Comments on: Off-topic

By: Irvington

Irvington — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:36:51 +0000

I’ll take a look at that “dangling participle”!

By: Fremont Lifer

Fremont Lifer — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:19:49 +0000

Dude, I’m not the one dropping broad hints about who I am. You can’t dangle clues out there that imply that you’re a Council member and expect people not to bat them around. This fan-dancer routine is getting old – nobody wants to see your naughty bits anyway.

At least prior (and future?) candidate Bacon posts under his own name.

By: Swamp Squid

Swamp Squid — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:31:29 +0000

Tell me, who are you? ‘Cause I really wanna know who, who, who, who?

Holy albumin Lifer… just come to the next City Council meeting and it will be revealed. Heck, you could even bring that mob of baseball haters that ran the A’s out of Fremont with you.That’s no yoke!

P.S. Has anyone told you to watch your dangling participles?

By: Fremont Lifer

Fremont Lifer — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:45:15 +0000

Oh, yeah – I forgot “guilt obsessed”.

“Why can’t I find the word ‘perjorative’ in my dictionary?

Because it is spelled pejorative. This word does not contain the prefix per-, but is derived from the Latin word peior or pejor meaning ‘worse’.”

http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutspelling/perjorative

Come on – you know you’re dying to admit who you are or you wouldn’t have dropped so many unsolicited clues. It’s eating you up. Spill it – you’ll feel better.

By: Swamp Squid

Swamp Squid — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:25:13 +0000

Yuck yucks. I’ve got to hand it to our baseball hating buddy Lifer…Must of been quite a task wiping all the egg away to find your mouth to view that cute and demonic smile of yours this afternoon.

The guilt Lifer is burdened with has turned his brain into mush.
”Pejorative – hmmmm”…could Lifer be a grammer Nazi to boot?

By: Fremont Lifer

Fremont Lifer — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:39:05 +0000

I must thank you all for putting a smile on my face this afternoon at observing the guesses about who our pal Squiddy is. This is just too good.

A baseball and Nazi-obsessed marginal typist (“fringers”/”fingers”) who attends Council meetings and uses “bedroom community” as a pejorative – hmmmm. Plus, a fireworks enthusiast with no love for Gus. Not a real long list of possibile candidates.

By: Anon101

Anon101 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:21:59 +0000

Diaz?

By: Swamp Squid

Swamp Squid — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:40:14 +0000

No Kyle,I am not Wasserman but your getting warmer. Why won’t you fingers admit I have a point. You tossed our community under the bus and you behaved like somebody who wears brown shirts 6 days a week. For what? I would like Fremont to be a better place, a more exciting place, a place that the rest of the nation /world might come to know because we have a professional baseball team with a world class stadium. Right now we have our share of chains and no fireworks on the 4th of July. Thanks a lot Gus! Admit it you screwed up. NUMMI is history and 4,700 jobs have been lost…Bacon,Bacon,Bacon. BBox needs to go back to DTox. Yankees 3- Phillies 2.
Cheers

By: worble

worble — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:56:29 +0000

Sounds like we have acouple of winners who can’t read or see the simple facts that most of Fremont did not want this project. Like I have always said let the people of Fremont vote and these sore losers will see that this was never going to happen. Lew wolff played Fremont so he can move the team out of the bay area he knew that the ballpark would never happen in Fremont that is why he gave up. Quit sniffling about it.

By: Marty

Marty — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:18:53 +0000

“The lone beneficiaries of sports subsidies are team owners and players.”

…and the fans, general entertainment seekers, the supporting businesses and city’s reputation as a whole. Here’s a few other non-essential amenities that cities provide at a net expense:

Parks
Performing arts centers
Public amphitheaters
Softball fields
Waterslides
Museums

Using the condition that a non-essential city amenity must provide a profit, you must be against the creation of all of those. OR, the issue is that you don’t want a baseball field, plain and simple and would be more that willing to hamstring the city budget as long as the outcome meets your personal preferences. That’s fair enough, but just admit it.

And in all honesty, it was difficult to come up with six non-essential amenities in Fremont (in fact two of those barely exist). THAT speaks to the sad state of options available to our residents and is perhaps the reason why there are many who wanted the A’s.

But continue to call these people fringe, extremists etc. Maybe Lifer can correlate them to “Birthers” again, and Vinnie Bacon can thank him for the astute analysis. The FCN herd is writing the us-vs-them narrative and working overtime to divide the city on this issue.