Re: Guest Post - And You Thought You Had Issues

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Since we have their president's son in prison, the least they could do for us is lock up Jared.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 12-10-19 8:45 AM
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Hezbollah's back in town again, been hanging down at Dino's.


Posted by: dalriata | Link to this comment | 12-10-19 9:55 AM
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I used to joke that you weren't truly back in North Florida until you heard "The Boys Are Back in Town" on a classic rock station.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 12-10-19 11:51 AM
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It just seemed very quintessential to me, along with Radar Love. These may not have held up over time.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 12-10-19 11:52 AM
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4 : they are as good as they ever were.


Posted by: soup biscuit | Link to this comment | 12-10-19 12:00 PM
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Well, they may not represent North Central Florida very well anymore.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 12-10-19 12:01 PM
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They're not the only ones.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 12-10-19 12:04 PM
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I used to joke that you weren't truly back in North Florida until you heard "The Boys Are Back in Town" on a classic rock station.

Obligatory archives link.


Posted by: NickS | Link to this comment | 12-10-19 12:04 PM
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Isn't it nice when you forget something you've written and then you write the same thing all over again? I feel like it speaks to an underlying continuity of character or something.

I especially like it if I'm reading something I wrote long ago, and I have to (say) turn the page, and I mentally finish the interrupted sentence in my head based on how I'd write it today, and then I turn the page and see that I finished it the same way twenty years ago. It's so satisfying. I'm myself!


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 12-10-19 12:11 PM
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Shouldn't Post Modern Jukebox do a version of Boys? Someone call someone.


Posted by: CharleyCarp | Link to this comment | 12-10-19 2:20 PM
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Suriname has added an e to its name, I discover, 41 years after it happened.


Posted by: lourdes kayak | Link to this comment | 12-10-19 5:25 PM
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So did Nam.


Posted by: heebie | Link to this comment | 12-10-19 8:47 PM
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Vietname.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 12-10-19 8:50 PM
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In 1851, it was called the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute. There's a name.


Posted by: lw | Link to this comment | 12-10-19 9:27 PM
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President Garfield never would have become a teacher at Western Reserve Eclectic Institute if not for the formative experience of falling off a canal boat and convalescing with ague, which convinced the young nerd's mother to send him to college.


Posted by: Cryptic ned | Link to this comment | 12-10-19 9:42 PM
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3/8: Oh no, I think I'm secretly North Floridian. And I identified with in in the same way as your brother did, especially the summer after freshman year of college--half the summer I was taking classes at a local college and working at my last high school job, and just generally being stupid with high school friends. Perhaps there's something universal to coming from third tier metro areas.


Posted by: dalriata | Link to this comment | 12-11-19 3:00 AM
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I like the idea of someone unearthing that they're secretly North Floridian and embracing their true identity with dignified zeal. Do you have any old Lynyrd Skynyrd concert t-shirts or do you need me to mail you some?


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 12-11-19 7:08 AM
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AIMHMHB, my chess-player friends and I had an ongoing joke that we were a fearsome gang, known as the "Bethesda Boys". It started on a trip a few of us took to Ocean City, Maryland. We were buying food from a vendor on the boardwalk, and the cashier (an oldish woman) said that we were "nice Bethesda boys" not like all the "Ocean City bums". Naturally, "The Boys are Back in Town" was our unofficial theme song.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 12-11-19 7:17 AM
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"Bethesda Boys" sounds like a sexist reference to the FDA.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 12-11-19 7:26 AM
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The Boys from Bethesda: NIH is infiltrated by Nazis who want to clone Hitler.


Posted by: AcademicLurker | Link to this comment | 12-11-19 7:46 AM
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You know Trump can just appoint any Nazi he wants.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 12-11-19 7:50 AM
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Live the dream

https://www.ebay.com/i/303100087810
https://www.ebay.com/itm/SCORPIONS-HARD-ROCK-HEAVY-METAL-MUSIC-BAND-CONCERT-ADULT-VINTAGE-80S-T-Shirt/123037597918
https://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Journey-Frontiers-1983-Band-Concert-Vintage-Classic-T-Shirt-TEE-Small-S-Top/174117437793


Posted by: lw | Link to this comment | 12-11-19 8:44 AM
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17: I did have a bunch of ratty hand-me-down Metallica shirts as a kid, which might be close enough. From a cousin who ended up later moving to the panhandle, which is "North Florida" for orthogonally-expansive values of north.


Posted by: dalriata | Link to this comment | 12-11-19 9:44 AM
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OT: Have Black. Hebrew Israelites come up before? I remember hearing the name and I don't think it was another murder.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 12-11-19 10:53 AM
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24: They were involved in the Covington Catholic video idiocy way back in January 2019.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/01/22/black-hebrew-israelites-covington-catholic-video-hate-group-other-info/2643519002/


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 12-11-19 10:56 AM
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That's right. Thanks.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 12-11-19 10:58 AM
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Thanks Boomer.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 12-11-19 10:59 AM
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