OldMojo

"Celtic" with a soft C became "Celtic with a hard C. Peking is now Beijing. Some fools are starting to pronounce Carnegie car-NAY-gee. As for the comma controversy, it seems to me that common pairs should use the "&" as in macaroni & cheese, thus avoiding comma confusion.

While I think the coffee sack look has been done to death by the likes of Old Navy / Hollister, I kinda like it - and it definitely beats "Get Midwest"

Hey folks - saw WhoDey has recently popped back up - guess It's time to "come home to Mama" (Meaning Chris of course :-D) I'm Back!! Now to the hearculean task of posting all of the pics I've taken over the last year or so. Nice to see some familiar names still frequenting this board. Huzzah!!

Yeah, it's been awhile - all will be explained shortly. Nice to be missed though.

I think we're within about $0.30/gal of reaching a "tipping point" where fuel prices will begin to cause enough economic hardship that you'll see new trends emerge. The problem is that at this point such prices are bound to start having serious repercussions on the economy as a whole. We may start seeing "die-offs" of marginal industries that had depended on cheap oil to stay profitable, similar to what we saw in the '70s and '80s with the decimation of our manufacturing base. Countries with higher gas prices have forced themselves to learn to be competitive at that level. We have many painful lessons ahead of us.

To more precisely determine the level of hick-ness, determine that if indeed the term "warsh" is used, then what does the speaker call the small hand cloth that one takes into the shower? Is it a "warsh-cloth" or a "warsh-rag"? In the house I grew up in, it was a "warsh-rag". Being more cultured than my parents, I have adapted to the term "wash-rag". "Wash-cloth" sounds entirely too uppity.

Not to worry - different audience I think. I can't see people who go to the places you mentioned abandoning them for this. This sounds geared more toward the Fraze crowd. And, uh, where is the "Patterson Boulevard bridge" anyway?

I think it was Buckeye Native who some time ago posted an explanation of the "Please?" phenomenon. It is said to be a remnant of Cincinnati's German heritage, in which language the word "Bitte" is used to mean both "please" and "excuse me" I don't know how factual that explanation is, but it seems to me to be at least plausible.

The provision for pedestrians seems to be an afterthought. Can you imagine trying to herd a group of camera-toting forum geeks across one of these things? "Dammit, we lost Monte again" "Grasscat, must you stop to light up in the middle of the roundabout? the pope: "Check it out guys - Big Ben!!, Parliament!!"

Same here. I went by there this week, saw the equipment and dumpsters out front and thought "no, dammit!" What a pleasant suprise. I'm particularly intrigued by the decision to preserve the industrial fixtures inside.

The problem with the "culture of employment" as you call it is, I think, poorly understood by most people. But it is very real and applies to everyone in some form or another. My family and those I grew up with were working class people. Therefore that type of career was what I was most familiar with and it is really no suprise that I make my living that way. Had my family & friends been stock brokers or business owners, I would probably been more likely to go in that direction. It's the same way - perhaps even more intensely so - for the poor. People don't just adopt lifestyles that they aren't familiar with. As for "non-violent" loitering, while I agree that it should by no means be illegal, the fact is that in a particular context it takes on a menacing nature that is definitely a detriment to neighborhood recovery. Harassment like what Maximillian described must NOT be tolerated.

Welcome back Ronnie - we were just worried sick!! :wtf:

Floridians have no room to talk. Six blocks inland from the coasts, Florida is nothing but strip malls and mobile homes. They can't grow a decent shade tree down there. And for all of their amusement parks, their roster of roller coasters is embarrassingly poor!

^^^^Hey all you photoshop geeks - get to work on that!^^^^

Nooooooooo!!!!!! Cable-stayed bridges are everywhere now. If they want a distinctive design, they should look elsewhere. I vote for a slick deco/truss design akin to the Sydney Harbor bridge. Something stately that complements Cincinnati's historic character.