Yes, yes, Boston has lots of great virtues. I love Boston. But even Pittsburgh could put up a list comparable to this...
The Museum of Fine Arts! The Symphony and the Pops! The Head of the Charles Regatta! Old North Church! Berklee School of Music! The Public Gardens!
But I can't think of many institutions which would qualify as the Most Important or Most Influential on the world stage, aside from Harvard (and all its many grad schools) and MIT. Which is not nothing as those institutions alone are massively important. But in most instances (publishing, finance, theater etc) it would have to defer to NYC, as San Francisco would have to defer to LA or Silicon Valley. (Not that long ago, SF
could
lay some claim as an important financial center but that was before BofA got hijacked and the Pacific Stock Exchange disappeared.)
Hec baiting Beantown. This is quite the spectator sport.
They get so huffy!
Yup. We do. It's another one of are quirks.
Poor sick Mac. I hope he feels better soon.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who laughed at the no more lancing instruction.
So far today, I've managed to stay upright, gotten a raise, and read some fic, so I'm going to count it as a win.
Mass General represent.
As an added bonus, my mom is in the lab, testin ur blood.
right, cause David would love people giving lip to SF or god forbid a favorite resturant.
msbelle, sorry to hear that mac is sick and that you, aparently, are poking yourself with sharp objects.
Mass General represent.
Yeah, but they're not Johns Hopkins or the Mayo Clinic. They're only fourth best.
right, cause David would love people giving lip to SF or god forbid a favorite resturant.
Let's hear it, lippy.
I tend to think of it as a quaint suburb of LA.
