So I'm going to Boston next week, any advice? |
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So I'm going to Boston next week, any advice? |
 Apr 19 2004, 05:18 PM
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Yeah I'm going on a school trip to Boston/Salem from Friday the 30th to sunday, and our weekend is pretty much booked with museums and stuff but friday and saturday night they'll drop us off af quincy market and we'll be free to go wherever we want for 3 hours each night or so, are there any cool places I should visit/shop at?
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Apr 19 2004, 05:19 PM
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Has a weird obsession with Barry Goldwater Group: Members Posts: 13,046 Joined: 10-March 02 From: Wisconsin Member No.: 1,615 |
Drink Guinness
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Apr 19 2004, 05:20 PM
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CHOWDAH!!!
NOMAH!!!!!!! |
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Apr 19 2004, 05:22 PM
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The Punch That Missed Group: Members Posts: 9,881 Joined: 3-February 02 From: Providence, Rhode Island Member No.: 293 |
Hit up the Cactus Club on Boylston Street if you want good, plentiful amounts of food for reasonable prices.
Don't go to Cheers.....it's ridiculously expensive food and it sucks. Try a Duck Tour, which is a land and sea tour of downtown. |
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| Guest_FrigidSoul_* |
Apr 19 2004, 05:31 PM
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Hire me to show you around.
If you go on the Duck Tours they make you Quack and you look like a fool to the rest of Boston. |
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Apr 19 2004, 07:47 PM
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Zip it, lock it, put the key in your pocket. Group: OAOAST Mods Posts: 7,972 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Anderson, IN Member No.: 1,502 |
Wear Aaron Boone's jersey.
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Apr 20 2004, 10:14 AM
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The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked Group: Members Posts: 6,405 Joined: 19-February 02 From: I'm a Masshole, obviously Member No.: 1,206 |
Since it's a school thing, I'm presuming that you're not old enough to drink ... so that takes bars out of the equation. I'd either go to Harvard Square or to Newbury & Boylston Streets.
To get to Harvard Square take green line inbound to Park ST, then red line outbound to Harvard. Or just walk from Faneuil Hall to the Park street T-stop and take the T from there. Tons of good stores (especially record stores) and a shit load of people to gawk at. I'd recommend walking to Newbury St, through the Commons and parks and whatnot. Less shopping to do there (things are wicked expensive) but there's tons of hot Euro folks to leer at while they overspend at the stores there. Skip the Duck tour and the Freedom Trail, not worth the effort. |
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Apr 20 2004, 11:01 AM
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Zack <3's Kelly Group: OAOAST Mods Posts: 13,114 Joined: 12-February 02 Member No.: 634 |
Have a Canadiens jersey on.
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Apr 20 2004, 12:10 PM
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close to touch like michelangelo Group: Members Posts: 13,633 Joined: 18-March 02 From: Charleston, SC Member No.: 1,643 |
Go take a steaming dump on the doorstep of a girl I know there. I'll send you her address if you want.
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Apr 20 2004, 12:18 PM
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The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked Group: Members Posts: 6,405 Joined: 19-February 02 From: I'm a Masshole, obviously Member No.: 1,206 |
Kotz, I live here ... I'll do it for you sometime. Let me get drunk enough, and consider it done.
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Apr 20 2004, 12:22 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 1,134 Joined: 13-February 02 From: Massachusetts Member No.: 708 |
yeah, Harvard square is nice. Just walk around, there's tons of places.
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| Guest_FrigidSoul_* |
Apr 20 2004, 01:48 PM
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QUOTE(Zack Malibu @ Apr 20 2004, 04:42 PM) Have a Canadiens jersey on. ....I hate you |
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Apr 21 2004, 12:23 AM
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close to touch like michelangelo Group: Members Posts: 13,633 Joined: 18-March 02 From: Charleston, SC Member No.: 1,643 |
QUOTE(nl5xsk1 @ Apr 20 2004, 01:59 PM) Kotz, I live here ... I'll do it for you sometime. Let me get drunk enough, and consider it done. If you're serious, you're my new hero. |
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| Guest_Man Of 1,004 Modes_* |
Apr 21 2004, 01:15 AM
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Wear a Yankees uniform, possibly with an Alex Rodriguez jersey.
Hit anyone wearing a Red Sox cap with a lead pipe. Bomb Fenway Park.... Sorry, Yankee fan here. Fuck Boston. I'd rather move to Cuba and live under the regime of Castro. |
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| Guest_Agent of Oblivion_* |
Apr 21 2004, 04:05 AM
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You could go wander around that giant fuckin' construction site that's supposed to put an entire interstate underground. Are they still building that shit?
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Apr 21 2004, 07:29 AM
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The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked Group: Members Posts: 6,405 Joined: 19-February 02 From: I'm a Masshole, obviously Member No.: 1,206 |
Yep, the Big Dig is still ongoing. A bunch of the tunnels have opened up already, and while I haven't driven through much, the little that I've used it has been good. Will it be worth the billions of dollars and years of headaches? I doubt it. But when all is said and done, it'll be pretty cool to have parks and open space where there's been highways my entire life.
And mark my words, other cities will steal the idea and build their own underground roadways. |
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Apr 21 2004, 12:26 PM
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QUOTE(Man Of 1 @ 004 Modes,Apr 21 2004, 06:56 AM) Sorry, Yankee fan here. Fuck Boston. I'd rather move to Cuba and live under the regime of Castro. I speak for all Americans when I say we'd rather you moved to Cuba too. FleetCenter on select days also has a tour of their mini Celtics museum. Unfortunately the past two times I went they were closed. |
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Apr 21 2004, 06:13 PM
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Zip it, lock it, put the key in your pocket. Group: OAOAST Mods Posts: 7,972 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Anderson, IN Member No.: 1,502 |
QUOTE(Man Of 1 @ 004 Modes,Apr 21 2004, 01:56 AM) Sorry, Yankee fan here. And I'm sure they'd be proud to have you after those remarks, fuckbucket. I was obviously joking about my Aaron Boone remark. Fucking dingleberry. |
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Apr 21 2004, 07:35 PM
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What do you expect Mother? I’m half-machine! I’m a MONSTER Group: Members Posts: 5,001 Joined: 19-February 02 Member No.: 1,155 |
QUOTE(alfdogg @ Apr 21 2004, 07:54 PM) Fucking dingleberry. Fucking dingleberry? Hey, that gives me an idea for a new sitcom, "The Fucking Dingleberries". Starring: Horatio Sanz as Jack Dingleberry Margaret Cho is Diane Dingleberry and that dog from As Good As It Gets as the family dog |
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Apr 21 2004, 07:52 PM
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QUOTE(Man Of 1 @ 004 Modes,Apr 21 2004, 02:56 AM) Fuck Boston. FUCK NEW YORK!!! |
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Apr 21 2004, 07:54 PM
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What do you expect Mother? I’m half-machine! I’m a MONSTER Group: Members Posts: 5,001 Joined: 19-February 02 Member No.: 1,155 |
QUOTE(fearmosaicphilosophy @ Apr 21 2004, 09:33 PM) QUOTE(Man Of 1 @ 004 Modes,Apr 21 2004, 02:56 AM) Fuck Boston. FUCK NEW YORK!!! Fuck you. Fuck Boston. Fuck all of New England! |
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| Guest_FrigidSoul_* |
Apr 21 2004, 07:56 PM
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Don't you make me punch you in the face
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Apr 21 2004, 08:16 PM
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QUOTE(alfdogg @ Apr 21 2004, 06:54 PM) QUOTE(Man Of 1 @ 004 Modes,Apr 21 2004, 01:56 AM) Sorry, Yankee fan here. And I'm sure they'd be proud to have you after those remarks, fuckbucket. I was obviously joking about my Aaron Boone remark. Fucking dingleberry. That made....no sense. Yankees >>>>>>> Red Sox |
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Apr 22 2004, 06:35 AM
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Zip it, lock it, put the key in your pocket. Group: OAOAST Mods Posts: 7,972 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Anderson, IN Member No.: 1,502 |
Is that supposed to offend me somehow?
I'm not even from Boston. I just think it's quite immature to say something of that nature over BASEBALL. |
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Apr 22 2004, 06:48 AM
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The entire east coast sucks ass and everyone knows it. Have a hurricane. How about a blizzard? Mix in some traffic and rude-ass pedestrians and vendors and you've got a party.
QUOTE And mark my words, other cities will steal the idea and build their own underground roadways. They strike me as being a good idea and a bad idea at the same time. Reduce noise and pollution in the neighborhood, keeps kids out of traffic, builds some new parks, and frees up land.. that's alright. Now, what if some fuel tanker jacknifes down there and turns the whole mess into an oven? Do they run miles of sprinklers underground too? The civil engineering that would go into something like that has to be nuts. Also, isn't Boston notorious for having a high water table and awful sewers? Hate to think what that tunnel's going to smell like after years of car exhaust, storm sewers, bums, etc. |
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May 3 2004, 08:32 AM
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The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked Group: Members Posts: 6,405 Joined: 19-February 02 From: I'm a Masshole, obviously Member No.: 1,206 |
So, what'd you do while in Boston, then?
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May 3 2004, 08:45 AM
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Eat at "Dick's Last Resort!"
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May 3 2004, 02:07 PM
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Office Glen Group: Members Posts: 9,113 Joined: 31-January 02 From: Brockville, Ontario Member No.: 141 |
My brother's going to Boston this weekend on a school trip and his class has box seats along the 3rd baseline to the Sox/Royals game at Fenway on Friday night and there are people who are complaining about having to go to a baseball game. So, yeah, people are retarded.
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May 3 2004, 02:23 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 707 Joined: 31-January 02 Member No.: 125 |
It was AWESOME, the school had selected like the 4 coolest teachers to come with us, and pretty much all we did was quite fun, Science museum, Harvard, Cambridge, Duck tour (which was surprisingly fun), Omnimax and a bunch of other stuff. The view from the top of Prudential tower is breathtaking especially for Fenway Park and the airport. Plus the food was really amazing (look at the food thread for more details). Salem was really fun too, lots of cool little shops there and a GREAT seafood reataurant (Finz).
Also, Bostonians are the most polite, courteous people I've ever had to deal with, everywhere we went we were treated very well. One thing that surprised me is that on a friday night, during rush hour in the very center of the city, drivers stop to let one person cross the street, I was truly surprised 'cause never in a LIFETIME would you see this in Quebec. Really I was impressed, and I'm likely going back this summer with my friends because there's tons of interesting stuff we've had to skip due to a lack of time. The Boston/Cambridge/Salem trip gets ****¾ from me. |
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May 3 2004, 03:52 PM
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The boss Group: Members Posts: 6,637 Joined: 18-February 02 From: Syracuse, NY Member No.: 871 |
Never rate real life experiences with star ratings.
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