Shot In The Dark: Best. Fraters. Post. Ever.

March 20, 2006

Best. Fraters. Post. Ever.

Atomizer on Laura Billings' most recent column, in which she describes the semi-gritty, somewhat downmarket West End of Saint Paul:

This is not to say that St. Paul is cozy and small-town. We have more edge than that. The standard greeting in the neighborhood from which my husband hails is a raised middle finger.

Y'know, in about twenty years of hanging around on the West End, I don't think I was ever greeted by a raised middle finger.

No, as Atomizer notes:

Sorry to break it to you, Laura, but it ain't a neighborhood thing. A raised middle finger is everybody's standard greeting to your husband.

I'll await the invitable, upcoming tales from the mean streets of (must control laughter) Mac-Groveland.

I wonder if people have started greeting each other with The Bone on Grand Avenue? Check back with Laura in a couple of months.

Posted by Mitch at March 20, 2006 07:09 AM | TrackBack

Comments

My business partner lives in Mac-Groveland. When his family votes the GOP tally for the precinct doubles. Most of the bird flipping is done by the death to Amerikkka and Israel protesters from Macalester College (Kofi Annan's alma mater).

Posted by: chriss at March 20, 2006 11:23 PM

I may be the only "Shot in the Dark" reader who lives in Mac-Groveland. I'm looking forward to the first "why is there no potty in Mattocks Park" column.

Posted by: matt in mac-groveland at March 21, 2006 08:47 AM

That makes 2 Mitch readers in Mac-Groveland. Maybe you two (Matt and my friend) should hook up for coffee at a large multi-national chain store
:)

Posted by: chriss at March 21, 2006 09:44 AM

"matt in mac-groveland"

Rookie, is that you?!

Posted by: Freddie Beamer at March 21, 2006 07:53 PM

Fred,

No.

matt in mac-groveland

Posted by: matt in mac-groveland at March 22, 2006 12:32 PM