When the Marathon was moved from 12 noon to 9:35am, we noticed the following good things:
- Hardly any traffic in the morning (a windy, rainy, yucky day helps; so does April School vacation)
- No amateur runners in wrapped in mylar blankets, loitering around the train station
- The broadcasters seemed a little more subdued - no 'it's almost noon time' cheerleading or tearjerker stories (we'll take the ones where the runner had a really nasty disease and beat it, and are back to their old selves)
- Back Bay/Downtown area: clean as a whistle by 4:00pm
- Never knock Kenya - 15 out of 17 years as winners
- No drunks or college kids to be found
Showing posts with label Boston. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Boston. Show all posts
3/10/2007
You know you're in Boston when...part 2
...you're at BU and someone says, "I remember when the BU School Bus was free" and then points to the Green Line trolley...
...a "spukie" is a sandwich, not some kind of low-level mobster...
...a "hoodsie" refers both to the ice cream cup and the young teenage girl...
...the three examination schools (Latin Academy, Latin School, Bryant School of Math and Science) don't have kids hanging around MBTA stations to intimidate other passengers...
...you turn on WRKO, and you just joined Howie Carr's "Wizard of Uhz" segment...
...you turn on WTKK, and you just joined Margery Eagan and Jim Braude argue over
some trifling nugget...
...you turn on WBZ, WCVB, or WHDH, and before they give you breaking news on a fire, a homicide, or gossip, they go right to the weather...
...instead of paying $2.65 a gallon for regular gas, you drive an extra two miles to the Shell the corner of Mass Ave and Columbus Ave, where it's $2.43 per gallon, or take a ride to the South Shore, where it's $2.30-$2.39 per gallon...
...Mass Ave and Stuart Street are at a crawl, and you hear about a three car accident on I-93...
...The Mayah mangles up an innocent word, and it shows up on Howie Carr's column...
...if you lived anytime between 1960 and 1995, the Combat Zone was a nasty, sleazy, seedy place where you could watch XXX rated movies and watch strippers - but was several steps up from Times Square...
...young black kids sell (scam!) overpriced and stale candy to unsuspecting people, who don't realize their "football team/basketball team" is led by a con artist...
...you try to order a "cabinet" (similar to a milkshake) in a restaurant and you're either (a) directed to Home Depot or Lowe's or (b) given directions to Newport Creamery.
...you attend a sports game and you realize $20 only gets you two hot dogs, two beers and maybe a cheap pennant that will last all of three seconds...
...if you're looking for hot chicks or hunks, you'll get a better chance at your local KFC than at the meet markets on Lansdowne Street...
...Bob Lobel, whenever a sports team loses miserably, brings out a bobble head doll covered in a paper bag, or brings out the panic button, or tells the audience, "Send the kids to bed, we're about to show the (Bruins, Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox) highlights..."
...you remember Candlepin Bowling on Saturdays with Bob Gillis, which was followed by the Pro Bowling Tour with Chris Schenckel and Nelson Burton Jr...
UPDATE: a Mattapan/Dorchester/Roxbury list...if it's a response to our list, it's an impressive one!
...a "spukie" is a sandwich, not some kind of low-level mobster...
...a "hoodsie" refers both to the ice cream cup and the young teenage girl...
...the three examination schools (Latin Academy, Latin School, Bryant School of Math and Science) don't have kids hanging around MBTA stations to intimidate other passengers...
...you turn on WRKO, and you just joined Howie Carr's "Wizard of Uhz" segment...
...you turn on WTKK, and you just joined Margery Eagan and Jim Braude argue over
some trifling nugget...
...you turn on WBZ, WCVB, or WHDH, and before they give you breaking news on a fire, a homicide, or gossip, they go right to the weather...
...instead of paying $2.65 a gallon for regular gas, you drive an extra two miles to the Shell the corner of Mass Ave and Columbus Ave, where it's $2.43 per gallon, or take a ride to the South Shore, where it's $2.30-$2.39 per gallon...
...Mass Ave and Stuart Street are at a crawl, and you hear about a three car accident on I-93...
...The Mayah mangles up an innocent word, and it shows up on Howie Carr's column...
...if you lived anytime between 1960 and 1995, the Combat Zone was a nasty, sleazy, seedy place where you could watch XXX rated movies and watch strippers - but was several steps up from Times Square...
...young black kids sell (scam!) overpriced and stale candy to unsuspecting people, who don't realize their "football team/basketball team" is led by a con artist...
...you try to order a "cabinet" (similar to a milkshake) in a restaurant and you're either (a) directed to Home Depot or Lowe's or (b) given directions to Newport Creamery.
...you attend a sports game and you realize $20 only gets you two hot dogs, two beers and maybe a cheap pennant that will last all of three seconds...
...if you're looking for hot chicks or hunks, you'll get a better chance at your local KFC than at the meet markets on Lansdowne Street...
...Bob Lobel, whenever a sports team loses miserably, brings out a bobble head doll covered in a paper bag, or brings out the panic button, or tells the audience, "Send the kids to bed, we're about to show the (Bruins, Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox) highlights..."
...you remember Candlepin Bowling on Saturdays with Bob Gillis, which was followed by the Pro Bowling Tour with Chris Schenckel and Nelson Burton Jr...
UPDATE: a Mattapan/Dorchester/Roxbury list...if it's a response to our list, it's an impressive one!
3/09/2007
You know you're in Boston when...
...you know the radio ads for Giant Auto Glass, Tony Floriamo's, Powderhouse Mortgage, Cumberland Farms, and the lottery...
...Traffic is on the 3's (not the 1's in New York, 8's in Philadelphia, or 2's in Pittsburgh)
...the Back Bay Architectural Society tries to wield its Soviet-like muscle whenever someone tries to build something of value, like handicapped access or an Apple Store.
...you see a whole bunch of people being escorted away from church, but only because they've been squatting there to prevent it from closing...
...the St. Patrick's Day parade has its pronouncement from Whacko Hurley that gays will not march in the parade, but the gays say, "Irish will not march in our parade June 10..."
...the liberal broadsheet says X, the center-right tabloid says Y, the radical left tabloid says Z, and the satire-laden tabloid W mocks all three...
...when you mention you work for the city in Denver, but live outside of the city limits, you get a glazed over look similar to when Homer Simpson says, "Mmm...(insert food product here)..." (reason: city workers must reside in the city - can't live outside the city)
...when you mention you work for the city in Denver, but live in the city, in a two bedroom apartment for $500 per month, you hear, "holy crap, we just paid $2,000 for our closet-sized apartment, and the slumlord hasn't fixed our sink in weeks!"
...you know Denis Leary, Lenny Clarke, and Steve Sweeney's punchlines by heart, especially when they play at Dick Doherty's Comedy Vault/Hut/Barnyard...
...the best restaurants in Boston are independently owned and don't involve dancing rodents (human or otherwise), white trash, gangbangers in hoodies with their legs spread wider than the Mass Ave bridge, food items that double as car lubricants, etc...
...If you're a Montreal native, you know the Boston Cream Pie is a bigger, fluffier version of a May West, but when you want that nice smoked meat sandwich, you order a corned beef and pastrami, because a lot of Broons fans know a Hab fan when they hear one...
...you see the Marylou's ads and wish the Dunkin' Donuts servers can be gorgeous, competent, and appealing like they are...and speak clear and unaccented English...
...a silent hush comes over Boston colleges in the morning at 11am...because it's time for The Price Is Right...
...another silent hush comes over houses at 7:57pm weekdays and 6:58pm Sundays for the Daily Numbers drawing...
...Traffic is on the 3's (not the 1's in New York, 8's in Philadelphia, or 2's in Pittsburgh)
...the Back Bay Architectural Society tries to wield its Soviet-like muscle whenever someone tries to build something of value, like handicapped access or an Apple Store.
...you see a whole bunch of people being escorted away from church, but only because they've been squatting there to prevent it from closing...
...the St. Patrick's Day parade has its pronouncement from Whacko Hurley that gays will not march in the parade, but the gays say, "Irish will not march in our parade June 10..."
...the liberal broadsheet says X, the center-right tabloid says Y, the radical left tabloid says Z, and the satire-laden tabloid W mocks all three...
...when you mention you work for the city in Denver, but live outside of the city limits, you get a glazed over look similar to when Homer Simpson says, "Mmm...(insert food product here)..." (reason: city workers must reside in the city - can't live outside the city)
...when you mention you work for the city in Denver, but live in the city, in a two bedroom apartment for $500 per month, you hear, "holy crap, we just paid $2,000 for our closet-sized apartment, and the slumlord hasn't fixed our sink in weeks!"
...you know Denis Leary, Lenny Clarke, and Steve Sweeney's punchlines by heart, especially when they play at Dick Doherty's Comedy Vault/Hut/Barnyard...
...the best restaurants in Boston are independently owned and don't involve dancing rodents (human or otherwise), white trash, gangbangers in hoodies with their legs spread wider than the Mass Ave bridge, food items that double as car lubricants, etc...
...If you're a Montreal native, you know the Boston Cream Pie is a bigger, fluffier version of a May West, but when you want that nice smoked meat sandwich, you order a corned beef and pastrami, because a lot of Broons fans know a Hab fan when they hear one...
...you see the Marylou's ads and wish the Dunkin' Donuts servers can be gorgeous, competent, and appealing like they are...and speak clear and unaccented English...
...a silent hush comes over Boston colleges in the morning at 11am...because it's time for The Price Is Right...
...another silent hush comes over houses at 7:57pm weekdays and 6:58pm Sundays for the Daily Numbers drawing...
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