15. Fancy horses
14. The horse that pooped
13. Vietnam Vets
12. Ravens mini-motocycles
11. Charm City Rollergirls
10. Dulaney flag girls and band
9. Underdog as Winter Fairy
8. Steam Calliope
7. Hampden Red-Hat Ladies in Duck Boat
6. Sarbanes
5. O'Malley, wife and kids
4. Mary Pat Clarke- people love her!
2. Boumi lawn-mower-engine carpets/ Edmondson Village Steppers (tie)
and, for the fifth year in a row,
#1 most-cheered= the guys who clean up behind the horses!
"Miss Marylands" in the Parade: six
Most popular thrown candy: Tootsie rolls
"" "", populous dancers:
Most popular media guy: Ron Matz
least popular car ... Sheila Dixon's!
Crickets!
(She looked cold and miserable, too!)
The teeming multitudes really do seem to dislike her!
Why would that be?
The dancers were Bolivian - "Raices de Bolivia." It was my first Mayor's Christmas parade and I was impressed. It kept going and going. I loved all the marching bands and especially the Mummers String Bands.
ReplyDeleteAnyone read the article in yesterday's Sun about kids dealing drugs? This particular bit really got to me.
ReplyDelete"At 16, Smith was arrested and charged as an adult with attempted murder. In that brutal case, Shaffer said, he pleaded guilty in June 1998 to firing a gun into the face of a man whose car he was trying to steal.
He was sentenced to 12 years and released from a prison in Hagerstown in early 2005. Within a few months, Smith was Cutthroat's co-leader."
Gee, maybe our horrendous crime rate has to do with the fact that you can shoot someone in the face and be out of prison in under seven years.
Seven? If you're young, you can be out in three with parole.
ReplyDeleteNow, let's review the history of undetermined (as to manner) deaths autopsied by the Medical Examiner in Balto.
ReplyDeleteYear - cases -undetermined manner
1995 3182 515
1999 3559 657
2000 3705 697
2001 3920 703
2002 3974 708
2003 4128 836
2004 3925 737
Do you perceive a trend? Could this be why our murders seemed to drop during the O'Malley years ??
Hmmmmm.
where are you getting those numbers, dear?
ReplyDeleteME
ReplyDeleteOooh, does galt work for the ME's office?
ReplyDeleteMaybe galt is "deep throat!"
The BCrime plot thickens!
O'Malley was also booed on 36th street. I thought people would boo Dixon too, but it was dead quiet. Did anyone notice it smelled like McDonalds when "Ronald" came by?
ReplyDeleteWell, he was cheered on 41st.. what does THAT mean?
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