Comments on: I’m the map, I’m the map, I’m the map… http://www.danconley.net/2008/06/im-the-map-im-the-map-im-the-map/ He's just zis guy, you know? Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:03:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Robert Larkin http://www.danconley.net/2008/06/im-the-map-im-the-map-im-the-map/comment-page-1/#comment-1599 Robert Larkin Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:54:50 +0000 http://www.danconley.net/?p=82#comment-1599 What was improvised was lost, and which was 'all'. Anyway, was going to look a bit at the E. St. Louis Riot of 1917 and which was vicious, and supposedly still the worst. We gave them a dunking and served them picnic from Kansas City, the twitting contests going on despite the draw where we knew we had our fingers crossed ... or something; still on the fly ... What was improvised was lost, and which was ‘all’. Anyway, was going to look a bit at the E. St. Louis Riot of 1917 and which was vicious, and supposedly still the worst. We gave them a dunking and served them picnic from Kansas City, the twitting contests going on despite the draw where we knew we had our fingers crossed … or something; still on the fly …

]]> By: Robert Larkin http://www.danconley.net/2008/06/im-the-map-im-the-map-im-the-map/comment-page-1/#comment-1339 Robert Larkin Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:06:23 +0000 http://www.danconley.net/?p=82#comment-1339 In 1875 St. Louis was a vast town and dwarfed Erie or wherever it is you live, Conley. The detail from the map linked above reveals history once precious and still active in the theme. St. Louis had that year lost a game of Hide And Go Seek to perennial intrastate rivals Kansas City and for our twitting they had told the entire City of St. Louis to go jump in the river. Of course those hearty and robust souls obliged and while they were getting their dunking hooligans from KC slipped in and burned down the newspapers. <img src="http://www.theequineschool.org/tesorg/goaheadandjump.png" alt="" /> Image: An entire city goes for a swim while across town freedom of the press is mocked by Kansas City. Despite the exquisiteness of the joke the newspaper burnings failed to elicit much laughter from St. Louisans and in 1876 the two cities agreed to give up their twitting competitions after a final murky incident. While Kansas Citians took a day of rest and met in rolling parks to remember The Civil War on April 15 with art and science, some 20,000 of last year's dunked men women and children slipped into the KC stockyard area, bribed or otherwise silenced the few Kansas Citians working there, and slaughtered and roasted every animal and had a picnic. It was no violent thing for St. Louis had sent the Corp of Kosher Butchers, assembled for the occasion, and chamber orchestras and singers touched the animals and the audience with sentimental music. The blood was frozen with a device invented for the occasion and sent on to Europe for blood sausage as a twit of them. Kansas Citians would have admired it had they ever learned of it but all they ever observed was that after their Memorial all the stockyard animals had disappeared, and that there were opened barrels of potato salad and stands of pumpernickel left in their stockyard buildings. Fearing a twitting they never mentioned it and both cities agreed to declare the competition over and a draw, the stories becoming in the middle 20th century the private lore of Kansas City and St. Louis librarians and their drinking companions. In 1875 St. Louis was a vast town and dwarfed Erie or wherever it is you live, Conley. The detail from the map linked above reveals history once precious and still active in the theme. St. Louis had that year lost a game of Hide And Go Seek to perennial intrastate rivals Kansas City and for our twitting they had told the entire City of St. Louis to go jump in the river. Of course those hearty and robust souls obliged and while they were getting their dunking hooligans from KC slipped in and burned down the newspapers.

Image: An entire city goes for a swim while across town freedom of the press is mocked by Kansas City.

Despite the exquisiteness of the joke the newspaper burnings failed to elicit much laughter from St. Louisans and in 1876 the two cities agreed to give up their twitting competitions after a final murky incident. While Kansas Citians took a day of rest and met in rolling parks to remember The Civil War on April 15 with art and science, some 20,000 of last year’s dunked men women and children slipped into the KC stockyard area, bribed or otherwise silenced the few Kansas Citians working there, and slaughtered and roasted every animal and had a picnic. It was no violent thing for St. Louis had sent the Corp of Kosher Butchers, assembled for the occasion, and chamber orchestras and singers touched the animals and the audience with sentimental music. The blood was frozen with a device invented for the occasion and sent on to Europe for blood sausage as a twit of them. Kansas Citians would have admired it had they ever learned of it but all they ever observed was that after their Memorial all the stockyard animals had disappeared, and that there were opened barrels of potato salad and stands of pumpernickel left in their stockyard buildings. Fearing a twitting they never mentioned it and both cities agreed to declare the competition over and a draw, the stories becoming in the middle 20th century the private lore of Kansas City and St. Louis librarians and their drinking companions.

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