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You remind me of the guys I knew in the Navy who would hit the McDonalds in Marseille or the Pizza Hut in Bahrain. At least you ate some biscuits and gravy, I'll give you that.

Sports announcers who talk like Yoda. Learn to speak proper English dip wads. The worst are announcers who used to speak English and moved into Yoda-speak after their illiterate compatriots started doing it. I'm classifying them as a "product" because they talk on TV.

All I can say is I hope I never share your opinion or, evidently, whatever experience you had to make you feel that way.

I made your point for you? Me and everyone else that works downtown and hasn't been shot, Everyone who lives in Hartford and hasn't been shot, everyone who visits Hartford and hasn't been shot have made my point for you. You're just so blinded by either fear of cities or prejudice against...

It might be "uninformed" if I didn't live and work in Hartford. I'm having a hard time reconciling how, living and working in Hartford, my opinion could be "uninformed." When I was in the Navy we went to St. Thomas. A guy on our ship got attacked and slashed badly with a knife in a neighborhood...

I dunno, context? You realize that these crimes happen, just as in any other city, predominantly in specific and constrained geographic areas, right? Working people are not getting shot outside their office buildings, or going to the theatre at night, or leaving Vaughan's at 1am on a Sunday...

Based on your oft-stated presumption that Hartford is awash in major crime, I think it's safe to assume you either didn't live in a city in the 1990s when crime really WAS a major problem, or you just like to dump on Hartford for some strange reason.

Good thing you didn't live a major city in the 1990s. You would never have left your bunker.

Poppycock. Social media allows me to watch my nieces and nephews grow up 2000 miles distant. Were it not for Facebook I wouldn't get to do this, or to keep in touch with people I'd never otherwise see. Sure, it can be abused, but to pretend that using it constitutes an "addiction" is as...

He's too fat. There's also the whole stolen valor thing.

I'll help him, just because I'm a subversive.

We'll let the Supreme Court decide.

Zipperheads, haha! That was a fun street for a college student. You sound like one of those Louis' Lunch nazis with the mustard comment, though. ;-)

Haven't been there, but I'll take your word for it. I'll take beef over pork any day, any meal, any preparation. Except bacon, and even then I'd rather have a ribeye.

Yellow mustard. Gotta have yellow mustard on a cheesesteak. Oh, and Jim's is better than Pat's or Geno's in my humble opinion. It's weird...you can get good wings outside of Buffalo. Not sure why you can't get a good cheesesteak once you venture more than 60 or so miles outside of Philly.

Sorels for warmth, Salomon for comfort. I have foot issues and Salomons are by far the most comfortable hiking footwear I've ever owned, and I've tried a lot.

Born and raised in Hartford, won a Tony Award, now touring the world.

I like Burlington a lot. A much better selection of restaurants in Portland, though.

And Portland, ME is better than all of them.

It's a little thing, perhaps, in the overall picture, but Hartford Stage is perhaps the best regional theatre in the country right now. They produced a show in 2012 that won the Tony Award for best musical on Broadway the following year, their artistic director is one of the top 2 or 3...

It's an excellent library. Not just a good library, but an excellent one. And as has been mentioned it's literally across the corner. It's like telling the stonemason there are blocks of free granite in their back yard.

First, if I get pulled over by a state trooper driving home from work and he asks if he can search my car, I'm telling him "no, you cannot search my car." Does the fact that I asserted my Fourth Amendment rights make me guilty of trafficking drugs in your eyes? Second, that fact that you would...

I'd be interested in the NHL playoffs if this winter sport actually had their championship in the winter, or at least mid-spring. The last thing I give a ***k about in June is hockey. It actually wouldn't be that hard. How about, I dunno, only giving playoff spots to the top teams, and not over...

Lucky dog!

Sweet Claude's in Cheshire, especially the black cherry. The place mentioned above in Mystic is good, too. Wentworth's uses a TON of food coloring and that's unnecessary and frankly kinda gross. Pralines is also good, especially the banana. I still miss the Abbot's frozen custard we used to get...

Was he throwing stones again?

I like it quite a bit. Man, whoever coined the term "land of steady habits" sure wasn't kidding.

It's kind of his M.O.

Arizona over Virginia.

John, you're showing your age. ;) Honestly I can't vouch for their quality. They were nearly phased out by the time I served, relegated solely to the few remaining Knox-class frigates still in service.

I was referring to real helicopters. ;-)

Except for the little fact that choppers, or helos (as we call them in the Navy) are manufactured in Stratford, not Hartford.

It was fine on Cox in Meriden. The only thing I noticed was coming back to the second half, there was no audio. Not that I minded. It's not like Doris was actually watching the game much.

If you've actually been a fan of UConn women's hoops for as long as you claim, then yes, I would expect you to know the reference.