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Old 10-31-2017, 10:21 AM
 
Location: CT
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Just spotted on the marquee of a popular local eatery: "Shepard's Pie". This is what's left behind when your best, brightest and intellectually most capable flee in search of economic opportunity. And it's only going to get worse.
What's wrong with "Shepard's" Pie? That's the Rhode Island spelling.
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Old 11-01-2017, 08:16 AM
 
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Just when ya thought that route 6 in Johnston couldn't possibly get any worse. Good lord in heaven above, where do your tax dollars go in this god forsaken place?
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Old 11-01-2017, 12:04 PM
 
Location: Pawtucket, RI
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I think the point of this thread is to make fun of all Rhode Islanders because someone at a restaurant somewhere in the state made a spelling error: it's "Shepherd's Pie", not "Shepard's Pie", as the OP reports was on the sign.
Probably as a nod to Shepard's department store.
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Old 11-01-2017, 08:42 PM
 
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Just when ya thought that route 6 in Johnston couldn't possibly get any worse. Good lord in heaven above, where do your tax dollars go in this god forsaken place?
The same place your tax dollars go.

Has your auto manufacturer recalled your car yet? You should really press the issue if your fenders keep falling off like you say. I've been driving here almost 40 years and have never heard of such a thing happening before!
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Old 11-01-2017, 08:44 PM
 
Location: Southern California
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What's wrong with "Shepard's" Pie? That's the Rhode Island spelling.
Maybe it’s the chefs name.
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Old 11-02-2017, 10:44 AM
 
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The same place your tax dollars go.

Has your auto manufacturer recalled your car yet? You should really press the issue if your fenders keep falling off like you say. I've been driving here almost 40 years and have never heard of such a thing happening before!
If you've been driving on RI roads for 40 years, you might wanna double check but you're probably driving around on just a chassis. And didn't you used to be 6 foot 4?
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Old 11-02-2017, 06:17 PM
 
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If you've been driving on RI roads for 40 years, you might wanna double check but you're probably driving around on just a chassis. And didn't you used to be 6 foot 4?
So silly.

Never anywhere close to 6 foot 4 but I don't get the implication. Now you're saying RI makes people shorter? What voodoo is that.?
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Old 11-02-2017, 08:35 PM
 
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So silly.

Never anywhere close to 6 foot 4 but I don't get the implication. Now you're saying RI makes people shorter? What voodoo is that.?
I've never paid a tax in Rhode Island. Not a penny. Not income, not property, not sales. Never will. That's for people like you. So the question still stands. Though it's a question that you should actually be asking yourself. There's actually a condition called SCP, or Spinal Compression by Pothole which afflicts 1 in 3 Rhode Islanders. Repeat jarring of the vertebrae while driving actually causes the spine of the Rhode Islander to shrink resulting in loss of physical height. You sure you weren't 6-4?
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Old 11-03-2017, 07:27 AM
 
Location: RI, MA, VT, WI, IL, CA, IN (that one sucked), KY
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Has your auto manufacturer recalled your car yet? You should really press the issue if your fenders keep falling off like you say. I've been driving here almost 40 years and have never heard of such a thing happening before!


Are roads supposed to be bad in RI? They don't seem like it. Lots of road work being done, that's a good thing, but the roads seem fine. I guess I'm missing something?
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Old 11-03-2017, 07:41 AM
 
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Are roads supposed to be bad in RI? They don't seem like it. Lots of road work being done, that's a good thing, but the roads seem fine. I guess I'm missing something?
While Planetoid is clearly a stand up comedian and his Schick is evidently everything Rhode Island, the roads are not good. Evidence of this is when you drive down local town roads and can tell exactly where the Rhode Island state line ends by how much the better the roads are when you cross into Massachusetts and Connecticut. Especially Massachusetts.
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