Praising Pottstown
Category: Just Plain Silly...
Posted Friday, March 24, 2006 at 01:54 PM [GMT-6]

Jim posted a reasonably reasonable post about a quiz that purports to map your personality onto an American city...but he lost control of the whole shootin' match in the comments.

He seems to be a bit sensitive about the rendering of the name of the town (borough, burg, village, whatever) in which he resides, and I applaud his civic pride. In fact, I want to dedicate this post to Jim and his little town (which would make a good song title in itself, I think), by offering the following tribute, which was constructed by firing up the iPod in shuffle mode, taking the first ten song titles to appear, and appending his town's name (preceded by the word "in") to the title.

The Fireant Gazette's Musical Tribute To Pottstown
  • City on a Hill in Pottstown (Salvador)
  • I Say a Little Prayer in Pottstown (Diana King)
  • When Tomorrow Comes in Pottstown (Eurythmics)
  • Ain't That Love in Pottstown (Jeff & Sheri Easter)
  • Escape From Reason in Pottstown (OC Supertones)
  • I'll Lead You Home in Pottstown (Michael W. Smith)
  • Traintime in Pottstown (Cream)
  • SusieQ in Pottstown (CCR)
  • Holy, Holy, Holy in Pottstown (Various Artists)
  • She's Always a Woman to Me in Pottstown (Billy Joel)

I must admit that this made for some amusing combinations (OK, it's a slow Friday afternoon), except for the last one, which weirds me out a bit, raising all kinds of uncomfortable questions.

Technorati tags: Pottsville | | Pottswallow | Pottscicle

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ROTFLOL (with all due respect, Jim) :-)

Isn't that first one a little oxymoronic?

I agree, that last one creeps me out a little too, but then so does the Piano Man himself.

Posted by: Gwynne at March 24, 2006 02:31 PM

BTW, it seems the link to Jim's site is "broken" (the first link).

Posted by: Gwynne at March 24, 2006 02:41 PM

<bradybratvoice>Jim, Jim, Jim. That's all we ever hear. It's always ALL about Jim, isn't it?</bradybratvoice>

It's fixed.

;-)

Posted by: Eric at March 24, 2006 02:48 PM

How about 25 or 6 to Pottstown... oops, wrong post.

Posted by: Jim at March 24, 2006 02:50 PM

How about that other song from Billy Joel ... about how, "we're living here in Pottstown, till they started tearing factories down" ... I'm sure Jim's neighbors, over in Lehigh County, wouldn't mind ...

8-)

Posted by: Jeff at March 24, 2006 04:22 PM

Unrelated, except in the neighborhood sense of this post, I've finally set up shop just down the street from you. I invite you to come visit when you have a minute. :-)

Posted by: Gwynne at March 25, 2006 01:16 AM

Heh. See? I think I need help with my url linky thingy. ;-)

Posted by: Gwynne at March 25, 2006 01:20 AM

giggle

Posted by: ern at March 27, 2006 08:37 PM
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