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Small, one major city in each (apparently), still have two senators each, surely both full of secrets. If they were to declare war on each other, who would win? (It is presumed that the Noize dudes would fight with their amps but it is not clear if they would want to destroy RI in order to save it.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

There is a larger mob presence in Rhode Island, ergo they would win.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

Yeah but aren't all the banks in the world secretly based in Delaware? They must have robot zombie armies tucked away in the south of the state with the drug runners.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

No, it's all CORPORATIONS, not just banks who are headquartered in Delaware.

― MIS Information (kate), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

Then they must have even MORE robot zombie armies!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

Providence vs. Wilmington
Newark vs. Newport
Dover vs. Cranston

FITE!

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

Oooh, I'm so scared of zombie accountants.

They mayor of Providence had the chief of police kidnap and beat his ex-wife's boyfriend. I think they're a little more hardcore.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

???? vs. Throwing Muses

― MIS Information (kate), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

No, it's all CORPORATIONS, not just banks who are headquartered in Delaware.

Yup, no corporate income tax there.

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

Oooh, I'm so scared of zombie accountants.

Well, they could gum you to death.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:11 (twenty years ago)

Talking Heads vs. George Thorogood
Throwing Muses vs. George Thorogood

We all know the answer. xxxpost

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:11 (twenty years ago)

I mean, come on -- "Bad to the Bone" can't stand a chance against "Dizzy" or "Once in a Lifetime"!

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

http://greaterboston.tv/features/feature_images/gb_091003_cianci_b.jpg

DO NOT FUCK WITH THIS MAN

― The Ghost of Buddy Rolls Deep (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

Damn. That shit's insane, Dan!

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

Is George Thorogood the only Delaware musician of consequence?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

Gov. Donald Carcieri (R - RI) vs. Gov. Ruth Ann Minner (D - DE)

From what I can tell, probably so.

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)

Cianci was re-elected mayor after receiving probation on the kidnapping charge. He was then convicted of racketeering and sent to jail.

GO PROVIDENCE!

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

Man, out here the corruption is almost sweet and delicate (I'm thinking of San Diego's own Roger Hedgecock.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

Delaware Bay vs. Narragansett Bay

Fucking hell! They re-elected him?

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

Welcome, my son, to the machine.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

One of our former mayors recently ran over an elderly woman and killed her.

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:19 (twenty years ago)

HEDGECOCK!

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

http://paulakelly.com/band-microsite/images/delaware.jpg

― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

nice missing gun on that cover

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

Fucking hell! They re-elected him?

Friend of mine is from Providence: They LOVE him. Also, people from Delaware aren't exactly excited to tell you they're from Delaware, whereas all the people I've met from Providence are pretty quick to tell you that it's basically the best city in America.

― giboyeux (skowly), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

TS: Buddy Cianci vs Marion Barry

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

fuck, yes! they removed the gun! thats terrible!

― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

Cianci's wanted to remake the public image of Providence as "The Renaissance City," which nicely dovetailed into the Italian community's Old-World pride and his own Machiavellian style of executive politics.

If it wasn't for Cianci, Providence would just be another dried-up industrial wasteland -- like every major city in Connecticut, for example.

Go Providence.

― elmo (allocryptic), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

ive been through both of these states (in delawares case, many times), yet have never really stopped

― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

Apparently Cianci and Brown University didn't get along very well. I heard some amusing anecdotes about city-hired tow trucks divebombing the Brown campus and towing 75% of the cars parked in the neighborhood, regardless of whether they were illegally parked or not.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

It seems pretty obvious to me that R.I. wins, if only for Providence and Newport. Wait, isn't Mystic Seaport in R.I. as well? What the fuck is in Delaware???

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

Well, I have cousins who live in Delaware. Other than that...

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

Even the corporations that are "based" in Delaware aren't really in Delaware.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

Mystic Seaport is in Mystic, Connecticut. Maybe 40 minutes over the RI border? Although most of Rhode Island can be reached in a 40 minute drive from anywhere else in Rhode Island, it's not that far, really.

― elmo (allocryptic), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

Hell, I'll still say Rhode Island, even though they've got a Republican governor and despite Cianci's dealings.

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

More potential issues, though -- First State vs. Thirteenth State? Lord de la Warr vs. Roger Williams?

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

Zen Guerilla vs. some RI band

RI in a heartbeat anyway. i cant stand those smug "tax free" delawareans.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

RISD vs UDel

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

Roger Williams, hands down. xpost

http://philipcmarshall.net/providence/Images/RI_Pvd_roger_williams_1_2.jpg

― elmo (allocryptic), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

... it almost looks like the statue is making the "wikiwiki" record-scratching motion in that picture. perhaps beat-matching.

― elmo (allocryptic), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

I haven't been to RI. I like Delaware's beaches. Advantage: Delaware.

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

Scratching in 1640 -- xpost

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

Rhode Island has fucking great beaches.

Also:

David Cicilline (born 1961) is Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island. He was the first openly homosexual Mayor of an American state capital.

― get to thA CHOPPA / A++++++ SELLER, Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

Is George Thorogood the only Delaware musician of consequence?

Tom Verlaine and Richard Hell, I think (both of whom crush David Byrne). So one point for Delaware.

Rhode Island, however, was founded by my favorite Calvinist theologian, Roger Williams. I don't know Delaware's contribution to Calvinist theology, but I suspect no one would match Williams.

So, even so far.

Isn't Jon Spencer from R.I.? Don't know if that will tip the balance, though I was a Pussy Galore fan back in the day.

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

RHODE ISLAND WOULD KICK DELAWARE'S PANSY ASS!
wow. sorry about that. unusual show of home pride.
we've got the italian mob, the irish rumblers, the freakin' puerto ricans, the scary ladies with big hair and long nails... not to mention our life-sustaining hot weiners, clam cakes, dell's lemonade and coffee milk... and FAMILY GUY and... our very own vocabulary allowing us to communicate in code, an added bonus when coordinating attacks. we've also got the Navy at our fingertips and a kick-ass coastline and veritable armada of leisurecraft, ready and willing to defend.

― dahlin (dahlin), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

Dahlin's feistiness combined with Glasgow drink will make next Monday and Tuesday's FAPs grand affairs, I predict.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

A classic episode of Super Chicken begins with two pilots in the cockpit; the pilot says "We should be ready to land in Providence now." The co-pilot looks out the window and says, "But, there's nothing there!" The pilot says, "That's Providence all right," and puts the plane down into what turns out to be the ocean. Then we jump to a few weeks later, when Super Chicken, driving his jalopy in Connecticut on the way to the Newport Jazz festival, where he is to play his horn, arrives at the Rhode Island border to discover ocean where the state had been. The state had been missing for some time - kidnapped for ransom by the bad guys - though up to this point no one had noticed.

(This doesn't necessarily reflect my own opinion of Rhode Island, where I saw the New York Dolls twice in 1973.)

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

There is a larger mob presence in Rhode Island, ergo they would win.

a different sort of "mob" in rhode island provoked a constitutional crisis during the early part of the 19th century!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

Teach me lawyerboy.

― no tech! (ex machina), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

i don't know anything about rhode island. i know a little bit about wilmington, though -- the business district is boring, a ghost town after hours; the rest of the town is a big, rough & nasty ghetto.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

betchya didn't realise what you'd be in for neddie boy *muahahah*
oh yes, it'll be a grand ole time. not as fun as a night at THE COMPLEX tho (premiere RI nightclub)

― dahlin (dahlin), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

THE COMPLEX is the premiere RI nightclub for townies to date rape 19 year old PC students.

― no tech! (ex machina), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

Teach me lawyerboy.

about the dorr rebellion. which lead to this case, luther v. borden.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

When I was in Providence 90-94, my friend Adam had a band, Olneyville Sound System. That band made me realize what a great instrument bass was. When I heard them they blew my mind, it was just bass, vocals, drums, and harmonica. Even though they started at the same time, they were totally different than Lightning Bolt. In my opinion it was way heavier, much more bluesy and dirty. It was sort of like an El Camino driving by your house with sub woofers blasting away. Also I didn't want to deal with being in tune with another string instrument, and I thought that Amanda was such a good keyboard player that a guitar would just get in the way. Bass is a much more physical instrument than guitar, and you can bash the hell out of it.

http://www.carbonrecords.com/photos/finkbeiner_sawzall_olneyville_friendenemy_08_08_02/pictures/oss1.gif

― no tech! (ex machina), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

all y'all rhode island muthafuckas don't want no part of this ...

http://www.raysit.com/mnblues/photos/mindy/thorogood1-603.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

http://www.lotsofnoise.com/bands/Vincebus%20Eruptum/Vincebus.jpg http://www.lotsofnoise.com/bands/Vincebus%20Eruptum/Vincebus2.jpg http://www.lotsofnoise.com/bands/Vincebus%20Eruptum/Vincebus1.jpg

― We'd kick their asses (ex machina), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

Compare respective Statehouses -- Rhode Island's is a scale replica of the Capitol Building in DC! Very classy. I drive past EVERY DAY.

― elmo (allocryptic), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

To my tin ears, people from Rhode Island talk like they're deaf.

I don't know much about Delaware, but I do know that I've never been charged a toll to drive through Rhode Island.

And as small as it is, Rhode Island looks like it belongs there. Seeing Delaware on a map bothers me as much as seeing Portugal on a Spanish map. Why not just call it Nor'east Maryland?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

http://riroads.com/images/weiners2.jpg

ARM HAIR IS PART OF THE SEASONING.

― elmo (allocryptic), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

does rhode island have anyone as bad-ass as the duponts running the whole shit? NO?!?

and one wrong word outta any of yous, then joe biden will call up MBNA or citibank and see to it that yer credit card APRs go up to 30%+.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

The world's largest game of Tetris is currently dropping its frustrating electronic blocks down 10 storeys of a university building in the US.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/715000/images/_718009_tower_tetris300.jpg

― no tech! (ex machina), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

http://www.depetro.com/buddypics/buddy_colorful.jpg

― no tech! (ex machina), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

seriously, i don't have a dog in this fight (i'm not from either state). this providence picture makes the place look pretty cool:

http://www.funmaps.com/images/providence/providence_3.gif

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

Rhode Island implies that the whole state's an island (like the island it was named for) and so it should be called East Connecticut. This would make them squirm, so it'd be fun to watch the reaction.

Tom Verlaine is from Wilmington. Richard Hell's from Kentucky.

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

rehoboth beach, de also has its charms:

http://www.paulmcgeheeart.com/gallery/OldRehobothBeachLARGE.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

http://www.hodgman.org/travel/brown-reunion-2001/20010527-3-13a-ri-statehouse.jpg
http://www.providenceri.com/richardbenjamin/Waterfire5.jpg
http://www.congregationalist.org/Archivesold/Jan-March_04/Annual%20Meeting/waterfire_creditsandorbodo.jpg
http://www.hodgman.org/travel/brown-reunion-2001/20010527-3-23a-waterfire.jpg
http://www.ou.edu/class/arch4443/Richard%20Morris%20Hunt/The%20Breakers%20Aerial.jpg

MOST IMPORTANT:

http://dels.com/images/bbb.jpe

― no tech! (ex machina), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

Rhode Island is NOTHING like CT. CT = Inland mostly. RI = highest coastline to land area ratio .... maybe except Hawaii.

― no tech! (ex machina), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

Here is an image of downtown Hartford CT for comparison:

http://www.triskele.com/gallery/images/misc_photos/nightw5.jpg

― no tech! (ex machina), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

Rhode Island is actually (officially) RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS. That is, there IS actually a "Rhode Island" (aka Aquineck Island, i.e. Newport, Portsmouth, etc.) and the surrounding mainland is the "Providence Plantations" part.

It also gives Rhode Island the longest name of any state.

― elmo (allocryptic), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

http://www.killrockstars.com/basement/images/Fullsize/MEL_GSH_JM.gif

― no tech! (ex machina), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

er, Aquidneck.

― elmo (allocryptic), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/nieuwenhuysen/photos/usa/usa--rhode-island--providence--downtown--night--diner--open--traffic--2004-11.jpg

― no tech! (ex machina), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

elmo, you have proved yourself a wonderful advocate. keep it up, brotha. maybe one day we could arrange to meet at the keg room for a lil celebratory bump n' grind

― dahlin (dahlin), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

... don't forget my former neighbour, the dancing cop

― dahlin (dahlin), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

betchya didn't realise what you'd be in for neddie boy *muahahah*

Help help!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

In a war against Delaware, RI cops would be fucking ruthless. Well, they already are, I guess...

http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/Third_Party_Photo/2005/04/19/1113896595_8662.jpg

― elmo (allocryptic), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

Jenny jokes that the state motto for Delaware is "Closer to where you want to be" given it's proximity to Philly, NYC.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

Providence is 40 minutes from Boston and like 2.5 hours from NYC

― no tech! (ex machina), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

Having spent a lot of time in Delaware, I suppose it's okay. My inlaws live in Rehoboth Beach, and I've spent time in Dover, Wilmington, and Newark. Never been to RI.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

You guys are already so anti-Delaware that I'm afraid to point out that it's like the second home of second-wave emo: Jade Tree 4eva and stuff.

Cianci's biggest political asset is being called "Buddy." They wouldn't love him like that if he were called "Hannibal" Cianci.

― nabiscothingy, Wednesday, 6 July 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

Cianci's biggest political asset is being called "Buddy." They wouldn't love him like that if he were called "Hannibal" Cianci.

Or his branded italian food products!

― no tech! (ex machina), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

http://www.buddyciancithemusical.com/images/postcardfrontflat.gif

― elmo (allocryptic), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

You guys are already so anti-Delaware that I'm afraid to point out that it's like the second home of second-wave emo: Jade Tree 4eva and stuff.

yeah, yer playing w/ fire now nabisco!

where's anairn? i think that he's from delaware?!?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

Boy Sets Fire was from Delaware. They're the only band I can think of other than Georgie and Zen Guerilla, although ZG moved to SF and don't identify with Delaware anymore.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

does ANYONE identify w/ delaware (other than mr. thorogood and his destroyers)?!?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

If the RI(&PP) Capitol Building is really a replica of the one in DC, it looks a little squeezed, like the dome is higher and thinner than it needs to be.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

On top of the RI capitol is the best part: THE INDEPENDENT MAN

http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/statehouse/images/rooms/Indepndt.jpg

THROW YR HANDS UP AT ME

― elmo (allocryptic), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

2.5 hours? jesus! how fast do you drive?
don't forget the proximity to many fine gambling establishments
which reminds me.. newport has jai alai! classy!
it's a d-cup capital building. it's sexxxy

― dahlin (dahlin), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

which reminds me.. newport has jai alai! classy!

!!!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

Rhode Island:
* a lot of weird fucking bands (Good)
* Providence is/was a pretty town, even if smallish (Good)
* Rhode Island is not really an island even though it's small (Neutral)

Delaware:
* The First State (Ho-hum, so much to answer for)
* a criminally low speed limit, just to catch unsuspecting speeders on I-95 (Bad)
* no sales tax (Good -- well, if you live near there -- also, I'm not sure what RI's sales tax is)
* One time in lower Manhattan, a clown van of huge scary cracked-out drag queens hurdled out as I was walking by it, and the license plate was from Delaware. They proceeded to cause havoc at a convenience store I was at after leaving APT the night I was there (when phil-two was choked by that NJ goomba dude). They started yelling and banging loudly on the store counter, with the convenience store guy looking like he was about to pull out a gun. He smiled at me, said "THANK YOU VERY MUCH" with a "NOW LEAVE BECAUSE THIS IS GONNA GET UGLY" wink. (EXTREMELY FUCKING BAD-ASS GOOD)

...

So, it's a tie.

― donut e- (donut), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

yeah, lexington kentucky invented punk rock, people.

i'll take ri. found a sweet pic of the arkestra playing at the roger williams memorial yesterday.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

* no sales tax (Good -- well, if you live near there -- also, I'm not sure what RI's sales tax is)

this reminds me -- as recently as a year ago, smokes in delaware were still only $3/pack!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

Also, no smoking in bars in Delaware, I don't know what the law is in RI, but this may good or bad for you. You can buy liquor on Sundays now though. Before you had to drive to State Line Liquors, which was awesome.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

I'm pretty sure all of RI has gone along with the smoking ban, I know it's in effect in Providence.

― elmo (allocryptic), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

this thread has made me happy. thank you all

― dahlin (dahlin), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

I was gonna say, I'm pleased and surprised at how well this thread took off!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

I'm pretty sure all of RI has gone along with the smoking ban

I was just so close to posting a pretty tasteless joke here.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

If anything, Rhode Island wins for...

http://img22.exs.cx/img22/6857/lovecraft-EE81F7F6-8FDF-4671-BDC2-90A754DD54f7.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

never underestimate RHODE ISLAND PRIDE
(closely tied to inferiority complex, also seen in scotland)

― dahlin (dahlin), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

(closely tied to inferiority complex, also seen in scotland)

And the Midwest.

― giboyeux (skowly), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

Haha I was gonna say!

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

(or new jersey)

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

New Jersey actually sucks though.

― no tech! (ex machina), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

There is absolutely no contest here.

― Ian John50n (orion), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

Oh, so you vote Delaware.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

ten months pass...

I still wonder.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 May 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

RI has stuff that CT and MA don't

is there anything that DE has that PA and MD don't?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 19 May 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

How many ILXors tried to best that hotdog?

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 19 May 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

Also, let's not forget about the summer homes of ye olde robber barons:

http://www.vintage-motorcycles.com/Newport%20Mansion.jpg
http://images.agblog.com/albums/cliffwalk/Fancy_old_mansion_on_the_way_home.jpg

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 19 May 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

I've been to that first place, if that's the Breakers. Looks like it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 May 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

i'm going to delaware after work today! i think i'll ask my friends if i can go visit their school's botanic garden.

― joseph (joseph), Friday, 19 May 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

I am FROM DELAWARE. I went to UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE. I grew up in Rehoboth Beach.

Things that PA and MD have that DE don't: sales tax, rule against perpetuities.

Things Delaware has that PA and MD don't: enticing incorporation laws, self-settled asset protection trusts

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 19 May 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny jokes that the state motto for Delaware is "Closer to where you want to be" given it's proximity to Philly, NYC.
-- Jeff-PTTL
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Having spent a lot of time in Delaware, I suppose it's okay. My inlaws live in Rehoboth Beach, and I've spent time in Dover, Wilmington, and Newark. Never been to RI.
-- Jeff-PTTL

I am Jenny. Jeff-PTTL's inlaws are my parents. And the motto should be "Closer to where you'd rather be" but instead it's "Wilmington: A Place to Be Somebody" and "Delaware: Home of Tax Free Shopping."

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 19 May 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

http://basketsbylisa.net/images/firstpage/9.jpg

Notice the jar of Buddy Cianci's Marinara Sauce.

― dar1a g (daria g), Friday, 19 May 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

http://namtiti.free.fr/encyclopedie/badges%20police%20department/Rhode%20Island%20East%20Providence.jpg

― dar1a g (daria g), Friday, 19 May 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

I slept overnight in Roger Williams (aka "Prospect") Park once. It wasn't very fun. There was a security light on the side of somebody's house that kept winking on all night long and it woke me up each time.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 19 May 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

I heartily recommend "The Prince of Providence" for the full tale of Buddy's rise, fall, rise, fall etc etc. My aunt is in the index! She was one of Buddy's favorite cabaret singers in the Biltmore bar.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 19 May 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

Also, once, the drummer from Zen Guerrilla jumped off his drum kit and fell on me and sprained my ankle badly but I was so drunk I didn't notice until I tried to get up the next morning and fell right to the floor, and I got a concussion smashing my head into a keg at a Mother Nature's Blacklight Rainbow show in somebody's basement and those are my Delaware punk rock cred injuries.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 19 May 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

Things that PA and MD have that DE don't: sales tax, rule against perpetuities.

Things Delaware has that PA and MD don't: enticing incorporation laws, self-settled asset protection trusts

I read U.S.C.A. too

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 19 May 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

er, I meant...

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 19 May 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know that I read U.S.C.A., exactly. That would be... tedious.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 19 May 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

DE's closer. also, had my first job interview rejection there!

― mts (theoreticalgirl), Friday, 19 May 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

Wrinklepaws rejected your application to post about him on your shit hot blog?

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 19 May 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

mts/theoreticalgirl was that job interview with a bank, perchance?

More Delaware cred: I have worked for a bank in Delaware.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 19 May 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

Rhode Island is where I had my first Subway sandwich, in 1989.

Delaware is where I arrived after driving all night from Cleveland for no good reason except I needed a place to sleep, and I collapsed under the boardwalk at Rehoboth Beach. Delaware is also where two New Zealand housepainters and my girlfriend's parents got me so drunk on some bright-green cocktail called like Viva La Mexico that I puked.

I think you know the winner.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 May 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

Rhode Island, nickname Rhody.

― youn (youn), Friday, 19 May 2006 22:39 (nineteen years ago)

The Biggest Little

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 19 May 2006 23:37 (nineteen years ago)

safety first: i really hope that you are a lawyer. b/c if you aren't, it's REALLY scary to think that non-lawyer delawareans are so intimately familiar with things like self-settled asset protection trusts, enticing incorporation laws, and (the lack of) the rule against perpetuities*!

(* NJ also abolished the rule against perpetuities -- boo yah!)

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 20 May 2006 02:21 (nineteen years ago)

The world's largest game of Tetris is currently dropping its frustrating electronic blocks down 10 storeys of a university building in the US.

this is actually what made me want to go to brown :)

― val (notvalery), Saturday, 20 May 2006 02:51 (nineteen years ago)

hi valery.

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Saturday, 20 May 2006 02:51 (nineteen years ago)

hi ian.

― val (notvalery), Saturday, 20 May 2006 03:03 (nineteen years ago)

Eisbar -- she's in law school!

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 20 May 2006 04:36 (nineteen years ago)

It's true.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 20 May 2006 05:06 (nineteen years ago)

Reho both is very gay .

So unless Rhode Island has an equivalent to the nation's gay summer capital... Delaware totally wins.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 20 May 2006 05:22 (nineteen years ago)

RI sounds nice - I like the coast, decent weather, funny accents all around. The 'which city should you live in' quiz always puts in Providence by a large margin, but I'm afraid of getting beaten up by RISD hooligans.

― milo z (mlp), Saturday, 20 May 2006 05:28 (nineteen years ago)

you know what they say about paper v. reality?

Rehoboth is "the nation's gay summer capital"?

Providence->Provincetown = 1/2 hr more than Wilmington->Rehoboth

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 20 May 2006 09:45 (nineteen years ago)

Rehoboth is "the nation's gay summer capital"?

if there are actually people who call it that, perhaps it is because they live in "the nation's capital"?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 20 May 2006 09:50 (nineteen years ago)

Results 1 - 5 of about 8 for "the nation's gay summer capital"
Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, calls itself the "Nation's Gay Summer Capital."

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 20 May 2006 09:53 (nineteen years ago)

Rhode Island was the pirate capital of North America in the 17th century.

― shieldforyoureyes (shieldforyoureyes), Saturday, 20 May 2006 12:07 (nineteen years ago)

I lived in Delaware for about 10 years and can verify that Rehoboth is super gay.

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Saturday, 20 May 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

Eisbar, I'm here. (a year late)

People above generally got it right about the music: I think it's Tom Verlaine and Billy Fica were both from Wilmington. They met Richard Hell at a boarding school. That's what I've heard. Also Boy Sets Fire, Jets to Brazil, Young Guru (Jay-Z Roc-A-Fella engineer), Zen Guerilla, George Thorogood, Tom Petty (went to my high school) and Jade Tree (hence lots of Hardcore). Also Ken Burns and Ryan Phillipe.

hey Safty First,

I am FROM DELAWARE. I went to UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE. I grew up in Newark. I always thought the motto should be "Philly's Dirty South."

Rehoboth is gay, I go to the Delaware State Sea Shore.

― A Nairn (moretap), Saturday, 20 May 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

oh and who can forget Clifford Brown

Also Bob Marley, Cab Calloway, and I think Frank Black lived in DE for a while.

― A Nairn (moretap), Saturday, 20 May 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

wait, not Frank Black, the guy from the Church (not Marty Wilson Piper or...)

It was Steve Kilby.

― A Nairn (moretap), Saturday, 20 May 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

Rhode Island Pirates Keep Reppin The OCEAN STATE!

― dar1a g (daria g), Saturday, 20 May 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

can you still buy cheap smokes in delaware?!?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 20 May 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

A Nairn - what year did you graduate from UD? Do we know each other?

I forgot about Ryan Phillipe. One of my friends went to high school with him.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 20 May 2006 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

Rhode Island easy, coffee milk and the big blue bug.

― kephm (kephm), Saturday, 20 May 2006 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

cardi's commercials

― val (notvalery), Saturday, 20 May 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

I graduated in 2004 from UD

― A Nairn (moretap), Sunday, 21 May 2006 09:32 (nineteen years ago)

Okay. We don't know each other.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 21 May 2006 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

So I'm at my mom's in Groton, CT. I'm thinking of driving up to Providence today and tomorrow. Anybody have anthing to add to this thread? Is Armageddon still the big record store? What's the best neighborhood to just wander around in? My sister works at the RISD art museum. What's there to do in that area?

Also, what's the cheap, happening neighborhood in Providence? What's Pawtucket like? Thank you, ILX.

― Arthurrr (Arthur), Monday, 12 June 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

Armageddon is maybe the only game in town as far as good record stores go. No more record stores on the east side at all, i think. except maybe that one near wickenden. when you're at the RISD museum go to geoff's superlative sandwiches.

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Monday, 12 June 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

pawtucket is like an armpit.

― Damn, Atreyu! (x Jeremy), Monday, 12 June 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

There are sweat glands with hairs growing out of them?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 12 June 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

there aren't really any "cool" walkable neighborhoods; you kinda need a destination

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Monday, 12 June 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

There's "cool" blocks

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Monday, 12 June 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

One day in 1997 a few of my high school friends and I decided to bunk class and go to an afternoon Pawtucket Red Sox game. On the way we were stuck in traffic beside a crazed Vietnam vet in a camo-painted minivan who kept making faces at my ... easily riled ... friend. Said friend felt it appropriate to make faces back and chant the Black Mass (I might be exaggerating this part) out the window to Vietnam Vet. Since the automotively incompetent, Very Christian Girlfriend of Riled-up Friend was driving our vehicle, it became of sudden concern when the Vietnam Vet decided to run us off the road. For the better part of 2 miles we wound through Pawtucket playing chicken with an insane duffer and a wretched driver. Easily Riled Friend had the sliding door of the minivan open; yelled epitaphs out the gap, and angered the Vet to a seriously scary degree. We only escaped when we convinced Very Christian Girlfriend to run a series of red lights and drive four wheels up on the curb, which was -- we found out -- "the worst thing she'd ever done." Ergo, Pawtucket sucks.

― Damn, Atreyu! (x Jeremy), Monday, 12 June 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

I think the worst thing she ever did was that fucking website. Possibly defending Singapore or child labor...

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Monday, 12 June 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

Or the night she peeled off the edge of her car jumping the median strip on the way to SS' house and almost killed PM?

― Damn, Atreyu! (x Jeremy), Monday, 12 June 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

oh, MilFcGee

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Monday, 12 June 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

Ah the fun times.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 12 June 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

i'm trusting that the vietnam vet wasn't his dad

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Monday, 12 June 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

or JF's

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Monday, 12 June 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, Rhody's *full* name is:
Ia! Ia! R'hode Island and Ph'rovidence Fhtagnations
But it cannot be properly pronounced with human vocal cords.

― shieldforyoureyes (shieldforyoureyes), Monday, 12 June 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

PM's dad in the movie of our lives:

http://www.kinoweb.de/film98/EnemyOfTheState/pix/esc.jpg

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Monday, 12 June 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

Dave are you going to be here for the V∞/LB show?

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Monday, 12 June 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

jon, if you can front for me, i will pay you back for tix (unless it's sold out)

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Monday, 12 June 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

Neah. I only really travel for two bands, and Bolt is #3.

― shieldforyoureyes (shieldforyoureyes), Monday, 12 June 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

Bummerz :(

Andrew, just buy tickets online

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Monday, 12 June 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

ok fine :P

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Monday, 12 June 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

pawtucket is like an armpit.

and that is exactly how me and my buddies referred to it back in the 70s. Some things just don't change. Actually, Pawtucket used to have a beautiful theater called the Leroy. Now there's a f#@king Wallgreens super drugstore in it's place. How posh.

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 01:47 (nineteen years ago)

four months pass...

The Buddy Cianci TV series is no more.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

I have doubts about the future of Brotherhood, though it looks like it's going to get a second season.

(Remind me again, how many TV shows are based in Delaware?)

Underdog wrapped shooting a couple of months ago in Providence, and Evening is still shooting, I think.

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

http://designsponge.blogspot.com/2006/10/risd-student-design.html

http://static.flickr.com/101/273979867_ca750b4229_o.jpg
http://static.flickr.com/109/273979875_d5615afb8d.jpg?v=0
http://static.flickr.com/80/273979863_78a4d47fcf.jpg?v=0

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2006/10/11/exhibit_tries_to_recapture_magic_of_fort_thunder/

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.thephoenix.com/article_ektid23545.aspx

http://www.thephoenix.com/slideshows/wunderground/default.asp

http://www.thephoenix.com/article_ektid22519.aspx

http://www.thephoenix.com/article_ektid22525.aspx

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

No one ever talks about the magic of Wilmington, do they?

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

As posted over in Idolator just now:

A friend of mine grew up there. From time to time, she comes up to me says "Dick, I know I've said this before, but it bears repeating: if I die, I don't care what anybody says--doesn't matter if it's friends, family, or the pop--whatever you do, YOU CAN'T LET ME GET BURIED IN DELAWARE. I would rather they throw my body in an IHOP dumpster than go back."

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 19:39 (eighteen years ago)

"Or, imagine, being able to be magically whisked away to... Delaware. Hi. I'm in Delaware."

― Z S, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 19:51 (eighteen years ago)

Listen to this radio interview between WPRO's John DePetro's morning show and Executive Director of Emergency Mgmt. Agency Director Robert Warren:

http://www.630wpro.com/Article.asp?id=533869&spid=18074

The back story is that there was a major snowstorm last Thursday that lasted all afternoon and left staggering gridlock throughout Providence (all of this happened while Governor Carcieri was overseas in the Middle East to see RI troops). Some of my friends were stuck in traffic for 7 hours.

Warren was fired the next day (presumably, I would imagine this interview had something to do with it).

― Joe, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 21:15 (eighteen years ago)

I love RI.

― ENBB, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 21:23 (eighteen years ago)

four months pass...

Good times in Providence.

On the air, Mr. Cianci, 66, tends to tiptoe past the circumstances behind his racketeering conviction (other than to joke that he has a pet dog named Rico); past the corruption that infected his administration, reflected in the F.B.I. videotape of his top aide taking bribes; past the police scandal in which favored officers received advance information about tests for promotions.
Instead, he gleefully attacks Mayor Cicilline and his police commander, Dean M. Esserman. Intermixed with sharp analysis and legitimate criticism — of the city’s poor response to a snowstorm, for example — are taunts and half-truths, released into the radio air like toxic puffs.
When referring to the mutual admiration between the mayor and the police chief, he has played a recording of Barbra Streisand and Frank Sinatra singing “I’ve Got a Crush on You,” while his on-air partner has talked about a “man-crush.”
When asked about this, Mr. Cianci says his job is to be an entertainer, and his on-air persona should not be confused with the real — and changed — Buddy Cianci. Besides, he adds, because he cannot help himself: “I do think they like each other.”

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 28 April 2008 18:07 (seventeen years ago)

heard a couple of old women at the local stop & shop discussing his radio show -- apparently on the show he's something of a self-styled critic of local gov't corruption. baffling in the extreme, but not so baffling as the fact that he's still so adored around here; those two biddies couldn't trade his praises enough.

― elmo argonaut, Monday, 28 April 2008 18:20 (seventeen years ago)

at least he's finally ditched the rug

http://www.lockhartsteele.com/blog/archives/2003_07_buddy.jpg

― elmo argonaut, Monday, 28 April 2008 18:22 (seventeen years ago)

the whole "man-crush" thing is pretty lame immigrant queer-baiting; cicilline is gay

― elmo argonaut, Monday, 28 April 2008 18:25 (seventeen years ago)

pix pls!!!

― ian, Monday, 28 April 2008 18:26 (seventeen years ago)

of cianci, that is.

i miss RI.

― ian, Monday, 28 April 2008 18:26 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.rigreenways.org/album/btw/cianci-b.jpg

― elmo argonaut, Monday, 28 April 2008 18:28 (seventeen years ago)

http://images.radcity.net/6651/2172141.gif

― elmo argonaut, Monday, 28 April 2008 18:30 (seventeen years ago)

damn he looks evil.

― ian, Monday, 28 April 2008 18:39 (seventeen years ago)

wowowow i can't believe toupee-less cianci.

― horseshoe, Monday, 28 April 2008 18:43 (seventeen years ago)

Didn't age too poorly, but looked shitty to begin with.

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 28 April 2008 19:30 (seventeen years ago)

but not so baffling as the fact that he's still so adored around here;

I share your bafflement (as a non-native who's only lived here the past several years): "Aw, I don't think he's such a bad guy. They're all crooks--he just got caught."

Huh?

― Joe, Monday, 28 April 2008 20:50 (seventeen years ago)

I *do* think he looks a lot better without the toupee, though.

― Joe, Monday, 28 April 2008 20:51 (seventeen years ago)

yeah, though lots of folks here consider open corruption to be the only fairness they will ever know

― elmo argonaut, Monday, 28 April 2008 21:15 (seventeen years ago)

nine years pass...

A random claimant on Twitter says the state motto of Rhode Island is "I know a guy."

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 15 July 2017 03:56 (eight years ago)

seems more national

― mookieproof, Saturday, 15 July 2017 04:07 (eight years ago)

Maybe it grew from there.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 15 July 2017 04:10 (eight years ago)

four years pass...

https://bevlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/scrapple.jpg

Off the Hook Scrapple-Flavored Vodka, "assembled from parts in Smyrna, Delaware."

Not sure whether this gives the advantage to Delaware or Rhode Island.

Delaware can claim the Dogfish Head Brewery, but given its multiple IPAs I'm not sure that's an asset.

― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 17:16 (three years ago)

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