Sir Paul is here in New Haven today to receive an honorary degree from Yale.

[CTyankee]

He and Tony Blair together, causing quite a stir in our little city. Link: http://www.nhregister.com/WebApp/appmanager/JRC/BigDaily?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=pg_home&r21.pgpath=%2FNHR%2FHome

[Cooley Hurd]

1. Sir Paul never started a war...

...except with the Blue Meanies.:D

[Wizard777]

16. Now we're battling the Red Meanies over this war.

:evilgrin:

[Finn Polke]

2. What about Linda McCartney frozen pizzas?

Does your "little city" sell Linda McCartney frozen pizzas? :)

Last time I noticed Sir Paul McCartney, and cared about it, was when he tried to have John Lennon's name placed AFTER his on all of the songs they cowrote. Lennon's widow Yoko Ono, stopped that lil egotistical fancy from becoming reality, in civil court. But, I guess Yale can give him honors along with a murderer like Blair, and no one can stop it.

[CTyankee]

5. New Haven has fabulous pizza, some of the best you can get in the U.S.

I have never seen a Linda McCartney frozen pizza here. Why would anyone want it, when they can have their pick of several acclaimed pizza places here in town?

[Finn Polke]

11. Acclaimed pizza doesn't sound Italian

Acclaimed pizza doesn't sound Italian, either. Must be like that ice cream called Häagen-Dazs®.

:hi:

[CTyankee]

13. Actually, my favorite New Haven pizza is at "Modern Apizza."

I don't know any other town where pizza is called "apizza," but it is here. One theory is that the Sicilian dialect for La Pizza drops the "L."

Come to New Haven for a visit. I'll take you there and also to see the model of the original "Amistad" in New Haven harbor and the New Haven Green. Very cool.

Oh, and you can see parts of New Haven (including Yale's Old Campus) in the new Indiana Jones movie...

[JerseygirlCT]

15. Sorry, but I must disagree

I know it's a CT thing to say that, but... just about anywhere in the NJ/NY metro area you can walk into any strip mall pizza joint and get better stuff. Just sayin'. Good pizza isn't really all the easily found around here.

Lots of thick greasy stuff, with way too much sauce. But not so much the good stuff with the really thin crust, lots of really, really good cheese, and just enough sauce to hold it together. And none of that fancy-schmancy chunky sauce stuff, lol!

[Finn Polke]

17. CTyankee's pizza elitism rising like crust

Well, well! Looks like CTyankee's pizza elitism triggered JerseygirlCT's pizza truthbomb; you can take the girl outta Jersey but...

I can't help but think that a place that calls pizza "apizza", and a submarine sandwich a "grinder" might deserve to have Sir Paul and Blair show up. Maybe.

[JerseygirlCT]

19. LOL

I guess you grow up loving the stuff you're used to. But I'll take the pizza I described any day.

Seriously, I was home, and my dad just ran down to grab pizza from a local strip mall - it was better than much you find up here in CT. Whatcha gonna do?

I guess I get where "grinder" might have come from. But the one I really don't understand is "hoagie"? What the heck?

[drbtg1]

20. It's definitely a CT thing.

Wooster Street in New Haven is basically an oasis in the desert. CT pizza is generally so bad that average pizza like Pepe's is held in high regard by people who lived in CT their entire lives. Yet, when compared to typical pizza in NY and NJ that you can get anywhere there, New Haven pizza is nothing special.

Oh, by the way, the last time I was at the granddaddy of Wooster Street pizza places, Pepe's, they had a picture of Reagan on the wall.

[WinkyDink]

3. Clever Yalies, wot?

[CTyankee]

7. Yeah, well, Yale is also the place that won't give back the Macchu Picchu artifacts

STOLEN by Yalie Hiram Bingham back in the early days of the 20th century. They are still on public view at Yale's Peabody Museum, across the street from where I worked.

Yale thinks they are doing the world a favor by keeping the artifacts "safe." Cuz, ya know, those South American countries could have a revolution and stuff could happen...

[WinkyDink]

8. Now you're arguing about museums per se, when they have artifacts not of their locale.

But then, I appreciated seeing the Elgin Marbles in London.

And your reply was a non-sequitur.

[CTyankee]

9. Well, I was responding to the "clever" part of your post. I must admit I am big time mad at Yale

over the Macchu Picchu issue. It was plunder, pure and simple.

Perhaps you can appreciate that living here in New Haven we see Yale as "Bigfoot" in many instances that I won't bore you with, but that affect people's lives, people who are vulnerable when trying to go against such a powerful institution. Yale does some good things and I have had some terrific colleagues and acquaintances at Yale. But living here I have seen what enormous power does, just by being so enormous.

Oh, and yes, I think the UK should give the Elgin marbles back to Greece. I'm sure the Greek government would be happy to have people see them there. Perhaps you believe that "might makes right"?

[KamaAina]

22. Takes me back to when a group of students tried to rebrand WYBC as 'Y-94"

'YBC is one of the few venues in which Yalies and townies work, more or less, side by side. In the mid-'80s, the New Haveners at the station were quite exercised when the station manager (a Yale student) unveiled a proposed "Y-94" logo, complete with a big, blue Y. "A big, blue Y means only one thing in this town!" Eventually the matter was dropped.

[stevedeshazer]

4. Two sell-outs from England.

Feh.

Bush the Lesser also has an 'honorary' degree from Yale.

Pity, really. Cheapens it for all those legitimately earned it.

[CTyankee]

6. AFAIC, Yale heaped dishonor upon itself when they gave Bush that degree.

I was in a crowd protesting at Yale that day. It was totally disgusting.

[Hannah Bell]

10. yale was built with slave trade & opium money. when wasn't it

"dishonored"?

[CTyankee]

12. Yup. Did you know that every single person who has a Yale college named after him

(including Yalie Samuel Morse whose namesake college was established as late as 1965)had owned slaves? Some Yale professors only a couple of years ago made a huge stink about that.

Note: for those who don't know, Yale is unique among American colleges in that it has "colleges" subsumed under Yale College, like the UK's Cambridge and Oxford. As a Yale undergrad you are assigned to one of them.

[JerseygirlCT]

14. He sure snuck in, didn't he?

I didn't hear anything about it until this morning!

[CTyankee]

18. That's because Yale doesn't reveal who is getting honorary degrees until the "day of"

However, the jig was up when he appeared at the Yale British Art Gallery on Sunday night for a gala opening of a Liverpool exhibit, along with Tony Blair.

I think it's interesting that he stayed overnight in Bethany...

[JerseygirlCT]

21. In Bethany?

With someone?

[CTyankee]

23. Some art place I never heard of. It struck me as odd for a place to stay.

It was in the New Haven Register today.

[JerseygirlCT]

24. ???

Interesting - who knew?!!