Barry Popik

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• Commented on City Council "Lady" Gives "Lunatic" $5K To Teach Etymology
  Missouri professor Gerald Cohen and I solved the origin of "the Big Apple" in the pages of a publication called "Comments on Etymology. (I have a popular NYC etymology website, as some of you may know.) No one gave us...
• Commented on Happy Bloody Mary Day!
  The 75th anniversary of the Bloody Mary was celebrated in Times Square in New York City on Monday, December 1st. New York state and local officials (politicians have nothing better to do these days?) will declared it "Bloody Mary Day."...
• Commented on No Room for Jazz in Harlem?
  So sad. I knew "Big Apple Jazz" (Palotnick's website by that name is still online). By the way, the historic "Big Apple" night club plaque at 135th Street and Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Boulevard was removed in 2006 to make...
• Commented on David Blaine Wants to Jump Off the Brooklyn Bridge
  Steve Brodie DID make the jump. A dummy was NOT used. That is a popular myth. My friend, the late David Shulman of Brooklyn, studied this for many years and intended to write a book on the subject. He was...
• Commented on Former Con Ed Head Charles F. Luce Dies at 90
  I'm a little late with this, but "The Company You Love to Hate" was the March 1966 story in Fortune magazine, not Life magazine....