Comments on: Patriot Day http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/04/20/patriot-day/ The unbearable lightness of Lex. Enjoy! Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:10:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Surfcaster http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/04/20/patriot-day/comment-page-1/#comment-359005 Surfcaster Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:41:10 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=9080#comment-359005 Hi Kris, As more or less a native of Dedham, I know what you mean. Ron, I remember him, and more importantly, mister Kelly, the star of the Marathon. Quite the class act. But I used to watch the Marathon with morning libations in front of the bar I worked, Fathers Too (now PJ Kilroys). Daisey Bukes was reserved for talent night... The rest of you folks can slam the northeast all you want (in many cases deservedly so) but just remembah, Bahstin is Wicked Pissah. Go Sohhx Hi Kris,

As more or less a native of Dedham, I know what you mean.

Ron, I remember him, and more importantly, mister Kelly, the star of the Marathon. Quite the class act. But I used to watch the Marathon with morning libations in front of the bar I worked, Fathers Too (now PJ Kilroys). Daisey Bukes was reserved for talent night…

The rest of you folks can slam the northeast all you want (in many cases deservedly so) but just remembah, Bahstin is Wicked Pissah. Go Sohhx

]]> By: Quartermaster http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/04/20/patriot-day/comment-page-1/#comment-358998 Quartermaster Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:14:26 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=9080#comment-358998 Or You'ins in NC. Or You’ins in NC.

]]> By: Quartermaster http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/04/20/patriot-day/comment-page-1/#comment-358997 Quartermaster Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:13:22 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=9080#comment-358997 And Cuber! And Cuber!

]]> By: virgil xenophon http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/04/20/patriot-day/comment-page-1/#comment-358993 virgil xenophon Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:07:24 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=9080#comment-358993 Ron F/ Unbeknown to most, New Orleans is known as "The Brooklyn of the South," as it's working class accents are almost indistinguishable from Brooklyneese. When I first came to LSU in 1962 (when southern accents were much thicker than today in this almost universal "val girl" speak world.) as a son of the Prairie State, coeds from Shreveport, B.R., etc., used to say to me before I introduced myself: "I can tell by you're accent you're either a "damn Yankee" or you're from New Orleans." LOL. Ron F/

Unbeknown to most, New Orleans is known as “The Brooklyn of the South,” as it’s working class accents are almost indistinguishable from Brooklyneese. When I first came to LSU in 1962 (when southern accents were much thicker than today in this almost universal “val girl” speak world.) as a son of the Prairie State, coeds from Shreveport, B.R., etc., used
to say to me before I introduced myself: “I can tell by you’re accent you’re either a “damn Yankee” or you’re from New Orleans.”
LOL.

]]> By: Dust http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/04/20/patriot-day/comment-page-1/#comment-358991 Dust Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:00:50 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=9080#comment-358991 Hey AW1Tim, Me own 5th Great Grandfather was a minuteman up your way, in Pownalboro (a.k.a Woolwich) and was marching south west right after Lexington and Concord. Me bein' 7th Gen Mainiac and all... Too bad the dip$#!ts have taken over MY state. ME, NH and VT were the only states that voted against Roosevelt in 1940. Makes you wish for the really good old days. Best, Dustan Chaff Hey AW1Tim,

Me own 5th Great Grandfather was a minuteman up your way, in Pownalboro (a.k.a Woolwich) and was marching south west right after Lexington and Concord. Me bein’ 7th Gen Mainiac and all…
Too bad the dip$#!ts have taken over MY state. ME, NH and VT were the only states that voted against Roosevelt in 1940. Makes you wish for the really good old days.

Best,
Dustan Chaff

]]> By: RonF http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/04/20/patriot-day/comment-page-1/#comment-358990 RonF Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:00:03 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=9080#comment-358990 And yes, I remember getting April 19th off every year (it wasn't celebrated on the Monday after the weekend until Nixon started screwing around with that kind of thing). I remember following the Marathon (not "The Boston Marathon" - those held in other cities or for the Olympics had the modifier added, but not the Marathon) and even watched the finish once when I was living at the fraternity house 2 blocks from the finish. Rodgers, the last American winner IIRC, once walked the 2 blocks from the finish line to Daisy Buchanan's (a bar owned by Derek Sanderson of the Boston Bruins) and conducted his post-race interviews while downing his own personal favorite fluid and electrolyte replenishment solutions. The various editions of the paper (remember multiple editions of the daily paper?) would track the progress across the top. The only regularly scheduled morning start in Major League Baseball. And memorizing "Paul Revere's Ride" and actually going to the Old North Church when I went to college in Cambridge, and the "shot heard 'round the world". And yes, I remember getting April 19th off every year (it wasn’t celebrated on the Monday after the weekend until Nixon started screwing around with that kind of thing). I remember following the Marathon (not “The Boston Marathon” – those held in other cities or for the Olympics had the modifier added, but not the Marathon) and even watched the finish once when I was living at the fraternity house 2 blocks from the finish. Rodgers, the last American winner IIRC, once walked the 2 blocks from the finish line to Daisy Buchanan’s (a bar owned by Derek Sanderson of the Boston Bruins) and conducted his post-race interviews while downing his own personal favorite fluid and electrolyte replenishment solutions. The various editions of the paper (remember multiple editions of the daily paper?) would track the progress across the top. The only regularly scheduled morning start in Major League Baseball. And memorizing “Paul Revere’s Ride” and actually going to the Old North Church when I went to college in Cambridge, and the “shot heard ’round the world”.

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