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Jersey shore town Belmar attracts a lot of rowdy summer renters, to the point where the town has very strict noise codes and maps offending houses on its "Animal House Map." But many think Belmar Mayor Ken Pringle went too far when he described an altercation between a NJ resident and a visitor from Staten Island in a town newsletter.
Pringle wrote about the pair, who got into a fight at a bar: "The spat ended the way most fights with SI girls do. The SI woman grabbed the Boonton woman by the hair... and began punching her face in....As the Staten Island girl was pummeling the Boonton girl's face, she used the hand she was still holding her drink glass in. Now, we're not sure if the glass was stuck to her hand cause of all the hair spray or if this is a technique Staten Island girls learn in Brownies, but we are thankful she left her brass knuckles and straight razor in her other purse."
He went on to explain the "call of the Guido is bellowing, and frequently slurred, invariably starting with the sound, 'Yo'" and how "Guidos" are "tanned to the color of coconut shells and easily identified by their plumage: satin shirts and short skirts on the females; Armani Exchange T-shirts and artfully distressed jeans on the male." You can read the whole newsletter here.
The Staten Island Advance calls Pringle a "sand-for-brains pol" but did find some residents who agree that some of the rap is deserved--a Todt Hill resident said, "They're all crazy, Staten Island girls. They don't take nothing from nobody. ... If someone's giving them the evil eye, they're not going to walk away, they're going to hit somebody." And Pringle did apologize, but Staten Island New York executive director Larry Ambrosio sent him a letter about the borough's finer points anyway.
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One time a girl asked me to kiss her where it smells.
So I took her to Staten Island.
JDS should be this man's personal scribe.
"tanned to the color of coconut shells and easily identified by their plumage: satin shirts and short skirts on the females; Armani Exchange T-shirts and artfully distressed jeans on the male."
Well hes got the description of a Guido down to a T. Well done.
Maybe he's finally come around on this whole issue: it's not drinking is the problem during summers in Belmar - it's that WHO IS DRINKING is the problem.
Staten Island is a shit hole filled with shit heels.
I've been saying Staten Island is the New New Jersey for years now.
Isn't Belmar that broken down city on the Jersey shore where they use to have a black fraternity spring fest or some other black sorority fest? The name sounds familiar. I think the banned them because they wrecked the town.
I still couldn't distinguish someone from Jersey or Staten Island whenever they're in the city.
Somebody should alert 20th Century Fox to Belmar's fragrant copyright violation in using an image from "The Simpsons" to mark situations where an officer responded to a call on its map. Tsk tsk, if you have no respect for the law Herr Mayor how can you expect others to do so?
When I hear any sort of NJ-SI conflict one phrase comes to mind...Retard Fight.
they'd better legalize gay marriage in NJ soon, cause i want to marry the f*ck out of this dude.
"They don't take nothing from nobody."
Perfect diction.
There is a difference between not taking crap and just being a psycho who gets in bar fights. grow up. Sheesh.
New York, New Jersey what is the difference?
Yes, all Manhattanites are soooo much better than the people from outer boroughs or NJ. Living on one side of a bridge or tunnel makes all the difference! It's like a whole better world!
hey man i'm in the bronx! nothing to do with snootyness here, these people are just waiting to be lampooned.
I'll take anyone from Staten Island over most of you douchebag transpants. At least that borough has a majority of real native new yorkers and half of them are from brooklyn not hung up on being cool and ironic.
I love how NJ is ripping on SI... they are just trying to buddy up with the city.
Neither one ain't got nothin' on Philly. Dey both don't have kno goud cheese steaks. Philly rules down at the shore. I'm not talking about no beach, I'm talkin' the shore. Yo.
Yu want a piece of me? Yeh I'm talkin' to yu.
I think SI guidos are comparable to my NJ ones. SI is almost NJ, anyway. Seems "Growing up Gotti" was a parenting guide to many guidos on both sides of the Kills. Neither have nothing on Brooklyn crews.
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staten island sucks. there i said it. done
I dare any of you to nip over the narrows and tell a Staten Island girl exactly what you're saying here straight to her face. Go ahead, she's waiting...
i'd use big words.
for
the
win.
>>I'll take anyone from Staten Island over most of you douchebag transpants. At least that borough has a majority of real native new yorkers and half of them are from brooklyn not hung up on being cool and ironic.
And do you know why that half from Brooklyn moved to Staten Island? Take it from someone who was born there, schooled there, and whose parents and grandparents are also natives to the Island -- it's because these insular, closed-minded Tony Manero Jrs. couldn't handle the fact that they might actually have to live next door to (gasp!) black people and (gasp!) Hispanic people! Last week I heard a radio interview with a woman in her 30s from Staten Island who said she was voting for John McCain because if Barack Obama won, "minorities might think they deserve to get things." I'm not making that up.
Staten Island was once a nice place to live, but then these Bay Ridge and Bensonhurst guidos dragged their racist knuckles across the Verrazano Bridge and ruined it for the rest of us. Fortunately, my parents had the sense to take their kids and run to a place where people aspire to do more than buy a house on the same block as their parents and take the Civil Service test -- New Jersey.
Yeah mike21 the tired old 'it's the people from Brooklyn who ruined Staten Island' routine, snooze. I guess Living Colour's Vernon Reid moved to Staten Island because it's so bad. I guess David Johansen chooses to still live on Staten Island because it's so bad. My cousin moved from Brooklyn to Staten Island twenty years ago and he's a working session musician and his wife is a working artist.
You can find trash in every borough if you get out enough.