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tommyLooks like Pinellas Park council member Patricia Bailey-Snook needs to leave her trailer once in a while. Check the column from Sue Carlton, It’s not a foreign country or whatever:
Pinellas Park officials were talking about a plan for their police on horseback to work in Tampa if needed and vice versa, a sharing sort of thing. City Council member Patricia Bailey-Snook had a question.
“Are our law enforcement officers taking up Spanish or Cuban or whatever?” she wondered.
Cuban? Whatever?
And in case they didn’t get her drift: “So they can talk to the public over there.”
Over there?
Apparently oblivious to the lemon-faces on some of her colleagues, she kept going: “Because a lot of them will say that they don’t speak English, but they do. But they’ll just keep rattling off in Spanish and you can’t get them to say a word in English.”
Oh, that Tampa. That far-flung foreign nation where people who get stopped by police won’t speak proper ‘Merican English.
C’mon Ms. Bailey-Snook. You underestimate us. There’s a lot more than just spanish or cuban or whatever spoken here. Your officers better also know some Asian or whatever, Italian or whatever, and brush up on your Phillippine, Brazilian, or whatever, too. Don’t be frightened, but there are also Brits, Australians, and [the horror!] Canadians in town too. Tampa is a melting pot. Tampa es una paella grande.
But not to worry, Ms. Bailey-Snook. Some of our Tampa residents are very fluent in redneck, too. Dang, we even got students that proudly display your city’s unofficial flag.
Anyway, to atone for your dissing (oops. sorry to use a foreign language on ya, I mean “disrespecting”) of a friendly city across the bay, I think you should repeat the following mantra every day: ONE BAY, ONE LOVE
By the way, Ms. Bailey-Snook, where on Earth did you learn to hyphenate your surnames?
Tags: diversity, one bay one love, pinellas-park, tampa, tampa-bay
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March 2nd, 2007 at 11:33 am
Where exactly is Pinellas Park anyway? I mean, it’s in Pinellas County but as a Pinellas Resident, I got no clue where… All I know is, if it’s in Pinellas, there is nothing “park” like about the
sprawlsuburban wastelandpaved over parking lotcity.March 2nd, 2007 at 12:06 pm
The whole concept of “One bay, one love” is insane. Talk to people living in the San Fransisco bay area. You’re either from Oakland, San Fran, San Jose, North Bay, East Bay etc - not from “San Fransisco Bay.”
Not saying we can’t be good neighbors and all, but dissing is going to happen. I think, to a degree, it’s healthy even.
Screw St. Pete. See? I prove my own point.
Seriously though, that woman is from Jacksonville I bet. Wow, I just can’t stop myself from the dissing. I’m from Jax, so it’s ok, right?
My mom once said, I sh*t you not, “I speak a little Mexican.”
To my wife, who’s half-Cuban.
March 2nd, 2007 at 1:15 pm
I’m not a culture snob or nothin, but it makes me cringe when people mix up countries like that. All the ‘necks around here call anyone Spanish-speaking “Spanish”. So by proxy, that makes us all English I guess. And I refuse to call Pringles “crisps”, I hate that word.
Hehe John.. I haven’t been to Pinellas Park in a good ten years or so but all I remember about it is strip clubs as far as the eye can see.
March 2nd, 2007 at 2:07 pm
I say “One Bay One Love” would make a great t-shirt and is an excellent place to start the love and stop the cynicism….
March 2nd, 2007 at 4:39 pm
I grew up in St. Pete and now live in Tampa. Pinellas county residents are equally as embarrassed by Pinellas Park as we are here across the bay. I think it is something in the water there…
March 2nd, 2007 at 10:05 pm
If Tampa/America considered itself a mosaic rather than a melting pot we’d all be alot happier together … (ala the Canadians)
I can’t believe these idjits are actually talking about trailering horses back and forth … but maybe they are planning on chasing down the rapists together … or arresting the victims. How much more fun could that be on horseback?
Stray horseback no less?
Neighboring horseback?
Trailer Park Horse back?
Most interesting.
It will be great to have even more, even stranger cops and horses around ….
I have to say this: There are times I pretend to speak only Spanish … it works for me so I do not blame our beloved bi-linguals for following suit in spanish when the feeling moves them ..
hehe
Ya plays with the toys the gods give ya
March 3rd, 2007 at 7:00 am
This by far has been my favorite post by you Tommy!!! Mrs. Baily-Snook is an almost newlywed. She was a widow that not too long ago found a new love. She only hyphens so the old foggies know its the same white haired, backwards thinking woman.
I wonder if the Mounted Police horses will have to learn “whatever” too? I find it awfully amusing that a city known in moniker as “penis park” should be worried about Tampa and the spanish not speaking English or whatever…
If you ever want a laugh attend some of these meetings, it puts the stupid pet/human tricks to shame.