Dear Boston, get a frickin' grip!

Huh?

I didn't do it!

Did you hear about the treasure hunt set in one of the oldest cemeteries in the U.S.? Brilliant!

How about a stoopid list?

YOU KNOW YOU'RE FROM MASSACHUSETTS IF:

You think if someone is nice to you they either want something or they
are from out of town.

The public transportation system is known as the "T" and you'd rather
drive in bumper to bumper traffic for 4 hours to get to Boston than use
the "Orange Line".

You could own a small town in Iowa for the cost of your house.

There are 24 Dunkin Donuts shops within fifteen minutes of your house,
and that is how you give directions.

If you stay on the same road long enough it eventually has three
different names.

53 degrees is "on the warm side".

You've walked to Brigham's for an ice cream cone in the snow.

You cringe every time you hear some actor/actress imitate the "Boston
Accent" on TV.

You call chocolate sprinkles "jimmies".

A water fountain is called a bubbler. (Say it "bubbla").

You can go from one side of town to the other in less than fifteen
minutes.

You know how to pronounce towns like Worcester, Haverhill, Peabody,
Scituate, Chatham, and Leominster.

You know what they sell at a "packie".

You keep an ice scraper and lock de-icer in your car all year round.

Paranoia sets in when you can't see a Dunkin Donuts, ATM or CVS.

You've pulled out of a side street and used your car to block oncoming
traffic so you can make a left-hand turn.

You've bragged about saving money at The Christmas Tree Shop or Building
19.

You know what a "regular coffee" is.

You've ordered a coffee frappe.

You can navigate a rotary without a problem.

You use the words "wicked" and "good" in the same sentence.

You know that life is "a pissa".

You drink tonic, but would never consider using it on your hair.

You never say "Cape Cod" you say "The Cape".

You went to Old Sturbridge Village, Plymouth Plantation and Bunker Hill
at least once in elementary school.

You've ridden on the Swan Boats.

You know the Mass Pike and 495 create some sort of strange weather
dividing line.

What the hell is a rotary?

See.

I guess I'm missing something here.

I think other places call them round-abouts or cirlces. They're a type of street intersection.

Its a service club gus.

What is Rotary?
ROTARY is a worldwide organisation of more than 1.2 million
business and professional men and women who are acknowledged leaders in their communities and who put the ideal of service into action. Rotarians are pledged to maintain high ethical standards in their vocations and to serve their own communities as they advance international understanding and peace
ROTARY is an organisation of business and professional
leaders united worldwide who provide humanitarian service encourage high ethical standards in all vocations and help build goodwill and peace in the world.
ROTARY is the world's first service club. The first Rotary club was
founded in Chicago Illinois USA on 23 February 1905.
ROTARY is some 1.2 million service-minded men and women
belonging to over 29,000 Rotary clubs in virtually every nation in the world.
ROTARIANS meet weekly for fellowship and Interesting and
informative programs dealing with topics of local and global importance. Membership Is by invitation and reflects a wide cross-section of community representation.
ROTARIANS plan and carry out a remarkable variety of
humanitarian educational and cultural exchange programs that touch people's lives in their local communities and our world community.
ROTARY Is The Rotary Foundation which each year provides some
US $60 million for international scholarships cultural exchanges and humanitarian projects large and small that Improve the quality of life for millions of people.
ROTARY is PolioPlus, Rotary's commitment to work with national
and international health organisations on the goal of polio eradication by the year 2005, Rotary's 100th anniversary. More than one half billion children in developing nations have been immunised against polio through PolioPlus grants.

I think its one of them old phones.

Thanks, dadpad, I shall file that information.

Littlek, around these parts we call them abberations.

In the round file?

Around these parts a Rotary is an old phone.

Pepperidge Farm.
Pepperidge Fahm!
No, repeat after me: Pepperidge Farm.
Pepp'ridge Fahm!
Very good.

^that's from a radio station promo

Every place I've ever traveled to in the U.S. has a "regular coffee". What a "regular" is is all different though!

Most places in this land of ours, a regular coffee is just a plain, regular coffee. In Bahstin, if you order a "regular" coffee, you'll get it with cream and sugar automatically added.

A "rotary" is what. in civilized places, is called a traffic circle. (In the UK it's a roundabout, but I was speaking of civilized places.)

"Packie" = package store = liquor store.

Any questions?

Re: Dear Boston, get a frickin' grip!


What the hell are "traffic boxes"? Got a link, DrewDad?

http://www.myfoxboston.com/myfox/pages/ContentDetail?contentId=2523232

May have to scrape and paste.

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/03/boston_police_b.html

Thanx, DD. The Fox link doesn't tell you much, no followup. I assume that what they blew up turned out to be no more than someone's lunch box.

It's silly for Boston Police to expect terrorist attacks anyway. This is probably one of the safest cities in the USA: all the Arab troublemakers send their sons to Harvard or Northeastern or Boston U. Along with the suburbs of Detroit and the oil sheik-owned Beverly Hills, this house be safe from tigers.