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So a guy enters Andrew with a 50-gallon garbage can full of stolen power tools ...
By adamg on Fri, 09/27/2013 - 9:52am
And tries to convince another guy to buy them - and when the guy expresses some skepticism, says he'll also throw in the garbage can and an 18-pack of Charmin Ultra Soft toilet paper.
Unfortunately for William Jones, 51, of South Boston, the other guy turned out to be an undercover Transit Police detective working the Andrew beat, as undercover Transit Police detectives are wont to do.
Jones was arrested on a charge of receiving stolen property worth more than $250 for the incident Wednesday afternoon, Transit Police report.
Innocent, etc.
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That wasn't very nice of him, but the real question is..
...what did Andrew think about all of this ?
I'd ask him but ...
He's a bit under the weather right now because he just ate 8,000 cookies.
That explains the rest of the transaction..
...now we know why so much toilet paper was involved. The guy was planning ahead.
Wow, showing your age...
and showing mine, too
I'm guessing this went way over the heads of 90% of your readers
Not mine!
Man, that little jingle was what the ad people call "sticky" in the extreme. How many years has it been?
It definitely went over my
It definitely went over my head. Could you please explain.
I had a boyfriend who sniggered every time the Red Line announced that we were "entering Andrew." Needless to say, that relationship didn't last very long. I'm wondering if he moved closer to Andrew after we broke up....
Used to be the number for a carpet company
Which used it extensively in ads back in the day, when numbers still had "exchange" names, such as Andrew, which gave us the number AN8-8000, which led to the question: "How many cookies did Andrew eat? Andrew ate 8,000."
Why? Did the carpet company
Why? Did the carpet company have something to do with cookies?
No it did not
The carpet company (Adams and Swett, by the way, which still has that number AFAIK) had nothing to do with cookies, but the jingle was memorable enough that 30 years or so after their last ad aired, people still remember the phone number.
It's like the basement waterproofing company whose phone number is 1-800-BUSY-DOG and whose truck has a picture of a dog bailing with a bucket. Nothing to do with dogs, but it just sticks in the viewer's mind.
No.
But you are free to call 867-5309 for a full explanation.
one word
Heroin
Is this guy
"Old Southie" or "New Southie"?
Tough to keep track of all
Tough to keep track of all the hobbies of Southie Townies:
stabbing grandmothers
robbing banks
breaking into cars
being racist
dropping out of HS
getting addicted to drugs
slashing tires
selling stolen goods
can we please have "stop and frisk" for any people that look like life long residents?
- The Original SoBo Yuppie
It is tough to keep track of the Yuppies too!!!
Don't know your neighbors
Move out in 2 years, 3 tops
Think dogs are a replacement for kids
Pay 400k to buy a shithole 1 bedroom condo, which was flipped over a weekend
Think Quinnipiac University is ivory league
Which one of your divorced suburban parents paid for your Saab?
Coke is stil cool
Still think the Beer Garden is a hot spot on a Saturday night
Call their friends "Bros" and high five each other
Ohh yeah, and call Southie SoBo
Hurry up and move back out you d-bag
Compare the lists
Yeah... in terms of antisocial behavior, thinking that the beer garden is a hot spot is right up there with stabbing grandmothers. Hard to see which is worse.
One thing I do agree with, though: Anyone who says "SoBo" is a major d-bag.
"Ivory league"?
Is that some kind of safari-themed soccer conference?
LOL
LOL
whiney bitches are people who
whiney bitches are people who move into a neighborhood known for a certain quality, or lack of,
and then bitch about that very same feature once they've settled
if you don't like the people, then don't move into the Southie
Or we can change it for the
Or we can change it for the better. Actually,we already did and we will continue to improve SoBo.
On a side note, we also gentrified and improved the Red Sox fan base. I remember when Sox fans were all angry, grumpy stiffs. With the Sox new ownership, it's the Yuppies that made the Sox successful.
- THE Original SoBo Yuppie
Andrew 8-8000
Was the number for Adams and Swett Carpet cleaners, they're still in business over in Newmarket Square. I always remembered the ad because my name is Andrew, too.
Not "was"....
still is 2(A)6(N)8-8000.
He had 50gal of tools
But he was only as smart as a sack full of hammers.
So I live here
And I'm not sure how this is tagged as te south end, but I'll definitely take it given property values!
Heh, fixed
Slipped when selecting the neighborhood in a dropdown.
Somerville Tool Library opening this Saturday 7 February 2015
sent- from: Larry Stone lcs at mit.edu
sent-to: reuse-discuss at mit.edu
date: Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 1:58 AM
subject: [Reuse-discuss] Somerville Tool Library opening this Saturday
mailing list: reuse-discuss.mit.edu
Since the Reuse community is already pretty well sold on the value of a sharing economy, I thought there might be some interest in a tool lending library starting up in nearby Somerville:
"The Somerville Tool library is a tool lending library located at Parts and Crafts (577 Somerville Ave) in Somerville, Massachusetts. It is available to residents of Somerville and the surrounding cities and towns. The library is scheduled to open to the public on February 7th 2015. We are currently building our tool collection and actively soliciting early bird members to support our efforts."
https://www.google.com/maps/place/577+Somerville+Ave,+Somerville,+MA+02143
Grand opening is Saturday, 7-Feb, 12-4pm. The website
http://somervilletoollibrary.com/
has this info and more; the FAQ page has details about rules and policies. Essentially, membership is $50/year and you can borrow any tools for a week at a time. You can also get a membership in return for donating a significant enough tool.
There are tool libraries in other cities that have run successfully for a decade or more, so I expect this one can succeed, e.g. see
http://northportlandtoollibrary.org/
The grand opening also features the "Anachronistic Audio Repair Project", or AARP (yeah, pun intended..) "Bring your boom boxes, cassette players, walkmans and similar cruft to take apart, repair, and/or upcycle." So excavate that 8-track and see you there.
-- Larry
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