Everyone is having a healthy little snort at this piece from The Onion yesterday Pretty Cute Watching Boston Residents Play Daily Game Of ‘Big City.’ And for good reason: it’s hilarious. But not only in the way everyone thinks it is.
Naturally, people like Gawker’s Lead Boston-Trolling Corespondent Hamilton Nolan are having a good time piling on. The Boston Globe has fired back today as well. Boston-bashing is just good for business for everyone, partly because they jokes are so easy and predictable to make, but even more so, which sadly often ends up proving the point of the jokes themselves, the city’s residents can be very defensive about this sort of thing. It’s a traffic win win for everyone! Haters get to have their Boston-sport, and Massholes get to fire up the old underdog outrage machine. Here’s the space where you’d typically find an expression of self-deluded anger typed out in all caps affecting a bad Boston accent.
Granted, the story, which pokes fun at Boston’s relatively smaller stature as compared to New York City, is pretty dead on in its jabs at my hometown:
Read the rest at Bullett.
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