Irony, thy name be Pennsyltucky
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Irony, thy name be Pennsyltucky
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For a number of years now, cynics have been merging the name of two of what Jon Stewart would call America's "fringe states," Pennsylvania and Kentucky, into a common heritage of unfairly stereotyped corruption and ignorance (OK, the corruption part is actually real) called Pennsyltucky.
So now, in the most anticipated marriage of two worlds since some guy got chocolate on some other guy's peanut butter, Philly's own poster child for graft and moral decay, former state senator Vince Fumo may be bound for Kentucky! But apparently Fumo's not in on the joke:
With just a week before he starts serving a 55-month sentence, former State Sen. Vincent J. Fumo is fighting his assignment to a prison in Kentucky, saying it is too far from home.
His lawyer contends:
"It is on the outer edge of reasonableness," Goldberger said, referring to the distance. "That's the first one [prison] they gave us. But it's not settled for another week."
I can't feign much sympathy for Fumo, a man who functioned on the outer edge of reasonableness, and beyond, with our tax dollars for nearly four decades. Maybe some time in the Bluegrass State will do him some good, and he'll be back in a couple of years with a newfound antipathy for the revenuers -- something he didn't display in Harrisburg -- and a fondness for moonshine instead of Xanax.
In another irony involving convicted felons in Pennsylvania, has anyone done more in America to raise awareness about the scourge of dogfighting than Michael Vick?. Stories that would have been tiny briefs in Philadelphia are getting big play now that No. 7 has flown his Grey Goose into town.
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Bill you idiot Jon Stewart called them "Fringe States" Bunch was quoting Stewart.— cusoraider- Actually, the fringe states Stewart referred to were Hawaii, Alaska...and Pennsylvania. Sounds about right :-).— will
We've been quite hospitable to Bob Ney here in Morgantown, I'm sure we can find bunk room for Vince.- Comment removed.
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- Alas, no free wi-fi........ Morgantown Federal Correctional Institution Security level: Minimum, no fences Inmates: 1,096 Amenities: Library, workout room, game rooms, movie night, cable TV, yoga classes, continuing education. Daily life: 7 1/2-hour workday in food service, cleaning, landscaping, tutoring and other jobs that pay 12 to 40 cents an hour.
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- At least this time you had the decency to write “unfairly stereotyped” while using a derogatory comment about a large population of people. That still doesn’t mitigate against the fact that you continue to use this term. If I used the N-word, but said that it was an unfair stereotype, would that make it ok? Posted by legatus 10:39 AM, 09/09/2008 Will, why do you hate your fellow Pennsylvanians so much. "Pennsyltucky: A derogatory term that 1.) is associated with the rural T shaped region of Pennsylvania primarily in political circles when campaigning. 2.) a reference to mountainous regions of Pennsylvania resembling Kentucky 3.) a reference to a larger region encompassing Kentucky, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. All of the above are used to describe a lovely peaceful mountainous wooded area in such a way that they are trivialized as not important legislatively. The inhabitants are described as being uneducated, inbred, beer guzzling, redneck, deer hunting, 4 wheel driving, common laborer, bigoted shack rats who have the second largest NRA membership in the nation and also have poor hygiene and no teeth. The Amish are thrown in for good measure. Interestingly, All of these same types of people can be found in the larger urban areas of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh invading the woods during hunting season wreaking havoc upon the seven million acres of farm land that they so easily insult. Rural Pennsylvania manages to provide food from those farms that if they were not in existence the urban areas would surely starve. There are many lovely homes and educated inhabitants in rural areas and those in urban jungles who want to escape crime, drugs, murder, and the sea of humanity, buy camps or retirement homes in the country and are known as Mup'eres because they "come up here" to get away from it all......"— legatus
- Posted by legatus 10:41 AM, 09/09/2008 More: " People who live in rural Pennsylvania do not like the term Pennsyltucky because we have pride in the beautiful tranquil area in which we live and we contribute many tax dollars from our acreage part of Pennsylvania. Far removed from the drug and gang violence of Philadelphia and the wrenching rust belt desperation of Pittsburgh, the area, when depicted on a map resembles the capital letter 'T'. The term most likely originated in the soulless suburbs of Northern New Jersey, upon which point usage spread to Central and South Jersey and ultimately, the white ghettos of South Philadelphia, and that city's affluent suburbs." Are you happy about using a derogatory term that originated in New York City suburbs against fellow Pennsylvanians? Shame on you Will.— legatus
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- "People who live in rural Pennsylvania do not like the term Pennsyltucky" . . . . . Big deal. I'm sure Kentuckians don't like being used as the model for their backwardness and think they're all descended from wimps who didn't have the courage to cross the Alleghenies.
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- Actually cities arent corrupt, democrats are.— tr88
- "Actually cities arent corrupt, democrats are." . . . . . So countrysides aren't moronic, republicans are?
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