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Andy M-S
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 3377
Location: Hamden (greater New Haven) CT3/1/13 8:00 AM |
Nutmeggers will Understand...
My new jersey. I swear, sometimes instead of calling out "HOLE!" on group rides, I just sigh "Connecticut."
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dan emery
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 6894
Location: Maine3/1/13 8:30 AM |
nice
Nice retro styling - wool?
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Andy M-S
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 3377
Location: Hamden (greater New Haven) CT3/1/13 8:45 AM |
Wool.
Yep. I thought the retrostyle lettering (it reminds me of the Paris metro) would look good when I was riding my pseudo-retro randonneur.
There was an outfit in Oregon getting rid of last year's design for relatively cheap, so I decided to have it custom-embroidered. It's really more blue but it photographs lavender.
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JohnC
Joined: 10 Jan 2004
Posts: 1939
Location: Glastonbury, Ct3/1/13 11:30 AM |
Pretty. Shows up as a nice blue on my monitor.
I hesitate to reveal this to you, lest you feel even worse, but the statement isn't true everywhere in the state. Up here in the part of the river valley and adjacent uplands where I live and ride, the roads are pretty damn good.
So, sorry about that.
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Andy M-S
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 3377
Location: Hamden (greater New Haven) CT3/1/13 11:35 AM |
That's what I get
for living in Hamden! Or as we like to say here, "lesser New Haven."
I haven't been too much in your section of the state, I will admit. I did the Hole-in-the-Wall ride a few years ago, though, and while it wasn't as bad as things down this way, compared to my old stomping ground (Wisconsin), it was not great.
Of course, Tommy Thompson's highway funding had a great deal to do with the roads in WI...
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Pat Clancy
Joined: 13 Jan 2004
Posts: 1353
Location: Manchester, CT3/1/13 12:17 PM |
Potholes
If meteorologists drew a frequency chart of freeze/thaw cycles for the Land of Steady Habits, Hamden would probably be at the top. A little closer to the coast and there are fewer freezes. Further north, there are fewer thaws. Your town wins the "perfect conditions for creating potholes" prize.
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Andy M-S
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 3377
Location: Hamden (greater New Haven) CT3/1/13 12:22 PM |
Maybe.
It's hard to tell because we're so close, but I think New Haven
may
have us beat.
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lrzipris
Joined: 04 Mar 2004
Posts: 532
Location: Doylestown, PA3/1/13 12:29 PM |
A Contested Title
I was just thinking this morning, on my ride, how the roads around here--outside of Philadelphia--have gotten so much worse in the last 10-12 years, and there is, apparently, neither money nor inclination to keep repairing them.
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19092
Location: PDX3/1/13 12:58 PM |
'Nutmeggers', had too look that one up..
The 'new Jersey' reference confused me a little. ;)
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Andy M-S
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 3377
Location: Hamden (greater New Haven) CT3/1/13 1:06 PM |
Sparky, Sparky
That's what capitalisation is for!
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JohnC
Joined: 10 Jan 2004
Posts: 1939
Location: Glastonbury, Ct3/1/13 1:22 PM |
"Nutmeggers"
It's kind of charming that the semi-official nickname for residents here glorifies the fraudulent "Yankee Trader." Reminds us newcomers (I'm here 23 years, but you're a newcomer if your grandparents didn't live here) to be a little wary.
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19092
Location: PDX3/1/13 2:51 PM |
I know Andy, I fudged the joke a little. But I am from new Jersey after all...
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Andy M-S
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 3377
Location: Hamden (greater New Haven) CT3/1/13 3:08 PM |
Yeh, yeh.
But you
pronounced
it wrong!
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