What Bobby said this week …
Posted by pittgirl on 21 Apr 2006 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
On Monday, April 17, Bob O’Connor said:
“We’re going to redd up Pittsburgh,” Mr. O’Connor promised in language any real Pittsburgher could understand.
And the firstest slogan via Sloganizer:
Sloganizer, I’m starting to think he does a little bit. Check this out:
Pittsburgh Mayor Bob O’Connor’s “redd up crew” rolled into the Marshall-Shadeland neighborhood on the North Side just after dawn today and got to work.
They towed cars, boarded up abandoned houses — at least I hope they were abandoned and not just ugly. Could you imagine waking up this morning and finding your whole house has been boarded in from the outside and a little card tucked into your mailbox says: “Bob O’Connor was here. Your house is ugly.”
Fun!
5 Comments »
on 21 Apr 2006 at 7:31 pm 1.Anonymous said …
Gee, I am starting to just love this guy, someone is listening to history. Damn the torpedo’s full speed ahead. He makes a decision (HE)(HIM)(SOMEONE)(HER)(SHE) and they stay with it. Get the job done!!!!
UH1B
on 21 Apr 2006 at 9:06 pm 2.Anonymous said …
Your blog is the shit. O’Connor, too.
on 21 Apr 2006 at 10:07 pm 3.PittLeo said …
Redd Up is supposed to be Pittsburghese? This is from the American Heritage Dictionary: The terms redd and redd up came to the American Midlands from the many Scottish immigrants who settled there. Meaning “to clear an area or to make it tidy,” redd is still used in Scotland and Northern Ireland; in the United States it is especially common in Pennsylvania as the phrasal verb redd up. The term, which goes back to Old Norse rydhja, can be traced from the 15th century to the present, particularly in dialects of Scotland and the North of England. How about BobbyO-Bonics?
on 22 Apr 2006 at 11:12 am 4.pittgirl said …
BobbyObonics has a wonderful ring to it.
on 24 Apr 2006 at 12:51 am 5.Shawn said …
Huh. I always thought that “redd up” came from the German verb “reden” which means “to clean.” Of course, German and Norse are both Teutonic languages, so…