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Title: Philly = Fierce
Post by: Miss Philicia on October 07, 2012, 09:58:21 pm
Wedding guest dies of heart attack after brawl breaks out with video (http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/dncrime/Wedding-guest-dies-of-heart-attack-after-brawl-breaks-out-with-video.html)

click here to view the huge dueling wedding party fight in the Sheraton hotel lobby (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFbCujzCso4)

Those Philly cops are BRUTAL! :P
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: WillyWump on October 07, 2012, 10:18:03 pm
probably a bunch of Italians
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: Miss Philicia on October 07, 2012, 10:26:27 pm
If you're white and were born in Philly you're either Italian or Irish.
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: Buckmark on October 07, 2012, 10:49:34 pm
probably a bunch of Italians

Coming from an Italian family myself (New Jersey, no less) I'd bet money on that. 

Wumpy, are there any communities in Texas with people of Italian heritage?  Or have they all been imported, like me?
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: Miss Philicia on October 07, 2012, 10:55:45 pm
Barbara please. The only "Little Italy" you're going to find in San Antonio is at Maggiano's on Afterglow Street. ::)
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: WillyWump on October 07, 2012, 11:00:40 pm
Coming from an Italian family myself (New Jersey, no less) I'd bet money on that. 

Wumpy, are there any communities in Texas with people of Italian heritage?  Or have they all been imported, like me?

No Dago's down here, jsut a bunch of Kraut communities.
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: Miss Philicia on October 07, 2012, 11:16:28 pm
I bet I've lived in more Italian communities than Henry has, and I'm not even Italian. And shouldn't your name really be Enrico?

My first apartment in NYC was in Little Italy across from the first pizzeria (http://www.firstpizza.com/) in America. And, of course, I currently live in an Italian neighborhood.
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: wolfter on October 08, 2012, 07:25:49 am
You'd never see such behaviors at a gay wedding.  Straight people are so ruining the holiness of marriage. ;D
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: WillyWump on October 08, 2012, 11:39:14 am
I bet I've lived in more Italian communities than Henry has, and I'm not even Italian. And shouldn't your name really be Enrico?


Yes!Brilliant! Heretofore we shall call Henry "Enrico"
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: Miss Philicia on October 08, 2012, 11:45:51 am
It's a little known fact that our Society Hill neighborhood contains the largest concentration of 18th & 19th century architecture in the US.

thankyouverymuch

ps: Enrico, were you South Jersey or North?
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: Buckmark on October 08, 2012, 03:30:34 pm
ps: Enrico, were you South Jersey or North?

North Jersey.  Morris County.  Although I did have one Aunt who lived in Camden *shudder* -- not the 'burbs like Cherry Hill, but Camden.  She was on Mom's side of the family, the Polish side  ;D , who I didn't have much contact with.  But that's another story.  I guess you could also call me Heniek as well as Enrico.   ::)


Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: Miss Philicia on October 08, 2012, 03:51:28 pm
Ah, lovely Morris County -- location of Montville, NJ of the infamous Guidice and Gorga clans.

And you're only half-guido? Color me disappointed.
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: tednlou2 on October 08, 2012, 04:16:27 pm
It's a little known fact that our Society Hill neighborhood contains the largest concentration of 18th & 19th century architecture in the US.

thankyouverymuch

ps: Enrico, were you South Jersey or North?

Well, early 19th century, perhaps.  Louisville takes over for late 1800's.  We claim the largest number of preserved Victorian homes. 

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Louisville
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: Miss Philicia on October 08, 2012, 04:46:20 pm
Well, early 19th century, perhaps.  Louisville takes over for late 1800's.  We claim the largest number of preserved Victorian homes. 

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Louisville

Honey, if you can read that it's being specific about one type of architecture -- only Victorian.

Society Hill is 18th century to early 19th. In other words all pre-Civil War (Federal and Georgian architecture). Victorian architecture doesn't begin until after that. We have a lot of Victorian in West Philadelphia but much of it was torn down to expand the Univ. of PA and Drexel. Plus at the time this area was considered a "streetcar suburb" and not the city proper.

It's very apples to oranges since Philadelphia had ten time the population when the war began. There weren't many people living in Louisville. And by the way, consider yourself lucky that Yankees occupied the city and thus didn't torch it. ;)

Think of it this way. I live in a building older than most of what is in your historic district, and my building isn't even landmarked or in an historic district.
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: WillyWump on October 08, 2012, 05:06:49 pm
consider yourself lucky that Yankees occupied the city and thus didn't torch it. ;)


Oh HERE WE GO AGAIN with the Yank crap ::)

Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: Miss Philicia on October 08, 2012, 05:22:17 pm
Oh HERE WE GO AGAIN with the Yank crap ::)



San Antonio only had 8,000 people living there at that time so it wasn't even worth torching. And before you come back with how you're growing so quickly you're almost as large as up here, please realize we're confined to 140 sq. miles whereas you have 400, and will probably just annex the rest off Bexar County.
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: Buckmark on October 08, 2012, 05:34:07 pm
Ah, lovely Morris County -- location of Montville, NJ of the infamous Guidice and Gorga clans.

One of my stepmothers was from Montville.  This explains a lot.

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And you're only half-guido? Color me disappointed.

I'm a product of good hybridization.  Hence why I am able to fend off teh AIDS and other diseases with less than half the CD4s levels that you have.   :P   

Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: Buckmark on October 08, 2012, 05:35:44 pm
Oh HERE WE GO AGAIN with the Yank crap ::)

Wumpy, this is where you start singing "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down".
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: WillyWump on October 08, 2012, 05:53:48 pm
Wumpy, this is where you start singing "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down".

I actually think it's time we roll out General Lee's 'Ol Bess again and give her a taste of some southern lead...

(http://i1018.photobucket.com/albums/af308/IwuvPhilly/virg.jpg)
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: Miss Philicia on October 08, 2012, 05:56:00 pm
Oh, let's not go there -- I was born and raised 35 miles from General Lee's mansion, and 30 from the Battle of Bull Run. Neither of you tards can make that claim.

... not to mention during college I lived around the corner from Tredegar Iron Works (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tredegar_Iron_Works) where that cannon was probably manufactured. So full of fail, Guilhermina.
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: WillyWump on October 08, 2012, 06:10:21 pm
-- I was born and raised 35 miles from General Lee's mansion,

and 30 from the Battle of Bull Run.

... not to mention during college I lived around the corner from Tredegar Iron Works (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tredegar_Iron_Works)

where that cannon was probably manufactured.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss2hULhXf04
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: mitch777 on October 08, 2012, 06:12:29 pm
LOL wumpy!
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: ds4146 on October 08, 2012, 10:26:31 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss2hULhXf04

I need to stop clicking on these....LMAO and another mess to clean up! As for bringing out the cannon, Willy you should have produced the balls to back it up with. But much better than Solo's twist with the Daisy crap. Daisies are for the dead and the toilet!
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: Ann on October 09, 2012, 06:04:32 am
Oh please. The oldest part of the town I live in has buildings from the late 1300s right through to modern-day - including a castle (Peel Castle). In fact, the oldest part of the castle (Monk's tower) dates from the fifth century, and it's still standing. It was built by monks as a defense against Vikings. So there.

Monk's tower, the oldest bit...

(http://www.iomguide.com/peel/photos/peel-castle2-big.jpg)

(http://www.gov.im/lib/images/mnh/archaeology/peelcastle.jpg)

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3122/2826680850_c8098b627a.jpg)

I win! ;D
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: Miss Philicia on October 09, 2012, 08:17:21 am
Oh, give it a rest -- you're from Cleveland or thereabouts, and you've altered your accent like Madonna did.
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: Dachshund on October 09, 2012, 08:29:33 am
Oh please. Rumor has it Nic was buggered by Crispus Attucks.
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: Ann on October 09, 2012, 08:34:24 am
Oh, give it a rest -- you're from Cleveland or thereabouts, and you've altered your accent like Madonna did.

Um, yeah, sure, that's why people still (21 years later) still tell me how strong my American accent is - and my nickname is still The Yank because of it.

Anyway, you're not originally from the place you're always bragging about either, so put a sock in it put mittens on.
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: mecch on October 09, 2012, 08:40:38 am
Supposedly the "swingers" (straight) cruise on summer evenings on top of the roman ruins in my city but I've never seen a thing.. In fact I've never heard of heterosexual cruising grounds anywhere in Europe, and yet people repeat this legend all the time. 
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: Miss Philicia on October 09, 2012, 08:42:35 am

Anyway, you're not originally from the place you're always bragging about either, so put a sock in it put mittens on.

That's right, sister -- I'm not originally from Philadelphia or NYC, I'm from The Old Dominion and the Mother of states, also known as the Commonwealth of Virginia. Which, as we all know, is the very oldest of all of colonies, and home of the oldest legislature in the Western Hemisphere -- the General Assembly. And my family dates back to pre-Revolutionary times there thankuverymuch.
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: Jeff G on October 09, 2012, 08:58:09 am
My ancestors were Crow Indians and moved far away as they could get from those smelly immigrants . 
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: spacebarsux on October 09, 2012, 04:24:23 pm
My ancestors were Crow Indians and moved far away as they could get from those smelly immigrants .

It is commonly known that we real Indians are the most ancient of the lot, in fact so much so that many of us continue to live like we did 5000 years ago. LOL

 
Supposedly the "swingers" (straight) cruise on summer evenings on top of the roman ruins in my city but I've never seen a thing.. In fact I've never heard of heterosexual cruising grounds anywhere in Europe, and yet people repeat this legend all the time. 

Straight people cruise in Switzerland ?
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: Jeff G on October 09, 2012, 04:41:33 pm
It is commonly known that we real Indians are the most ancient of the lot, in fact so much so that many of us continue to live like we did 5000 years ago. LOL

We would be living like that too if white man hadn't brought magic look n type masturbation box to replace our play with your tom tom smoke signal method  ;) . 
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: skeebo1969 on October 09, 2012, 05:40:43 pm

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3122/2826680850_c8098b627a.jpg)

I win! ;D

I think the accent lighting the monks put in was a really nice touch.
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: mitch777 on October 09, 2012, 05:45:08 pm
I win!

Ann,
why even try?
LOL

mitch
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: bocker3 on October 09, 2012, 10:32:44 pm
That's right, sister -- I'm not originally from Philadelphia or NYC, I'm from The Old Dominion and the Mother of states, also known as the Commonwealth of Virginia. Which, as we all know, is the very oldest of all of colonies, and home of the oldest legislature in the Western Hemisphere -- the General Assembly. And my family dates back to pre-Revolutionary times there thankuverymuch.

Interesting how you only hold up VA as a supreme thing when it might help you win an "contest".  I've lived here for over 12 years now -- VA is not really "all that".  It's a pretty state, but man they have some weird ways of thinking here.  I mean they keep re-electing folks fools like Eric Cantor and Ken Cuccinelli into office over and over.  They may be an "old" state, but they don't seem able to actually live in the current, modern, real world.

m
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: Miss Philicia on October 09, 2012, 10:52:36 pm
Interesting how you only hold up VA as a supreme thing when it might help you win an "contest". 

Thanks for the personal attack darling!

Aside from that, let us all acknowledge for the record, that Virginia was also progressive enough to elect the first African American governor of any US state since Reconstruction, and they did it 22 years ago. This was no small thing.

And that election happened 3 weeks before I moved to NYC so I can claim to have voted for him.
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: Theyer on October 10, 2012, 05:37:23 am
The diggers on Orkney are exposing a neolithic village. This is depressing age competitions , and archaeologists and not a jolly bunch , lots off hand knitted baggy clothes.
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: bocker3 on October 10, 2012, 07:46:39 am
Thanks for the personal attack darling!

Oh please -- if you think that was a personal attack, then you haven't been around the block as much as you claim!

BTW -- your alma mater is having it's annual rash of robberies.  All these new students who don't know how to conduct themselves as the walk around the city, drunk, at night.

M
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: Miss Philicia on October 10, 2012, 08:16:55 am

BTW -- your alma mater is having it's annual rash of robberies.  All these new students who don't know how to conduct themselves as the walk around the city, drunk, at night.

M

Failure to dodge bullets while doing ecstasy? Fortunately the homicide rate didn't skyrocket until the year after I left.

ps: have you eaten here (http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-black-sheep-richmond)? It did well on Travel Channel's "Best Sandwich in America" contest several months ago? I think it was a fried oyster sandwich that they had entered. Unfortunately it lost to Philadelphia ;) But seriously, if I'm driving up I-95 when driving to my brother's it's an easy stop-off alternative to Bill's BBQ on Boulevard.
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: Dachshund on October 10, 2012, 11:38:46 am
Who da thunk it, college freshmen getting drunk and disorderly. Seems some around here have forgotten their own misspent youth, now that they have let go and let God.
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: Miss Philicia on October 10, 2012, 12:07:34 pm
My landlord leased the first floor to college students last month, and they managed complaints their first weekend here from having a party until 2 AM. I didn't hear anything. But I'm over them for turning the front stoop into a huge ashtray. Seriously, how hard is it to put the butts in a PBR can?

Naturally they're all slacker hipsters attending U-Arts (http://www.uarts.edu/).

I hope they don't develop the unseemly habit of coming up the rear fire escape and smoking GANJA on the rear roof because it comes right in my kitchen window and is annoying.
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: Jeff G on October 10, 2012, 12:11:41 pm
I hope they don't develop the unseemly habit of coming up the rear fire escape and smoking GANJA on the rear roof because it comes right in my kitchen window and is annoying.

Just hang out the window and wave your cane while you stick out your dentures out at them and they will scatter .
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: Miss Philicia on October 10, 2012, 12:15:17 pm
Just hang out the window and wave your cane while you stick out your dentures out at them and they will scatter .

I'm not that decrepit yet. For the record, I didn't even break a sweat yesterday during my stress test on that treadmill (unlike Guilhermina or Theodora).
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: tednlou2 on October 10, 2012, 01:52:06 pm
Wow, you're in good shape.  That better diet works.  And, the marathon sex.  You sure they didn't give you the granny version, where you just do a brisk walk?  I was running top speed as the incline kept increasing.  Then, they tell you to jump off and run to the bed, so they check your heart.  I feel worse now, if you could do it with no problem and I thought I was going to pass out.  ;)
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: Miss Philicia on October 10, 2012, 02:04:11 pm
Wow, you're in good shape.  That better diet works.  And, the marathon sex.  You sure they didn't give you the granny version, where you just do a brisk walk?  I was running top speed as the incline kept increasing.  Then, they tell you to jump off and run to the bed, so they check your heart.  I feel worse now, if you could do it with no problem and I thought I was going to pass out.  ;)

LOL, I reiterated with the staff that I was coming off foot surgery 4 months ago (in fact my physical therapy only ended 2 weeks ago) so instead of working me to exhaustion they got me up to the minimum reading (139) where they can take an acceptable test. I actually went to 141. If they'd had me go to the next elevation level on the treadmill I would have been running, and obviously that wouldn't probably be a good idea for my feet now (if ever actually).

As it was this morning when I woke up there was a light bruised color where all of my tendons had been lengthened, and my feet are sore. Well, more sore than usual, they basically always hurt sadly.

Also, my target number may have been different than yours because you're younger than I am. Still, if I hadn't had surgery twice on my feet I would have had absolutely no problem even at my age going up to the next level and running. It's not just that I am no overweight, nor have I ever been, it's also that since I haven't owned a car in 23 years I walk everywhere and go up/down lots of staircases. You folks that drive are too sedentary. And really Theo, at the age of 36 you shouldn't be out of breath with that test. Join a fucking gym.
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: mecch on October 10, 2012, 02:29:00 pm
Do you not smoke joints? I would try to get a toll for fire escape smoking, if I could do it without being "the troll who demands a toll"... 
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: tednlou2 on October 10, 2012, 03:00:18 pm
Yes, I felt so pathetic that I've dusted off my elliptical and have been using it, instead of using it as a clothes hanger.  In my defense, they said the beta-blocker can cause issues.  Ok, I am just out of shape.  I can't blame the BB for all my difficulty.  It was a wake-up call.  At my age, I would think it should have been a breeze.   I think my heart rate got to 188, when they said to jump off.
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: Miss Philicia on October 10, 2012, 03:10:06 pm
Do you not smoke joints? I would try to get a toll for fire escape smoking, if I could do it without being "the troll who demands a toll"... 


Drug use is illegal. Of course I don't smoke pot.
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: bocker3 on October 10, 2012, 06:14:48 pm
Who da thunk it, college freshmen getting drunk and disorderly. Seems some around here have forgotten their own misspent youth, now that they have let go and let God.

Clearly you missed my point --- perhaps because the message wasn't directed at you. 
This had nothing to do with being disorderly, it had to do with being new in a city and getting mugged and/or assaulted because you don't know your surroundings.   ::)
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: bocker3 on October 10, 2012, 06:25:02 pm
Failure to dodge bullets while doing ecstasy? Fortunately the homicide rate didn't skyrocket until the year after I left.

ps: have you eaten here (http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-black-sheep-richmond)? It did well on Travel Channel's "Best Sandwich in America" contest several months ago? I think it was a fried oyster sandwich that they had entered. Unfortunately it lost to Philadelphia ;) But seriously, if I'm driving up I-95 when driving to my brother's it's an easy stop-off alternative to Bill's BBQ on Boulevard.

Yeah -- Richmond is having a banner year for murders and shootings.  I'm happy to be situated in the suburbs, with my yard, driveway and pool!

I've not eaten at Black Sheep -- in fact, hadn't heard of it.  There are a plethora of little eateries around the city -- always able to find something new and interesting.  Although, there isn't any good Thai food to be found anywhere!!

Mike
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: Dachshund on October 10, 2012, 11:14:21 pm
Clearly you missed my point --- perhaps because the message wasn't directed at you. 
This had nothing to do with being disorderly, it had to do with being new in a city and getting mugged and/or assaulted because you don't know your surroundings.   ::)

Clearly you didn't miss my point.
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: wolfter on October 10, 2012, 11:42:14 pm
Who da thunk it, college freshmen getting drunk and disorderly. Seems some around here have forgotten their own misspent youth, now that they have let go and let God.

I loved going to university away from our small rural boringness :o  Once I discovered booze and man sex, school no longer mattered.  26 years later, I still have a constant reminder of those days. 

Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: bocker3 on October 11, 2012, 07:38:15 am
Clearly you didn't miss my point.

Of course I didn't -- I can read english and am far, far more intelligent than you.
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: Dachshund on October 11, 2012, 08:15:14 am
Intelligent and not easily manipulated. Yep, a real smarty. ;)
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: Miss Philicia on October 11, 2012, 09:43:04 am
omg... are we going to pull out our SAT scores and college GPA's?

I may have graduated from VCU, but I was accepted by William & Mary and UVA. 8)
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: WillyWump on October 11, 2012, 10:35:39 am
Just hang out the window and wave your cane while you stick out your dentures out at them


and scream You blasted whipper-snappers!

omg... are we going to pull out our SAT scores and college GPA's?

I may have graduated from VCU, but I was accepted by William & Mary and UVA. 8)

PROUD graduate of Southwest Texas State University (now known as TSU) which when I attended was given the highly coveted honor of "America's Best Party School".

top that bitches.
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: wolfter on October 11, 2012, 10:45:36 am
http://mvnu.edu/about/about.asp

One of my Alma maters.  I made several classmates see heaven through a hands on approach. ;D

GO COUGARS!!!!
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: BT65 on October 11, 2012, 03:30:49 pm
Of course I didn't -- I can read english and am far, far more intelligent than you.

I don't know about you being "far, far more intelligent" than Dachs.  He is actually pretty genius.  To say something like that just to try to get under someone's skin is cruel. 
Title: Re: Philly = Fierce
Post by: mecch on October 12, 2012, 06:59:49 am
I'll never live down the shame of actually applying with enthusiasm to Vassar, and the disappointment of being rejected, to boot! 
I always that that was a particularly chic line in a lady's biography: having dropped out of a Seven Sisters.