Dept. Of I Can’t Believe They Went There: Pro-Casino Analyst Makes The Time-Honored Fishtown Teeth Joke
While we were on break last week, there was a pretty good piece in the Wall Street Journal concerning the gambling industry both as we head into Great Depression 2.0 and the changing public perception of gambling, which seems to grow less favorable with the average American each time he or she is surveyed. With writer Dale Buss singling us out and going so far as to say that “shouldering into Philadelphia may prove to be the American casino industry’s Waterloo,” you can bet the piece made waves in the gambling industry. Perhaps the most telling analysis of the piece came from a insider-industry site called Gambling 911, where the gambling industry’s open disdain for its customer base, especially here in Philly, was on full display:
“Buss obviously does not know Philadelphia and he’s never been to Fishtown,” our industry analyst points out. “What are three girls standing together at a bus stop in Fishtown? A full set of teeth! There is not much room for failure in Fishtown so casinos can only help.”
Wow. This is what we’ve always suspected gambling industry wonks thought about us, but it’s almost shocking to hear them say it out loud. We’d love to print up this quote on a leaflet and put it in the door of every one of our neighbors proudly displaying a SugarHouse-bought red ribbon. These people love you, Fishtown. They really do.
Gambling 911: We’ll Be Here All Week, Tip Your Bartender
January 6th, 2009 at 11:38 am
It’s funny how many people forget that things they say on the internet are, you know, public.
January 6th, 2009 at 11:39 am
That’s not William Reed in the photo …?
January 6th, 2009 at 11:56 am
My thuggish next-door neighbor posted Casino YES! signs all over our neighborhood not because he cares at all about casinos but because he cares very deeply about pissing off his neighbors.
So let’s move that casino into Market East because how much worse can it get, right? No one’s going to notice a little more crime and trash over there, right? I’d like to know how that $100 million Nutter is asking for is going to “revitalize” Market East. From what I can tell, the best revitalization happens from the ground up, not the casino down.
January 6th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
OhhNoHeDii-iinnttt!!!
January 6th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
Philebrity spends countless post exclaiming how Fishtowners are racist slobs. How they are dumb and thuggish. Now all of a sudden he is offended, c’mon guy. Little of the pot calling the kettle black, no?
January 6th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Ggliwa, with logic that exquisite, who are we to argue?
BUT: For the record, being a dumb, racist, xenophobic, thuggish slob is one thing. Being a toothless hillbilly is something else entirely. Unless you count those people across the street from us.
I wonder if they like to gamble.
January 6th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
For the record, being a dumb, racist, xenophobic, thuggish slob is one thing. Being a toothless hillbilly is something else entirely.
Yes: the hillbilly who is cut off from the outside world has an excuse. The slob living in Philly–one of the oldest, largest, most culturally rich cities in America–does not.
January 7th, 2009 at 1:51 am
sheesh…
doesn’t he know we’re gentrifying!?