Also, St. Louis has the "what high school did you go to" thing as well.  Perhaps it's a river city thing?

It is funny that this has degenerated into the high school topic, and I probably contributed early on.  My experience is more similar to cramer's - that was a great post.  Also, having seen hundreds of resumes, I have not seen one with the high school on it and would agree it is not appropriate unless you are applying for that first summer job or lack a college degree.  I have also experimented with the question since I have heard this before, and people ask if I mean high school or college.  Also, like cramer said, it might come up later if it is established the other person is a native.

 

That was probably a more light-hearted dig but other things did bother me more, like the fact Bill Cunningham and Marge Schott now are indicative of the way I view a locker room full of wealthy African Americans and that I even care about their race.  People do not seem to be that insulted, but there were a lot of jabs in this article and the more I thought about it the more it bothered me that 2.1 million people were being characterized by a few people in the article.  I guess it's time to move on until the next sociology major at ESPN writes an article.

Better to be asked "What high school did you go to?", then "What's your exit?"

senior writer? more like senior moment -- forde should retire and hand over his typewriter to somone who can write a readable article. that was a tossed salad write-up from somebody who has talked to a few people, but in reality knows nothing about cincinnati.

Heh, I reread the article and I have to chuckle and wonder if Mr. Forde's read Uncle Tom's Cabin.  People talk about that book all the time as if they and everyone's read it but I'm sure less than 1 in 10 Americans alive today have read it. 

 

#2, I had to look up what "Wisteria Lane" referred to.  As I understand it that show's for girls so this guy probably watches Gilmore Girls too.   

 

#3, Daugherty is a so-so at best writer and he sucks so far on WLW. 

 

#4, Cincinnati is NOT in any way a Southern city.  I lived in Tennessee for five years, I can speak to the fact that the way so many southerners think and act is completely foreign to Cincinnati.  And "Southern" implies white southern, otherwise Chicago and LA and New York would also be Southern cities.  I talked to people in Tennessee who hadn't even heard of Cincinnati.

 

#5, Not even the widespread passion for Ohio State football resonates much in Cincinnati...maybe because OSU football fans are a bunch of meat head hooligans. 

 

#6 "This is the only city in America where if they ask what school you went to, they don't mean college,"  --- it's EVERYWHERE PEOPLE.  Franklin, Father Ryan, Hillsboro, Montgomery Belle, St. Cecilia, Battlewood Academy, Harpeth Hall, Gallatin, Brentwood...those are Nashville high schools I can rattle off from memory and I only lived there for a year.  Go to the bars on the night before Thanksgiving when everyone's back in town...they're going to be segregated by high school.   

 

#7 Today, nobody calls this a boomtown  Yeah well London didn't reach 2 million until around 1850, so Cincinnati today would have been the largest city in the world for all of civilization up until that point.  2 million is TWO MILLION PEOPLE.

 

#8  Bengals quarterback Carson Palmer says he has neighbors in his suburb whose idea of a vacation is to go downtown and stay in a hotel.

 

Oh come on.  And people in Boston think going to Foxwoods is going down south. 

 

#9  The personality page on its Web site features 14 white males, led by the divisive Bill Cunningham, who last week ridiculed the emotional, multicultural memorial gathering at Virginia Tech in the wake of the mass murder there.

 

Oh come on.  If this guy listened on Sunday mornings he'd hear Sensible Don and if ESPN guy called into Cunningham's show he'd get sliced up.  I know dozens of people with Cunningham-esque senses of humor and you don't really meet those people elsewhere.  It always cracks me up how so many people just don't understand Cunningham, it's just like Beavis & Butthead -- if you don't get it it's because it's making fun of you.  And is Forde one of those evil white males too?  I'm too lazy to look it up. 

 

#10 Pete Rose

 

Okay so Pete likes playing the ponies and cheated on his taxes.  I've made my disapproval of gambling and the government clear on other threads.  But does the whole steroids thing even have to be brought up?  What it comes down to is jealousy -- Pete was an incredible baseball player and as much as they try to ignore him there's no denying it.  Nothing's worse than Red Sox fans saying Ted Williams this that this that.  The fact is Pete did it and he did it on his own terms.  Pete Rose's situation shouldn't even be mentioned as long as the invidious Bud Selig continues his campaign to kill baseball.  I and a lot of people would deck that mother ------ if he showed his face in town.           

 

 

 

^ I had to look up Wisteria Lane as well.  I watch little to no TV, so I did not get the reference.

Why don't you guys quit taking the article so seriously? Sure, a lot of the things pointed out are blown out of proportion but they don't make these things for people to analyze to death.

 

#6 "This is the only city in America where if they ask what school you went to, they don't mean college,"  --- it's EVERYWHERE PEOPLE.  Franklin, Father Ryan, Hillsboro, Montgomery Belle, St. Cecilia, Battlewood Academy, Harpeth Hall, Gallatin, Brentwood...those are Nashville high schools I can rattle off from memory and I only lived there for a year.  Go to the bars on the night before Thanksgiving when everyone's back in town...they're going to be segregated by high school.   

 

I've lived in DC for 10 and spent plenty of time B-more as well. Never seen this type of behavior in either place. Never saw it much in Cleveland either for that matter. Maybe, like CDM said, it's a city by city thing. Who knows, if you don't care about it, maybe you don't notice it.

Well, Cramer I guess you don't hold enough water to call out the enforcers to get this thread back on topic.  And by the way, Bill Cunningham is simply an entertainer.  One day he was talking trash about Cincinnati Public Schools so I got pissed off enough to call in and after a minute and a half of the incisive logic and muscular rationality that I bring to these situations Big Willie was asking me to date his daughter.  If you don't believe me just ask my cousin.  He heard the whole thing as he was driving back home from Walnut Hills High School.

So...yesterday at around 2pm in Columbus I was in a store buying an obscure $22 electrical chord and heard two guys who were about 50 start talking about WHAT HIGH SCHOOL THEY AND THEIR KIDS WENT TO AND GO TO.  I think one of them was wearing a high school team shirt which spawned the whole conversation.   

 

Then, at approximately 10:45pm in Athens I was talking to a young lady at the bar who described herself as "21" when one of my friends came over and started talking to her too...they realized they were both from Columbus...AND THEY ASKED EACH OTHER WHICH HIGH SCHOOL THEY WENT TO.   

 

Where exactly are these cities where when people meet people from there while they're somewhere else don't ask what neighborhood and if they're roughly the same age WHAT HIGH SCHOOL they went to?  I've heard people from LA and New York do this.  All of you complaining about it in Cincinnati are probably doing it because that's the only other place you've lived aside from where you grew up.

 

But if there's one thing I want you all to take away from this thread, it's if you ever tell a girl she looks a little like Jackie Kennedy, you're in. 

I get tired of re-reading typical stereotypes about my hometown.  I'm born and bread in cincy, an i think pete rose is an a$$hole. He milked his whole thing...I have no sympathy

 

 

Where exactly are these cities where when people meet people from there while they're somewhere else don't ask what neighborhood and if they're roughly the same age WHAT HIGH SCHOOL they went to? 

 

The way it was meant in Louisville is as a way of assigning status or classifying one socially.  It sounds like a casual question, but there is an underlying "agenda" to it. 

 

 

 

 

^ That's when you know things have changed or are changing, when it seems as though everyone seems to think like the gentleman in the above quoted context.

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^I'm not sure what that has to do with anything!?!?  :wtf:

The compensation is pretty reasonable.

But if there's one thing I want you all to take away from this thread, it's if you ever tell a girl she looks a little like Jackie Kennedy, you're in.

 

Interesting.  I shall try this.  I should be around women in about two months and I've been collecting and assessing pick up lines.  Two others are currently in the arsenal:

 

Assertive: "Go out with me.  It's the right thing to do."

Rakish: "Hi.  Can I buy you a house?"

 

And now this.

^ Have you thought about asking them where they went to high school?

 

Alternatively, you could just show them your résumé and sit back. Game. Set. Match.

Tonight I was listening to Paul Daugherty's show...largely indistinguishable from a campus radio talk show...and the following thought popped in my head.  Okay so Daugherty is supposedly "from New York" but according to his online bio he's been covering Cincinnati sports since 1988, when he joined The Post's staff and then moved upstairs to The Enquirer in 1994.  Yet on his show tonight he declares he's not even a Reds fan.  I've read the guy's columns off-and-on for years and his contempt for this city's teams and the city itself is never far from the surface.  And although he's "from New York" he sounds like Snuggle.  Meanwhile he replaced Andy Furman, who was unmistakably from New York, but who loved the local teams and the area.  Of course Forde wouldn't bother interviewing someone who's quotes might collide with his prefab piece.

 

And on the matter of nation-states New Orleans definitely ranks highest with Boston up there near the top too.  And I mean that in a bad way.  The difference is that everyone knows that already and the only real reason why everyone knows that already is because of the momentum the media and pop culture have built surrounding those places.  The average person doesn't have the guts to get behind something that is actively scorned or is not even being talked about.   

 

 

  And although he's "from New York" he sounds like Snuggle.

 

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