Journalism and PR truism: Hire the people with the dirtiest minds to review your copy before it's printed

By adamg on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 3:28pm

Shamus Moynihan forwards this photo of a sidewalk billboard on Comm. Ave. in Allston's Packards Corner. Yes, they were obviously thinking of something like this, but the phrase does have another meaning.

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I don't get it.

By anon on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 3:30pm.

I don't get it.

You perhaps want to stay in that state, then

By adamg on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 4:18pm.

But if you're a cat and curiosity gets the better of you, go to Urban Dictionary and look up the phrase (just without "Boston" at the beginning).

Disgusting and unfortunate

By anon on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 11:22pm.

Disgusting and unfortunate association, likely indicative of a porn addiction, or at least too much porn on the mind.

Oh, dear, are you feeling faint?

By adamg on Mon, 09/13/2021 - 9:43am.

Best to lie down for a few minutes.

Oh cum on

By brianjdamico on Mon, 09/13/2021 - 10:22am.

you can't be this obtuse.

Hot Freedom Trail Action

By John Costello on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 4:18pm.

$19.99 Per Month - Billed Discreetly.

OnlyFans

By cybah on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 6:37pm.

Oh they have an OnlyFans account at @HotFreedomTrailAction

Its all guys dressed up in 1776 era petticoats getting all frisky along the trail. You should see one of them's bunker hill monument... it's... tall & impressive.

And they do like cream pies.. erm Boston Cream Pies.

For the folks playing at home...

By Cleary Squared on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 5:03pm.

Urban Dictionary definition

Maybe this will help

By Anon on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 7:27pm.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XY4L5RU6kyo

This changes everything!

By Spicoli on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 9:12pm.

First reference that came to mind

that is

By Fenway Crank on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 3:37pm.

totally awesome!!!

I'll speak not just

By Notfromboston on Mon, 09/13/2021 - 9:47am.

I'll speak not just for myself here: We are tired of seeing Shamus Moynihan name everywhere. What are they even running for?

He actually lives in Boston

By adamg on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 4:17pm.

And has even done his part to make life better here. So gets a pass.

If you're tired of seeing his name, I'm sure you can find a perfectly fine site in Athol or Belchertown or wherever to spend your time on.

Are those two towns in the same high school football league?

By jmeltzer on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 9:14pm.

They aren't that far apart.

If they do play each other, those games must have great heckling.

UPDATE: They are!!

Belchertown at one end

By SwirlyGrrl on Mon, 09/13/2021 - 12:37am.

Athol at the other.

Could be called the GI Bowl ... or is that bowel?

Adam, how dare you publish

By Matt Frank on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 6:17pm.

Adam, how dare you publish content from people who bring you information from around the city that your readers may find interesting or entertaining! Horrible, just horrible!

Rumor has it …

By Lee on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 9:37pm.

…. he posts here as Magoo.

That guy sucks.

By ShamusJP on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 10:47pm.

I’m pretty sick of him myself.

"Get off my lawn Shamus!!!"

By JP'er on Mon, 09/13/2021 - 10:16am.

Shaking fist*

LOL, keep on keeping on Shamus!

Circling back to this comment

By brianjdamico on Tue, 09/14/2021 - 6:02am.

Who exactly, other than yourself, are you speaking on behalf of? We don't even know who *you* are, unlike say, Shamus Moynihan or myself.

Is it a double entendre

By g on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 4:45pm.

because it is really a cake,
not a pie?

Yes

By Irma la Douce on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 5:48pm.

Cf “cake by the ocean”.

Yes

By Sock_Puppet on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 6:36pm.

And when made on halloween it is called a Boo Cake.

Or as those silly texting kids spell it, bukkake.

i feel like 'freedom trail' should also be a euphemism...

By schneidz on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 5:05pm.

like getting it on while both partners are wearing tri-corner hats and firing muskets.

Happy trails to you

By RichSPK on Mon, 09/13/2021 - 10:55am.

Perhaps something similar to https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Happytrail

I must be old

By SwirlyGrrl on Mon, 09/13/2021 - 5:19pm.

I thought that was a TTA (Trail to Adventure).

My friend Dirty Sanchez

By anon on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 5:22pm.

My friend Dirty Sanchez explained it to me.

That was a boner.

By anon on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 5:24pm.

That was a boner.

Ad clearly created by Frank

By Brent Jeffries on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 5:51pm.

Ad clearly created by Frank Reynolds and The Gang.

Definitely needed

By eeka on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 6:59pm.

I've talked for years about starting a business that allows people to run things by 12-year-old boys of all ages and genders. Advertisements, menus, sermons...all sorts of stuff out there that really could use this.

Honestly I often wonder if

By Matt Frank on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 8:34pm.

Honestly I often wonder if companies just ran their ideas by their staff and allowed comments to be made blindly without anyone else knowing who made the comment this stuff could be avoided. I could imagine this being presented and some 30 year old ad executive having to suppress a chuckle as to not come off as a creep.

Oftentimes people in charge don't care even if someone speaks up. I've been that person who spoke up and was shamed for even thinking that. Only for us to get burned later.

I had to play the role of Designated 12-Year-Old

By MC Slim JB on Mon, 09/13/2021 - 10:55am.

recently, at an event planning session where someone had proposed a session title that made me snicker.

"It may be the first workshop of the day," I offered, "But I don't think 'Wake Up with [all-women panel]' is quite how you want to describe it. Phrasing?" (A couple of people on the call actually got that reference.)

I was met with one indignant reaction, effectively, "Ugh, only someone with a Y chromosome would think that." I countered, "Look, if it occurred to me, it will occur to at least 250 other people there." (The projected event attendance is 500.)

They changed it.

At my next meeting I will

By Anon on Mon, 09/13/2021 - 10:40am.

At my next meeting I will suggest we require all employees involved in community relations watch a superclip of Archer phrasing bits.

International Squads of Inner 12-year olds needed

By anon on Mon, 09/13/2021 - 12:38pm.

French: How about we call it (name)
Germans: snickering
Dutch: snickering
Belgian (whispers to American)
Americans: snickering
Brits: oh bloody hell would you knock it off?

Hey, if we have to have one dirty thing

By brianjdamico on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 7:38pm.

I'll take "Boston cream pie" over say...Cleveland's thing.

OH NO

By cybah on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 9:26pm.

I had to look that up.

And I wish I hadnt now cuz it reminds me of a story about an ex coworker.........

OH NO

By cybah on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 9:26pm.

I had to look that up.

And I wish I hadnt now cuz it reminds me of a story about an ex coworker.........

IMHO, the sorts of people who walk the Freedom trail (younger school kids and older adults) are not the ones to initially think of the other cream pie reference anyway.

You can get a creampie and a parker house roll there.

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