"Guest" wrote:
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> "Kevin Napolillo" <bruinsfan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <mailto:bruinsfan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> wrote in message
> news:BD7B8F78.FD8C%bruinsfan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On 9/25/04 7:35 PM, in article
> Jgn5d.505$Rf1.304@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
""Guest""
> <n0gar@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> That is socially speaking? We know it is historically, but
> socially in the present reality, I don't see it. At least not
> in New Haven and Fairfield counties. Up north and east maybe.
> I know one thing, I am sick and tired of the so-called local CT
> news acting like they serve the whole state when all they talk
> about is New England. They try to shut out all things NYC and
> tri-state. I have written to them quite a bit on this as I want
> them to change their ways and get down with the program.
>
> The New England thing sucks. New England sucks. NE is poor
> also. If it were not for CT no one would think of NE as
> wealthy. We (in the 203) have no connection with Boston or MA.
> That is a Hartford obsession. We hate Red Sox, Bruins, Celtics
> and Patriots(I like the uniforms and I respect their skills
> though). We are NY all the way. I put this in a NE group to
> express this to you people so that when you roll through CT on
> your way to the city (NYC, not corny Boston), you will know that
> we are down with the city and not Boston and NE.
>
> Everytime I see a MA person (rare in the 203), I say "oh, you're
> from up in the New England area..." They must agree as they
> almost always say yes. Very few say "CT is New England too."
> When they do, I tell them where do you see it? What is NE? No
> Red Sox down here. One guy replied to me like that and I told
> him that this is (what it is) the NY area. He said, "oh, I
> forgot this is the NY part of New England.!" I said whatever,
> as long as you recognize.
>
> When one thinks of New England, Boston comes to mind first,
> then MA, then RI and the other states. One does no typically
> think CT unless they are not from the east coast originally.
>
> If anyone finds this divide interesting, I will be glad to post
> my letters to the so-called CT stations. It seems as if News12
> is the only true CT news without the New England focus and it's
> proper NY,NJ and CT focus and our place there. If any CT people
> truly feel NE, I want to hear it. Now if you are from the 860,
> it may not be as shocking in the areas around RI and MA.
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>
> WOW, nice to see that you have drugs there in the”203”.
>
> What a very insightful reply... It tells me a lot.
Insightful?
you have cross-posted this tirade to a hockey newsgroup, and I am
supposed to be insightful. What does this have to do with the Boston
Bruins? It was in this context that my un-insightful reply was created.
Please keep you geopolitical rants confined in appropriated newsgroups.
Kevin
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