After taking a fair amount of good natured abuse last year (after Pat's Tow won "Best Tow Company"), the News ran the same category again. Guess who won?
Y'know, I never noticed that before, then I did when you said it, but still only at certain angles. In the full-sized version I don't see it at all. Weird.
dude, they gave best pet store to Big Fish, Little Fish. I was walking by it tonight and my first thought was 'Wow. I won't trust any other award they give out, after seeing that."
My husband and I were discussing this while waiting at Ball Sq. Cafe yesterday and reading the Best of winners posted on the window. If you count pet accessory stores like Stinky's and Dogma and Catma Too, then yes. But purely animals? I think Big Fish is the only one.
Does that mean that if the city had only one day care, and that day care turned out to be run by a pedophile, that it would still be okay for them to endorse that day care just because it's the only one in the city?
Seriously, I think at some point you just have to drop the category.
m00n's trying to point out that the animal care in there is abysmal. I've seen dead feeder mice in the tank (they don't count as a 'pet', I believe). I know he was tossing dead rats into the trash, though I believe he was stopped disposing of them that way due to legal complaints. He smokes in the store. Cages are dirty and often not cleaned for a day or two after they ought to be.
It might be the best Somerville has to offer, but it's certainly not the Best of Somerville.
I know BFLF is a pretty rotten place. Went once, walked out without buying anything, never went back. But damn, that analogy is big guns right there. Should be used sparingly. When it's thrown around willy-nilly, geesh, it feels like a lawyer trying to make a constitutional case out of a jaywalking ticket.
I think it is the case that the pet store that was on McGrath Highway (assuming it was McGrath and not O'Brien) that burnt down this past summer, near the Sav-Mor Discount Liquor Store, was technically just barely in Somerville. I do believe it hasn't re-opened. Yeah, I'm being real helpful, sorry.
So, I don't know anything about the Somerville News Best Of... stuff, but having just read this post, I was amused to see that one of the fliers in that envelope of coupons that arrive in our mailbox every so often was for "ERA Real Estate", and in the biggest font on the scrap of paper it reads:
"Voted" Somerville's #1 Real Estate Company
Now I have to think it's ironic that they themselves would put quotes around just that one word. Granted, usually random quotes are just a matter of brain-dead copywriters. But it makes me wonder.
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sarken
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Date: 2009-02-02 03:45 am (UTC)They're consistent, at least.
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Date: 2009-02-02 04:08 am (UTC)HAHAHAHAHA
christ.
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Date: 2009-02-02 04:48 am (UTC)Well we could create a best of DS Live Journal!
Date: 2009-02-02 04:50 am (UTC)Re: Well we could create a best of DS Live Journal!
Date: 2009-02-02 06:30 pm (UTC)Re: Well we could create a best of DS Live Journal!
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Date: 2009-02-02 07:54 pm (UTC)"Violet! You're turning violet, Violet!"
Wow. It's true!
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Date: 2009-03-11 10:53 pm (UTC)Ahahah!
Date: 2009-02-02 04:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-02 07:39 am (UTC)And now, I have been proved right.
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Date: 2009-02-02 01:04 pm (UTC)Seriously, I think at some point you just have to drop the category.
BLACK CAT TUESDAY
Date: 2009-02-02 04:52 pm (UTC)Re: BLACK CAT TUESDAY
Date: 2009-02-02 05:56 pm (UTC)It might be the best Somerville has to offer, but it's certainly not the Best of Somerville.
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Date: 2009-02-02 11:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-02 04:38 pm (UTC)"Voted" Somerville's #1 Real Estate Company
Now I have to think it's ironic that they themselves would put quotes around just that one word. Granted, usually random quotes are just a matter of brain-dead copywriters. But it makes me wonder.
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Date: 2009-02-03 01:10 am (UTC)"Ahahahah!"
Date: 2009-02-04 05:04 am (UTC)