Secrets of the City

Well, at least they’re not SMOKING. OMG!!!!

heh heh

Mpls is all glug-glug-glug and St. Paul is all head-in-the-sand.

Or Mpls. is all drama queen and St. Paul is all What me worry?

That’s right, alicat. Don’t kids today know that alcohol belongs in the fuel, not in da high school! I blame rap music.

Well, at least we are setting the young minds straight on biodiesel!

Bob is starting to lose control on wedging biodiesel into every thread. Don’t be maz, bob.

I just paid my dues for my last comment by fessing up to once liking Little Kings cream ale.

That’s true. I also like Little Kings cream ale.

Bob is starting to lose control on wedging biodiesel into every thread. Don’t be maz, bob.

I’m no fan of Bob – and wasn’t his just plain bob handle supposed to be separate from his work? – but at the very least he is transparent about his agenda, which is to tell strangers how to live their lives.

St. Paul is more Irish Catholic and as we all know, all Irish Catholics are drunks. All of them. We also know that all Minneapolisatonians are all liberal “the sky is falling” artsy folks. So the coverage is just an example of the papers going to where the readers are at.

Also, Bob. A prophet is rejected in his own land. Your proselytizing seems to have the same grounding as the very clever, thoughtful work done by Critical Mass.

I want a t-shirt that says:

Don’t be maz, bob.

Maybe there should be a MNSpeak Zazzle account where everyone can contribute. Then you could have that shirt, nateek.

(wipes tear)

I love you guys…

I would also love a “Don’t be maz, bob” t-shirt!

My personnal beliefs and ALAMN policy often intersect (which is good for me), just saying. Yes, I do try hard to be transparent about my agenda. Now for my advice on how to live your life: Have a Merry Christmas!

Your proselytizing seems to have the same grounding as the very clever, thoughtful work done by Critical Mass.

So KK is going to do a column on me next?!? Cool!

St. Paul is more Irish Catholic and as we all know, all Irish Catholics are drunks.

My family is now packing and moving to St. Paul… after they drink a toast to St. Paul.
They got the memo which said that all Irish Catholic drunks live in South Dakota.

Speaking as an Irish Jew, I don’t think Catholicism has anything to do with the drunkeness. Now where’s me drop of the cratur?

A priest at my catholic school used to always tell us this joke:

“Where there are four Catholics gathered, you’ll always find a fifth.”
Ba dum bum.
*Boo! Hiss!*

All I know is that I grew up in a pretty strict catholic environment towards the end of the ginormas catholic breeding era, and I’m surrounded by a shiteload o’ drunks.

So, since both papers are now putting credence on teen surveys, can I expect a news release next week where Rich Stanek claims Hennepin County is being over run by Linkin Park and Korn?

It’s not the Catholic part that makes them drunks, it’s the Irish part. The Catholic portion just looks the other way.

Since Max has spoken for the Irish Jews, I’ll chime in for the Swedish Lutheran Taoists American-Transcendentalists. We too like to get our drink on, but do so in a more peaceful yet guilt ridden, wandering sort of way.

Can I get a witness?

and that, Nate, is why your sect will be wiped off the face of the earth…you lack Maz’s mystical Warrior Gene

My mystical genes run more toward a desire to play frisbee with other warrior clans, which makes me easy pickins’.

Speaking of Maz, his return marks the earliest a Christmas wish has ever been granted to me. Welcome back Dr. Tester!

It’s not the Catholic part that makes them drunks, it’s the Irish part. The Catholic portion just looks the other way.

ahhaha. i love this.

Kersten appears to be busy being the culture warrior who saves the world from anti-Christmas grinches. This kind of acrimony is actually the worst part about Christmas these days.

Whatever the holiday, settle in, have fun, and drink a little booze – just not a single drop until you’re 21…

I used to hear a sneering commercial on AM 1280 The Patriot that said “we’re not afraid to say it, Merry Christmas”

Lovely sentiment, buddy. Right back at you.

I used to hear a sneering commercial on AM 1280 The Patriot that said “we’re not afraid to say it, Merry Christmas”

Lovely sentiment, buddy. Right back at you.

I used to hear a sneering commercial on AM 1280 The Patriot that said “we’re not afraid to say it, Merry Christmas”

Lovely sentiment, buddy. Right back at you.

Sorry for the glitch

A triple post? Don’t be Bob, Rat.

Jpb, you’ll note, does not hesitate to lay the MC on y’all. Getting ready for the Christmas pitch-in dinner and gift exhange at the Lung. I’m bringing a meat and cheese tray. My White Elephant Gift is “Snakes on a Plane,” on DVD. A Classic.

Also filming a PSA tommorow. A well known MNspeaker was to be in it, but had to cancel due to work. Boo!

Okay. Fine. So we can’t ALL accept that this is the “Christmas” season. But can we at least find common ground in our mutual understanding that Jesus was the son of God born of the Virgin Mary who came to Earth to save all of humanity? Huh? Can we at least come together on that? Is that asking too much during this blessed season? Come on!

Happy holidays to all and to all a good night.

I just re-read my last posting. It has two of my favorite elements:

1. It’s potentially offensive to every reader, either because of a lack of understanding of sarcasm, or because the content contains no room for sarcasm. Lovely.

2. I love the fact that somehow this comment came toward the end of a thread about teens and booze. That, good friends, is the essence of a fine on-line thread!

Merry Christmas!

I like your second post, because I’m a fan of tooting your own horn. But perhaps it’s because I am uniquely excellent at totting my own horn. And it is an especially exquisite horn.

actually, we cast a blind eye on excessive drinking here in st. paul because it helps us deal with the double-digit property tax increases

Jesus was the son of God?
Mary was a virgin?

All those years of catholic school and I didn’t learn a dang thing.

My White Elephant Gift is “Snakes on a Plane,” on DVD. A Classic.
Envious of the receiver of that gift. I run around randomly saying “that line” all of the time. I’m like a high-frutose-corn-syrup-infused 12 year-old who just learned how to say the “f” word. Life so rocks.

How many members of a certain demographic group does it take to perform a specified task?

A finite number: one to perform the task and the remainder to act in a manner stereotypical of the group in question.

Max, thank you for calling out jpb on his borderline-obsessive biodiesel/ethanol boosterism. Just give it a break already. It’s like a broken record and considering how often he posts, it gives the impression that MNspeak is somehow just a mouthpiece for the ALA.

I counter it with my boosterism for Camel Cigarettes…

I’d walk a mile for a Camel!

Don’t look for premiums or coupons, as the cost of the tobaccos blended in Camel Cigarettes prohibits the use of them. Just like with Biodiesel.

Oh, JACC, I once hit the motherload of coupons for Camel 2 years ago at a friend’s show at Urban Wildlife (RIP). But, you’re right, they no longer do coupons…

Plus, I think any company in the world would envy RJ Reynold’s for it’s marketing genious…well, except for Coca Cola..

And thank you, anonymous poster, for having so much courage in your convictions as to sign your name, especially when calling out someone who has contributed as much good conversation and original material as anyone on this site.

Ahh, shucks, max…

JACC!

I once hit the motherload of coupons for Camel 2 years ago at a friend’s
I’ve been lied to be a tobacco company? I can’t believe it.

@justpbob – I couldn’t resist the joke. For the record I have never smoked the deadly cancer stick nor do I think anyone should.

JACC, c’mon, all the cool people smoke. All your friends are doing it…

c’mon, all the cool people smoke. All your friends are doing it…
There is a grain of truth in that and I have to take a smoke break atleast once a day. That’s where all the good gossip happens.

I couldn’t resist the joke. For the record I have never smoked the deadly cancer stick nor do I think anyone should.

Good for you.

I’m kinda cool, aliecat, in a creepy grandpa kinda way…

It’s a lung rocket, JACC…get with the times, dood!

Yeah, yer kinda cool, bob, but only because you drink…until the ALA becomes the American Liver Association…

It’s a lung rocket, JACC…get with the times, dood!
I used to be With IT. But then they changed what IT was. Now what I’m with isn’t IT, and what’s IT seems scary and wierd. It’ll happen to YOU! ~Abe Simpson