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choad · 2019-04-27 06:08:29

The sign introducing Leominster, a city off picturesque Route 2 in north-central Massachusetts, is faded, but the lettering is clear: ‘Leominster: Pioneer Plastics City’.

Emmeran, would you EVER describe Rt 2 as "picturesque"?

Note: Leominster is pronounced Lemon-ster

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Baywolfe · 2019-04-27 09:18:06

choad wrote:
Emmeran, would you EVER describe Rt 2 as "picturesque"?

Compared to a lot of places in Britain, it probably is.

BorderCount · 2019-04-27 10:20:54

I've spent more time in Leominster than I cared to. RT 2 is definitely NOT picturesque.

Fled · 2019-04-27 15:47:43

It's picturesque in the way that the pictures taken by Elliot Gould's character in little Murders was.

He took pictures of dog.shit.

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slohandave · 2019-05-01 08:24:36

au contraire, RT 2 is heavenly west of 91 all the way to N. Adams, twisty turns, scenery and fun and a wicked cool hairpin turn just before N Adams.

Yes, i said "wicked cool", born and raised here kinda makes that ingrained.

choad · 2019-05-01 09:44:31

I survived a regular commute from Brattleboro, Greenfield, to Littleton on a motorcycle one winter and swore never again.

You're right, North Adams is purdy but there's nothing there, really, except exiled Staties who annoyed the brass in Boston somehow. I went hang gliding there a lifetime ago and it was breathtaking.

Baywolfe · 2019-05-02 15:39:52

slohandave wrote:
au contraire, RT 2 is heavenly west of 91 all the way to N. Adams, twisty turns, scenery and fun and a wicked cool hairpin turn just before N Adams.

Yes, i said "wicked cool", born and raised here kinda makes that ingrained.

By all means use your local slang here! We can use all the color we get.

Emmeran · 2019-05-02 16:24:57

I didn't see any Titty Bars up on RT2 so yeah, it's a shit drive. I'm sadly infatuated with opening shift strippers; y'all know the ones - they work the lunch hour and are usually closing on 40 with a whole tribe of kids - including the one in the stroller left just to the side of the dance floor.

Something about all that optically offensive misery entrances me...