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Philly? Phooey! (Philly's the past. Phoenix is the future.)
The Arizona Republic ^
| Jul. 10, 2003
Posted on 07/10/2003 12:07:58 PM PDT by presidio9
Edited on 05/07/2004 5:21:27 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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W.C. Fields said it best: Better there than dead - but not by much.
There's a reason a half-million people have left Philadelphia over the last 50 years.
They don't want to be there.
This is not some new phenomenon. W.C. Fields would pick Philly only if the alternative was internment.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Philosophy; US: Arizona; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: brotherlylove; cheesesteak; philly; phoenix
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To: presidio9
Don't forget lots and lots of MEXICANS.
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posted on
07/10/2003 1:44:06 PM PDT
by
dljordan
To: riri
I remember how you feel. My heart goes out to you.
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posted on
07/10/2003 1:49:51 PM PDT
by
presidio9
(RUN AL, RUN!!!)
To: presidio9
"Philly people are fat." A real original thought, there.
To show how devoid his arguemnt is, he picks on scrapple and "soft" pretzels as "Philly cusine" to trash. Easy targets.
Plus, Curt Schilling has made it clear he'd love to return to Philly. Pheonix can have Barkley.
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posted on
07/10/2003 1:51:53 PM PDT
by
vrwinger
To: dogbrain
Except that we don't have "Jack in the Crack" back East.
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posted on
07/10/2003 1:52:45 PM PDT
by
presidio9
(RUN AL, RUN!!!)
To: presidio9
On the other hand Philadelphia has major crime and street thugs. And that's only who is running the City government. On the street it's "feets don't fail me now"!
Still....there is nothing like a real Philly Cheese Steak. A little tough on the heart valves though.
Regards,
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posted on
07/10/2003 2:06:21 PM PDT
by
Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
To: vrwinger
Schilling and Barkley both still have homes in the Philly area. The Chuckster can still occasionally be spotted gorging pizza at Valley Forge area eateries with his friends from the Flyers (he loves hockey).
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posted on
07/10/2003 2:19:54 PM PDT
by
speedy
To: presidio9
cheese steak.
scrapple.
pork roll.
And my favorite, the deep-fried, bacon-wrapped, double-cheese pastrami sandwich, w/mushroom gravy fries.
....and a diet Coke.
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posted on
07/10/2003 2:24:17 PM PDT
by
dogbrain
To: presidio9
You got that wrong, we've got LOTS of beaches... just no ocean to go with it.
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posted on
07/10/2003 2:28:35 PM PDT
by
discostu
(you've got to bleed for the dancer)
To: presidio9
I have no idea what you are talking about here.He means that a lot of the guys selling pretzels at intersections have hands that would make the typical third world slum dwellers hands look like they had been surgically prepped.
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posted on
07/10/2003 2:37:25 PM PDT
by
Stentor
To: vrwinger
"Philly people are fat."The tourists around Independence Hall today were not exactly suffering from anorexia. If we had any sun, they would have blotted it out.
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posted on
07/10/2003 2:40:01 PM PDT
by
Stentor
To: presidio9
As messed as Philly is, Strombolis, Hoagies, and Pat's Steaks with an order of cheese fries trump anything Phoenix can put up against it. A stone's throw from 9th and Passyunk, you'll find some outstanding Italian eats.
FYI, they still stack the pretzels on the street and pepper them with diesel exhaust near the Zoo. Only the locals know where to get the fresh ones. Let the tourista eat the thawed ones (and give them Gouldens Spicy brown so they can BROADCAST that they're outa-towners).
Philadelphia has a red-headed stepchild complex but it's issues are with New York and not Phoenix....Camden is in Jersey, anyway - not Philly's fault (on the other hand, WEST Philadelphia is no paradise). At least if you keep driving , you end up down the shore.....sheesh!
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posted on
07/10/2003 2:43:56 PM PDT
by
Range Rover
(Karma is a boomerang...)
To: Stentor
You ain't truly "lived" until you've eaten a fresh Philly soft pretzel -- especially the ones warmed in the exhaust of a revving SEPTA bus! Oh, and don't forget the specially aged mustard! Newbies just gotta get past the initial gross-out.
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posted on
07/10/2003 4:19:47 PM PDT
by
Tallguy
(Trying desperately to ignore Hillary.... and not succeeding.)
To: presidio9
Philadelphians visit New York and marvel how clean it is. That's true. And I always found New Yorkers to be friendly too. :-)
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posted on
07/10/2003 5:28:23 PM PDT
by
Tribune7
To: presidio9
Oh yeah. One more note. Sorry about the near-thing with Sandra Day O'Connor.
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posted on
07/10/2003 5:29:32 PM PDT
by
Tribune7
To: Tallguy
You ain't truly "lived" until you've eaten a fresh Philly soft pretzel You never really had the full soft pretzel experience until you watched the Herb Dennenberg expose of the pretzel street venders.
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posted on
07/10/2003 5:30:58 PM PDT
by
Tribune7
To: Tribune7; BlackElk; Pubbie; JohnnyZ; Theodore R.; Nathaniel Fischer; AuH2ORepublican; LdSentinal; ..
"Oh yeah. One more note. Sorry about the near-thing with Sandra Day O'Connor."
Indeed. Perhaps Phoenix can do better with smashing her like a bug against a Buick Roadmaster's windshield flying down the highway at 75 MPH.
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posted on
07/10/2003 7:40:34 PM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~Remember, it's not sporting to fire at RINO until charging~)
To: presidio9
This article is dumb regionalism and nothing more. Try comparing metro area populations and see what you come up with. I think the Philly-metro area (Philadelphia, Montgomery, Bucks, Delaware, Camden, Burlington Counties) is the third or fourth largest in the entire country, comprising 5 or 6 million people. Most of the people who leave Philly, live in the burbs. The Phoenix metro area can't touch those numbers.
As for the city of Philadelphia proper, it is losing people for a few very obvious reasons: taxes, crime, taxes, horrible schools, taxes, bad business climate, taxes, horrible legal environment, taxes, taxes and more taxes. Fifty plus years of solid democrat rule will do that to a city. Ironic that the center of the foundation of the American Republic is now one of the most heavily taxed cities in the nation.
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posted on
07/10/2003 7:44:52 PM PDT
by
Antoninus
(In hoc signo, vinces †)
To: presidio9
Between Phoenix Philadelphia, I would pick neither. I prefer 85 in summers with no humidity, and 75 in winter, with no snow. LOL!
I like picking fresh Oranges and Avocados off my trees in the *summer*, and *winter*, lol, Of course that's just me, and that's why I live in California.....Hehehe..Sorry to rub it in.......
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posted on
07/10/2003 7:46:36 PM PDT
by
Joe Hadenuf
(RECALL DAVIS, position his smoking chair over a trapdoor, a memo for the next governor.)
To: Joe Hadenuf
I like picking fresh Oranges and Avocados off my trees in the *summer*, and *winter*, lol, Of course that's just me, and that's why I live in California.....Hehehe..Sorry to rub it in.......
Don't worry, we don't envy you... We don't have mudslides and quakes here in the Delaware Valley.
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posted on
07/10/2003 7:51:02 PM PDT
by
Antoninus
(In hoc signo, vinces †)
To: Antoninus
Delaware Valley.Delaware Valley? Uh er, OK......You have fun there.
Yikes....
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posted on
07/10/2003 7:52:43 PM PDT
by
Joe Hadenuf
(RECALL DAVIS, position his smoking chair over a trapdoor, a memo for the next governor.)
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