Rb336 Member Username: Rb336
Post Number: 1208 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 - 8:26 am: | |
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap /2007/08/13/ap4014603.html |
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul
Post Number: 1444 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 - 8:45 am: | |
Damn 'b' an 'v' keys next to each other on the keyboard! |
Oakmangirl Member Username: Oakmangirl
Post Number: 46 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 - 8:58 am: | |
Now if we could just get Aretha to show, we could become the Vegas of the Mid-West! |
1953 Member Username: 1953
Post Number: 1440 Registered: 12-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 - 9:40 am: | |
The only difference between a b and a v is the rumble of the voicebox. |
Yvette248 Member Username: Yvette248
Post Number: 853 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 - 9:43 am: | |
And some pwoofreading skills :-) |
1953 Member Username: 1953
Post Number: 1441 Registered: 12-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 - 9:44 am: | |
The best line in that article: "Television ads in the Cleveland market include images of gambling, including one that calls Detroit "a real city."" |
Detroit_stylin Member Username: Detroit_stylin
Post Number: 4691 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 - 6:06 pm: | |
quote:Friends balked when he told them he was visiting Detroit, and he worried as he drove past smokestacks and grimy industrial landscapes. "Once you get in the city central, it's beautiful, very nice," Lucy said. "I'd like to come back out here again. I like Detroit. I never thought I'd say that." I thought that was pretty funny....lol |
Bearinabox Member Username: Bearinabox
Post Number: 264 Registered: 04-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 - 6:11 pm: | |
Great post, Rv336! :-) |
Detroit313 Member Username: Detroit313
Post Number: 454 Registered: 02-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 - 9:25 pm: | |
Ahhhhh- Didn't Forbes say that Detroit will be a ghost city in 100 years? Or was that Forves?!? I'm confused........ <313> |
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul
Post Number: 1447 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 - 2:16 am: | |
"he worried as he drove past smokestacks and grimy industrial landscapes." Just for the sake of curiosity, anybody know if the majority of out of town visitors come via this way (north on I-75)? Obviously anyone coming from Chicago or the west, would generally take like 94. Seems too bad though that all the downriver rouge river facilities are a lot of people's first impressions. |
Jeduncan Member Username: Jeduncan
Post Number: 125 Registered: 11-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 - 4:04 am: | |
drunk? |
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul
Post Number: 1450 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 - 5:44 am: | |
LOL. No, I wish. Working sort of a double today actually. |
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul
Post Number: 1451 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 - 5:46 am: | |
Running on not much sleep. That could be where the drunkeness impression comes from. |