I don’t know about Detroit but when I lived in Jacksonville FL I noticed there were areas named west side, north side and south side but no east side. My WAG is Jacksonville Beach is to the east. But why no name for the area between 95 and the Beach?
While I get the “South Detroit” and “East Side of Chicago” jokes, they’re really not wrong at all. South Detroit is… Detroit. It’s not what’s south of Detroit. East Side of Chicago is… Chicago. It’s not what’s east of Chicago.
/pedantman away
The band came to Chicago (they were Brits) expecting to be feted, but Daley said he wanted to throw them in the lake.
I don’t know how it is in Detroit or Chicago, but here in Cleveland, there’s the East Side and the West Side. Nobody would ever refer to West Cleveland, and East Cleveland is a separate municipality. There’s no South Side: At most, one might refer to a “southern suburb”. And there’s definitely no North Cleveland, North Side, or anything else North or Northern. You wouldn’t even say “on the north end of the West Side”, or whatever: If that level of specificity was needed, you’d say “near the lake”.
Huh?
Discourse, and its five-character minimum, can bite my skinny, white, unruly, American ass.
In New York, the Bronx is up and the Battery’s down.
And you only get mugged if you go downtown.
It’s a hell of a
heck of a
wonderful town
Ahhh, but what’s in ‘South Detroit’? The author of the song clearly wants it to be urban and gritty, “the poor side of town”.
It’s the opposite. That’s why all my Detroit friends would crack up whenever the song came on the car radio.
I went to college near there, with a lot of students from the Detroit suburbs. The ones from ‘South Detroit’ drove up in red TransAms and Racing Green 240Zs… high school graduation presents from Mumsy and Dadso. I know because they’d tell you, in the middle of a conversation about something else (and many of the license plates read “4 Tiffy” or “PLB III”… gifted by PLB II, no doubt).
We often heard “Gross Pointe” used as a pejorative for too much money. check out Southeast Detroit: Gross Pointe, Gross Pointe Farms, Gross Pointe Park, Gross Pointe Woods, Gross Pointe Shores…
Privilege is one thing, but this is unforgiveable. A 240Z should be white!
And the people ride in a hole in the ground.
Exactly. I can remember hearing TNCD on the car radio during family trips and my mom, a Chicago native who actually quite liked the song, thought she had a real “gotcha” , proclaiming the east side is Lake Michigan. My 8 year old self thought that made sense but today I think it’s kind of dumb. There’s a south, north, east and west side to every city. I will admit that @digs makes a good point about DSB, though. Maybe the City Boy and Daddy the cop should have traded places.
In Killing Floor by Lee Child, Jack Reacher says, “That’s how they’re doing it. No doubt about that. They’ve figured out the chemistry and they’re reprinting the blank bills as hundreds. That’s what Joe meant. E Unum Pluribus. Out of one comes many. Out of one dollar comes a hundred dollars.”
However, presumably [Joe/Jack] Reacher know Latin, and the joke seems to be that that means the same as the normal motto, or he would have written “Ex Uno Plura”. Or something (could have just been bad editing of the manuscript)
Ok I don’t think this is as obvious as say, my not realizing for years that The Borg is short for Cyborgs.
I never realized Gozer became The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. I thought she pissed off to do something in another dimension and sent the Stay Puft Man to destroy the Ghostbusters.
Only til digging into the plot of Afterlife did I find out what really happened. Anyone have the same experience?? I kinda like my wrong interp. Gozer is very busy and can’t be bothered to hang out more then a minute in this reality.
IMHO, Paper Lace was referring to Grant Park.
I was watching the GI Joe cartoon recently for nostalgia’s sake and in one of the early episodes Duke is captured and forced to fight a giant barbarian with a furry diaper and crossed straps across his chest. I completely missed this as a child, but that guy was CLEARLY meant to be a He-Man style masters of the universe action figure, down to the scale compared to the GI Joe toys. That’s a neat little detail that I completely missed as a kid that owned a ton of both of those lines.
I remember that episode. I had the Duke action figure. I didn’t have the He-Man toys, but my best friend had pretty much all of them (plus most of the G.I. Joe toys).
I somehow didn’t put that together at the time either, but now that you point it out, that really is obvious.
Because obviously, any kid who had both really did stage fights like this. Yup, checks out.
In Katnip Kollege, Johnny learns “Swingology” after hearing a metronomic ticking clock—the antithesis of a swing beat!
Another one from Bridesmaids:
Annie suggests a French theme for Lillian’s bridal shower, with "little cookies with Doug and Lillian’s name on them, and chocolate fondue . . .
The joke is that Helen steals her idea and throws this fancy, over the top party, but it wasn’t until watching yesterday I realized that she also stole the cookie and fondue idea but made them cartoonishly big with a giant cookie with couples’ names on it and the fondue is a huge chocolate garden fountain, It just adds another layer of absurdity.