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Hyde Park residents marvel at large gasbag

Blimp over Hyde Park

Hyde Park residents who looked up shortly before 11 p.m. got a look at a blimp puttering overhead.

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Not about the Boston City Council President nor either of two guys who are Councilors At-Large: "...residents marvel at large gasbag."

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Dapper O'Neil

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Urban legend maybe. But there's a story about Dapper O'Neil during the busing era. A social science specialist was brought in from Lincoln or Concord to speak to the city council, and delivered a lecture about exactly how the people of Boston's neighborhoods should conduct themselves during the crisis.

When the instructions were completed, Dapper took the mic and addressed the suburban "expert." Whipping off his glasses and curling his lip, he drippingly asked: "And did you have any trouble finding us, or City Hall today? And how are you finding our food here, so far from home? Is it up to your standards?"

Don't know if it's true. But it ought to be. It pretty much captured it the whole thing.

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You ain't from this town, so you can't tell me what to do.
You ain't from Dorchester, so you can't tell me what to do.
You ain't from Savin Hill, so you can't tell me what to do.
You ain't from Denny Street, so you can't tell me what to do.
You ain't from my house, so you can't tell me what to do.
You ain't me, so you can't tell me what to do.

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Urban legend, definitely. May even originally be from a movie. I've heard the same thing told for about ten different city/university combinations. At least this is a fairly pristine version of the meme - no guns or godzilla.

Kind of like that "marine attacks godless professor" meme that went around and got embellished until it was completely ridiculous.

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In the seventies, Swirls?

I was at a high school at Warren and Townsend, where they locked the doors and you couldn't leave the building in groups of less than five during the day. My sister was at Boston English on Louis Pasteur, where she averaged two or three full days of "learning" a week, for four years.

But I guess those are more memes and can be readily dismissed. Just ask anyone who wasn't actually there.

As for tribalism. OUR regional tribalism in kicking the USOC's ass on Boston2024--that was good. THEIR neighborhood tribalism in the seventies, that was bad. Is that how it works?

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It is still an urban legend, and there are still versions of it for all the major US cities.

You realize that busing was preventable - cities throughout the US had been getting smacked for screwing over their minority populations for a full decade prior to the final hammer. Some even avoided court orders by doing the right thing - too bad for you that Boston wasn't one of them.

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Can those things putter around? I saw it just around 5pm, and I'm surprised it was still out there that late.

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It was there for advertising during the game...

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Trump,is that you?

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It doesn't have a huge orange shag rug flapping loose over the top.

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