OT-Boston Community Thread

[The_Ghost_of_JB]

This thread is a good idea as it is definitely interesting getting some back stories to the regulars on here.

[Ed Pinkney]

I live in Canberra, Australia (the capital of this great land, though a lot of people have never heard of it).

When I was in the army, we did a joint special operations training exercise with Australian troops from Campbell Barracks (WA) at Bindoon. We got to go to Perth but that was it. I would love to go back and visit Australia again but as a civilian, of course.

I would highly recommend it if you get a chance. It is a beautiful country and a great place to visit, it is just a long way to come and long way to travel around once you get here. You have to fly between all the main parts unless you want to be driving for days.

I live on the east coast and have only been to Perth once, it is a great city and that part Western Australia is beautiful, great beaches except there can be issues with Great Whites.

[Captain_Caveman]

Does Columbia offer a degree in Socialism or Communism yet?

Harvard is very much overrated. They even matriculated Obama.

Google Forbes. I believe that the selection was made based on the accomplishments of graduates for the last umpteen years & votes of every Dean in America. Good guessing!

LOL. Columbia has its characters, but less so in the professional schools where it is a feeder for wall street and top law firms. I'm trying not to get political, but let's just say I resent the rhetoric aimed at "the 1%." I think envy and entitlement are my two biggest pet peeves besides Sheed.

Let's just say we will be voting the same way in November.

Here you guys go ruining a friendly thread. The difference between Harvard and Williams/Amherst is that Harvard is a global institution with the best and brightest from the entire world, and not just from American children of privilege. Probably has something to do with why they graduate Presidents, and Williams/Amherst graduate hedge fund managers and English majors. Also probably has something to do with why "entitlement" in this context only refers to the people who are against a corrupt status quo that is gamed to consolidate wealth among the elite, rather than towards those who prefer to keep that system in place.

I'm politically moderate and unaffiliated to any party, just sick to death of this attitude and Republicans whining about how Democrats choose to pay off the massive deficits that Reagan and Bush created.

Carry on.

/soapbox

[irie]

just turned 32 I live in Maine. I grew up in Mass for my first 8 years and then came back up to Maine and living in the Portland area. Go Red Claws.

I've been watching the C's and all of our teams (Pats/Sox/some Bruins) since I can remember. i used to love watching the real big 3 play and used to cry when we lost. I was a Bird fanatic and used to spend hours shooting hoops pretending I was him. My brother and I used to mock all the C's different foul shooting styles. loved Joe Kleine's freethrow shot. lol I loved McHale, Parish, DJ, John Bagley, Stojko, Pinkney, Gamble, Lews....i could go on forever. i lived thru the days of Brett Szabo and Thomas Hamilton....A lot of folks think i'm obcessed and well, i kinda am. Fav player is Bird and always will be.
i have gotten my 12 year old daughter into the C's and all other NE teams. It's fun to corrupt her and buy her jerseys and such.

I've been on this board for a while but mostly lurk. I'm quite opnionated and direct so i'd rather not piss anyone off I'm a jokester as well and sarcasm isn't always interpreted well on here.

Maine.. I spent a couple years there. What an odd place. No disrespect of course. It's nice. Except for how **** cold it is. I thought my dreads were going to fall off.

That actually seems contradictory in a way. Odd and nice. But it's one of those places you have to go to I guess.

[exculpatory]

Exculpatory:

Does Columbia offer a degree in Socialism or Communism yet?

Harvard is very much overrated. They even matriculated Obama.

Google Forbes. I believe that the selection was made based on the accomplishments of graduates for the last umpteen years & votes of every Dean in America. Good guessing![/quote]

Grantlong:

LOL. Columbia has its characters, but less so in the professional schools where it is a feeder for wall street and top law firms. I'm trying not to get political, but let's just say I resent the rhetoric aimed at "the 1%." I think envy and entitlement are my two biggest pet peeves besides Sheed.[/quote]

Caveman:

Here you guys go ruining a friendly thread. The difference between Harvard and Williams/Amherst is that Harvard is a global institution with the best and brightest from the entire world, and not just from
American children of privilege. Probably has something to do with why they graduate Presidents, and Williams/Amherst graduate hedge fund managers and English majors. Also probably has something to do with why "entitlement" in this context only refers to the people who are against a corrupt status quo that is gamed to consolidate wealth among the elite, rather than towards those who prefer to keep that system in place.

I'm politically moderate and unaffiliated to any party, just sick to death of this attitude and Republicans whining about how Democrats choose to pay off the massive deficits that Reagan and Bush created.

Carry on.

/soapbox[/quote]

Sheesh, Caveman. I just agreed with Grant. I was minimally political.

PS I was not raised in a family of privilege. And the reason my alma mater, Williams, was selected as the best institution of higher learning in America by Forbes Magazine & the votes of every Dean in the
USA in June 2011 was because it has produced an enormous number of extremely accomplished people in every possible profession. It still beats the **** out of me why they selected a dummy like me. It must have been because 1) I am so frigging handsome; and 2) the majority of the Admissions Committee were Celtic fans.

[Captain_Caveman]

All good. I don't think Harvard is overrated, though. Williams is OK, but from my own experience, outside of Harvard/Yale/Princeton/Stanford/MIT/etc, I have been more impressed with the people I have known from the top military and engineering schools than I have been with most of the top private liberal arts schools. Not to say that they aren't "learned", just that they tend to be more ivory tower, more narrow and less curious thinkers.

Vote for whoever you like though, even if it is a true Harvard guy like Mitt, lol.

[Celtics_Champs]

just turned 32 I live in Maine. I grew up in Mass for my first 8 years and then came back up to Maine and living in the Portland area. Go Red Claws.

I've been watching the C's and all of our teams (Pats/Sox/some Bruins) since I can remember. i used to love watching the real big 3 play and used to cry when we lost. I was a Bird fanatic and used to spend hours shooting hoops pretending I was him. My brother and I used to mock all the C's different foul shooting styles. loved Joe Kleine's freethrow shot. lol I loved McHale, Parish, DJ, John Bagley, Stojko, Pinkney, Gamble, Lews....i could go on forever. i lived thru the days of Brett Szabo and Thomas Hamilton....A lot of folks think i'm obcessed and well, i kinda am. Fav player is Bird and always will be.
i have gotten my 12 year old daughter into the C's and all other NE teams. It's fun to corrupt her and buy her jerseys and such.

I've been on this board for a while but mostly lurk. I'm quite opnionated and direct so i'd rather not piss anyone off I'm a jokester as well and sarcasm isn't always interpreted well on here.

Maine.. I spent a couple years there. What an odd place. No disrespect of course. It's nice. Except for how **** cold it is. I thought my dreads were going to fall off.

That actually seems contradictory in a way. Odd and nice. But it's one of those places you have to go to I guess.

Maine is nice in the summer. I like taking the drive up to Portland. Should really catch a red claws game. 2nd favorite state next to Massachusetts. I haven't really spent that much time in Rhode Island though.

[exculpatory]

Cave,

I am going to listen to what Barry & Mitt have to say very carefully. However, I am probably 95% decided. I am going to write-in Paul Pierce.

Ex

[Pogue Mahone]

I don't vote. It only encourages them (and puts me under their jurisdiction.)

[irie]

just turned 32 I live in Maine. I grew up in Mass for my first 8 years and then came back up to Maine and living in the Portland area. Go Red Claws.

I've been watching the C's and all of our teams (Pats/Sox/some Bruins) since I can remember. i used to love watching the real big 3 play and used to cry when we lost. I was a Bird fanatic and used to spend hours shooting hoops pretending I was him. My brother and I used to mock all the C's different foul shooting styles. loved Joe Kleine's freethrow shot. lol I loved McHale, Parish, DJ, John Bagley, Stojko, Pinkney, Gamble, Lews....i could go on forever. i lived thru the days of Brett Szabo and Thomas Hamilton....A lot of folks think i'm obcessed and well, i kinda am. Fav player is Bird and always will be.
i have gotten my 12 year old daughter into the C's and all other NE teams. It's fun to corrupt her and buy her jerseys and such.

I've been on this board for a while but mostly lurk. I'm quite opnionated and direct so i'd rather not piss anyone off I'm a jokester as well and sarcasm isn't always interpreted well on here.

Maine.. I spent a couple years there. What an odd place. No disrespect of course. It's nice. Except for how **** cold it is. I thought my dreads were going to fall off.

That actually seems contradictory in a way. Odd and nice. But it's one of those places you have to go to I guess.

Maine is nice in the summer. I like taking the drive up to Portland. Should really catch a red claws game. 2nd favorite state next to Massachusetts. I haven't really spent that much time in Rhode Island though.

Seen the Red Claws. Entertaining basketball for sure

[Captain_Caveman]

Cave,

I am going to listen to what Barry & Mitt have to say very carefully. However, I am probably 95% decided. I am going to write-in Paul Pierce.

Ex

All good, brother. Didn't mean to come down so hard over the alma mater thing. Funny thing is, if you can get down past all the election politics to who they really are and what they really believe, I think there is a very central debate to be had about who we are and who we want to be between Mitt and Obama, (and to a much lesser extent IMO, between Newt and Obama). They are both far from extreme, left to their own devices. Center-right vs center-left. They are also both highly intelligent guys, irregardless of where and how they were educated.

Given that my political ideology is competence, the bigger question to me is who is better at pulling the levers. That's a open question, of course, but like you, I already have a pretty good idea.

But this thread isn't for all that. Everyone just make sure to vote and be cool to each other. No sense getting bent. Sh-t will decided by maybe 20m moderate voters in 10-12 purple states neither of us lives in, same as always, lol.

[exculpatory]

Cave,

You nailed it.

My state (MD) is going democrat no matter how I decide to vote. Your state (?MA?) = same thing.

Independents like us living in purple states will determine the outcome of the election as always - as you stated.

I am not at all concerned about my Williams vs. Harvard regarding who has bigger balls. Both schools are creme de la creme. I stopped giving money to Williams when they wait-listed my brilliant younger
daughter. She ended up getting the same outstanding education for 1/3 the cost at UVA. I also agree that the people I have known educated at West Point & Annapolis have been truly remarkable people. Furthermore, myself excluded - :0), the smartest endocrinologist I have had the privilege to collaborate
with went to Kansas State/U of Kansas (Truth's alma mater), i.e. many times, it is the individual & not the school, that "drives the ship."

All that said, Go Green forever!!!!

Ex

[exculpatory]

Come on guys!

This thread was not my idea.

However, we have guys like me who have posted for almost 10 years or even longer.

We have an artificial but unique bond.

Please give us a tiny snapshot of your lives, & interests!

Ex

[Pogue Mahone]

Please give us a tiny snapshot of your lives, & interests!

I just ate Newick's.

[Andrew McCeltic]

Went to college in Boston, living in CT now, where I grew up- have B.A. & M.A. in English, hoping to get into a PhD program this spring- toiling at present as an adjunct.

Became a real Celtics fan around 1996- although before that, I was a kid but knew vaguely who Bird, Mchale (guy on Cheers), Parish were, enough to imitate LB in my driveway- and the Celtics used to play a few home games in Hartford, CT, so I saw them around '92 or '93, but remember Shaq, Grant Hill from those games the best.

No Celtics access on TV at that point, so I cut my basketball fan teeth on Knicks' games, and the constant Jordan coverage on NBC. Eventually we started getting the C's away games on cable, with Mike and Tommy, and I watched a bunch of them during the M.L. Carr tanking season- I wanted to qualify as a legit fan, so I thought it was a good idea to really start following the team at their worst to avoid bandwagon fair-weather guilt. I definitely got that covered- Carr, Pitino, Wallace, Antoine, Ricky Davis, Vin Baker, Billups for Anderson, Declerq, Potapenko, etc. etc. etc.

Loved living in Boston, still long for the drunk-college-kid food in the BU/Allston area (Sicilia's stuffed pizzas, especially) Huge film lover, working my way through a box of Stanley Kubrick films at present, though my tastes span wider than that.. Etc. etc.

[Bertrob]

Forgot to mention:
My goal is to become Bob Ryan 2.0

[greenbeans]

If C_C was any sort of real man he would have stickied this thread by now. Guess not.

[Celtics_Champs]

Oh right, as for posters I've met on here, I've met Greenbeans. He's a drunken jerk.

But we'll always share the draft night when the celtics got the Harangutan

[Captain_Caveman]

Speaking of draft nights, I was at the one when we drafted Moiso.

Tommy was the first guy at the bar. Monster of a man. His wife was very nice, may she RIP.

When Keyon Dooling got drafted just ahead of us, everyone got pissed. That was their guy, and everyone connected with the team knew it. They were straight-up whatever at draft Moiso, openly mocking him and pretty much just cursing about it all, LOL.

[big_ticket]

26 year old,phillipines fan here,really loved kg since his minny days,been watching nba since 1995,been on the bandwagon when kg was traded,