Comments on: Gopher Bar http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/11816 Minneapolis + St. Paul Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:11:27 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: yanqui mike http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/11816#comment-213271 yanqui mike Sun, 01 Mar 2009 04:27:51 +0000 #comment-213271 It's been 20 years since I've been there. I live south america now. I could well be described accurately as a communist. Other than the traitorous Stars and Bars... which has no place in the great state of MN, I would dearly love to have another coney there again before I die. I've been all around the world ...and I have maybe never found anyplace that I have missed so much. I only lived down the street for 2 years. Everybody told me when I arrived in MN... that they pegged me for the "wrong side of the river." Not me. There was no doubt that St. Paul was gonna be MY home. I never regretted that decision. Best coney in the world ...and having come there from Detroit ...I thought I knew all about 'em! The smoking ban be damned! But does this young whipper-snapper that owns that fine ol'joint really think that the Reaganites and their Reagan-Democrats didn't lead to that? Makes me wanna travel 10,000 km to talk some sense into him. St. Paul and MN is a better place than that ...and I'm sure that I wouldn't have a problem at all (other than that NASCAR piece of shit on the wall!) drinking, talking and gettin' in on a meat-raffle with the realest people on earth. Wish me luck, Yanqui Mike Buenos Aires Argentina (man! my mouth is watering all over my keyboard.) It’s been 20 years since I’ve been there.

I live south america now.

I could well be described accurately as a communist.

Other than the traitorous Stars and Bars… which has no place in the great state of MN, I would dearly love to have another coney there again before I die.

I’ve been all around the world …and I have maybe never found anyplace that I have missed so much. I only lived down the street for 2 years.

Everybody told me when I arrived in MN… that they pegged me for the “wrong side of the river.” Not me. There was no doubt that St. Paul was gonna be MY home. I never regretted that decision.

Best coney in the world …and having come there from Detroit …I thought I knew all about ‘em!

The smoking ban be damned! But does this young whipper-snapper that owns that fine ol’joint really think that the Reaganites and their Reagan-Democrats didn’t lead to that? Makes me wanna travel 10,000 km to talk some sense into him.

St. Paul and MN is a better place than that …and I’m sure that I wouldn’t have a problem at all (other than that NASCAR piece of shit on the wall!) drinking, talking and gettin’ in on a meat-raffle with the realest people on earth.

Wish me luck,
Yanqui Mike
Buenos Aires Argentina

(man! my mouth is watering all over my keyboard.)

]]> By: mnrover http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/11816#comment-211021 mnrover Sat, 07 Feb 2009 01:24:31 +0000 #comment-211021 Great place,great coneys, everyone needs to visit. Too many people are afraid to tell it how it is!!! George on the other hand is not. I received a coney one time with a orange deli sticker on the paper that read "Eat a coney at the gopher bar or get FUCKED" I love it!!! Great place,great coneys, everyone needs to visit. Too many people are afraid to tell it how it is!!! George on the other hand is not. I received a coney one time with a orange deli sticker on the paper that read “Eat a coney at the gopher bar or get FUCKED” I love it!!!

]]> By: justpbob http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/11816#comment-142530 justpbob Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:15:44 +0000 #comment-142530 That could describe your Uncle Bob as well.<br /> <br /> (outstreached arms)<br /> <br /> <em>"Come and Get It!</em> That could describe your Uncle Bob as well.

(outstreached arms)

“Come and Get It!

]]> By: billiam http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/11816#comment-142525 billiam Wed, 13 Feb 2008 06:31:45 +0000 #comment-142525 Uncle Franky's. Yes. The one with the moustache. Uncle Franky’s. Yes. The one with the moustache.

]]> By: champs|rt53 http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/11816#comment-142488 champs|rt53 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:15:27 +0000 #comment-142488 But then I could be going out on a limb putting Rice on the east side and not Frogtown. And "east side" could mean "mansion on Dayton's Bluff." I'm tired. But then I could be going out on a limb putting Rice on the east side and not Frogtown. And “east side” could mean “mansion on Dayton’s Bluff.” I’m tired.

]]> By: champs|rt53 http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/11816#comment-142487 champs|rt53 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:10:40 +0000 #comment-142487 As an odd confluence of ideas, jpavleck <em>did</em> walk into the Gopher Bar with a Soviet jersey just across the street from Dave Brooks' tribute to his brother Herb, the east side St. Paul native who happened to coach the American hockey team for a little thing called the "Miracle on Ice." As an odd confluence of ideas, jpavleck did walk into the Gopher Bar with a Soviet jersey just across the street from Dave Brooks’ tribute to his brother Herb, the east side St. Paul native who happened to coach the American hockey team for a little thing called the “Miracle on Ice.”

]]> By: justpbob http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/11816#comment-142463 justpbob Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:32:48 +0000 #comment-142463 And homophobia looked <em><strong>smashing</strong></em> in that thin veil, too! <br /> <br /> Have you been working out, homophobia? And homophobia looked smashing in that thin veil, too!

Have you been working out, homophobia?

]]> By: mazasapa http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/11816#comment-142427 mazasapa Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:45:54 +0000 #comment-142427 <em>I love the thinly veiled homophobia here</em>.<br /> <br /> Must. Reach. Straws. I love the thinly veiled homophobia here.

Must. Reach. Straws.

]]> By: msparber http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/11816#comment-142422 msparber Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:42:25 +0000 #comment-142422 Blank verse, I'd say. Maybe a sort of dactylic hexameter. Blank verse, I’d say. Maybe a sort of dactylic hexameter.

]]> By: mnblrmkr http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/11816#comment-142421 mnblrmkr Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:39:51 +0000 #comment-142421 <em>doesn't the sport lose its poetry?</em><br /> <br /> What kind of poetry is "...one walks out?" doesn’t the sport lose its poetry?

What kind of poetry is “…one walks out?”

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