PHILLY (Loosely Related to The Philadelphia Phillies)

F Me In The Brain

^^^ With that warning I will dodge on a Monday AM. 

Seriously, though, too raw a nerve still to be thinking too much about it.  Was at a party yesterday and my wife was wearing a TOTD shirt, which lead to someone asking her about it and her looping me in as a Pearl Jam nutter and this small group wanted to talk about it.  I corrected a few items and excused myself from the conversation.  Read no articles about it and had to shut off both Singles and Audioslave at different points this weekend.  Just didn't want to dwell too much and get bummed out.  Want to try and get there but I start thinking about his family and it stirs strong emotions.

Looks like I may only go to Sunday's Reds/Phillies game.  Still dicking around on tickets for Friday. 
Arroyo/Nola.  Would likely see a bunch of homers from Phils and see what Nola has going on. 
Sunday it is Shit vs Shit so should see lots of hitting.
Cock-ass weather doesn't look good this week, however.

 

Cliffy6745

The Italian Market festival is the best.  Just a big group of all different types of people with awesome food and all.  Beautiful day for it yesterday too.

F Me In The Brain

Cliffy6745 said:

The Italian Market festival is the best.  Just a big group of all different types of people with awesome food and all.  Beautiful day for it yesterday too.

My wife mentioned that but we had other shit we had to do this weekend.

Jearlpam0925

Cliffy6745 said:

The Italian Market festival is the best.  Just a big group of all different types of people with awesome food and all.  Beautiful day for it yesterday too.

Couldn't make it down this year; had some shit to do then dinner at Noord. Anyone get all the way up the grease pole?

Cliffy6745

Jearlpam0925 said:

Cliffy6745 said:

The Italian Market festival is the best.  Just a big group of all different types of people with awesome food and all.  Beautiful day for it yesterday too.

Couldn't make it down this year; had some shit to do then dinner at Noord. Anyone get all the way up the grease pole?

Actually didn't make it to the grease pole but from what I understand no. Wasn't going on when we walked by then above Washington looked like a zoo when it was happening.

great time overall though. Definitely my favorite spring festival in the city

how was noord? Good spot right?

F Me In The Brain

My wife's uncle talked up Nick's for Roast Beef yesterday when we were at a party together.  He was a butcher and he generally knows about such things.

Any insight?

Looks like it goes on the list of shit to try soon.

Cliffy6745

F Me In The Brain said:

My wife's uncle talked up Nick's for Roast Beef yesterday when we were at a party together.  He was a butcher and he generally knows about such things.

Any insight?

Looks like it goes on the list of shit to try soon.

I have only been once after my work did a volunteer day at a school right by it, but I remember it being good and cheap beers.

Jearlpam0925

Cliffy6745 said:

Jearlpam0925 said:

Cliffy6745 said:

The Italian Market festival is the best.  Just a big group of all different types of people with awesome food and all.  Beautiful day for it yesterday too.

Couldn't make it down this year; had some shit to do then dinner at Noord. Anyone get all the way up the grease pole?

Actually didn't make it to the grease pole but from what I understand no. Wasn't going on when we walked by then above Washington looked like a zoo when it was happening.

great time overall though. Definitely my favorite spring festival in the city

how was noord? Good spot right?

Yeah, I assume those idiots will never get to the top.

Yeah, man, Noord is the shit. Waiter/chef were awesome and gave us an extra app of the soft shell crabs and free dessert. Pretty friggin awesome.

F Me In The Brain said:

My wife's uncle talked up Nick's for Roast Beef yesterday when we were at a party together.  He was a butcher and he generally knows about such things.

Any insight?

Looks like it goes on the list of shit to try soon.

Are we talking Nick's up at 20th & Jackson? Good stuff, but I personally am not blown away by roast beef sandwiches. I just always equate them with beef & beers (which, I also didn't know until fairly recently is a local colloquialism - also known to some of us as Delco insurance, or Irish life insurance).

F Me In The Brain

Irish Life Insurance. 

Yes, same place, thanks!

Cliffy6745

Jearlpam0925 said:

Cliffy6745 said:

Jearlpam0925 said:

Cliffy6745 said:

The Italian Market festival is the best.  Just a big group of all different types of people with awesome food and all.  Beautiful day for it yesterday too.

Couldn't make it down this year; had some shit to do then dinner at Noord. Anyone get all the way up the grease pole?

Actually didn't make it to the grease pole but from what I understand no. Wasn't going on when we walked by then above Washington looked like a zoo when it was happening.

great time overall though. Definitely my favorite spring festival in the city

how was noord? Good spot right?

Yeah, I assume those idiots will never get to the top.

Yeah, man, Noord is the shit. Waiter/chef were awesome and gave us an extra app of the soft shell crabs and free dessert. Pretty friggin awesome.

F Me In The Brain said:

My wife's uncle talked up Nick's for Roast Beef yesterday when we were at a party together.  He was a butcher and he generally knows about such things.

Any insight?

Looks like it goes on the list of shit to try soon.

Are we talking Nick's up at 20th & Jackson? Good stuff, but I personally am not blown away by roast beef sandwiches. I just always equate them with beef & beers (which, I also didn't know until fairly recently is a local colloquialism - also known to some of us as Delco insurance, or Irish life insurance).

I have not been to a beef and beer in a while, but goodness, what a Philly thing.  On one hand, good on philly for supporting friends and family in times of need, on the other hand, what in the hell?  Roast beef, ziti and miller light kegs in a school/church gym with a DJ playing the same dozen songs over and over.

pjhawks

Cliffy6745 said:

Jearlpam0925 said:

Cliffy6745 said:

Jearlpam0925 said:

Cliffy6745 said:

The Italian Market festival is the best.  Just a big group of all different types of people with awesome food and all.  Beautiful day for it yesterday too.

Couldn't make it down this year; had some shit to do then dinner at Noord. Anyone get all the way up the grease pole?

Actually didn't make it to the grease pole but from what I understand no. Wasn't going on when we walked by then above Washington looked like a zoo when it was happening.

great time overall though. Definitely my favorite spring festival in the city

how was noord? Good spot right?

Yeah, I assume those idiots will never get to the top.

Yeah, man, Noord is the shit. Waiter/chef were awesome and gave us an extra app of the soft shell crabs and free dessert. Pretty friggin awesome.

F Me In The Brain said:

My wife's uncle talked up Nick's for Roast Beef yesterday when we were at a party together.  He was a butcher and he generally knows about such things.

Any insight?

Looks like it goes on the list of shit to try soon.

Are we talking Nick's up at 20th & Jackson? Good stuff, but I personally am not blown away by roast beef sandwiches. I just always equate them with beef & beers (which, I also didn't know until fairly recently is a local colloquialism - also known to some of us as Delco insurance, or Irish life insurance).

I have not been to a beef and beer in a while, but goodness, what a Philly thing.  On one hand, good on philly for supporting friends and family in times of need, on the other hand, what in the hell?  Roast beef, ziti and miller light kegs in a school/church gym with a DJ playing the same dozen songs over and over.

so funny but so true about beef and beers.  

F Me In The Brain

F Me In The Brain said:

Irish Life Insurance. 

The funniest thing I read yesterday.
I was driving after work and drove past a firehouse where I attended a Beef & Beer, and just started cracking the fuck up.

I will also point out that my wife and I Ubered there and seemingly half of the people in attendance drank a fuckload and drove home.  From a charity fundraiser at a firehouse where an EMT-mobile was parked right out front.  Being in Cherry Hill nobody was walking or taking public transport. 
Crazy how accepted getting behind the wheel when you are tuned up still is.  #dumb

Jearlpam0925

Clifton Heights Fire Hall, beef & beer, rip-off cover band of The Beatles playing at ear-bleeding levels. Fucking Delco as all get out. What I'm trying to say is - my kinda shit.

A nice sight as well is of a wedding reception, at a fire hall, where the bride is outside having her 30th smoke and hocking loogies on the ground. This is usually right before the groom is going to fight somebody, anybody....What the fuck are you looking at? Oh, yes, it gets me all nostalgic just thinking about it.

We had a beef and beer before just so our friends could afford their fucking shore house. Christ.

And if you don't live directly in the middle of the city I'm 99.99999% certain EVERYONE in the Philly area drives drunk all the time....and plays it off as, "Eh, I just had a couple-a beers." When in fact they had a shit ton of Buds and Jacquin's Rock & Rye (bonus points for Rumple Minze) - all the while stuffing a jukebox with Yes and Genesis songs  to get "their money's worth" (the looonnnnng fucking songs, which they will uppercut you if you bring up that Phil Collins bullshit) as it's all consumed in a hammer-ass corner dive bar in Essington and now they have to drive all the fuck the way home to Drexel Hill.

F Me In The Brain

Jearlpam0925 said:

Clifton Heights Fire Hall, beef & beer, rip-off cover band of The Beatles playing at ear-bleeding levels. Fucking Delco as all get out. What I'm trying to say is - my kinda shit.

A nice sight as well is of a wedding reception, at a fire hall, where the bride is outside having her 30th smoke and hocking loogies on the ground. This is usually right before the groom is going to fight somebody, anybody....What the fuck are you looking at? Oh, yes, it gets me all nostalgic just thinking about it.

We had a beef and beer before just so our friends could afford their fucking shore house. Christ.

And if you don't live directly in the middle of the city I'm 99.99999% certain EVERYONE in the Philly area drives drunk all the time....and plays it off as, "Eh, I just had a couple-a beers." When in fact they had a shit ton of Buds and Jacquin's Rock & Rye (bonus points for Rumple Minze) - all the while stuffing a jukebox with Yes and Genesis songs  to get "their money's worth" (the looonnnnng fucking songs, which they will uppercut you if you bring up that Phil Collins bullshit) as it's all consumed in a hammer-ass corner dive bar in Essington and now they have to drive all the fuck the way home to Drexel Hill.

Dude, that is classic.

pjhawks

Jearlpam0925 said:

Clifton Heights Fire Hall, beef & beer, rip-off cover band of The Beatles playing at ear-bleeding levels. Fucking Delco as all get out. What I'm trying to say is - my kinda shit.

A nice sight as well is of a wedding reception, at a fire hall, where the bride is outside having her 30th smoke and hocking loogies on the ground. This is usually right before the groom is going to fight somebody, anybody....What the fuck are you looking at? Oh, yes, it gets me all nostalgic just thinking about it.

We had a beef and beer before just so our friends could afford their fucking shore house. Christ.

And if you don't live directly in the middle of the city I'm 99.99999% certain EVERYONE in the Philly area drives drunk all the time....and plays it off as, "Eh, I just had a couple-a beers." When in fact they had a shit ton of Buds and Jacquin's Rock & Rye (bonus points for Rumple Minze) - all the while stuffing a jukebox with Yes and Genesis songs  to get "their money's worth" (the looonnnnng fucking songs, which they will uppercut you if you bring up that Phil Collins bullshit) as it's all consumed in a hammer-ass corner dive bar in Essington and now they have to drive all the fuck the way home to Drexel Hill.

this is pretty damn funny but so spot on.  Although I think those Yes and Genesis long songs are awesome ("it's one o'clock and time for lunch...dum de dum dum" - bonus points for getting that one!).   you haven't lived until you've attended a beef and beef fundraiser where you have to buy raffle tickets and put them  in buckets for prizes you don't really want.  I think i have a Peter Forsberg jersey tucked away somewhere that i won at one of these fuckers.  

F Me In The Brain

pjhawks said:

Jearlpam0925 said:

Clifton Heights Fire Hall, beef & beer, rip-off cover band of The Beatles playing at ear-bleeding levels. Fucking Delco as all get out. What I'm trying to say is - my kinda shit.

A nice sight as well is of a wedding reception, at a fire hall, where the bride is outside having her 30th smoke and hocking loogies on the ground. This is usually right before the groom is going to fight somebody, anybody....What the fuck are you looking at? Oh, yes, it gets me all nostalgic just thinking about it.

We had a beef and beer before just so our friends could afford their fucking shore house. Christ.

And if you don't live directly in the middle of the city I'm 99.99999% certain EVERYONE in the Philly area drives drunk all the time....and plays it off as, "Eh, I just had a couple-a beers." When in fact they had a shit ton of Buds and Jacquin's Rock & Rye (bonus points for Rumple Minze) - all the while stuffing a jukebox with Yes and Genesis songs  to get "their money's worth" (the looonnnnng fucking songs, which they will uppercut you if you bring up that Phil Collins bullshit) as it's all consumed in a hammer-ass corner dive bar in Essington and now they have to drive all the fuck the way home to Drexel Hill.

this is pretty damn funny but so spot on.  Although I think those Yes and Genesis long songs are awesome ("it's one o'clock and time for lunch...dum de dum dum" - bonus points for getting that one!).   you haven't lived until you've attended a beef and beef fundraiser where you have to buy raffle tickets and put them  in buckets for prizes you don't really want.  I think i have a Peter Forsberg jersey tucked away somewhere that i won at one of these fuckers.  

I like those stupid baskets because I can give my wife 50 bucks and she is gone for an hour while I drink beers with the boys. 
Agree that anything we ever won was pretty much crap.
Even a collection of gift cars that we won last year sits unused. 

Jearlpam0925

F Me In The Brain said:

pjhawks said:

Jearlpam0925 said:

Clifton Heights Fire Hall, beef & beer, rip-off cover band of The Beatles playing at ear-bleeding levels. Fucking Delco as all get out. What I'm trying to say is - my kinda shit.

A nice sight as well is of a wedding reception, at a fire hall, where the bride is outside having her 30th smoke and hocking loogies on the ground. This is usually right before the groom is going to fight somebody, anybody....What the fuck are you looking at? Oh, yes, it gets me all nostalgic just thinking about it.

We had a beef and beer before just so our friends could afford their fucking shore house. Christ.

And if you don't live directly in the middle of the city I'm 99.99999% certain EVERYONE in the Philly area drives drunk all the time....and plays it off as, "Eh, I just had a couple-a beers." When in fact they had a shit ton of Buds and Jacquin's Rock & Rye (bonus points for Rumple Minze) - all the while stuffing a jukebox with Yes and Genesis songs  to get "their money's worth" (the looonnnnng fucking songs, which they will uppercut you if you bring up that Phil Collins bullshit) as it's all consumed in a hammer-ass corner dive bar in Essington and now they have to drive all the fuck the way home to Drexel Hill.

this is pretty damn funny but so spot on.  Although I think those Yes and Genesis long songs are awesome ("it's one o'clock and time for lunch...dum de dum dum" - bonus points for getting that one!).   you haven't lived until you've attended a beef and beef fundraiser where you have to buy raffle tickets and put them  in buckets for prizes you don't really want.  I think i have a Peter Forsberg jersey tucked away somewhere that i won at one of these fuckers.  

I like those stupid baskets because I can give my wife 50 bucks and she is gone for an hour while I drink beers with the boys. 
Agree that anything we ever won was pretty much crap.
Even a collection of gift cars that we won last year sits unused. 

The best Beef & Beer Raffle gift = The Basket Of Cheer (also a term I think only limited to the Philly area), which - I'm sure you're all aware - is just a gigantic basket full of handles of liquor. Nothing like getting pulled over after a beef & beer where you've been pounding all alcohol in sight to have the cop see a basket of booze in the back (WHICH HAS ALREADY BEEN TAPPED INTO ON THE RIDE HOME MIND YOU BECAUSE FTW I WON MOTHERFUCKER).

And if you win the cash in a 50/50 you better put your half of the 50/50 back in the fucking pot, man. It's for the fucking kids ya pieceashit.

pjhawks

Jearlpam0925 said:

F Me In The Brain said:

pjhawks said:

Jearlpam0925 said:

Clifton Heights Fire Hall, beef & beer, rip-off cover band of The Beatles playing at ear-bleeding levels. Fucking Delco as all get out. What I'm trying to say is - my kinda shit.

A nice sight as well is of a wedding reception, at a fire hall, where the bride is outside having her 30th smoke and hocking loogies on the ground. This is usually right before the groom is going to fight somebody, anybody....What the fuck are you looking at? Oh, yes, it gets me all nostalgic just thinking about it.

We had a beef and beer before just so our friends could afford their fucking shore house. Christ.

And if you don't live directly in the middle of the city I'm 99.99999% certain EVERYONE in the Philly area drives drunk all the time....and plays it off as, "Eh, I just had a couple-a beers." When in fact they had a shit ton of Buds and Jacquin's Rock & Rye (bonus points for Rumple Minze) - all the while stuffing a jukebox with Yes and Genesis songs  to get "their money's worth" (the looonnnnng fucking songs, which they will uppercut you if you bring up that Phil Collins bullshit) as it's all consumed in a hammer-ass corner dive bar in Essington and now they have to drive all the fuck the way home to Drexel Hill.

this is pretty damn funny but so spot on.  Although I think those Yes and Genesis long songs are awesome ("it's one o'clock and time for lunch...dum de dum dum" - bonus points for getting that one!).   you haven't lived until you've attended a beef and beef fundraiser where you have to buy raffle tickets and put them  in buckets for prizes you don't really want.  I think i have a Peter Forsberg jersey tucked away somewhere that i won at one of these fuckers.  

I like those stupid baskets because I can give my wife 50 bucks and she is gone for an hour while I drink beers with the boys. 
Agree that anything we ever won was pretty much crap.
Even a collection of gift cars that we won last year sits unused. 

The best Beef & Beer Raffle gift = The Basket Of Cheer (also a term I think only limited to the Philly area), which - I'm sure you're all aware - is just a gigantic basket full of handles of liquor. Nothing like getting pulled over after a beef & beer where you've been pounding all alcohol in sight to have the cop see a basket of booze in the back (WHICH HAS ALREADY BEEN TAPPED INTO ON THE RIDE HOME MIND YOU BECAUSE FTW I WON MOTHERFUCKER).

And if you win the cash in a 50/50 you better put your half of the 50/50 back in the fucking pot, man. It's for the fucking kids ya pieceashit.

totally that is expected. thank God I never won one of those 50/50s.  As for the basket of cheer half of it is shit you won't drink yourself anyway.  Raspberry Schnapps? yea thanks for that. i think some of the shit from a basket of cheer I won years ago might still be in our liquor cabinet.  just give me the whiskey,  vodka or tequila and leave the rest of the shit out.  man you guys are bringing back so many memories of beef and beers for me now.  

Cliffy6745

pjhawks said:

Jearlpam0925 said:

F Me In The Brain said:

pjhawks said:

Jearlpam0925 said:

Clifton Heights Fire Hall, beef & beer, rip-off cover band of The Beatles playing at ear-bleeding levels. Fucking Delco as all get out. What I'm trying to say is - my kinda shit.

A nice sight as well is of a wedding reception, at a fire hall, where the bride is outside having her 30th smoke and hocking loogies on the ground. This is usually right before the groom is going to fight somebody, anybody....What the fuck are you looking at? Oh, yes, it gets me all nostalgic just thinking about it.

We had a beef and beer before just so our friends could afford their fucking shore house. Christ.

And if you don't live directly in the middle of the city I'm 99.99999% certain EVERYONE in the Philly area drives drunk all the time....and plays it off as, "Eh, I just had a couple-a beers." When in fact they had a shit ton of Buds and Jacquin's Rock & Rye (bonus points for Rumple Minze) - all the while stuffing a jukebox with Yes and Genesis songs  to get "their money's worth" (the looonnnnng fucking songs, which they will uppercut you if you bring up that Phil Collins bullshit) as it's all consumed in a hammer-ass corner dive bar in Essington and now they have to drive all the fuck the way home to Drexel Hill.

this is pretty damn funny but so spot on.  Although I think those Yes and Genesis long songs are awesome ("it's one o'clock and time for lunch...dum de dum dum" - bonus points for getting that one!).   you haven't lived until you've attended a beef and beef fundraiser where you have to buy raffle tickets and put them  in buckets for prizes you don't really want.  I think i have a Peter Forsberg jersey tucked away somewhere that i won at one of these fuckers.  

I like those stupid baskets because I can give my wife 50 bucks and she is gone for an hour while I drink beers with the boys. 
Agree that anything we ever won was pretty much crap.
Even a collection of gift cars that we won last year sits unused. 

The best Beef & Beer Raffle gift = The Basket Of Cheer (also a term I think only limited to the Philly area), which - I'm sure you're all aware - is just a gigantic basket full of handles of liquor. Nothing like getting pulled over after a beef & beer where you've been pounding all alcohol in sight to have the cop see a basket of booze in the back (WHICH HAS ALREADY BEEN TAPPED INTO ON THE RIDE HOME MIND YOU BECAUSE FTW I WON MOTHERFUCKER).

And if you win the cash in a 50/50 you better put your half of the 50/50 back in the fucking pot, man. It's for the fucking kids ya pieceashit.

totally that is expected. thank God I never won one of those 50/50s.  As for the basket of cheer half of it is shit you won't drink yourself anyway.  Raspberry Schnapps? yea thanks for that. i think some of the shit from a basket of cheer I won years ago might still be in our liquor cabinet.  just give me the whiskey,  vodka or tequila and leave the rest of the shit out.  man you guys are bringing back so many memories of beef and beers for me now.  

Oh boy oh boy oh boy.  This whole giving back the 50/50 is some ridiculous shit, depending on what it is for and whether I would give to it normally or if it was some beef and beer i was forced into because some friend of a friends dad died 5 years ago.  Fuck outta here.

Jearlpam0925

Cliffy6745 said:

pjhawks said:

Jearlpam0925 said:

F Me In The Brain said:

pjhawks said:

Jearlpam0925 said:

Clifton Heights Fire Hall, beef & beer, rip-off cover band of The Beatles playing at ear-bleeding levels. Fucking Delco as all get out. What I'm trying to say is - my kinda shit.

A nice sight as well is of a wedding reception, at a fire hall, where the bride is outside having her 30th smoke and hocking loogies on the ground. This is usually right before the groom is going to fight somebody, anybody....What the fuck are you looking at? Oh, yes, it gets me all nostalgic just thinking about it.

We had a beef and beer before just so our friends could afford their fucking shore house. Christ.

And if you don't live directly in the middle of the city I'm 99.99999% certain EVERYONE in the Philly area drives drunk all the time....and plays it off as, "Eh, I just had a couple-a beers." When in fact they had a shit ton of Buds and Jacquin's Rock & Rye (bonus points for Rumple Minze) - all the while stuffing a jukebox with Yes and Genesis songs  to get "their money's worth" (the looonnnnng fucking songs, which they will uppercut you if you bring up that Phil Collins bullshit) as it's all consumed in a hammer-ass corner dive bar in Essington and now they have to drive all the fuck the way home to Drexel Hill.

this is pretty damn funny but so spot on.  Although I think those Yes and Genesis long songs are awesome ("it's one o'clock and time for lunch...dum de dum dum" - bonus points for getting that one!).   you haven't lived until you've attended a beef and beef fundraiser where you have to buy raffle tickets and put them  in buckets for prizes you don't really want.  I think i have a Peter Forsberg jersey tucked away somewhere that i won at one of these fuckers.  

I like those stupid baskets because I can give my wife 50 bucks and she is gone for an hour while I drink beers with the boys. 
Agree that anything we ever won was pretty much crap.
Even a collection of gift cars that we won last year sits unused. 

The best Beef & Beer Raffle gift = The Basket Of Cheer (also a term I think only limited to the Philly area), which - I'm sure you're all aware - is just a gigantic basket full of handles of liquor. Nothing like getting pulled over after a beef & beer where you've been pounding all alcohol in sight to have the cop see a basket of booze in the back (WHICH HAS ALREADY BEEN TAPPED INTO ON THE RIDE HOME MIND YOU BECAUSE FTW I WON MOTHERFUCKER).

And if you win the cash in a 50/50 you better put your half of the 50/50 back in the fucking pot, man. It's for the fucking kids ya pieceashit.

totally that is expected. thank God I never won one of those 50/50s.  As for the basket of cheer half of it is shit you won't drink yourself anyway.  Raspberry Schnapps? yea thanks for that. i think some of the shit from a basket of cheer I won years ago might still be in our liquor cabinet.  just give me the whiskey,  vodka or tequila and leave the rest of the shit out.  man you guys are bringing back so many memories of beef and beers for me now.  

Oh boy oh boy oh boy.  This whole giving back the 50/50 is some ridiculous shit, depending on what it is for and whether I would give to it normally or if it was some beef and beer i was forced into because some friend of a friends dad died 5 years ago.  Fuck outta here.

Fuck's the matter with ya? Put ten bucks in the pot ya low life!

On top of the $10-$20 for the beef and beer, you better put an additional $10 into the 50/50. Why not just make the beef & beer $30 then? No, the point is to win, be called out publicly, and show what a TRUE human being you are by giving that money back.

And don't forget to pick up your t-shirt of the cop guy with his face on the front who died 30 years ago, while everyone speaks with racial undertones as to how the guy died. YOU'RE WEARING THAT SHIRT.