/wonders if Extreme Makeover:Home Edition and ABC have been getting calls from NOLA

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This kind of attitude is why New Orleans will be back as a party town in just a few years.

Didn't Carlin just do a bit on this in his new special?

About the dingbats who refuse to leave the area, then watch Grandma float down the street with a parakeet on her head...again?

*paddle paddle*

As long as they have permission from the owner, why the hel1 not?

slow news day already

A house gutting party:

1. Get drunk.
2. Take sledge to everything.

slow news day?

I think its just every new article today can't compare with that one girl who wrote the article about not "getting" fark.

speaking of which, what the hell am I doing in this thread? There are chops to be busted.

I have gutted a few houses here and it is work best done carefully.

A house gutting party:

1. Get drunk.
2. Take sledge to everything.

I was at a few of those in college, though I guess I didn't know the name of it at the time...

What a badly written article.

Hey- Anyone with a lot of boredom check out the General News forum at the WWL-TV site that ran this story. The trolls run the show there...mucho drama.

So no big greedy developer is going to come in and steal there homes?

There's nothing more fun that taking a big old sledge hammer and smashing stuff.

especially doing with sauced.

KyngNothing:

Sounds like every party my fraternity ever had.

Except replace "sledge" with "head." Also "fist," "foot," "other guy's head."

Ah, college.

Just be sure to wear eye protection, gloves and a helmet, stuff flies around when you bashing it with large hammers.

It's all fun and games until someone guts the mayor's house. Then the Stasi hunts you down like a dog, forcing you to fellate truck drivers and hornswaggle irate cattle 'till your nipples bleed. Then it's a mad dash to California, for some mint mocha anal lube and an honorary place in the Gold Rush. And that's only if you survive the flying chainsaw bears!

The moral of the story: Grandpa died and was resurrected after three days, but no one called him the Son of God; they just said, "Hey, that's Gramps!"

/got nothin'
//love them Cruel Shoes

didn't rtfa, but it brightened my dreary morning to hear about this amazing example of spirit triumphing over dispair.

/i didn't mean for this to sound so stupid

When we bought pur first house, it needed a complete remodel. We bought a ladder, then had the epiphany as to what the best demolition tools were: A Big BBQ Grill and a keg of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale.

/had lots of free help
//got done in record time
///in hindsight, omit beer when it's time to repaint

Huh, there's a Fox News tag?

I do house gutting parties all the time. Usually it's in houses that weren't damaged by hurricanes. I just take the most valuable objects(jewelry, silverware,etc), and boy is it fun. Heck, I don't want to wake up the house owners so I just quietly gut away and then move onto gutting the next house!

Ward? Parish?

WTF

New Orleanians will party

Before
During
After

any event you can come up with. Besides, it's very painful to be inside your own house, tearing it down. I know.

Beer helps. Friends help more.

MooseBayou

"Besides, it's very painful to be inside your own house, tearing it down."
---
Esp. when the joists land on your head.

ZzeusS:

Louisiana is very much French in its government setup, thus, instead of counties, they have parishes, and wards instead of city divisions, similar say Brooklyn, Queens, etc, of New York, or Sherman Oaks, or Watts, etc, in Los Angeles

No gut, no glory?

/sorry

More than half of the people who live in the Lower Ninth Ward actually own their own homes...

Is the word actually really necessary here? Seems racist to me.

Diana

More than half of the people who live in the Lower Ninth Ward actually own their own homes...

Is the word actually really necessary here? Seems racist to me.

Both racist & classist.

Bein's from New Orleans, it doesn't surprise me. It's not "dirt poor" in the lower ninth, but it's not far above it. The homes have been in families for several generations.

orrinbloquy

In New Orleans, the joists are in the floors, too! (Unless you were shortsighted enough to build on a slab.)

It's like a barn-raising in reverse!

And with lots more alcohol, no doubt.

Why is 'actually' racist? Personally, if I think of 'american homes' as a general stereotype, my first thought is rented apartments.. or someone being evicted cos 'your rents late'.. (blame TV)
Then again, Id say the number of rentals/owners here wouldnt be too dis-similar
That was actually one thing Id wondered about, was how many residents owned their homes, and how many were simply leasing.
I think the 'racist' thought, comes from the fact that most upperclass 'white' people, own their own homes, and think if you dont own your own home, youre in the poverty-class (which they equate as a race thing)

did anyone else read that as HORSE gutting party?

2nd Ward represent!


/I dont think anybody from my old neighborhood has ever said that.

I can't believe they used the word "gutfest" in that article. Anyone who's listened to Digital Underground knows that it's not about gutting a house...

Lady J
What a badly written article.

What a poorly written comment.

FriarTuck: If I may out-ridiculous you:

I'm a 13th/14th Ward soldja!

/I personally prefer using the word "militant" and reading the resulting sentence with a dorky voice. It's even funnier to me that way.
//Just to be entirely clear, I would never say anything like that out loud. Please, I have standards.
///here's the map if you are interested/don't know