[higgmeister]

In 1981, the ITT company that I worked for booked me into the famous Algonquin Hotel in NYC and my nondescript room had plumbing pipes a couple of feet from the ceiling, running across the room.   It was a crude and dismal subway ride south to the ITT Building downtown.

At the time I had never heard of the "Algonquin Round Table" or Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, and Robert E. Sherwood.

Since then I have seen a few Robert Benchley short films that I appreciated.   Then, the humorous anecdote from Dorothy Parker when she was asked to use the word horticulture in a sentence replied "you can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think" was very clever in my opinion.

But at the time I stayed there, I didn't even feel anything of the historic ambiance.   I only thought, no motel room I had ever stayed in had pipes near the ceiling.

[BenLurkin]

Interesting!

[PghBaldy]

Dorothy Parker also supposedly said,

“If you laid all the people in this room end to end... I wouldn’t be a bit surprised.”