Online feud continues with real world fisticuffs
Posted by billhoward
Online feud continues with real world fisticuffs
Posted by: billhoward (---.hsd1.nj.comcast.net)
Date: December 23, 2009 02:14PM
One more reason we in NJ are No. 48 in a recent Happiness Index: We fight too much, as exemplified by the story in today's Newark Star Ledger, "Facebook sparks fights at Union County high school." A half-dozen girls took exception to what was posted about them, got into fights in Scotch Plains-Fanwood HS, and then were suspended. The Star-Ledger writer found a lawyer who's a cyber bullying expert / consultant and who offered this comment: "We have to teach [children] to take it offline." Or you could say the kids did exactly that.
(New York is #50 in the happiness poll and the NY Times has a somber (dull) editorial on the subject. Louisiana is #1 (happiest) which caused the Star-Ledger to note, "Louisiana, the poll told us, is the happiest state in the union — right, the state still mopping the muddy waters of Hurricane Katrina from its living rooms. But maybe it makes sense after all: Louisiana always ranks near the top of any lists with the worst schools, and it’s one of the most obese states in the nation. So does that mean they really are fat, dumb and happy?"
(New York is #50 in the happiness poll and the NY Times has a somber (dull) editorial on the subject. Louisiana is #1 (happiest) which caused the Star-Ledger to note, "Louisiana, the poll told us, is the happiest state in the union — right, the state still mopping the muddy waters of Hurricane Katrina from its living rooms. But maybe it makes sense after all: Louisiana always ranks near the top of any lists with the worst schools, and it’s one of the most obese states in the nation. So does that mean they really are fat, dumb and happy?"
Re: Online feud continues with real world fisticuffs
Posted by: Josh '99 (---.net)
Date: December 23, 2009 04:54PM
Well that'll do wonders for the perception that the NYT is arrogant.billhoward
(New York is #50 in the happiness poll and the NY Times has a somber (dull) editorial on the subject. Louisiana is #1 (happiest) which caused the Star-Ledger to note, "Louisiana, the poll told us, is the happiest state in the union — right, the state still mopping the muddy waters of Hurricane Katrina from its living rooms. But maybe it makes sense after all: Louisiana always ranks near the top of any lists with the worst schools, and it’s one of the most obese states in the nation. So does that mean they really are fat, dumb and happy?"
Re: Online feud continues with real world fisticuffs
Posted by: Jeff Hopkins '82 (---.115.197.118.res-cmts.sm.ptd.net)
Date: December 25, 2009 09:56AM
billhoward
(New York is #50 in the happiness poll and the NY Times has a somber (dull) editorial on the subject. Louisiana is #1 (happiest) which caused the Star-Ledger to note, "Louisiana, the poll told us, is the happiest state in the union — right, the state still mopping the muddy waters of Hurricane Katrina from its living rooms. But maybe it makes sense after all: Louisiana always ranks near the top of any lists with the worst schools, and it’s one of the most obese states in the nation. So does that mean they really are fat, dumb and happy?"
Confirmation of "Ignorance is bliss?"
Re: Online feud continues with real world fisticuffs
Posted by: Trotsky (---.hsd1.md.comcast.net)
Date: December 25, 2009 03:33PM
Mo money, mo problems.
Re: Online feud continues with real world fisticuffs
Posted by: scoop85 (---.hvc.res.rr.com)
Date: December 26, 2009 10:15AM
Josh '99
Well that'll do wonders for the perception that the NYT is arrogant.billhoward
(New York is #50 in the happiness poll and the NY Times has a somber (dull) editorial on the subject. Louisiana is #1 (happiest) which caused the Star-Ledger to note, "Louisiana, the poll told us, is the happiest state in the union — right, the state still mopping the muddy waters of Hurricane Katrina from its living rooms. But maybe it makes sense after all: Louisiana always ranks near the top of any lists with the worst schools, and it’s one of the most obese states in the nation. So does that mean they really are fat, dumb and happy?"
It was actually the Star-Ledger that makes that comment
Re: Online feud continues with real world fisticuffs
Posted by: Josh '99 (---.nyc.res.rr.com)
Date: December 26, 2009 12:03PM
Huh, how about that. My mistake.scoop85
Josh '99
Well that'll do wonders for the perception that the NYT is arrogant.billhoward
(New York is #50 in the happiness poll and the NY Times has a somber (dull) editorial on the subject. Louisiana is #1 (happiest) which caused the Star-Ledger to note, "Louisiana, the poll told us, is the happiest state in the union — right, the state still mopping the muddy waters of Hurricane Katrina from its living rooms. But maybe it makes sense after all: Louisiana always ranks near the top of any lists with the worst schools, and it’s one of the most obese states in the nation. So does that mean they really are fat, dumb and happy?"
It was actually the Star-Ledger that makes that comment
In the interest of being topical, I'm sure there's a "Jersey Shore" joke in here somewhere, but I'm too lazy to find it.
Re: Online feud continues with real world fisticuffs
Posted by: Trotsky (---.hsd1.md.comcast.net)
Date: December 26, 2009 02:21PM
They're mostly from Staten Island, anyway.Josh '99
In the interest of being topical, I'm sure there's a "Jersey Shore" joke in here somewhere, but I'm too lazy to find it.
Re: Online feud continues with real world fisticuffs
Posted by: Josh '99 (---.nyc.res.rr.com)
Date: December 27, 2009 03:57PM
Staten Island: the unwanted bastard child of the South Shore of Long Island and the Philly suburbs in South Jersey.Trotsky
They're mostly from Staten Island, anyway.Josh '99
In the interest of being topical, I'm sure there's a "Jersey Shore" joke in here somewhere, but I'm too lazy to find it.
Re: Online feud continues with real world fisticuffs
Posted by: billhoward (---.syrcny.east.verizon.net)
Date: December 27, 2009 05:33PM
There are some very nice places on Staten Island, as there are in New Jersey, but no one believes it, and anyway if a few more people move out, the highways won't be so crowded, which might move us up on the happiness poll.
Re: Online feud continues with real world fisticuffs
Posted by: Ken70 (---.bstnma.fios.verizon.net)
Date: December 28, 2009 04:05PM
billhoward
There are some very nice places on Staten Island,
Name one
Re: Online feud continues with real world fisticuffs
Posted by: ugarte (---.z75-46-65.customer.algx.net)
Date: December 28, 2009 04:13PM
The St. George Ferry Terminal?Ken70
billhoward
There are some very nice places on Staten Island,
Name one
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Re: Online feud continues with real world fisticuffs
Posted by: Ken70 (---.bstnma.fios.verizon.net)
Date: December 29, 2009 11:13AM
ugarte
The St. George Ferry Terminal?Ken70
billhoward
There are some very nice places on Staten Island,
Name one
Precisely the point
Re: Online feud continues with real world fisticuffs
Posted by: Trotsky (---.dc.dc.cox.net)
Date: December 29, 2009 12:55PM
South Shore my ass. Huntington High School in lovely northern Suffolk County had about a dozen homegrown versions of "The Situation" circa 1980*. I tell my wife as long as that show is on I never have to go to another reunion.Josh '99
Staten Island: the unwanted bastard child of the South Shore of Long Island and the Philly suburbs in South Jersey.Trotsky
They're mostly from Staten Island, anyway.Josh '99
In the interest of being topical, I'm sure there's a "Jersey Shore" joke in here somewhere, but I'm too lazy to find it.
(* as did the ILR school circa 1985, though, to be fair, they actually were from Staten Island)
Re: Online feud continues with real world fisticuffs
Posted by: billhoward (---.hsd1.nj.comcast.net)
Date: December 29, 2009 02:42PM
Around where the Newhouse family (Conde Nast, Newhouse Newspapers, Communications School at Syracuse) resides would be a decent place to hang your hat.Ken70
billhoward
There are some very nice places on Staten Island,
Name one
Re: Online feud continues with real world fisticuffs
Posted by: KeithK (---.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net)
Date: December 30, 2009 04:35PM
The Ballpark at St. George (or whatever the hell they're calling it now) is pretty cool.ugarte
The St. George Ferry Terminal?Ken70
billhoward
There are some very nice places on Staten Island,
Name one
Re: Online feud continues with real world fisticuffs
Posted by: billhoward (---.hsd1.nj.comcast.net)
Date: December 31, 2009 10:49AM
Staten Island was concerned enough about its, ah, pristine beauty to keep out a NASCAR track. Although NASCAR claimed with a straight face that since the bridges couldn't handle a race day influx, most fans - NASCAR fans - would take mass transit to the track. The obvious solution would be to fill in a bit more of NJ's Meadlowlands and unleash more Jimmy Hoffa jokes; I think you do something with the road course inside the oval and name part of it Dead Man's Curve.
Re: Online feud continues with real world fisticuffs
Posted by: Ken70 (---.bstnma.fios.verizon.net)
Date: January 02, 2010 02:55PM
billhoward
Around where the Newhouse family (Conde Nast, Newhouse Newspapers, Communications School at Syracuse) resides would be a decent place to hang your hat.
Where on the Island is that?
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