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[upNdown]

People from Boston think Worcester is Western Mass. Sorry, no

It's more of a "here there be dragons" situation

 

[legend672]

People from Boston think Worcester is Western Mass. Sorry, no

People from Boston think Worcester is a shit hole anything west of that is cow country

 

[Anthony Martino]

People from Boston think Worcester is a shit hole anything west of that is cow country

They aren't wrong lol

 

[Taghkanic]

To prove how little the Boston-dominated State legislature knows about Western Mass, my father’s best friend George used to play a regular prank on them, as follows:

A friendly State Rep who was in on the joke would introduce an annual budget request (highway funding, etc.) for a fake town called Ripton, supposedly located somewhere west of Springfield... George had Town of Ripton stationery and calendars and even fly swatters printed up.

Every single time, the imaginary Ripton budget would get approved by the State politicians.

Then the Chairman of the Board of Selectmen of “Ripton” would issue a press release mocking them for not knowing anything about Western Mass.

They never learned. Next year, he’d do it again. Same result.

This finally came to an end after George got a little too adventurous and decided to try to extend Ripton’s reach.

He had read somewhere that the Department of Defense was having trouble siting some sort of transmission towers in Western Mass—nobody wanted them.

So George decided to volunteer the Town of Ripton. Ripton, its Chairman wrote on the stationery, would welcome this marvelous opportunity to serve the Nation. He added that he thought that the transmission towers could also provide suitable nesting space for the American Bald Eagle, which he said was making a comeback in Ripton.

Apparently a bunch of military brass got in a small convoy and headed out to scope out Ripton’s terrain. But of course they could not find it, spending the better part of a day driving around searching for Ripton.

They were not amused.

Eventually someone managed to track down George who professed to know nothing about it, even though the Ripton letters had been stamped using his office’s Pitney Bowes machine.

George denied any knowledge of the caper, and when confronted by a reporter about how the culprit used his postmark, George stammered, “Yes, yes, that’s the most distressing part of this whole thing...”

 

[raynmanas]

It's more of a "here there be dragons" situation

I live in "Gillette Stadium"

 

[Anthony Martino]

To prove how little the Boston-dominated State legislature knows about Western Mass, my father’s best friend George used to play a regular prank on them, as follows:

A friendly State Rep who was in on the joke would introduce an annual budget request (highway funding, etc.) for a fake town called Ripton, supposedly located somewhere west of Springfield... George had Town of Ripton stationery and calendars and even fly swatters printed up.

Every single time, the imaginary Ripton budget would get approved by the State politicians.

Then the Chairman of the Board of Selectmen of “Ripton” would issue a press release mocking them for not knowing anything about Western Mass.

They never learned. Next year, he’d do it again. Same result.

This finally came to an end after George got a little too adventurous and decided to try to extend Ripton’s reach.

He had read somewhere that the Department of Defense was having trouble siting some sort of transmission towers in Western Mass—nobody wanted them.

So George decided to volunteer the Town of Ripton. Ripton, its Chairman wrote on the stationery, would welcome this marvelous opportunity to serve the Nation. He added that he thought that the transmission towers could also provide suitable nesting space for the American Bald Eagle, which he said was making a comeback in Ripton.

Apparently a bunch of military brass got in a small convoy and headed out to scope out Ripton’s terrain. But of course they could not find it, spending the better part of a day driving around searching for Ripton.

They were not amused.

Eventually someone managed to track down George who professed to know nothing about it, even though the Ripton letters had been stamped using his office’s Pitney Bowes machine.

George denied any knowledge of the caper, and when confronted by a reporter about how the culprit used his postmark, George stammered, “Yes, yes, that’s the most distressing part of this whole thing...”

Bro that is fantastic. My sister and I just called people pretending to be a local chinese restaurant and telling them someone had bought them food and they should come pick it up

 

[jpietrella]

People from Boston think Worcester is Western Mass. Sorry, no

It so is

 

[upNdown]

To prove how little the Boston-dominated State legislature knows about Western Mass, my father’s best friend George used to play a regular prank on them, as follows:

A friendly State Rep who was in on the joke would introduce an annual budget request (highway funding, etc.) for a fake town called Ripton, supposedly located somewhere west of Springfield... George had Town of Ripton stationery and calendars and even fly swatters printed up.

Every single time, the imaginary Ripton budget would get approved by the State politicians.

Then the Chairman of the Board of Selectmen of “Ripton” would issue a press release mocking them for not knowing anything about Western Mass.

They never learned. Next year, he’d do it again. Same result.

This finally came to an end after George got a little too adventurous and decided to try to extend Ripton’s reach.

He had read somewhere that the Department of Defense was having trouble siting some sort of transmission towers in Western Mass—nobody wanted them.

So George decided to volunteer the Town of Ripton. Ripton, its Chairman wrote on the stationery, would welcome this marvelous opportunity to serve the Nation. He added that he thought that the transmission towers could also provide suitable nesting space for the American Bald Eagle, which he said was making a comeback in Ripton.

Apparently a bunch of military brass got in a small convoy and headed out to scope out Ripton’s terrain. But of course they could not find it, spending the better part of a day driving around searching for Ripton.

They were not amused.

Eventually someone managed to track down George who professed to know nothing about it, even though the Ripton letters had been stamped using his office’s Pitney Bowes machine.

George denied any knowledge of the caper, and when confronted by a reporter about how the culprit used his postmark, George stammered, “Yes, yes, that’s the most distressing part of this whole thing...”

Checks out
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripton_(fictional_town)

 

[Taghkanic]

Checks out
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripton_(fictional_town)

Mostly correct. The George mentioned in the article was not the same George who came up with the idea.

 

[Willpass]

People from Boston think Worcester is Western Mass. Sorry, no

It's not?

 

[Anthony Martino]

It's not?

Worcester is Central Mass

 

[Willpass]

so when is the next mass game?