So, what, some Hingham girl refused to go out with Brian McGrory in high school or something?

As a Scituate resident, I gotta agree with Coh_girl.

My dad always raved about an '05 McGrory column talking about Commuter Rail anger and proposed slogans for the Town of Hingham, and his particular favorite was "Pretending to be Cohasset Since 1635."

Here's the others, from http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/07/...

But it's the minority of petulant Hingham prima donnas who give the town's intelligent majority a bad name. To that end, perhaps they should have considered a few other slogans:

"Keep Out." That might be the cheap way to go, given that they probably already have the signs printed.

"Where the Old World Meets the Nouveau Riche."

"Pretending to be Cohasset Since 1635."

"We Stand in Opposition."

"Hingham. Where money is everything."

"We share a border with Weymouth, but nothing in common."

"The Escalade Capital of New England."

Old me. Bad me. No more, never again, I promise.

But I'll leave with this one thought, the slogan that will be announced so many times a day in Weymouth's Jackson Square once the Greenbush Line opens in 2006. ''Next stop: Hingham."

And what a wonderful stop it will be.

But sometimes these high lights can shine right into the windows of neigboring homes.

And many towns have shot down proposals for 100+ foot light stands on athletic fields.

I have to agree McGrory on this. I recall a comment in an article about the Greenbush Line a few years back. He quoted a man who said that many of the people opposed to it were: "One generation removed from Dot Ave." Pretenders!

I'm not familiar with Hingham, but some towns certainly do have more than their fair share of suck. Is it Scituate or Cohasset where the people of Third Cliff say that you're not a native until you have three generations buried in the local cemetery?