HULK SMASHED
Hullooooo!
Well, of course!
But...but...rust belt?
my collar is mauve.
But Center City and University City are the only places we go to!
light weekend for atrios? feh!
Um, Atrios, why the hell should we listen to your description of Philly and not, say, Tweety's?
I mean, you just live there.
Tweety is the smartest guy in the entire fucking universe!
Dang...we have a bad LCD panel on our tee-vee. Needs to be replaced.
I live in a brown collar town.
First we take Manhattan, then we take the Delaware River !!!
Also, inn't Philly famous for Kant quoting, brie eating, chardonnay swilling cops?
Chips are destiny. The flesh is but a transition period. Soon we will all be energy beings, existing only as electricity and software. Each entity will have their own emoticon.
My town wears a Lutheran Minister's collar.
Atrios is "sweaty collar"
Also, inn't Philly famous for Kant quoting, brie eating, chardonnay swilling cops?
You mean like Rizzo?
I have a brown nose blog.
From below, re Kid Shelleen being attacked by North Vietnamese locals after he parachuted from his damaged aircraft:
As would many Americans if one of the 9/11 hijackers had parachuted into Times Square.
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Unless it turned out to be Jack Bauer. Then he would have been hoisted upon the shoulders of the able fleeing, and cheered all the way to his escape rendezvous with those "dancing Israelis" in Jersey City.
What are the haps in Jawn City?
There's a fly keeps buzzing the kitchen window.
Must be spring.
What are the haps in Jawn City?
Watch out for the Japs in Hawn City.
i don't have a collar.
unless you count the choke-chain, of course.
My collards are green.
Chips are destiny. The flesh is but a transition period
You've been watching too many of my movies.
Unky Duncan, will you bring us here during EschaCon?
Judy Garland Park: A public park at the edge of Center City, at the Schuylkill River waterfront between Locust and Lombard Streets; its tongue-in-cheek name comes from its status as popular dog-walking spot for gay residents of Center City.
My blog has a special "VIP" lounge for A-list bloggers who stop by and visit.
My collards are green.
RACIST!
There's a fly keeps buzzing the kitchen window.
Check it for nuclear weapons. It could be an al qaeda fly.
I usually wear some kind of tee shirt, so I have no collar.
Working at home has its benefits. 
Anybody wish to beat my ass at Scrab, JeffCo apparently having grown bored with my miserableness?
(although I did manage "Soviet" which I was rather proud of. And I grossed out NTodd the other day, is that an endorsement?)
Tweety knows all about PA, from the deer-hunting wilds to the latte-drinking cities that even like their politicians beefy.
My blog has a special "VIP" lounge for A-list bloggers who stop by and visit.
Is that where they sit around, smoking cigars, drinking brandy and telling you how much they hate you?
I still have a few of those fucking news helicopters flying over Rancho Troutski and scaring the shit out of the poor horses. It has been almost a week now since the arsons.
All of those big satellite uplink trucks driving everywhere is gonna make some Philly Phun.
"Big Metropolitan City"
"Metropolis" means "mother city." So I guess, besides being repetitively redundant, this city of which you speak is one big mother of a city, brother.
"Blue Collar" should now be known as "gap tshirt".
entrance to nice bike/run/walk path by the dog park
Xan, I'm up for a game of Scrabble. I'll go find you at ntodd's place.
Wow...Philly's got a lot of kinda nerdy slang terms.
"The Linc"?
My blog has a special "VIP" lounge for A-list bloggers who stop by and visit.
Douglas Watts
a-listers aren't welcome at my blog. it's a homey place for plain everyday folks.
celebrities just bring in the papparazi.
You mean like Rizzo?
Yeah, that's precisely the dude I was thinking about. The man made William F. Buckley look like some yokel from somwhere in the mountains of Georgia.
Is that where they sit around, smoking cigars, drinking brandy and telling you how much they hate you? NTodd, McGuffin Hitler | Homepage | 03.08.08 - 12:06 pm | #
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No. That's the Blogger Panel at Eschacon 2008.
There's a fly keeps buzzing the kitchen window.
Check it for nuclear weapons. It could be an al qaeda fly.
leib
I smashed it, and the ensuing holocaust is now too awful for words.
Gotta go retrieve my EPA moon suit from the basement now...
Sunday at Eschacon is the big "little fish" grill on the roof deck.
Guess the numbers of little fishies on the grill to win a free coffee mug.
Can't help but notice, as a furriner, that the dish for which Philly is most famous, cheesesteak wit wiz, isn't exactly cute elitist fare...
So how come those news helicopters seem to have permission to do things I could never legally do with my private pilot's license? Like disturb the peace by flying at 200 feet agl for hours over a residential area?
BTW, the fed is plans to make us file an approved flight plan with them every time our wheels leave the ground. Even if it is just to fly to a neighborhood airport to get that hundred dollar hamburger.
last time i was in philly (on business) the guy i was travelling with tried to order a sweet tea.
hillarity ensued.
"I suppose we all find reason to quibble when the national news comes to town and tries to make sense of the place."
Tell me about it. I live in New Orleans.
Just read the letters page of the Philadelphia "Daily News", a rich smörgåsbord of lizard-brained, proletarian, reactionary, xenophobic, banal yahoo platitudes and primitive wingnut opinion.
The adulation of law enforcement organizations alone in that rag's published subscribers is proof of Philly's entrenched working-class population.
Frank Rizzo and Archie Bunker may be gone, but the tradition lingers on.
cheesesteak wit wiz,
is it really steak with cheez whiz on it?
Can't help but notice, as a furriner, that the dish for which Philly is most famous, cheesesteak wit wiz, isn't exactly cute elitist fare...
Please, do not taunt happy fun mediatwit.
Philadelphia must be blue collar. I was told in 2004 that elitist snob John Kerry wouldn't get the blue-collar Cheez Whiz on his hoagie.
is it really steak with cheez whiz on it?
Ali, now with ADHD
he didn't say cheez.
he didn't say cheez.
dirk gently, sociopathetic
somebody takes a piss on some meat on a bun?
So how come those news helicopters seem to have permission to do things I could never legally do with my private pilot's license? Like disturb the peace by flying at 200 feet agl for hours over a residential area?
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Cuz you're not covering the story of a missing white woman.
Can't help but notice, as a furriner, that the dish for which Philly is most famous, cheesesteak wit wiz, isn't exactly cute elitist fare...
ProfWombat
If McStain orders one, his teeth may fuse to the wiz.
Hmm...we're back to 'blue collar':
The) 700 Level: The cheap seats located in Veterans Stadium, high atop the Vet. The 700 Level fans were known for their rowdiness and violent behavior, especially against opposing fans. The 700 Level fans were stereotyped as more blue collar and working class Eagles fans. The term "700 Level Mentality" is used to describe hardcore fanatical mentality of many Philadelphia sports fans.
Coke to ProfWombat. And forgive me for saying hoagie when I meant cheesesteak.
Why do we spend Billions of $'s to fund the Key Stone Kops?
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spa...ges/
961337.html
(related to thread via Key Stone reference)
All the national media knows about Philly is what they've seen in "Trading Places" and "Philadelphia".
The coke will help wash down the cheese steak...
what they've seen in "Trading Places" and "Philadelphia".
Apprentice to Darth Holden | 03.08.08 - 12:13 pm | #
and rocky.
Notice Rocky ran up the art museum steps. There is no evidence he ever went in the museum.
Frank Rizzo was a caricature of himself, and stood for a lot of folks' beliefs.
I recall a cop in an ER telling me on night at 3 AM that the dream was 'Kojak', but the truth was 'Barney Miller'...
the art museum in Philly is just a stage prop.
Completely off topic but gross:
http://www.cartoonstock.com/news...s/
rman1797l.jpg
and rocky.
dirk gently, sociopathetic
I don't know how long Philly is expected to keep that stoopid statue.
Xan
FIRE UP
The Franklin Institute, though, may be the best science museum in the country...
Where's the mainline located. I know S. Philly & the inner city
I don't know how long Philly is expected to keep that stoopid statue.
When Stallone finally falls of his walker during the filming of Rambo XIII.
Bumming around fer a few. Watching television today got me to thinking. I haven't been inside a law enforcement facility in so long that it is but a dim memory.
Am I correct, by watching all the crime dramas, that all law enforcement offices and buildings are ultramodern with the finest of decor and design?
And there are maybe two patrol cops left in any given city since all other personnel are now part of ultra elite units focusing on the most enigmatic and devious of criminals and crimes?
And no cop is allowed to wear a rumpled trenchcoat anymore or they appear on Mr. Black's poorly dressed cop list?
mushimushimushi....
The blue collar neighborhoods of Philadelphia are pretty different from each other. I would say the NE is pretty different from South Philly.
Don't close a comments window. There's a server error getting onto the home page...
Mer, it's set. QL--btw did you get my msg. yesterday about the FiberPhiladelphia show or is that old new to you?--I will do so forthwith. Or fifthwith...am trying to get that accepted as a word, just in case.
Pittsburgh is NOT blue collar.
The steel mills have shut down.
The workers have left.
Pittsburgh is just old people.
FWIW, I never could figure out how Cheez Whiz became the signature topping at Pat's and Geno's (order in English only!), the two best-known steak sandwich purveyors.
I guess "cheez" you can squeeze is more efficient if you're cooking up mass quantities of steak sandwiches. But the irony is that these joints are in South Philly, a traditional Italian -American enclave. The locals not only "know" cheese, there's no lack of beautiful serious cheeses sold in the Italian Market area, just a Whiz bottle's toss away! 
Pittsburgh is NOT blue collar.
The steel mills have shut down.
The workers have left.
Pittsburgh is just old people.
Isn't that a Billy Joel song?
We called our real estate agent at 8 this morning and left a message saying we wanted to offer $825k for a property in Walnut Creek this morning. The ask was $873k. We'll see what happens.....
Don't close a comments window. There's a server error getting onto the home page...
National media is pissed that we're mocking them.
For the gazillionth time.
Steve's is the current frontrunner in a local radio station cheesesteak contest. Chink's is second.
"mushimushimushi...."
That would be "answering a telephone in Japan" for 500 Alex!
Xan, oops, I set one up too. Let's play yours first. Your turn.
From WAAAAAY below:
Wow. If only we could have a horrific, deadly natural disaster that would only hit, say, mortgage bankers...Right, Charlotte?
Lolly aka Some are Saying
It wasn't so much a natural disaster, but...WTC?
Dear Charlotte - should we absolve AQ from culpability if they bomb Wall Street because those greedy *coughJewishcough* bankers ave it coning to 'em?
Pittsburgh does have lots of medical facilities.
To take care of the old people.
offer $825k for a property
That's a lot of $$$.
Isn't that a Billy Joel song?
Zap Rowsdower
That was Allentown. Allentown is in Easter Pa near the New Jersey border.
Hello moonbats
Xan, thanks for that link yesterday. It was very interesting.
Hello moonbats
Moonbootica, Employed
Has the Old Burke Thatcher died yet?
The one thing in Philly worth visiting - Reading Terminal.
teh cute and funny - Teletext Holidays "Found the Remote" Funny Cat Commercial
the ad is so adorable!
Has the Old Burke Thatcher died yet?
They are putting vaseline on Ronnie's dead lips as we speak.
i'm torn.
i can watch judge dredd, or the fog, or i can get some work done.
so i really only have two choices.
Has the Old Burke Thatcher died yet?
Gomez | 03.08.08 - 12:24 pm | #
last time I checked she is still alive
The shit I learn from the internets about my hometown:
A place where you can re-create yourself and make a better life. But watch out for the cops, they don't play! The laws are strict and they could care less, and there are a lot of pedophiles but they are primarily in the suburbs or St.paul where the Nazis live. The gangs are not as bad as people think, just stay out of their way and you won't get blasted foo! Too may Somalis and Ethiopians tho that have driving privileges. cars aren't camels!
Minneapolis got some fine ass women, but watch out for the foreigners, anyone can get a drivers license there! I love this city!
WTF???
Gomez: don't know Pittsburgh at all, but Starzl's transplant unit there is a world class medical destination. He's probably the most eminent liver transplant surgeon in the world.
last time I checked she is still alive
Moonbootica, Employed
I saw on the Drudge Report where she was being rushed to the hospital for tests.
I was hoping it was to see if she's still breathing.
Bush vetoed anti waterboarding bill, and just for good measure waterboarded a guy in the rose garden just as a special "fuck you" to the nation.
People get upset when this slime ball is compared to Hitler. I don't see the problem.
That's a lot of $$$.
Ali, now with ADHD
Why yes. Yes it is. And it will not be fun watching probably half of our 20% equity, even at that price, evaporate in the next 12 months or so. This market was seriously overpriced and you can tell. There are neighborhoods everywhere with house after house that look like they has been taking steroids daily for the last decade. The one we're bidding on is not like that. It's a totally unpretentious 1,900 sq ft 3-2, built on a .4 acre lot. Most of the properties in that neighborhood are similar.
OT: Gordon Brown was severely criticised by Vincent Cable today for allowing the "super-rich" to avoid having to pay their fair share of taxation.
Cable, the Liberal Democrats' Treasury spokesman, condemned what he described as "our spineless government" for allowing the rich to enjoy tax breaks not available to the poor.
"The idea that the super-rich should be elevated above taxation is immoral and deeply insulting to those on modest incomes who pay their full whack of tax," Cable said, in a speech to his party's spring conference in Liverpool.
The Liberal Democrats would make the so-called "non-doms" - foreign workers who enjoy tax breaks - pay full taxes after seven years of living in the UK, he said.
And, in a surprise move, he called for VAT on fruit juice and smoothies to be cut from 17.5% to 5% - funded by a £225m increase in taxes on alcohol.
Cable, who as acting Lib Dem leader famously joked about Brown's transformation "from Stalin to Mr Bean", said that he was "genuinely saddened" by the way he believed the prime minister had abandoned his commitment to social justice.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
politi...ts.vincentcable
Sorry Mer..of course i have no idea which one to quit, so will observe which one keeps saying its My Turn for the longest time.
There is almost no manufacturing left here in Pittsburgh.
We are getting casinos though.
One thing we have here in Pittsburgh is a good water supply.
That may pay off in the future.
Wow. Blogger is boogered, eh?
re-HICA!
Just got video of Princess.
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roxy and peanut are watching judge dredd.
http://thumbsnap.com/v/ZiduWDTg.jpg
Potty Training Consultants [John J. Miller]
It's apparently an actual profession, according to the Wash Post. Made possible by parents who have more important things to do than raise their kids.
You can thank Dumbya for forcing each parent to work three jobs.
the Grim Reaper is still on hold - Baroness Thatcher has left hospital after being admitted for tests.
The 82-year-old former UK prime minister spent the night at St Thomas' Hospital in London after falling ill at a House of Lords dinner.
Her spokesman said she felt "giddy and queasy". However, she waved to photographers as she walked to a waiting car as she left hospital.
In 2002, Lady Thatcher had a series of minor strokes and was advised by doctors to stop making public speeches.
A spokesman for Lady Thatcher said they thought it best to take her to hospital for tests after her "legs buckled" at the end of the function.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_ne...ews/
7284697.stm
I spent 10 years in Philly and one of the most blue collar events you would ever see is the Mummers Parade and pukeathon.
Mardi Gras meets St. Patrick's day meets a whack in the mouth, with lots of banjo music. Local TV coverage was priceless.
Mer, are you on Effbook?
Minneapolis got some fine ass women, but watch out for the foreigners, anyone can get a drivers license there! I love this city!
WTF???
Zap Rowsdower
Dude got into his uncle's 35-year-old collection of unopened Schmidt cans, and promptly emptied them into his gut before writing that post.
In Boston, we have a booming business where we transport unused "R"s to the Midwest.
Sorry Mer..of course i have no idea which one to quit, so will observe which one keeps saying its My Turn for the longest time.
Xan
I did that w/Watertiger. We just played both games.
Water is going to be a very serious issue moving forward in Walnut Creek. We're going to have this awesome little piece of land in a nearly perfect horticultural climate, but finding a wayto irrigate it is going to be dicey.
Dang! All my peeps is here!
♥s to mer, Silleigh and Xan!
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Silleigh, yes. You can find me on QL page--Mary Re....
we have lots of water in atlanta. unfortunately, we also have lots of assholes who think they have to water their lawn twice a day and wash their cars twice that often.
blerb | 03.08.08 - 12:29 pm
Sounds exactly like my house! unpretentious, +/- 1800 sf, 3 bed, 1 and a half baths.
Good luck!
the Grim Reaper is still on hold - Baroness Thatcher has left hospital after being admitted for tests.
DAMN!
In Boston, we have a booming business where we transport unused "R"s to the Midwest.
Yahr, You Betchar!
Jeffraham Prestonian, Did you get the scooter started? Too cold, windy and snowy here to even go outside today.
DAMN!
Gomez | 03.08.08 - 12:34 pm | #
oh, don't be that way. she's no threat anymore.
Won't start. Must be used to Tallahassee weather!
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In Boston, we have a booming business where we transport unused "R"s to the Midwest.
Too bad you can't send them to Cuber.
{{{{{Jeffr}}}}}
If you haven't voted yet, cast your ballot for the top Peep diorama!
http://www.chicagotribune.com/
fe...l,1,373734.poll
oh, don't be that way. she's no threat anymore.
dirk gently, sociopathetic
That's true. If she dies then they start naming shit after her.
Bob Herbert, giving Obama the kind of advice a lot of posters here would give him:
Mr. Obama’s strength was his message of hope and healing, the idea that he could bring disparate groups together to work on the nation’s toughest problems. That has gotten him this far, which is much further than almost anyone expected.
He now needs an added dimension. He needs to articulate a vision. He needs to spell out to voters where he wants to take this country over the next few years, how he will alleviate the suffering of millions trapped in vicious economic circumstances and what he will do to restore the honor and prestige of the U.S. around the world.
Political campaigns are not about fairness, but they can often be about vision. Voters want more from Senator Obama.
He may not be able to close the deal with, say, working-class whites, but he more than anyone else has the eloquence to try and make a compelling case. He should go for it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/0...herbert.html?
hp
Wouldn't it be great if somebody took the high road, stayed on it and won?
mer: Did you get the scooter started?
No, but 's'ok -- I have nowhere I need to be, today. I could get the Vino on the road in 30 minutes or less, but no pressing need.
She-who-shall-not-be-named suggested that I take this mountain of crap I'm not using and put it all on craigslist. Good ideer!
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Maybe they can bury Thatcher on the Falkland Islands and Argentines can go there to piss on the warmonger's grave.
It's apparently an actual profession, according to the Wash Post. Made possible by parents who have more important things to do than raise their kids.
I hate when people say stuff like that. My dad was raised in the 1920s and believe me, kids today get a lot more "raising" than they did back then.
Too bad you can't send them to Cuber.
Gomez
I heeyah there's an em-bah-go.
vincent van peep! 
Wouldn't it be great if somebody took the high road, stayed on it and won?
ProfWombat
Yes. Yes, it would be.
Security forces in Iraq have found a mass grave containing about 100 decomposed bodies.
The grave, discovered in Khalis, north of the capital, Baghdad, is one of the largest such finds in several months.
Iraqi and American officials said it was not clear who was responsible, but the grave may date back to sometime after the 2003 US-led invasion.
A US military spokesman said the bodies were mainly skeletal, indicating they may have been there a long time.
Iraqi army officer Major General Abdel Karim al-Rubaie added that the victims were beyond recognition.
"We can't identify them," he told AFP news agency. "There are just bones in there. At the moment we have left the remains in the grave itself."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middl...ast/
7285175.stm
Mer, found ya but there seems to be no way to do a Friend invite from there. We coulds play Scrabulous sometimes, but we'd probably lay down the exact same words...
I tried to go to Hecate's blog and to Calculated Risk and keep getting a Google server error. Much brighter than other server error msgs, btw.
Anyone know whassup?
vincent van peep!
dirk gently, sociopathetic
'Twas my vote - although the Nightpeeps was pretty good, too.
Man, Blogger is borked.
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Security forces in Iraq have found a mass grave containing about 100 decomposed bodies.
Beautiful morning glories, kissed and caressed by the dew.....
/sarcasm
Maybe they can bury Thatcher on the Falkland Islands and Argentines can go there to piss on the warmonger's grave.
leibniz♘☮ | 03.08.08 - 12:37 pm | #
ah interesting point, it was the British left who were the most vocal supporters of aggression against Argentina, they berated Thatcher for not reacting fast enough
Argentinian at the time was run by a vicious military junta so they are hardly innocent either
and a aftereffect of losing the war led to the collapse of the military junta
OK. Now its fucking snowing here.
'Twas my vote - although the Nightpeeps was pretty good, too.
Roadmaster, Milwaukee Office | 03.08.08 - 12:39 pm | #
several good ones - but i'm a sucker for hoi paloi.
i liked 'peeps in heat' but it wasn't in the top 10.
Maybe they can bury Thatcher on the Falkland Islands and Argentines can go there to piss on the warmonger's grave.
leibniz♘☮
With a 5 pound admission fee. Should be able to get the Brits into full economic recovery within a year.
Why don't you make a clean breast of it, McStain?
You're not the first Repukkke who scored a little tail on the side.
Dang! All my peeps is here!
♥s to mer, Silleigh and Xan!
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Jeffraham Prestonian
(waves back at Jeffra by hand on account of not remembering the code for the little yella guy.)
This meeting of the Tennessee Liberation Front will now come to order...You there in the back, with the ak47? You want the Tennessee Border Defense Squadron, that's down the hall to the left. We're the radical peaceniks.
leibniz: I'll agree with a view of the Falklands war that eschews hagiography, but recall that the Argentine junta, led by that same Gen. Gaultieri whom Jeane Kirkpatrick so famously admired, hardly offers much of an alternative to Thatcher...
I had no idea that Google and Blogger were somehow entwined.
in fact with the state of the British armed forces today we could not even do another Falklands War thats for sure
Beautiful morning glories, kissed and caressed by the dew.....
/sarcasm
Gomez
Plant poppies! They made Flanders Field so serene!
And they make great...uh...nevermind.
Google owns everything...including your street view!
heh heh. he said 'breast.' heh.
Man, Blogger is borked.
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Jeffraham Prestonian
That, my friend, is both an understatement and an unnecessarily polite way of describing the situation.
I'm listening to Pumpkinhead and friends yammer on about the Dem campaign. Clearly they have done no in-depth research about the vote here in Ohio. They truly are pulling it out of their collective ass.
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blogger i believe is owned by google
Chunk of lawyers
I believe the proper term is ‘Pack”. as in a pack of lawyers helped us build a new home ...
I had no idea that Google and Blogger were somehow entwined.
blerb | 03.08.08 - 12:42 pm | #
google bought them some time ago.
re: street view - if i know when they are coming here, you'll all be able to see the full moon at my address.