with their problems of health and civility, He would have sent someone to do it so as to set an example. That’s what I say!
When is Bess Levin Appreciation Day?
He looks so regal…
Close, but still no Iron Eagle.
Chappy Sinclair, USAF (Ret)
BESSSS!
Ms Bove is no longer going to share her crucial thoughts on banking with the rest of the world!
and,,
Chelsea Clinton is getting married to an ex-Golden Sack guy!
Not one post for us to release our creative juice upon? Come on, I’m getting blue brained from the holding of all of this tension.
Let me work it out…..
“A Little Slow on the Uptake”
Or, I read those stories hours ago, and have been busy with other stuff. You’ll get them when I see fit.
WTF happend to all the Christmas lights from last year? Weren’t they reuseable? Did the Greenwich turds throw them away because the lights were “just too much trouble” to put in storage? Maybe $45K just “didn’t mean all that much” last year.
TGFD doesn’t give a fu*k about Greenwich anyway. Why should I care?
The Guy from Delaware
@10 you’re a moron so I’ll spell it out for you– it’s not the lights that are the big ticket item, it’s the cost of having them on. You know, like an electricity bill?
@11 Wrong Genius, it is the lights. Do the friggin math….
Oh, yeah, Peter Tesei sucks, that’s why we have no lights. Why doesn’t he run out to Walmart and buy us the damn things!
@12 okay, what’s “the math” that leads you to believe “it is the lights”?
Guest@#11…
Before you feel too comfortable about calling TGFD a moron, perhaps you might want to reconsider. $45k-$60k for fu*king electricity? For Christmas lights? Really!
If your explanation has any merit, then all the Christmas lights we see in towns, villages, and cities throughout the country this year must indicate that many stories we’ve heard concerning bankrupt municipalities are obviously nothing more than myths.
The Guy from Delaware
that pic of Biff is legendary
Any former Enron guys out there who can help us with this math? I’d think a sophisticated place like Greenwich would have hedged their xmas electric bills.
Guest@#12…
TGFD can answer that one.
Electricity’s not the cost problem, you see. At Christmas time in Greenwich, they use a generator to power the lights, and that generator is connected to a stationary bicycle.
Peddle the bike, and the lights stay lit. Stop peddling, and the lights go out.
Well, they have a man with initials KL who comes to town every year to peddle that bike. They also keep a stash of Boones Farm close by.
As long as the Boones keeps up, the lights stay lit. Pretty inexpensive, really.
That’s why TGFD knows that the lights themselves are what cost the money. QED.
The Guy from Delaware
@5 “When is Bess Levin Appreciation Day?”
should be every day. seriously.
@18 – Not where I come from, Cowboy.
Greg
Fucking peter tesei is a scumbag. On of the main reasons the lights cost so much is that they’re installed after hours, which equals OVERTIME.