Here's a bit of Sunday fun that's showing up on Kansas City social media . . .
ALL OF YOUR FAVORITE INTERNETS DENZIENS ARE POSTING MEMORIES OF KANSAS CITY STARTING WITH "I'M SO KC THAT . . ."
Some of the insights and reminiscing is pretty fun . . .
Here's a few from TKC to get you started . . .
I'm so KC that I remember Congressman Cleaver when he was "just" the most inspiring Reverend in town.
I'm so KC that I don't cross State Line or the bridge to make purchases.
I'm so KC, I can name all 12 Council members and all of the members of the Jackson County Legislature along with my State Rep. & Senator.
I'm so KC that I remember the Westside when there weren't any condos and Northeast before burrito trucks.
I'm so KC, that an I grew up in a neighborhood named after Irish people.
Now it's your turn . . .
More in a bit . . .
I'm so KC that I've been shot and survived Truman Med Center or Research.
ReplyDeleteI'm so KC I remember that light rail has been defeated 11 times at the ballot box.
ReplyDeleteI'm so KC that I remember South KC and Grandview before it became infested with the gang-banging criminal element.
ReplyDeleteI'm so KC that I remember when 12th & Vine was hopping with the best blues and jazz and The Castle Theater was on 12th & Paseo and only cost a quarter to get in!
ReplyDeleteI'm so KC that I remember when you could get real a 3 finger lid for $15.00 and hang out in Volker Park singing Beatles songs about peace all night long!
ReplyDeleteI'm so KC I can remember before it was "Beat Whitey Night" on the Plaza.
ReplyDeleteI'm so KC that I am NOT shocked when the Mayor dives into the bushes on the Plaza to evade gun fire.
ReplyDeleteI'm so KC that I remember being sold the earnings tax in exchange for free trash bags.
ReplyDeleteI'm so K.C. that I remember walking around the Plaza as a teenager and getting picked up by strange men and getting my dick sucked.
ReplyDeleteThe men might have been fags but they weren't niggers.
I'm so KC that I remember when the dagos controlled the neighborhood north of Independence Ave. and it was a DECENT place to live.
ReplyDeleteNo joke. I'm so KC I used to play in Budd Park.
DeleteI'm so CK that I remember when our politicians were better at lying to us.
ReplyDeleteI'm so KC I fish for carp at Troost Lake.
ReplyDeleteI remember when it was safe to go to KC Atheltics games on 18th and Brooklyn, park your car in some black guys front yard, give him 5 bucks so he would watch yuor car, then your dad and mom would stay and drink Schlitz Beer on his porch and you would catch lightning bugs in his front yard with his kids.
ReplyDeleteI remember when the city declared eminent domain and razed houses to the ground from downtown all the way south for the recently installed HiWay 71.
ReplyDeleteLemme think, oh yeah, they did that in 1958. I don't know what grass grew faster, the grass under the feet of our local politicians, or the grass on that strip of land that sat vacant for 50 years.
I remember the wooden floors at Emery Bird Thayer, my mom laughing as she held her dress down on Petticoat Lane and getting to order anything I wanted in the Tea Room at Macy's.
ReplyDeleteI remember wanting grilled cheese every time.
I'm so KC that I remember before Google Fiber came and made us the center of the tech startup universe.
ReplyDeleteMr. Tony,
ReplyDeleteI do not like this game. Waxing nostalgic, looking to the past while we get reamed in the rear in real time.
No sir, I will keep my eye on the ball. Mr. Mayor, Mikey Sanders et al I see your hand sneaking into my purse. Stop it! No more money to blow on your legacies.
Convenient to forget that some of us were not let into the various tea rooms. We took our elevenses standing up at the Kresge's side door hotdog outlet.
ReplyDeleteI remember KC when there was real free speech.
ReplyDeleteYou must be really old
DeleteI'm so KC I can remember delivering boxes of sticks of dynamite and blasting caps to the crews that were building NKC Hospital, Worlds of Fun, one of the twin stadiums, and the TWA Overhaul Base at KCI so they could blast out the rock and put in huge storm sewer systems.
ReplyDeleteCharles
Wheeler (the only good KC mayor I can remember in my lifetime) was mayor and he got shit done around here, and he didn't rob us and lie to us like everybody has since his time in office.
Yeah Chuck. I remember asking my dad why the city would do that. He says, "Big midtown freeway coming through".....I was an old man by the time they put the traffic lights in.
ReplyDeleteI'm so KC that I remember taking the streetcar all over town. And when the entire streetcar system was dug up and scrapped as being inefficient and obsolete.
ReplyDeleteI'm so KC I let cum guy Fuck me in the Ass and cum all over my face and tits.
ReplyDelete5:18 pm, you're a pussy. I still play in Budd Park.
ReplyDeleteYou blowing the East Side Locos for kicks.
DeleteIm so KC I remember when Tony got charged with illegal sexual conduct with a minor.
ReplyDelete7:04 Idiot
ReplyDeleteI'm so KC I can remember when bear could post and not get deleted.
ReplyDeleteI'm so K.C. that I remember appearing on the "Whizzo" show and having that old perv try to stick his hand down the front of my pants.
ReplyDeleteNaw. You're confused. That was some catholic priest.
ReplyDeleteI'm so KC i remember the Christmas parade, the boat and sports show at Municipal Auditorium when it was fun to go and get lots of freebies, then a sandwich at Auditorium Bar and Grill before going home. I'm so KC I remember Whizzo, Smaks, Griffs along with the original Winsteads.
ReplyDeleteI'm so KC I remember when EVERY light rail plan EVER proposed passed in Brookside, including the one with light rail on the trolley trail, before 2 tea party washouts and a shitty lawyer with a house partially built on city right of way bullied and bitched and stole my right to vote and then tried to do the same thing to midtown and East KC.
ReplyDeleteThose were the days, back before St Louis money ran Brookside.
I'm so KC I can remember when you didn't have to fly to Vegas to make a sports bet.
ReplyDeleteI'm so Kansas City my house has been robbed 6 times in a matter of months where there is an abundance of social programs to help people with their financial difficulties.
ReplyDeleteSalute to Chuck at 5:49 and 5:57....old-timer!!!
ReplyDeleteI'm so KC I can remember when our Mayor was Richard Berkley.....a class act and gentleman!
I'm so KC, I remember this town had the morning and afternoon paper. And they had real reporters!
ReplyDeleteBerkley was a DO-NOTHING mayor. He slipped in, did absolutely nothing, and slipped out. A dweeb. We have a do-nothing park down by the river called "Do Nothing Park" which is named after him.
ReplyDeleteI'm so KC, I remember when the WILDMAN and his racist friends had thier own blog and did spend all day bitching about how TKC gets more hits and then lying and gossiping about him. If any of their shit was true they would post the casenet link all day and night. BUT, I have seen a mug shot of THE WILDMAN.
ReplyDeleteI'm so KC, I remember Kay Cronkite Waldo!
ReplyDeleteI'm so KC I remember when the shut down the first streetcar line.
ReplyDeleteI'm so KC I remember when people read newspapers.
ReplyDeleteI'm so KC, I'm from the suburbs and spend 4+ hours a day trolling Tony's Johnson County and making up bullshit about KC, mostly streetcar lies and made up crime, wait, I mean CK, hahahahhaha get it? its backwards, hahahaha.
ReplyDeleteI'm so KC I never bought a drink from Glazer.
ReplyDeleteHi Russ.
ReplyDeleteI'm so KC, I remember when emily designed a ck logo and then got drunk and sucked me off in her hipster office.
ReplyDeleteAwwwwwwwwww Damn. She seems so nice. I want to see her in booty shorts.
ReplyDeleteI'm so KC i remember when the freight trains used to run in back of my house on Brookside on what is now the trolley trail. Hopped them down to the Plaza a time or two.
ReplyDeleteI'm so Overland Park, I accuse everyone of being somebody named Russ. don't know who he is, but not knowing things never stops me from voicing my opinion. I'm a white suburban man with the internet, after all, the whole world waits for my prognostications.
ReplyDeleteI'm so KC I remember driving down Brush Creek Blvd..
ReplyDeletethen they re-named it after some Democrat racist KC political hack.
I'm so KC I'm still waiting for that hockey or NBA team they promised us when they wanted our tax $$ to build the Sprint Center
ReplyDeleteI am so KC, I remember when we had a mayor and city council!
ReplyDeleteI'm so KC I'm Freakin' The Fuck Out that summer's almost over!
ReplyDeleteI'm so KC I'm jealous of 4:19
ReplyDeleteI remember the Plaza flood and the drainage creeks overflowing to 85th street.
ReplyDeleteI remember when the Little Angus burger joint occupied the spot now Vietnam Veteran Memorial.
Hippies sold weed, mescaline, and acid for a few bucks in Volker.
I remember some of those hippie chicks had muffs that looked like they had Don King in a scissor lock.
I'm so KC that I remember when the JCN neighborhood I grew up in was restricted and everyone had their own neighborhoods and took pride in them and were loyal to where they belonged.
ReplyDeleteI am so KC I remember when SAC 21 started the decline of KC.
ReplyDeleteI'm so KC I remember when Tony didn't delete my comments.
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I'm so KC that I remember when most of the people living in this town weren't fatties who dressed like white trash.
ReplyDeleteI'm so Kansas City I can't remember the last time, if ever, Freedom Inc. was't a racist, socialist group looking for control over Blacks.
ReplyDeleteI'm so Kansas City I remember when "Reverend" actually meant
ReplyDelete"spiritual leader" instead of "inept real estate developer".
I'm so KC I remember when folks actually thought Pendergast was running things like a crook.
ReplyDeleteI'm so KC that I used to know who had the right of way at 59th and Brookside and Main.
ReplyDeleteI'm so KC that my cassette deck was stolen outside Annie's Santa Fe at Bannister Mall.
I'm so KC that I can remember when KC Parks and Rec used to put up a kick-ass manger scene in Gilham Park at Christmas.
I'm so KC that I remember when Manor Square was the hip new entertainment district.
ReplyDeleteI'm so KC that I am now dead at the hand of a couple of worthless Tra'vons .
ReplyDeleteI'm so KC that I don't live there anymore.
ReplyDeleteI'm so KC I can remember living within a few minutes of 5 quality grocery stores, Katz & Rexall drug stores, Montgomery Wards & Sears... all while growing up in the hood.
ReplyDeleteI'm so KC I survived being robbed of my Green Mills fundraiser candy in the tunnels located under the intersection of 27th & Cleveland near Greenwood Elementary school.
ReplyDeleteI'm so KC I remember when US-71 followed The Paseo , US-50 followed Blue Pkwy and US-40 followed Linwood Blvd.
ReplyDeleteIam so KC, I remember the great umpire Don Deckinger and the 1985 world champion Royals.
ReplyDeleteI'm so KC, when Emily farts my cum out of her sweet asshole a new CK logo is born!
ReplyDeleteI'm so KC that I remember when the only nig nogs on the Plaza were parking cars and shining shoes.
ReplyDeleteI am so KC I remember when the head of the Teacher's Union called Mayor Wheeler "the Clown Prince of Mayors".
ReplyDeleteI also remember Wheeler riding a jackass in downtown KC.
I am so KC I remember takin home the snake dancer at the Kit Kat club. NO dumfuc not the Jewelbox
ReplyDeleteI'm so KC I voted for Jermaine Reed twice in the same election. And I died four years ago.
ReplyDeleteI'm so KC I spelled my own name wrong on my English final. This dropped me down to finishing second in my class.
ReplyDeleteI'm so KC I actually believe half of Alonzo's bullshit.
ReplyDeleteI'm so KC that eight different niggers could be my dad. My mom doesn't remember all of their names.
ReplyDeleteI'm so KC I believe people outside of KC have heard of Craig Glazer.
ReplyDeleteI'm so KC I don't know a single black person with a job.
ReplyDeleteI'm so KC that I just now heard about these cool new things called DVDs.
ReplyDeleteI am so KC I am 20 years ode and still in 8th grade at KCPS. I will get my SS disability soon for not being able to read or write.
ReplyDeleteI lud dis Cuntry
I remember when the Kansas City Royals had a baseball team and it was not covered by a cartoonist from the local paper...
ReplyDeleteHey, Tony. Thanks for making this a permanent link. Almost forgot to post a few.
ReplyDeleteI'm so KC I think a no-talent, spoiled assclown like Kyle James actually has potential as a recording artist.
I'm so KC, people here don't refer to me as a student. I'm a "scholar." I can't read, I don't have a job, my folks are on welfare, and the school I go to looks like downtown Beirut. But I'm a "scholar."
ReplyDeleteI'm so KC, I overlooked the fact that Airick West barely graduated from high school, yet I thought he was qualified for a seat on the school board.
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