Authentic Philly?

"Kraig Willett" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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In getting revved up for Philly week next month, the following Jack

in the

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Box ad running in Southern California caught my eye (sound clip of

the ad

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can be heard at:

tinyurl.combgeqOpen ↗

In it, Jack asks his clean-cut suit wearin' employee Kevin to go

check out

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Philly. After "soakin' up Philly like a sponge", Kevin comes back

sportin'

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a mullet, some gold chains, and a sweat suit.

Appararently, the ad [censored] a few native Philadelphians:

Hell yes, those were the moderates. You ought to see the radicals like that dorky little Palachick
with the shaved head who like to call himself Ronde Champ.

Kraig Willett said:

Appararently, the ad [censored] a few native Philadelphians: tinyurl.combgeyOpen ↗ Since we have
some Philly locals here on rbr, I figured I would solicit their thoughts. So, do all you guys like
mullets, sweat suits and do you really "soak up things like a sponge"?

Yah, pretty much. Nothing could be more Philadelphian than getting [censored] over a commercial
about Philadelphia. I dunno about the sponge thing though. It's more like "soak up Philadelphia like
a greasy napkin on the sidewalk outside Geno's Steaks at 3 in the morning." But that would point out
that Philadelphia has Geno's Steaks while Jack in the E-Coli Box, has, well, Jack in the Box. (I
grant that Socal has In-N-Out Burger which is of an entirely different quality.)

When I lived in the Philly burbs in the late 80s the demographic most likely to shout "[censored]" out
the window or buzz you off the road was mullet-sporters driving Blazers or Broncos. That may have
been true everywhere in the late 80s though. I fondly remember passing a hair-metal music shop on
the R3 train line (Secane? Lansdowne?) with a bigger display of spandex than guitars and a huge
sign, "WE SELL ROCK CLOTHES." The spandex does make you wonder why the mullet crowd was shouting
"[censored]" at cyclists...

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Who will win the jersey at CoreStates? From this far out, I'll have to go with Clinger.

Tony Cruz. Then USPS doesn't renew his contract.