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Post by Rob Allen on Sept 22, 2014 11:11:09 GMT -5
I don't think anyone would expect anything from the cesspool of humanity that is New Joisey. You can bash the Yankees all you want; I was always a Mets fan. But attacking New Jersey, where I spent 31 years of my life, that I can't let slide. New Jersey is called The Garden State for good reasons. Yes, it has its problems and areas that are not beautiful, but what state doesn't? New Jersey does have many beautiful places, good homes and jobs for millions of people. Does your state have an Ivy League university? New Jersey does, and two more a stone's throw from the state's borders. Do not disparage New Jersey. And BTW, "Joisey" is a New Yorker's accent - the "Toity-Toid Street an' Toid Avenue" accent. New Jerseyans pronounce their r's - sometimes even when there isn't an r in the word. The classic Jersey City accent has this advice about cooking seafood: "Ersters'll sperl if ya berl 'em in erl". |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2014 11:19:56 GMT -5
Sorry, Rob. Obviously, I was driven to an insane rage by Ish's schoolgirl-like insistence on incessantly pimping his crush, & I succumbed to tired old stereotypes (the pernicious likes of which I'm obviously all too familiar with as a native Arkansas & now an Alabama resident).
Short version: The devil made me do it!
Of course, it doesn't help that the AFAIK the only NJ native I've ever known IRL was ... uh ... well, far from an idiot, but quite a chore to deal with when I was an editor & he was a reporter.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 22, 2014 11:30:46 GMT -5
Did someone mention Derek Jeter? Today we share one of his commercial classics. He's a Hall Of Fame Thespian too
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2014 11:49:07 GMT -5
Note to self: Block Ish till this misbegotten travesty is over.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 22, 2014 11:57:52 GMT -5
Only 7 Days left. 7 Days. But in the meantime another piece of cinema brilliance that might brighten the day of the haters out there
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2014 12:00:49 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2014 22:21:51 GMT -5
RIP to another ABA (&, later, Philadelphia 76ers) stalwart, Caldwell Jones ... one of four Jones brothers from the Arkansas delta (same very small town, IIRC, that had been the site of the internment camp where a very young George Takei was held during WWII) who played pro hoops. Fellow ABA alumnus Wilbert, Major & Charles were the others.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2014 13:33:45 GMT -5
Well now we know why Bostonians will give Jeter a fond farewell this week....  sign outside Game On a Fenway area sports bar..... either that or they'll get all liquored up and the bleacher bums will give him one hell of a last hurrah! -M |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 24, 2014 13:42:51 GMT -5
Speaking of The One Known As Derek, for tomorrow's pre-game ceremonies they will be wheeling in some lucky patients from the nearby Sloan-Kettering Hospital and DJ will lay his hands upon their brow and cure them of their affliction of being unable to lay down a drag bunt.
Also the first 20,000 people in attendance will recieve a Jetter for President 2016 bobblehead
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2014 13:58:14 GMT -5
Speaking of The One Known As Derek, for tomorrow's pre-game ceremonies they will be wheeling in some lucky patients from the nearby Sloan-Kettering Hospital and DJ will lay his hands upon their brow and cure them of their affliction of being unable to lay down a drag bunt. Also the first 20,000 people in attendance will recieve a Jetter for President 2016 bobbleheadPossibly better than anyone the Democrats might run. (The GOP is, of course, a lost cause.) If only he could move to his left ... |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2014 14:02:00 GMT -5
Speaking of The One Known As Derek, for tomorrow's pre-game ceremonies they will be wheeling in some lucky patients from the nearby Sloan-Kettering Hospital and DJ will lay his hands upon their brow and cure them of their affliction of being unable to lay down a drag bunt. Also the first 20,000 people in attendance will recieve a Jetter for President 2016 bobblehead So what you're saying is that Derek Jeter is a psychic vampire who feeds on the adulation of others, and now that his playing career is over and he cannot feed on the unsuspecting crowds each night during the season, they are going to start bringing him the sick, the aged, and feebleminded to feed on.... sounds about right. -M  |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 24, 2014 14:06:07 GMT -5
Speaking of The One Known As Derek, for tomorrow's pre-game ceremonies they will be wheeling in some lucky patients from the nearby Sloan-Kettering Hospital and DJ will lay his hands upon their brow and cure them of their affliction of being unable to lay down a drag bunt. Also the first 20,000 people in attendance will recieve a Jetter for President 2016 bobblehead So what you're saying is that Derek Jeter is a psychic vampire who feeds on the adulation of others, and now that his playing career is over and he cannot feed on the unsuspecting crowds each night during the season, they are going to start bringing him the sick, the aged, and feebleminded to feed on.... sounds about right. -M Uhh.. yes.. all while he subsidizes beer in Boston. What a guy |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 24, 2014 14:16:55 GMT -5
And don't forget he raises the dead in every at bat at Yankee Stadium when legendary announcer Bob Shephard (1910-2010) intones his coming to the plate
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2014 14:19:32 GMT -5
Yep, you're right Ish, the loss of Bob Sheppard's voice is baseball's true loss in all of this! He is/was a baseball great!
-M
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Post by mrc1214 on Sept 25, 2014 9:20:21 GMT -5
I don't think anyone would expect anything from the cesspool of humanity that is New Joisey. Alabama, Arkansas, West Virginia almost look like Golden Age Athens in comparison. How dare you sir!! Although I really haven't been out of the tri-state area so I don't know how bad we are as compared to other places. |
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