It's snowing in Massachusetts today....

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Got to love New England weather.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 12:29 (twenty-three years ago)

i failed to look at the weather forecast last night so left my umbrella at work. my 25 minute walk in with just a hooded top to protect me from the elements = not fun.

(i was wearing trousers + shoes too before anyone makes that joke).

― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 12:39 (twenty-three years ago)

BUT NO UNDERWEAR??????

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 12:48 (twenty-three years ago)

it took me 45 minutes for my usually 15 minute drive to work. people drive around here like its a godamn blizzard, the roads weren't that bad at 6:30 am.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 12:50 (twenty-three years ago)

It snowed in Ontario yesterday so your not alone.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 12:50 (twenty-three years ago)

hahahahahhahahaha

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 13:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I actually enjoy the snow, but I was a little surprised this morning when it actually did snow. Plus because of the snow I wore a nice wooly sweater and they have the heat on "Serengeti" in here today. And stripping down to my t-shirt is an offense here.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 13:18 (twenty-three years ago)

The only time I've ever been to Massachusetts it was snowing, so in my mind, it snows in Massachusetts every day.

Hey great song title there.

― Steve.n., Wednesday, 23 October 2002 13:44 (twenty-three years ago)

yay snow!

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 16:11 (twenty-three years ago)

will it snow in denver on sunday?

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 24 October 2002 12:30 (twenty-three years ago)

But at least it didn't lay on the ground here in Northampton...Yet

― brg30 (brg30), Thursday, 24 October 2002 21:10 (twenty-three years ago)

This is why I moved from Mass to New Orleans :) They import snow here and cover the McDonald's playground things with it, so local kids who'd never see it otherwise have a chance to play with it.

But they wait till January, man.

(I used to live in Amherst, brg30, but from what my ex tells me, I'd never recognize the place anymore.)

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 25 October 2002 02:32 (twenty-three years ago)

yes, but it snowed in Northampton on Monday. That was nice.

― Claire (Claire Miccio), Friday, 25 October 2002 02:45 (twenty-three years ago)

it already snowed here. it was not real snow.

― Josh (Josh), Friday, 25 October 2002 02:59 (twenty-three years ago)

The only people who really like snow are those that don't have to live with it all winter.

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 25 October 2002 11:22 (twenty-three years ago)

ahem. I like snow! even if I didn't like it I would grin and enjoy it to counteract ned's mentalist antisnowism.

― Josh (Josh), Friday, 25 October 2002 12:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Snow is fun for the first three months but after that it gets to be a bit of a bore.

― Miss Laura, Friday, 25 October 2002 13:08 (twenty-three years ago)

SNow is wonderful, its slush that sucks big hairy moose cock.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 25 October 2002 13:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Regions of the U.S. that have excessive snow: this winter please send it to the Washington, DC area, where typically we get everything but snow -- sleet, freezing rain, icy roads, etc.

― j.lu (j.lu), Friday, 25 October 2002 13:52 (twenty-three years ago)

ahem. I like snow! even if I didn't like it I would grin and enjoy it to counteract ned's mentalist antisnowism.

In which you have to do all the work while I mock and laugh. Enjoy a nice freezing Minnesota morning when you have to go into a class you hate through piles of brown slush. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 25 October 2002 14:19 (twenty-three years ago)

i like the snow very much, i just hate shoveling it.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 25 October 2002 14:23 (twenty-three years ago)

1st three months? I expect we'll have maybe three days of snow this winter - count yourself lucky! Unless I go to Glasgow again...

― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 25 October 2002 14:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Brown slush != snow.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 25 October 2002 14:36 (twenty-three years ago)

also ned we have people to take care of that

― Josh (Josh), Friday, 25 October 2002 18:42 (twenty-three years ago)

You sound like a mob boss, Josh. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 25 October 2002 19:56 (twenty-three years ago)

"It's snowing in Massachusetts today...." = Galaxie 500 - "Flowers" popped into my head the second I read that.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 25 October 2002 20:14 (twenty-three years ago)

as luck would have it we have people to take care of snow haters too

― Josh (Josh), Friday, 25 October 2002 23:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Is it true that only hippies live in Northampton? That's all I ever see in Northampton. HIPPIES.

― Ally, Friday, 25 October 2002 23:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Do you Americans have a Northampton too? I was just yesterday watching a TV show in which comic writer (and my old pal) Alan Moore wittered on about Northampton, the one in the middle of England. He looks like a hippy.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 26 October 2002 09:46 (twenty-three years ago)

it is going to snow in denver on sunday morning, more substantially on tuesday, apparently. trick or treaters on skis.

― keith (keithmcl), Saturday, 26 October 2002 15:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Northampton is in Massachusetts. And is full of hippies.

― Ally, Saturday, 26 October 2002 17:24 (twenty-three years ago)

When I lived there, all the hippies lived in Amherst (that's where Hampshire is, after all, my alma mater) -- Northampton had the lesbians.

And Martin, New England pretty much has at least one of everything in England :)

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 26 October 2002 17:32 (twenty-three years ago)

England doesn't have a Chappaquidick, though, or a Penobscot, which is further proof of the goodness of America with its variety. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 26 October 2002 19:45 (twenty-three years ago)

You went to Hampshire?! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!

No offense or anything. That's fabelhaft. One day, we were going to take a pony down the hallway because these stupid ass dirty hippie bitches were like all telling us to get out of their lounge, we just wanted to watch movies for god's sake, you'd think they owned the frigging lounge. But we couldn't find a pony so we wrote in marker in their bathroom instead.

Hampshire is my favorite school ON EARTH. If I end up at Mt. Holyoke, I'm going to spend my nights at Hampshire.

― Ally, Saturday, 26 October 2002 23:29 (twenty-three years ago)

That reminds me of the semester I lived at a UC Berkeley co-op where the decor in the lounge (and the hallways, rooms, etc) made me think of gorillas with credit cards.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Sunday, 27 October 2002 01:36 (twenty-three years ago)

you know the camelot song where summer lingers through september and winter exits promptly march the first? an addition is that there should be no snow until the day after halloween.

― Maria (Maria), Sunday, 27 October 2002 02:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Hampshire is worth laughing at, Ally -- I'm laughing with you :) My hallmates sold the lounge furniture. I mean, you know, just ... sold it. So they could buy drugs. They filled cookie sheets with jello shots in Dixie cups and left them on the floor for months, presumably so people could just wander in and take one.

Someone was majoring in yoga. The fire alarm went off nearly every damn night of the winter, from pot smoke -- necessitating a full building evacuation until the fire department could arrive to check each and every room.

I saw someone shooting up outside of class, or in the quad, more than once.

Mind you, I'm told it's mellowed in the last few years -- they're certainly turning it more and more into a traditional school.

― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 27 October 2002 07:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Someone was majoring in yoga

Don't lie - there are no majors at Hampshire...

― Ally, Sunday, 27 October 2002 07:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Okay, okay, their planned Div II was yoga, and God knows what their Div III would've been :) It's been six years -- I'm used to having to say "major" so people know what I'm talking about.

― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 27 October 2002 07:28 (twenty-three years ago)

But it's like so much funnier to explain how they don't have majors because majors are oppressive...so are you familiar with the greatness that is Pathfinder then?

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 27 October 2002 22:29 (twenty-three years ago)

DIE NORTH HAMPTON HIPPIES!!!!!!

― Chris V. (Chris V), Sunday, 27 October 2002 23:41 (twenty-three years ago)

The whole 5 College area is nothing but fucking hippies. Why is that?

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 27 October 2002 23:45 (twenty-three years ago)

They grow them there in vats.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 27 October 2002 23:46 (twenty-three years ago)

But it's like so much funnier to explain how they don't have majors because majors are oppressive...

The best part, though, is the whole "See, this way, let's say you're a student who's interested in both the French Revolution and interpretive dance. OTHER schools make you choose, but your Div III can easily combine the two!"

(I think that's an actual example from orientation -- but of course, it was a student-given one, and most of the Hampsters I've met had a sense of humor about the place.)

...so are you familiar with the greatness that is Pathfinder then?

The only Pathfinder that rings a bell is the Mars mission thing :)

The whole 5 College area is nothing but fucking hippies. Why is that?

Either UMass-Amherst has changed a lot, or you haven't been on the campus much :) (And don't forget Amherst, one of the preppiest schools around, and the many many sophomore-year lipstick lesbians of Smith.)

― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 27 October 2002 23:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Well obviously I was exagerrating that it's nothing but hippies but there are way too many fucking hippies up there. It's ridiculous.

Pathfinder apparently changed its name recently, but it's all one and the same. It's "school for homeschoolers", whatever that means. It's basically like Hampshire for 12-17 year olds. I knew a girl that worked there, she was a hippie and actually wrote in their informational thing that "homework is way too hard and stressful, which is why we don't do that". I hated her, she pretended to be a lesbian but in fact only slept with guys, lots of them, but still told us all she was a lesbian which made her above us (???). It never made any sense at all, I felt like I was taking crazy pills whenever I spoke to her. She hated me because I shave my armpits, fact, and would refer to me as "SHE" in a huffy voice all the time, apparently.

Amherst is great, I can't wait to go back.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 28 October 2002 03:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Ohhh. If it's the same thing I'm thinking of, I know it by reputation, just didn't remember the name. There's a school like that in the Berkshires, too (lots, I'm sure, but one specifically associated w/ Hamp).

Being a lesbian who only sleeps with guys is the easiest way to be cool. That's such a Hampshire thing.

There are too many things I miss about the Pioneer Valley (but apparently many of those things are no longer there -- the Blue Flame closed when I was there, I think Words and Pictures is gone, Pioneer Valley Coffee is a Starbuck's now I think ...) I'm still glad to be out of the north :)

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 28 October 2002 03:19 (twenty-three years ago)

four weeks pass...

Wow a whole 4 inches here in wonderful worcester today. People act like its the Armageddon.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 13:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Why do they pronounce it "Wooster"?

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 19:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Because that is how it is pronounced, Ally. It's English originally (I have been there), like Gloucester (gloster) and Leicester (lester) and several others.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 20:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Wuster!

No snow here, we never get snow! Cursed mono-season.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 20:17 (twenty-three years ago)

But why is that how it's pronounced? It clearly doesn't spell "Wooster" just like Leicester doesn't spell "Lester". I'm just wondering the phoenetic background of such a ridiculous thing.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 20:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Worcester = war cest er, probably kind of a bore to keep saying it, and it you say war cest er really fast it comes out sounding funny, and I guess the person asking directions then went "wooster?" "yeah, that's it mate" *

* I dunno! (martin to thread?)

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 20:24 (twenty-three years ago)

I know nothing about it, Jel - I was just being sort of facetious above. In Leicester, there is a Beauvoir Street, but if you ask, as I did when first there, for 'Bow-vwa' they all look mystified. It is pronounced 'beaver street' for some reason.

Nonethless, Ally, your country has its bizarre examples too: Ar/Kansas is a very good one.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 21:05 (twenty-three years ago)

As far as I knew Worcester WAS in my country up until about 5 minutes ago.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 21:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, but you just have a facsimile, Ally. You should be obliged to put 'New' before all of your copies, as with York. You have Birmingham, Cambridge, all sorts!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 21:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Your all wrong the correct way to pronounce it is WISTA.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 21:22 (twenty-three years ago)

with the Massachusetts accent of course.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 21:23 (twenty-three years ago)

That barbarous tongue, Chris? ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 21:27 (twenty-three years ago)

ten months pass...

Um, this is weird. Its supposed to snow in Mass today and tomorrow. I was just outside for my afternoon smoke and it looked like it was going to snow. This past Saturday it snowed briefly. Weird because its exactly to the date of last year.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 15:26 (twenty-two years ago)

To the exact fucking date. Woke up this morning 1 inch of snow on the ground and its still going.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 23 October 2003 10:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Cool! *sneers jealously*

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 23 October 2003 10:41 (twenty-two years ago)

it is pretty cool, until it becomes time to shovel.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 23 October 2003 11:41 (twenty-two years ago)

The hell?! How far away are you from Chicago, Chris V? I wonder if we'll be driving through any snow...

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Thursday, 23 October 2003 11:44 (twenty-two years ago)

i just have 2 words Chris, SNOW DAY!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 23 October 2003 11:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Im in Massachusetts Sarah.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 23 October 2003 11:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Snow day, I've been at work for three hours already. 6am. Although my boss is out sick today, which means I'll be out of here around noon.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 23 October 2003 11:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha ha. I was thinking of Michigan. I KNOW you live in Massachusettes. Whoops.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 23 October 2003 18:48 (twenty-two years ago)

It hit 90 yesterday afternoon.

Fuck Texas.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 23 October 2003 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)

In Massachusetts? Damn global warming....

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 23 October 2003 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Could you spread some of that global warming up here? It was below 0 last night.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 23 October 2003 19:38 (twenty-two years ago)

On Monday, Seattle broke a record for rainiest day ever. Yes, Seattle! (5 inches all over the city, far worse in the mountains to the west). Now, it's sunny and cold. This weekend will be sunny and warm.

El Nino is a secret funky maestro of fuck.

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 23 October 2003 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)

You have coined a beautiful new phrase.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 October 2003 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)

& tommorow it will be sunny & 55 in massachusetts

― dick albert, Thursday, 23 October 2003 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

dicky albs, s'up homeslice?

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 24 October 2003 10:43 (twenty-two years ago)

god im a fagtog.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 24 October 2003 10:43 (twenty-two years ago)

eight years pass...

How is Northampton? as hippyish as thread suggests? spending some time there later this summer

― coal, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 08:16 (fourteen years ago)

No lie, I counted 65+ Subarus in one day driving around Northampton, last summer. The vast majority bore kayak or bike racks. So not hippyish, but something, for sure.

― nerds being macho (remy bean), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 11:49 (fourteen years ago)

I've heard mostly good things about Northampton but have never been there myself. Want to get up to that area this summer. Skot is probably the person best suited to field western MA questions - he lives around there!

― wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 11:57 (fourteen years ago)

I'd totally do a FAP in Northampton this summer. The Jewish Book Museum (?) is great, and the Eric Carle museum is adequate, and yhere's good BBQ.

― nerds being macho (remy bean), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 12:46 (fourteen years ago)

my friends folks live there - might ask more specific questions closer the time - was just curious what the area was like

remy makes it sound like....moab!

― coal, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 12:55 (fourteen years ago)

its exactly like moab

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 12:55 (fourteen years ago)

ha oh well

― coal, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 12:58 (fourteen years ago)

It's a nice college-towny place to visit. There's a lot of good food. And the book mill is fun.

― nerds being macho (remy bean), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 13:09 (fourteen years ago)

one month passes...

vaca around the Pittsfield area in mid August - recommendations for any places to eat/drink, things to see, stuff in easy reach?

― suare, Monday, 23 July 2012 12:41 (thirteen years ago)

Just saw this exhibit at the Berkshire Museum. Highly recommended.

― Sun? Sun? It's your cousin, Marvin Ra (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 23 July 2012 13:36 (thirteen years ago)

tanglewood?

― baking (soda), Monday, 23 July 2012 15:07 (thirteen years ago)

TANGLEWOOD

― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Monday, 23 July 2012 15:10 (thirteen years ago)

TANGLEWOOD!!!!

― call all destroyer, Monday, 23 July 2012 15:17 (thirteen years ago)

Looking for interesting small towns, diners, roadside stuff

― suare, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 07:21 (thirteen years ago)

If you're in those parts, the town of Queechy makes for an interesting visit. I say "town", but "village" might be a more suitable term; there are only three inhabitants.

Well, I say "village", but "hamlet" might be more appropriate. On further consideration let's say: "live bait bucket near shed by lake". Did I mention that the population of Queechy are all maggots?

The Queechy maggots are big-hearted folk, always ready to extend a warm welcome - the kind of welcome for which maggots are justly famous - to strangers. A wriggling plate of maggot pancakes stands steaming on a nearby thorax just in case visitors should come a-calling, and next to that a sputum-bubbling pot of hot maggot coffee. You'll feel at home in no time.

Throw yourself down on the big white fur-covered sofa with the red cushion and pick up a maggot newspaper. You might be surprised to read how much is going on in Queechy. Those waving antennae on page 2 belong to a woodlouse that's just wandered in from the Sports section. On page 3 naiads and exuviae are shedding their skins. And on page 6 there's a photograph of a polar bear captioned "Our Mayor".

Actually, that fur-covered white sofa you're sitting on? That's the mayor. Watch out how you move, now! Be careful what you say! The maggots think the mayor is just a very large maggot, which suits the bear-mayor just fine. It's all a matter of definition, isn't it? Bear, maggot, maggot, bear, what's the difference?

The mayor lives the life of Riley, served hand and foot. Well, mostly foot. He sleeps all the time. Except when visitors come calling. That cushion you're lying back on? His tongue. Your car? Valet-parked in Queechy Lake.

― Grampsy, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 10:59 (thirteen years ago)

also anyway there that does ice cream

― suare, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 11:12 (thirteen years ago)

eleven years pass...

winter friggin' wonderland...

― scott seward, Thursday, 4 April 2024 13:38 (two years ago)

Lucky you!

― Slorg is not on the Slerf Team, you idiot, you moron (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 4 April 2024 13:52 (two years ago)

i feel bad for all those flowers that were coming up though. hang on, little buddies!

― scott seward, Thursday, 4 April 2024 14:56 (two years ago)

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