Everything's all fun and games until someone gets an axe in his chest

15 Reynwood Manor, $7.750 million ask, is pending, and aren’t we all sorry that it is. Oh, the fun we’ve had with this listing, as it dropped from $16.9 to this current number. The most recent post was just last month, and it engendered some fabulous comments, starting with the estate’s former groundskeeper, a Mr. Mark J. MacDonald:

I imagine you think yourself clever, Chris. You’re not. You're simply limited. Clearly, you enjoy the bitchy bully pulpit you share with your fellow snotty Philistines of questionable intelligence far more than you do any appreciation of Art or History.
Approach aside, Reynwood Manor is an architectural masterpiece, which, at the direction and artistic talents of the right people, could render whatever it is you live in as a Siberian animal hospice by comparison. Have a bit of class and be silent about things you’ll never understand.

Mr. MacDonald unwittingly coined a new term for this blogger and his readers, “Snotty Philistines of Questionable Intelligence”, which Reader Hmmm quickly turned into an acronym, “SPOQL” which admittedly does not roll off the tongue, but has been adopted here nonetheless.

So we’ll miss writing about the house, and we’ll miss you, too Jack. Sorry that you’ll lose your lawnmowing position — I understand the this former boys reformatory is to be razed, and its 9 acres paved, to make way for an illegal aliens camp — but there’s currently a nationwide shortage of snowplow drivers; your alma mater. Cos Cob School, offers a post-graduate degree in snowplowing for alumni, and we’ll be happy to supply a letter of recommendation.