The Gray Lady begins a profile of our Barbara Lynch:
BOSTON - Barbara Lynch never thought she would end up in South Boston.
The chef is a fierce Southie, a local term for this neighborhood and the people who built it.
As Luke O'Neil, who spotted the passage, notes:
That's... not a thing.
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Luke O'Neil is an obnoxious hipster beardo .
By TommyJeff
Mon, 04/17/2017 - 5:27pm
I'm gonna start calling people Southies.
Amen to that
By bosguy22
Tue, 04/18/2017 - 9:05am
Nothing worse than a 40+ hipster doofus trying to be witty on Twitter.
Twice
By Irma la Douce
Mon, 04/17/2017 - 5:53pm
Later in the article: "she still curses like a Southie"...
That sounds like something a
By baustin
Tue, 04/18/2017 - 12:55pm
That sounds like something a New Yorkie would say!
A person can be a SoBody.
By anon
Mon, 04/17/2017 - 5:59pm
That's a thing.
So what?
By anon
Mon, 04/17/2017 - 6:24pm
Newbies here call people from Southie Southies and Townies.
Here's what
By anon
Mon, 04/17/2017 - 7:58pm
"Newbies" are not the New York Times, which prides itself on journalistic accuracy.
NYT... prides itself on journalistic accuracy...
By Dante
Mon, 04/17/2017 - 10:18pm
Say it again! I'm begging you
That is the funniest comment that I've ever read here.
Hahaha
By Arthur
Tue, 04/18/2017 - 10:45am
I agree!
I guess you never read any of
By BigBird
Tue, 04/18/2017 - 6:27am
I guess you never read any of the stories by Judith Miller in the New Work Times about the WMD's Iraq had stockpiled. Then how said stories got us to invade Iraq.
How new a newbie?
By Michael Kerpan
Tue, 04/18/2017 - 12:05am
Never ever heard this.....
The distinction between "townies" and "Townies" is
By MC Slim JB
Tue, 04/18/2017 - 1:23am
something that 99.999% of the human race doesn't give a damn about. Get over it.
C'mon, MC
By Suldog
Tue, 04/18/2017 - 9:02am
Things that 99.999% of the human race doesn't give a damn about are the things that give a city its unique identity. In any case, at least 99.999% of the human race doesn't give a damn about your name or my name, but if one of those people makes an error when referring to us, we would probably prefer that it be corrected.
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
Sorry, but when someone from Southie gets up in arms
By MC Slim JB
Tue, 04/18/2017 - 9:50am
because someone referred to his tribe as small-t townies ("We're not from Chaaahlestown"), I just shake my head. Small-t townie has a well-understood meaning by most speakers of American English, and 99.999% of us don't give a jot what Charlestown townies and Southie townies prefer to call each other and themselves. Yes, I recognize the colloquial distinction between townie and Townie. No, you don't get to tell the rest of the world how to use small-t townie.
Literally never
By mseskin
Tue, 04/18/2017 - 8:42am
I have literally never (until now) heard anybody use "Southie" to refer to a person.
I have, of course, heard (and used) townie. It's a general term for anybody who grows up in and never leaves a given place.
No not really. I have never
By Metoo
Tue, 04/18/2017 - 1:03pm
No not really. I have never called friends that grew up in Newton or Cambridge and still live there a townie and I have never heard of anyone else calling them a townie. Not Rozzy or Jamaica Plain either. Townie is for Charlestown.
My cab driver in Savannah, GA
By ecg nli
Mon, 04/17/2017 - 8:22pm
My cab driver in Savannah, GA last week also though that. I wonder where the rumor got started.
I'm afraid it's all over,
By anonism
Mon, 04/17/2017 - 10:30pm
I'm afraid it's all over, folks: It will be a thing very soon. #hollywoodnext
What is this freakish obsession some have with South Boston?
By anon
Mon, 04/17/2017 - 10:34pm
It's creepy, almost stalkish creepy.
It's a neighborhood of Boston with a rich history,
By MC Slim JB
Tue, 04/18/2017 - 1:24am
endless portrayals by Hollywood, and a current vivid set of gentrification issues.
But you're right: a site devoted to covering Boston news stories should probably just ignore Southie, rather than risk being accused by random anonymous posters of having a freakish obsession with it.
Here in the South End, I'm pushing for the term "SoWannaBes". It could catch on!
SoWannaBes
By Snuggles
Tue, 04/18/2017 - 5:05am
Can we get all Realtors to start using that term?
Some people have a fetish for
By Kinopio
Tue, 04/18/2017 - 10:53am
Some people have a fetish for green sweatpants and terrible bars.
South Boston..
By Formerly-SoBo-Yuppie
Tue, 04/18/2017 - 7:01am
....one of the greatest neighborhoods in the US.
- A South Boston Community member.
Rats
By anon
Tue, 04/18/2017 - 8:16am
Arent locals called Southie Rats? is that just a Dot thing? Maybe just Southie punks? Junkies?
I don't know about Southie
By adamg
Tue, 04/18/2017 - 9:04am
So somebody please inform us, but, yes, there are Dot Rats (I even know somebody who has that tattooed on her back) and Rozzie rats.
no southie rats
By Miaow
Tue, 04/18/2017 - 12:48pm
Have both an uncle and an ex boyfriend from Southie (both of whom lived there during 1970's) and neither have ever referred to themselves or any peers as Southie "rats". They would just say "he (or she) is from Southie".
South Shore
By Formerly-SoBo-Yuppie
Tue, 04/18/2017 - 9:10am
the punks and junkies live in places like weymouth now. so maybe SoSho Rats?
- A South Boston Community Member
Southie Rat
By John Costello
Tue, 04/18/2017 - 8:52am
To Southie Ratatouille?
Obsolete Newspaper
By Arthur
Tue, 04/18/2017 - 10:43am
NYT is a lying rag, dying a painful death. Good riddance.
Don't mess with me!
By Arthur
Tue, 04/18/2017 - 10:47am
Them Southie's better not mess with me....I'm a Grand Rapids!
Looks like they updated it.
By Mediacrity
Tue, 04/18/2017 - 12:34pm
Looks like they updated it.
"BOSTON — Barbara Lynch never thought she would end up in South Boston.
The chef is a fierce daughter of Southie, a local nickname for this neighborhood and, she explained, an old term for the people who built it that is rarely, if ever, used today. Generations of Irish-Americans forged iron and steel, built ports and ships, and hauled sugar and molasses in the area’s now-decrepit industrial buildings."
Brilliant. They left this part in?
By Old Zee
Tue, 04/18/2017 - 1:18pm
Southie is still portrayed as an old term for the PEOPLE? Great editors over at the Almost Dead Gray Lady
That looks like fixing one mistake with a harebrained misquote.
By MC Slim JB
Tue, 04/18/2017 - 2:48pm
You want me to believe Barbara Lynch offered the statement that people from Southie were once referred to as "Southies"? That doesn't make any damned sense.
A person from Southie: a Southian? A Southie-ite? A South Bostonian? Maybe. A Southie? To quote the inimitable Dean, "I *doubt* it!"
Another possible explanation: Barbara Lynch is
By MC Slim JB
Tue, 04/18/2017 - 4:50pm
pulling another "Grunge Speak" style hoax on the NY Times.
Would she do that?
By Irma la Douce
Tue, 04/18/2017 - 5:36pm
I don't know that someone with a just-published memoir would want to deliberately piss off the Times?
Nobody outside South Boston
By Scauma
Tue, 04/18/2017 - 2:08pm
Nobody outside South Boston cares about what people from South Boston call themselves.
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