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Nigger Heaven 

The cheap nosebleed balcony seats in a theater, most commonly used in reference to tier C at Cobo Hall in Detroit.

The term was used in Jack London's 1913 novel "Martin Eden."
"Martin skipped on through the years to the night in the nigger heaven at the Auditorium. "

nigger heaven 

The upper deck at a stadium, arena or theater.
It comes from the Jim Crow era when black people were forced to sit in the balcony of a movie house
The blue seats in Madison Square Garden
nigger heaven by federalq2b September 21, 2004

nigger heaven 

A book published in 1926, written by Carl Van Vechten, about life during the Harlem Renaissance. The book includes passages written by Langston Hughes for it.
I read 'Nigger Heaven' and it was an o.k. book, I guess.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)
fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005
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Add a tablespoon of jarlic to two teaspoons of butter and spread it in bread to make garlic bread
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An armpit enthusiast — typically of the scent, appearance, and touch of hairy underarms.
That dude’s such a pitpig, I have to wear deodorant to keep him at bay.
Pitpig by wimbledon May 28, 2026
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