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By adamg on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 3:28pm
As Boston as a cream pie

Shamus Moynihan forwards this photo of a sidewalk billboard on Comm. Ave. in Allston's Packards Corner. Yes, they were obviously thinking of something like this, but the phrase does have another meaning.

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Packards Corner
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Comments

By anon on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 3:30pm.

I don't get it.

By adamg on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 4:18pm.

But if you're a cat and curiosity gets the better of you, go to Urban Dictionary and look up the phrase (just without "Boston" at the beginning).

By anon on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 11:22pm.

Disgusting and unfortunate association, likely indicative of a porn addiction, or at least too much porn on the mind.

By adamg on Mon, 09/13/2021 - 9:43am.

Best to lie down for a few minutes.

By brianjdamico on Mon, 09/13/2021 - 10:22am.

you can't be this obtuse.

By John Costello on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 4:18pm.

$19.99 Per Month - Billed Discreetly.

By cybah on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 6:37pm.

Oh they have an OnlyFans account at @HotFreedomTrailAction

Its all guys dressed up in 1776 era petticoats getting all frisky along the trail. You should see one of them's bunker hill monument... it's... tall & impressive.

And they do like cream pies.. erm Boston Cream Pies.

By Cleary Squared on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 5:03pm.

Urban Dictionary definition

By Anon on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 7:27pm.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XY4L5RU6kyo

By Spicoli on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 9:12pm.

First reference that came to mind

By Fenway Crank on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 3:37pm.

totally awesome!!!

By Notfromboston on Mon, 09/13/2021 - 9:47am.

I'll speak not just for myself here: We are tired of seeing Shamus Moynihan name everywhere. What are they even running for?

By adamg on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 4:17pm.

And has even done his part to make life better here. So gets a pass.

If you're tired of seeing his name, I'm sure you can find a perfectly fine site in Athol or Belchertown or wherever to spend your time on.

By jmeltzer on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 9:14pm.

They aren't that far apart.

If they do play each other, those games must have great heckling.

UPDATE: They are!!

By SwirlyGrrl on Mon, 09/13/2021 - 12:37am.

Athol at the other.

Could be called the GI Bowl ... or is that bowel?

By Matt Frank on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 6:17pm.

Adam, how dare you publish content from people who bring you information from around the city that your readers may find interesting or entertaining! Horrible, just horrible!

By Lee on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 9:37pm.

…. he posts here as Magoo.

By ShamusJP on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 10:47pm.

I’m pretty sick of him myself.

By JP'er on Mon, 09/13/2021 - 10:16am.

Shaking fist*

LOL, keep on keeping on Shamus!

By brianjdamico on Tue, 09/14/2021 - 6:02am.

Who exactly, other than yourself, are you speaking on behalf of? We don't even know who *you* are, unlike say, Shamus Moynihan or myself.

By g on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 4:45pm.

because it is really a cake,
not a pie?

By Irma la Douce on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 5:48pm.

Cf “cake by the ocean”.

By Sock_Puppet on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 6:36pm.

And when made on halloween it is called a Boo Cake.

Or as those silly texting kids spell it, bukkake.

By schneidz on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 5:05pm.

like getting it on while both partners are wearing tri-corner hats and firing muskets.

By RichSPK on Mon, 09/13/2021 - 10:55am.

Perhaps something similar to https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Happytrail

By SwirlyGrrl on Mon, 09/13/2021 - 5:19pm.

I thought that was a TTA (Trail to Adventure).

By anon on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 5:22pm.

My friend Dirty Sanchez explained it to me.

By anon on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 5:24pm.

That was a boner.

By Brent Jeffries on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 5:51pm.

Ad clearly created by Frank Reynolds and The Gang.

By eeka on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 6:59pm.

I've talked for years about starting a business that allows people to run things by 12-year-old boys of all ages and genders. Advertisements, menus, sermons...all sorts of stuff out there that really could use this.

By Matt Frank on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 8:34pm.

Honestly I often wonder if companies just ran their ideas by their staff and allowed comments to be made blindly without anyone else knowing who made the comment this stuff could be avoided. I could imagine this being presented and some 30 year old ad executive having to suppress a chuckle as to not come off as a creep.

Oftentimes people in charge don't care even if someone speaks up. I've been that person who spoke up and was shamed for even thinking that. Only for us to get burned later.

By MC Slim JB on Mon, 09/13/2021 - 10:55am.

recently, at an event planning session where someone had proposed a session title that made me snicker.

"It may be the first workshop of the day," I offered, "But I don't think 'Wake Up with [all-women panel]' is quite how you want to describe it. Phrasing?" (A couple of people on the call actually got that reference.)

I was met with one indignant reaction, effectively, "Ugh, only someone with a Y chromosome would think that." I countered, "Look, if it occurred to me, it will occur to at least 250 other people there." (The projected event attendance is 500.)

They changed it.

By Anon on Mon, 09/13/2021 - 10:40am.

At my next meeting I will suggest we require all employees involved in community relations watch a superclip of Archer phrasing bits.

By anon on Mon, 09/13/2021 - 12:38pm.

French: How about we call it (name)
Germans: snickering
Dutch: snickering
Belgian (whispers to American)
Americans: snickering
Brits: oh bloody hell would you knock it off?

By brianjdamico on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 7:38pm.

I'll take "Boston cream pie" over say...Cleveland's thing.

By cybah on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 9:26pm.

I had to look that up.

And I wish I hadnt now cuz it reminds me of a story about an ex coworker.........

By cybah on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 9:26pm.

I had to look that up.

And I wish I hadnt now cuz it reminds me of a story about an ex coworker.........

By Friartuck on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 10:09pm.

Is an ad offering facials...

By anon on Mon, 09/13/2021 - 7:37am.

always recommends a taste of the bearded clam at the Union Oyster House.

By fungwah on Mon, 09/13/2021 - 8:12am.

Why does the Freedom Trail need to advertise itself in Boston? Are there really that many people in Packards Corner who aren't aware of it?

By Allstonian on Mon, 09/13/2021 - 9:05am.

The Packard's Corner neighborhood is full of people new to Boston right now...

By BostonDog on Mon, 09/13/2021 - 9:16am.

Much to the chagrin of the student residents.

IMHO, the sorts of people who walk the Freedom trail (younger school kids and older adults) are not the ones to initially think of the other cream pie reference anyway.

By anon on Mon, 09/13/2021 - 12:28pm.

People rent lodgings outside the core of downtown and say "now what".

By anon on Mon, 09/13/2021 - 12:48pm.

They have one on dry dock Ave too

By SwirlyGrrl on Mon, 09/13/2021 - 5:16pm.

Wasn't Boston Cream Pie invented on the freedom trail? It goes right by the Parker House.

You can get a creampie and a parker house roll there.