Well they are only REPECTED, if they were highly respected well then it might be different.

It's called a HUMAN INTEREST STORY you dope. These people are our friends, our families, our lovers. They are our neighbors, our peers, our allies.

Also, I am probably the cheapest P.R. agent in the Boston area and this woman happens to be my only client.

So BACK OFF JACK, cause this cat has been backed into a desperate corner and THIS KITTIE HAS CLAWS!

Friend to Maltese children everywhere.

Subby, I am disappoint.

/get it out of the way

News-paper? I do not know this news-paper.

RaceBoatDriver: /get it out of the way

*Shaks fist*

repected? I didn't know they were pected first.

I could had sworn that as a kid, there was some arts-and-crafts trend where people would dress up gooses into different costumes. What makes this sad, old woman any different?

I thought this whole dress the goose ornament thing died out in the 80's.

to be fair the pictures are very high quality.

REPECT MAH AUTHORITAH!!

WOW they couldn't have used any crappier cell phone pics.

The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves: News-paper? I do not know this news-paper.

It was an unholy union of text and pulped wood that the ancients used to distribute their blogs.

FTFA: Melrose woman's goose statue has become a local landmark

Well to be fair, in some places they give you directions based upon landmarks like "The place where they killed that fella" or "Where the orphanage was before it burnt down when Mr Henshaw's kid went nuts" or "Where the old mill used to be before they paved it over to put in a crapload of condo's and about 8 Starbucks"

So, having a goose as a landmark really isn't all that bad...

Sybarite: Friend to Maltese children everywhere.

"Why you hurt Goosioooooooo------(gurgle)"

Repected is'nt the only mispelled word in the haedline.

At least they can spell "respected" and "publishes."

lendog: repected? I didn't know they were pected first.

The editor is here... everyone look busy.

DoughyGuy:
Well to be fair, in some places they give you directions based upon landmarks like "The place where they killed that fella" or "Where the orphanage was before it burnt down when Mr Henshaw's kid went nuts" or "Where the old mill used to be before they paved it over to put in a crapload of condo's and about 8 Starbucks"

So, having a goose as a landmark really isn't all that bad...

Ayuh, you cain't get theyah from heeyah.

Oh, an' at numbah nine: GO SAWX!!! Even Mothah Goose loves Nomah and Dave Robuhts.

Subby: Website of highly repected, Pulitzer-winning (hemmoraging money and readers like a slashed jugular of a) newspaper ...

FTFY

ac982000: Well they are only REPECTED, if they were highly respected well then it might be different.

Repected:

When you have your pectoral muscles replaced.

Jonathan Hohensee: I could had sworn that as a kid, there was some arts-and-crafts trend where people would dress up gooses into different costumes. What makes this sad, old woman any different?

You poor child. You still think those dead infants were geese.

Dewey, a retired nurse for the Middlesex County Sheriff's Office who lives on Main Street near the Wakefield town line, decorates the goose to match the holidays, major sports games, or whatever feels right at the time. She buys many of her 25-30 outfits from a catalog, such as this graduation cap and gown which matches the colors worn by Melrose High students at their commencement ceremony.

9 0 2 1 oh my god. That's awful.

Aretha Franklin wanted for questioning.

There were only 9 costumes?

Jonathan Hohensee: I could had sworn that as a kid, there was some arts-and-crafts trend where people would dress up gooses into different costumes. What makes this sad, old woman any different?

gooses? like when grab a woman's ass?

*facepalm*

Donnnnshu make fun of sushhh a repected paper. We publishsssssss what we want to publishssssss

This is a terrible landmark. Goose dies, man.

I get the feeling the next story we'll be hearing about this thing is that a bunch of drunk idiots from Woburn decided to steal the statue, and they spend the next two weeks mailing the newpaper photos of the goose (no doubt wearing sunglasses and smoking a cigarette) in a strip club, standing at a urinal, or on a rollercoaster.

/Although in retrospect it is a bit cold for rollercoasters...

I was OK until the picture of the goose in wedding garb, with the article saying local brides want to have their picture taken with the dang thing.
Thems some strange folk. I hope I never end up there with car trouble.

Wish I had the Zits comic strip. The gag went like this:

Dad: What wrong,son?
Son: This lame website hasn't updated in three days.
Dad: That too bad. How much are you paying them?
Son: Nothing,it's free.
Dad: There goes your leverage.

Thank the FSM the goose is wearing clothes or there would be national outrage!

When I lived in West Quebec there was an artist who lived on highway 105 near Chelsea who had a gigantic flamingo on his front yard. This thing was about 6 feet high. He dressed it up for the season. It was very festive. Not too useful as a landmark because basically you can only go up or down 105 from there.

These goose statues are everywhere in Western PA. WTF makes this one special?

Jonathan Hohensee: I could had sworn that as a kid, there was some arts-and-crafts trend where people would dress up gooses into different costumes. What makes this sad, old woman any different?

My aunt still does.

My friend does as well, but she found the goose on the side of the road and she's a bit more tongue-in-cheek about it.

This took too long to find. (new window)Damnit I'm bored today.

Dewey, a retired nurse for the Middlesex County Sheriff's Office who lives on Main Street near the Wakefield town line, decorates the goose to match the holidays, major sports games, or whatever feels right at the time. She buys many of her 25-30 outfits from a catalog...

There's a catalog for this sort of holiday apparel? Is it very gay?

Goose statues, which can cost more than $120, are a target for vandalism. Dewey has replaced hers five times, she said, noting neighbors sometimes give money to cover some of the replacement costs.


How ironic. I happen to have five I'm willing to sell at a discounted price of $75.00 each. Only because I'm in the holiday spirit.


/and this article almost made me feel bad

Respect the goose!

therhinodep

At least they can spell "respected" and "publishes."


Any thoughts on 'metropolitan'?


"Nine-page" should be hyphenated.

As a reporter who covers stupid sh*t all the time, I'm getting a kick out of this

Slow News Day is Slow?

Living a few miles from Boston, Dewey also has several sports costumes, including Red Sox, Patriots, and Bruins outfits. "People say 'why do you do it?' and I say 'cause I never had a Barbie doll growing up,'" Dewey said. "Plus, it makes me smile."


I'd wager she enjoys the company that comes along with it (kids, neighbors, brides(?)) too.

Y'know, I'd rather have these kids of stories (especially if it was only online) than the crap my local once somewhat respected newspaper prints. Like a shopping column, and a section "just for women!" that makes me want to renounce my own damn gender.

That was kind of a cute slideshow. And brings some people happiness.

What the hell.

C'est la vie.

D-Wolf2k2: Slow News Day is Slow?

When you aren't willing/able to report on all of Obama's failures, you have to fill the void with something.

"repected" is much more appropriate that "respected" when referring to the Boston Globe.

Why don't you learn how to spell and/or type, submitter, and I might agree with you.

Probably not, but at least you'd have a shot at it.

I often wonder about the often espoused notion that it is the newspaper's own fault for not adapting to the rise of the internet, or that the music industry is just too old and greedy to follow the course of action that would allow it to survive pirating.

When newspapers move to a subscription site, they get scooped and their work is sold for free by ad sites, if they have a free ad site, they get scooped and their work is sold for free by somewhere else.

If the music industry sell on the internet, like iTunes, they still lose a lot to pirating.
What are these mystical new patterns that the industry can follow that somehow stop this?

Has it occurred to you (no on in particular) that pirating and scooping aren't a healthy part of product competition, and that we are in fact undermining our capitalist system by participating in quasi-theft, rather than giving our business to groups practicing methods that we actually like?

Rodddxl: D-Wolf2k2: Slow News Day is Slow?

When you aren't willing/able to report on all of Obama's failures, you have to fill the void with something.

SantaMidge: I often wonder about the often espoused notion that it is the newspaper's own fault for not adapting to the rise of the internet, or that the music industry is just too old and greedy to follow the course of action that would allow it to survive pirating...

...but it's a Goose...

I want more than hard news from my newspaper, thanks. The occasional fluff story is fun and doesn't harm their prestigious award winning reputation thingy.