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hutch
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Bowling Green Massacre February 03, 2017 at 03:03 PM UTC #


It is hard to believe that it was more than five years ago…I remember it well.. where were you when it happened?

We were actually heading to visit my father in Winnetka… my first born was only one year old and I remember we stopped at this out of the way diner.. really nondescript place… I felt like we were in some movie or something. anways they had an itty bitty TV behind the bar and suddenly we saw it flash "BREAKING NEWS: BOWLING GREEN MASSACRE"… man we were bummed out but the local folk seemed angry more than anything..still we all came together as Americans… I remember it being somber.. we paid our tab and got back in our station wagon and head west..
hutch
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Re: Bowling Green Massacre February 03, 2017 at 03:07 PM UTC #
I did not make it to the Remember the Bowling Green Benefit at the 930 Club.. I heard later that Dave Grohl made an appearance? And maybe Ian MacKaye was there too?
grateful
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Re: Bowling Green Massacre February 03, 2017 at 03:10 PM UTC #
The term "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice's_Restaurant#Massacree">massacree</a>,"; used by Guthrie in the title to describe the whole scenario, is a colloquialism originating in the Ozark Mountains that describes "an event so wildly and improbably and baroquely messed up that the results are almost impossible to believe." It is a corruption of the word massacre (itself of French origin, possibly from the now nearly extinct Missouri French dialect) but carries a much lighter and more sarcastic connotation, never being used to describe anything involving actual death.
Relaxer
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Re: Bowling Green Massacre February 03, 2017 at 03:13 PM UTC #
excontradiction wrote:
The term &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice&#039;s_Restaurant#Massacree&quot;&gt;massacree&lt;/a&gt;,&quot; used by Guthrie in the title to describe the whole scenario, is a colloquialism originating in the Ozark Mountains that describes &quot;an event so wildly and improbably and baroquely messed up that the results are almost impossible to believe.&quot; It is a corruption of the word massacre (itself of French origin, possibly from the now nearly extinct Missouri French dialect) but carries a much lighter and more sarcastic connotation, never being used to describe anything involving actual death.


I always wondered why the Ramones pronounced it that way in their song Texas Chainsaw Massacree. I just figured they were trying to make a rhyme with "They took my baby, away from me"
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Re: Bowling Green Massacre February 03, 2017 at 03:14 PM UTC #
hutch
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Re: Bowling Green Massacre February 03, 2017 at 04:04 PM UTC #
As I recall it happened a few days after i was back from the Ironman in Hawaii where I placed second due to bad luck with the wave conditions for the swimming component…
kosmo
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Re: Bowling Green Massacre February 03, 2017 at 04:21 PM UTC #
Patton Oswald tweeted last night…

"we are the bowling green fabrication society"

And I'm currently listening to the Kinks
sweetcell
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Re: Bowling Green Massacre February 03, 2017 at 04:26 PM UTC #
hutch wrote:
It is hard to believe that it was more than five years ago…I remember it well.

apparently you don't - it was in 2015: https://twitter.com/rodger_sherman/status/827360939091619840
kmdobrz
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Re: Bowling Green Massacre February 04, 2017 at 02:55 AM UTC #
hutch
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Re: Bowling Green Massacre February 04, 2017 at 03:12 AM UTC #
oh that is good….. ;D
azaghal1981
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Re: Bowling Green Massacre February 04, 2017 at 04:07 AM UTC #
Anyone else notice how Chris Matthews just went to the next question with no hesitation after she dropped that line?
Bannon doesn't have much to worry about w/r/t the news media being "the opposition party."
hutch
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Re: Bowling Green Massacre February 04, 2017 at 04:16 AM UTC #
azaghal1981 wrote:
Anyone else notice how Chris Matthews just went to the next question with no hesitation after she dropped that line?
Bannon doesn&#039;t have much to worry about w/r/t the news media being &quot;the opposition party.&quot;



I just wonder if Chris Matthews wasn't sure about Bowling Green… he may have thought it might have happened and not wanted to challenge her in case he be made to look like the ass that he is?
kmdobrz
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Re: Bowling Green Massacre February 04, 2017 at 04:21 AM UTC #
hutch wrote:
azaghal1981 wrote:
Anyone else notice how Chris Matthews just went to the next question with no hesitation after she dropped that line?
Bannon doesn&#039;t have much to worry about w/r/t the news media being &quot;the opposition party.&quot;



I just wonder if Chris Matthews wasn&#039;t sure about Bowling Green… he may have thought it might have happened and not wanted to challenge her in case he be made to look like the ass that he is?


Probably.  When I saw the subject line this morning I just thought 'Oh, I guess it happened again'.  It's become the norm, sadly.
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