Where does the Boston Globe go when they need to get a pulse on what the nation is feeling regarding the debt ceiling crisis. Exactly….South Bay in Dorchester. The one guy with a citizenship in this video is still rattled from seeing big mama’s cones….four seconds …
So this traveling salesman is in between gigs and has a few days off, so he goes into bar in a small town. He sits down has a few beers, and notices a big glass jar full of fifties in the corner. He asks the bartender, what’s the story with the money in the jar? The bartender replies, it’s a little bet we have going here. You have to put a fifty in the jar and complete 3 things, if you do all that you get the money. The man asks what do I have to do? The bartender says, do you see that 6’5″ 250lbs bouncer in the corner? The man says yeah, the bartender says you have to knock him out with one punch. Then we have a mean nasty pitbull out back. The dog has a bad tooth, so you have to pull the tooth. Then the barman says we have an 85 year old woman upstairs who hasn’t been sexually satisfied in 20 years, you have to go upstairs and take care of her. The salesman says, what the heck. He puts a fifty in the jar, walks up to the bouncer and sure enough knocks the guy out with one punch. He then goes out back, the dog is moaning and screaming for 15 minutes, the salesman walks back into the bar and says where’s that old lady with the bad tooth?
If you grew up a Dot Rat, either you played hockey or your neighbors did. When Bobby Orr came to town he infused the neighborhoods with hockey fever. His influence can still be seen on our side streets today…street hockey is part of our fabric …
Racism exists on both sides of Dot Ave. Things have become better over the years but tensions do flare from time to time. The questions being raised by the recent Ups and Downs stabbings sparked my interest in writing about this. And I will try …
We all know that public safety is a tough job for both Police and Fire. The jobs can be thankless and prove very high risk. This morning the Boston Globe reported on this fire in a single family home in Somerville which took the life of a woman in her 90’s. There’s a rumor floating around that a Somerville firefighter who was responding to this fire was an actual family member of the deceased woman. I can’t begin to imagine how horrible this must have been.
Tonight my thoughts and prayers are with this firefighter and public safety officials everywhere.
Could you imagine your life without the internet? Probably not…. Did you know the internet went live in 1969? Back then it was called Arpanet. Do you know what kind of role Massachusetts had in creating the internet? There’s a small inconspicuous campus that sits …
Apparently someone shanked the bouncer at the Pony Room last night….or Up’s and Downs for you youngins. I guess last night was a downer for the bouncer….he got stabbed in the leg while trying to break up a fight. Why am I not surprised?
Universal Hub reports 6 people total were sent to the Carney with stab wounds.
Now I know everone converges on this place for last call. I have been to the Pony Room once…got a tshirt…never went back. The place has always been seedy. My only suggestion to the dive under the bridge is to maybe spruce the place up. Knock a wall down…throw in a roof deck with a view of the park and river… serve some nice food. Try to attract a different crowd….maybe enforce a dress code. Use what the Blarney Stone did as your guide and run with it. And for Christ’s sake stop letting Ginuwine and his crew into the bar…
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Here’s a Ginuwine 2010 fight at the Pony Room posted on the tube…
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You stay classy Pony Roomers….
and you thought I was going to break into Paradise by the Dashboard Light. No, the meatloaf I speak of is the one made by the Rock Island Food Company. “But DotRat…what was it’s crime?” Well, meatloaf with mac & cheese as an accessory to induce …