Comments on: Beantown… or Whinetown? http://www.oscargamblesociety.com/beantown-or-whinetown/ People don't think it be like it is, but it do. Sun, 20 May 2012 07:00:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: Cliffy http://www.oscargamblesociety.com/beantown-or-whinetown/#comment-1154 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:51:07 +0000 http://www.oscargamblesociety.com/beantown-or-whinetown/#comment-1154 Playing exhibition games on their barnstorming tour through the minor leagues of basketball playing the Knickerbockers (who are apparently finally ready to cut ties with Isiah Thomas, now that as GM and coach, his team has produced a franchise-record 59 losses this past season). But the Celtics play in the New Gah-den... as the Original Gah-den has been torn down and replaced, and only recently have the Celtics begun to play like the past denizens of the Old Gah-den used to. It's all in the pronunciation: Your haughty ilk sound like British royalty, "Good man, it is pronounced Garden... indubitably." The rest of us regular folk identify the actual shrine to sports stadia, the Gah-den. Playing exhibition games on their barnstorming tour through the minor leagues of basketball playing the Knickerbockers (who are apparently finally ready to cut ties with Isiah Thomas, now that as GM and coach, his team has produced a franchise-record 59 losses this past season).

But the Celtics play in the New Gah-den… as the Original Gah-den has been torn down and replaced, and only recently have the Celtics begun to play like the past denizens of the Old Gah-den used to.

It’s all in the pronunciation: Your haughty ilk sound like British royalty, “Good man, it is pronounced Garden… indubitably.” The rest of us regular folk identify the actual shrine to sports stadia, the Gah-den.

]]> by: Tank http://www.oscargamblesociety.com/beantown-or-whinetown/#comment-1152 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:39:51 +0000 http://www.oscargamblesociety.com/beantown-or-whinetown/#comment-1152 That's odd. The Garden is in Manhattan. The Rangers play there regularly, as does some CBA or other minor-league basketball squad if memory serves. What on Earth would the Celtics be doing there? That’s odd. The Garden is in Manhattan. The Rangers play there regularly, as does some CBA or other minor-league basketball squad if memory serves. What on Earth would the Celtics be doing there?

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