Princeton's attitude problem
famartin
not necessarily the opinion of this server:
>Ya know, its funny how Princeton acts as if it's 'better' than the rest
of central
>New Jersey. Back in the mid '60s, they pushed I-95's route away from
them,
>starting a huge amount of anti-I-95 sentiment that resulted in the
cancellation
>of the road (which is still, in my opinion, one of the biggest mistakes
of
>NJDOT history, but it really wasn't up to them, I suppose... they
wanted to
>build it). Then, back in 1995, with traffic levels soaring, they ask
I-95 be built
>(but of course, not anywhere near Princeton...) Now, they insist NJ 92
be
>built as a solution for their traffic problems (but of course, not
anywhere near
>them...) They act like they deserve BETTER treatment than the rest of
central
>NJ... although I think both roads should be (or should have been)
built, but it
>would serve Princeton right if none of them were, and Princeton becomes
>completely overwhelmed...
>
>Or, they could build I-95 directly through the center of town, and
extend NJ
>92 west and have it link with I-95 in the center of Princeton in one,
massive
>interchange... (that would also, hopefully, swallow up all the NIMBY's
>property...)
>
>Princeton sux...
The previous anti-Princeton rant was courtesy of:
Raymond C Martin Jr
http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Boulevard/7642/index.html
Michael Tantillo
famartin <fama...@email.eden.rutgers.edu> wrote in message
news:383A3C01...@email.eden.rutgers.edu...
As long as there is no local access so that the Princetonians themselves
can't use the roads, i'm all for a downtown Princeton NJ 92/I-95
interchange!
Vinnie Ferrari
> >
> >Princeton sux...
And you can hear me at Lynah Rink saying the same thing!
Favorite Big Red Hockey Chants:
"Colgate is a toothpaste"
"What color is s***? BROWN!!!"
"What the f***'s a catamount?!?!?" (for U Vermont)
"George Bush went to Yale"
and
"PRINCETON'S IN NEW JERSEY!"
Princeton Sux
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Daniel Salomon
in the downtown area that say "No Bicycles". It's unclear whether the
sign refers to riding on the sidewalk (which is OK to ban), or a ban on
bicycles on the road completely, which is absolutely ridiculous.
Princeton is also full of pedestrians who walk out into traffic without
looking and yell at drivers that they have the right of way. While I have
to admit doing this here in Cambridge from time to time, it is done with a
certain obnoxious attitude in Princeton.
The combined Princeton township and borough police forces seem to have one
of the highest police to population ratios anywhere.
Oh, and they ban overnight parking in the borough, but only with very
small signs at the entrances. I make a point to look for such things, and
I didn't even notice them until the third or fourth time I entered the
borough.
-Dan
"Princeton, ugggggh."
-Sideshow Bob
Michael Tantillo <mj...@duke.edu> wrote:
: famartin <fama...@email.eden.rutgers.edu> wrote in message
: news:383A3C01...@email.eden.rutgers.edu...
<snip>
:> >Or, they could build I-95 directly through the center of town, and
Exile on Market Street
<dsal...@fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
> I have some other relevant issues with Princeton.
Exhibit A in my catalog of examples of Terminal Charm is Princeton.
Brookline, Mass., comes awfully close to illustrating the concept too.
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Exile on Market Street
I still remember a _Daily Pennsylvanian_ headline on a fall Friday edition
about a decade back:
"Penn hopes to spit out Colgate"
Vinnie Ferrari
Exile on Market Street <smi...@pobox.upenn.edu> wrote in message
news:smiths-ya02408000...@netnews.upenn.edu...
> In article <iDJ_3.9708$JD1.6...@typhoon.nyroc.rr.com>, "Vinnie Ferrari"
> <vinnie...@unforgettable.com> wrote:
>
> > Favorite Big Red Hockey Chants:
> >
> > "Colgate is a toothpaste"
>
> I still remember a _Daily Pennsylvanian_ headline on a fall Friday edition
> about a decade back:
>
> "Penn hopes to spit out Colgate"
>
> --
aren't that clever.
Jason Hancock
>
> What other newspaper nicknames are out there? The Ithaca Urinal is, of
> course, the Ithaca Journal. Champaign has the Daily Idiot or Daily
> Illiterate (Daily Illini) and the News-Gazoo (News-Gazette).
Iowa City Press-Citizen: substitute the "c" in "Citizen" with "sh" and
you'll get it...
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> ROFLMAO!!! Great headline... unfortunately, the writers at the Ithaca
> Urinal aren't that clever.
What other newspaper nicknames are out there? The Ithaca Urinal is, of
course, the Ithaca Journal. Champaign has the Daily Idiot or Daily
Illiterate (Daily Illini) and the News-Gazoo (News-Gazette).
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George Kowal
Michael Tantillo wrote:
> famartin <fama...@email.eden.rutgers.edu> wrote in message
> news:383A3C01...@email.eden.rutgers.edu...
> > The following public service announcement is an anti-Princeton rant, and
> > not necessarily the opinion of this server:
> >
> > >Ya know, its funny how Princeton acts as if it's 'better' than the rest
> > of central
> > >New Jersey. Back in the mid '60s, they pushed I-95's route away from
> > them,
> > >starting a huge amount of anti-I-95 sentiment that resulted in the
> > cancellation
> > >of the road (which is still, in my opinion, one of the biggest mistakes
> > of
> > >NJDOT history,As long as there is no local access so that the
> Princetonians themselves
> can't use the roads, i'm all for a downtown Princeton NJ 92/I-95
> interchange!
>
> > >
> > >Princeton sux...
> >
> > The previous anti-Princeton rant was courtesy of:
> >
> > Raymond C Martin Jr
> > http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Boulevard/7642/index.html
> >
Hey, we could even throw in State provided counseling, because after all those
Princetonians would have to contend with the fact that people from out of town
would actually be driving through their little town of Princeton. Oh my!
Gene Janczynskyi
> > Urinal aren't that clever.
>
> What other newspaper nicknames are out there? The Ithaca Urinal is, of
> course, the Ithaca Journal. Champaign has the Daily Idiot or Daily
> Illiterate (Daily Illini) and the News-Gazoo (News-Gazette).
>
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Yes, they are the 'Politically Correct'.
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David J. Greenberger <gren...@uiuc.edu> wrote:
>What other newspaper nicknames are out there? The Ithaca Urinal is, of
>course, the Ithaca Journal. Champaign has the Daily Idiot or Daily
>Illiterate (Daily Illini) and the News-Gazoo (News-Gazette).
Lessee.... There's the Boston Glob.
Before it got Murdoched, there was the Boston Horrid American.
The New York, Washington, and Los Angeles Slimes
The New York or Washington Pest
San Francisco Crocknicle
San Jose Murky News
McPaper
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Vinnie Ferrari
news:81fokc$9qs$2...@news.fas.harvard.edu...
> I have some other relevant issues with Princeton. They have signs posted
> in the downtown area that say "No Bicycles". It's unclear whether the
> sign refers to riding on the sidewalk (which is OK to ban), or a ban on
> bicycles on the road completely, which is absolutely ridiculous.
>
Is it ridiculous when you enter a limited access highway and there's a sign
that says no pedestrians, bicycles or horses, as is the case in many places.
> Princeton is also full of pedestrians who walk out into traffic without
> looking and yell at drivers that they have the right of way.
Must be an Ivy League thing... Cornell students are the same way
Princeton sux
Vinnie Ferrari
news:wk4seba0...@uiuc.edu...
> "Vinnie Ferrari" <vinnie...@unforgettable.com> writes:
>
> > ROFLMAO!!! Great headline... unfortunately, the writers at the Ithaca
> > Urinal aren't that clever.
>
> course, the Ithaca Journal. Champaign has the Daily Idiot or Daily
> Illiterate (Daily Illini) and the News-Gazoo (News-Gazette).
> David J. Greenberger
> Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Here's a few:
Elmira Star-Regrette (Star-Gazette)
Corning Misleader (Leader)
Rochester Demogogue and Comical (Democrat and Chronicle)- a personal Fave
Buffalo Snooze (News) too obvious
Cortland Slander (Standard)
any others?
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> David J. Greenberger <gren...@uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
> >What other newspaper nicknames are out there?
West Virginia:
Charleston Gazette (Gag-zette) [one of America's truly bad newspapers, BTW]
Huntington Herald-Dispatch (Herald-Disgrace)
Morgantown Dominion-Post (Demented Posts)
MU Parthanon (Part of Nothing)
SP Cook
Michael H. King
> From: "David J. Greenberger" <gren...@uiuc.edu>
> Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
> Newsgroups: misc.transport.road
> Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 04:40:59 GMT
> Subject: Newspaper nicknames (was Re: Princeton's attitude problem)
>
> "Vinnie Ferrari" <vinnie...@unforgettable.com> writes:
>
>> ROFLMAO!!! Great headline... unfortunately, the writers at the Ithaca
>> Urinal aren't that clever.
>
> What other newspaper nicknames are out there? The Ithaca Urinal is, of
> course, the Ithaca Journal. Champaign has the Daily Idiot or Daily
> Illiterate (Daily Illini) and the News-Gazoo (News-Gazette).
The Atlanta Urinal & Constipation (Journal-Constitution)
bigtv...@hotmail.com
> What other newspaper nicknames are out there? The Ithaca Urinal is,
of
> course, the Ithaca Journal. Champaign has the Daily Idiot or Daily
> Illiterate (Daily Illini) and the News-Gazoo (News-Gazette).
> David J. Greenberger
The Kalamazoo (MI) Gas Jet (Gazette), and for the little town of
Coldwater, MI, there is the Daily Departed (Daily Reporter), so called
because everyone gets it to read the obituaries.
I have a cousin in Jeffersonville, IN, who refers to the Evening News
as the Evening Snooze.
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Before you buy.
pauline groleau dumas
famartin a écrit dans le message
<383A3C01...@email.eden.rutgers.edu>...
>The following public service announcement is an anti-Princeton rant, and
not necessarily the opinion of this server:
>
>extend NJ 92 west and have it link with I-95 in the center of Princeton in
one, massive interchange... (that would also, hopefully, swallow up all the
NIMBY's property...)
Heheheh
let's keep l-95 on NJ Tpk, they desserved a lesson. What does Priceton
wants, they wanna be a Breezewood between Philly and NYC or what?
>>
>>Princeton sux...
I'll never move there don't worry I prefers my hometown.
>
>The previous anti-Princeton rant was courtesy of:
>
>Raymond C Martin Jr
>http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Boulevard/7642/index.html
Stéphane Dumas steph...@videotron.ca
Chip Olson
> What other newspaper nicknames are out there?
Somebody already noted the Boston Glob. Here's a few from my
UMass/Amherst days:
Duly Hamstrung Gazelle = Daily Hampshire Gazette, the Springfield MA
daily.
Collision/Collusion/etc. = UMass Daily Collegian, the student rag.
Barely Adequate = [Pioneer] Valley Advocate, the local arts weekly.
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Patrick L. Humphrey
>> What other newspaper nicknames are out there?
Rice University (where I work) has the Thresher, but a group of students put
out an annual parody of it every April 1st -- the Trasher.
Meanwhile, when I was in college at that _other_ school in town, there wasn't
a whole lot of consensus on what to call the campus paper, but pretty
unanimous sentiment on Houston's two major daily papers: the Pest (Post,
which folded in 1995) and the still-extant Comical (Chronicle, which is better
served with the nickname, ever since it was assimilated into the Hearst
empire).
--PLH, long-time former Houston Post subscriber, if you couldn't tell :)
David Jensen
Jason Hancock <jha...@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu> wrote in
<383CC9...@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu>:
>David J. Greenberger wrote:
>>
>> What other newspaper nicknames are out there? The Ithaca Urinal is, of
>> course, the Ithaca Journal. Champaign has the Daily Idiot or Daily
>> Illiterate (Daily Illini) and the News-Gazoo (News-Gazette).
>
>Iowa City Press-Citizen: substitute the "c" in "Citizen" with "sh" and
>you'll get it...
>
>--Jason
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They've shortened their name since I was a kid but the wittiest name
I've heard was the Fond du Lac Common Filth Repeater (they dropped
Commonwealth a couple of decades back so it's now just the Reporter)
courtesy of my Jr. High Band teacher.
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Hey, isn't that FRENCH??? (well, I guess its French CANADIAN...) :)
Raymond C Martin Jr
http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Boulevard/7642/index.html
Mark Sinsabaugh
Urinal aren't that clever. >>
Good one!
<<What other newspaper nicknames are out there?>>
Elmira: Star Regret (Star Gazette)
Corning: Misleader (Leader)
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Daniel Salomon
: Daniel Salomon <dsal...@fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
:> I have some other relevant issues with Princeton. They have signs posted
:> in the downtown area that say "No Bicycles". It's unclear whether the
:> sign refers to riding on the sidewalk (which is OK to ban), or a ban on
:> bicycles on the road completely, which is absolutely ridiculous.
: Is it ridiculous when you enter a limited access highway and there's a sign
: that says no pedestrians, bicycles or horses, as is the case in many places.
No, because there is an actual danger involved in having bicycles and
pedestrians on such high-speed roads. I've asked this question here
before without getting an answer, but I'll try again: Do horses still have
the right to use all public roadways that aren't marked with "No horses"
signs?
Bicycles should be encouraged in downtown areas, such as Princeton. There
are plenty of nearby residential areas with quiet streets leading to the
center of town, whch is an ideal setup for bicycles.
-Dan
fama...@my-deja.com
fama...@my-deja.com wrote:
> In article <k8B%3.803$ih1....@weber.videotron.net>,
> "pauline groleau dumas" <steph...@videotron.ca> wrote:
> >
> > famartin a écrit dans le message
>
> / \
> / | \
> |
> Hey, isn't that FRENCH??? (well, I guess its French CANADIAN...) :)
Speaking of France, do they have a nationwide expressway system there?
(such as the Interstates(United States), Motorways(Great Britain), or
Autobahns(Germany), etc) If so, what's it called?
Jon Morse
>course, the Ithaca Journal. Champaign has the Daily Idiot or Daily
>Illiterate (Daily Illini) and the News-Gazoo (News-Gazette).
The Fort Worth Startlegram (Star-Telegram)
The Dallas Crimes-Herald (Times-Herald; nickname made semi-famous, if not
coined, by Joe-Bob Briggs, a.k.a. former Times-Herald movie critic John Bloom)
The Dallas Boring Snooze (Morning News)
The Fairfax Gerbil (Journal, because it's such a cute little paper...)
Jon Morse
Herndon, VA
via lots of much larger places
Brandon M. Gorte
: > What other newspaper nicknames are out there? The Ithaca Urinal is,
: of
: > course, the Ithaca Journal. Champaign has the Daily Idiot or Daily
: > Illiterate (Daily Illini) and the News-Gazoo (News-Gazette).
: > --
: > David J. Greenberger
: The Kalamazoo (MI) Gas Jet (Gazette), and for the little town of
: Coldwater, MI, there is the Daily Departed (Daily Reporter), so called
: because everyone gets it to read the obituaries.
: I have a cousin in Jeffersonville, IN, who refers to the Evening News
: as the Evening Snooze.
Up here we have the Marquette Whining Urinal (Mining Journal), the Daily
Whining Gizzette (Mining Gazette), and the Michigan Tech Load of Sh*t
(Michigan Tech Lode).
Brandon Gorte
Undergrad in Geological Engineering
Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI
<http://www.geo.mtu.edu/~bmgorte/freeway.html>
Ron Newman
(Garrett Wollman) wrote:
> San Francisco Crocknicle
I've heard "San Francisco Comical", especially for the Sunday edition.
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Jeff Kitsko
>(such as the Interstates(United States), Motorways(Great Britain), or
>Autobahns(Germany), etc) If so, what's it called?
There they are called Autoroutes, just as they are in Quebec. They are all
toll, except around Paris.
Jeff Kitsko
Located on Unity TR 707 @ US 30 and PA 981
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H.B. Elkins
>What other newspaper nicknames are out there? The Ithaca Urinal is, of
>course, the Ithaca Journal. Champaign has the Daily Idiot or Daily
>Illiterate (Daily Illini) and the News-Gazoo (News-Gazette).
Rush Limbaugh has a name for the Atlanta paper. Doesn't he call it the
"Urinal & Constipation?"
Myself, I call the Courier-Journal the "Curious Urinal" and I also
call the Lexington Herald-Leader, variable, the "Herald-Misleader,"
"Geraldo-Misleader," or "Herald-Liberal."
I used to work at a weekly paper called The Beattyville Enterprise. We
called it "The Surprise" because we were surprised if there was ever
any news in it! ;-)
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>
> In article <81rt89$3e7$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,
> fama...@my-deja.com wrote:
> > In article <k8B%3.803$ih1....@weber.videotron.net>,
> > "pauline groleau dumas" <steph...@videotron.ca> wrote:
> > >
> > > famartin a écrit dans le message
> >
> > / \
> > / | \
> > |
> > Hey, isn't that FRENCH??? (well, I guess its French CANADIAN...) :)
>
> (such as the Interstates(United States), Motorways(Great Britain), or
> Autobahns(Germany), etc) If so, what's it called?
I am not sure what it is called, but France does have an extensive (and
fast growing) system of motorways. Most of the routes of the system are
leased to private contractors and operated as 'ticket' tollways.
Exile on Market Street
> Lessee.... There's the Boston Glob.
Yep. I remember that one. "The Glob's here!"
> Before it got Murdoched, there was the Boston Horrid American.
And before that, there was the nickname for one of its two predecessors,
the "Wretched-American" (_Record-American_, a Hearst paper as was the
combined publication. Did the _Herald-Traveler_ have a nickname?)
> The New York or Washington Pest
Somebody has put out a parody called _The Washington Toast_ recently.
Judging from its appearance and size (tabloid), this wasn't a well-financed
effort along the lines of _Not the New York Times_ and the _Off the Wall
Street Journal_.
> San Francisco Crocknicle
I thought they called it the "Comical."
I also STR a rather blistering letter Garrison Keillor wrote to the _St.
Paul Dispatch and Pioneer Press_ (a short-lived moniker following the PM
paper's demise; it's now simply the _Pioneer Press_ again) before leaving
the Twin Cities in which he complained about the paper's reporting on his
doings and called it the "St. Paul Gas and Minor Distress."
I understand all has since been forgiven, and he's back in St. Paul, albeit
perhaps a bit humbler.
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pauline groleau dumas
> / \
>/ | \
> |
>Hey, isn't that FRENCH??? (well, I guess its French CANADIAN...) :)
yup I'm French-Canadian, I leave in Québec, who have the baddest roads shape
even worst than AK or PA and the higher fuel gas prices
>
>Raymond C Martin Jr
>http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Boulevard/7642/index.html
>
Stéphane Dumas steph...@videotron.ca
Gene Janczynskyi
> > / \
> >/ | \
> > |
> >Hey, isn't that FRENCH??? (well, I guess its French CANADIAN...) :)
>
> yup I'm French-Canadian, I leave in Québec, who have the baddest roads
shape
> even worst than AK or PA and the higher fuel gas prices
>
survey. I know, I know, I also always get those two mixed up. :-)
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