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‘Our Small Is Their Large’

Posted on | January 15, 2010 | 23 Comments

Da Tech Guy absolutely insisted that I must visit Mighty Subs in Needham, Mass., home of the giantic 20-inch sub famous for the motto, “Our Small Is Their Large.” And so I did.

Big hands, big feet, big nose, big sandwich . . .

Da Tech Guy orders his “chicken parm” at Mighty Subs.

Well, as we were talking to the lady at the counter, guess what we found out? Guess who loves him some Mighty Subs?

Here’s a hint: He’s sexy and he just pulled ahead in the latest Massachusetts Senate poll.

BTW, the Boston Herald says that getting the endorsement of Ted Kennedy’s widow might have actually hurt Martha Coakley in that poll.

Thanks to all the readers who continue hitting the tip-jar to help finance this trip to Massachusetts, where I hope to get some stories almost as big as those giant Mighty Subs.

Friday morning, we’ll be at Vittorio’s in the North End, Boston’s largest Italian neighborhood. We won’t be there for the cuisine, but because there will be an out-of-town visitor campaigning for Scott Brown. Who do we know who is Italian and Republican and takes terrorism seriously?

Category: Da Tech Guy, Massachusetts

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23 Responses to “‘Our Small Is Their Large’”

  1. Joe
    January 15th, 2010 @ 6:50 am

    Good you are eating well. Check out this grinder.

  2. Joe
    January 15th, 2010 @ 1:50 am

    Good you are eating well. Check out this grinder.

  3. Thomas L. Knapp
    January 15th, 2010 @ 7:09 am

    “Who do we know who is Italian and Republican and takes terrorism seriously?”

    Hmmm … can’t think of anyone.

    There was that one guy from New York whom everyone though took terrorism seriously until he revealed on national television that he had completely forgotten about 9/11 (after campaigning for president for a year on the platform “a noun, a verb, 9/11,” even).

    Are you talking about that guy there? The one who put his terrorism response HQ under the most likely target for terrorism? The one who held off on a unified communications scheme for police and fire departments for seven years, directly resulting in the deaths of hundreds of New York cops?

    The idea that Rudy Giuliani has ever “taken terrorism seriously” as anything but a campaign crop is a thigh-slapper.

  4. Thomas L. Knapp
    January 15th, 2010 @ 7:09 am

    Er … “crop” should have been “prop.”

  5. Thomas L. Knapp
    January 15th, 2010 @ 2:09 am

    “Who do we know who is Italian and Republican and takes terrorism seriously?”

    Hmmm … can’t think of anyone.

    There was that one guy from New York whom everyone though took terrorism seriously until he revealed on national television that he had completely forgotten about 9/11 (after campaigning for president for a year on the platform “a noun, a verb, 9/11,” even).

    Are you talking about that guy there? The one who put his terrorism response HQ under the most likely target for terrorism? The one who held off on a unified communications scheme for police and fire departments for seven years, directly resulting in the deaths of hundreds of New York cops?

    The idea that Rudy Giuliani has ever “taken terrorism seriously” as anything but a campaign crop is a thigh-slapper.

  6. Thomas L. Knapp
    January 15th, 2010 @ 2:09 am

    Er … “crop” should have been “prop.”

  7. Mike LaRoche
    January 15th, 2010 @ 8:32 am

    Who do we know who is Italian and Republican and takes terrorism seriously?

    Whatever his shortcomings, I’ll take Rudy Giuliani over any pedantic neo-isolationist. I hope he returns to public service at some point.

  8. Mike LaRoche
    January 15th, 2010 @ 3:32 am

    Who do we know who is Italian and Republican and takes terrorism seriously?

    Whatever his shortcomings, I’ll take Rudy Giuliani over any pedantic neo-isolationist. I hope he returns to public service at some point.

  9. Bob Belvedere
    January 15th, 2010 @ 1:26 pm

    Knappster: I always find your commentary thoughtful and often entertaining, but, man, can you take that burr out of your ass every once in a while?

  10. Bob Belvedere
    January 15th, 2010 @ 8:26 am

    Knappster: I always find your commentary thoughtful and often entertaining, but, man, can you take that burr out of your ass every once in a while?

  11. Thomas L. Knapp
    January 15th, 2010 @ 2:45 pm

    Bob,

    Sorry, man. The whiskey just ain’t working any more and I’m getting temperamental in my old age 😉

    I do have to say that I’m very happy with the situation in Massachusetts:

    If Brown loses, the GOP establishment loses immediately, since he’s their candidate.

    If Brown wins, on the other hand the GOP establishment loses this November. It’s unfortunate that they’ll take the tea party movement, which had so much potential, down with them, but sometimes a dog gets sick enough that the only thing you can do for it is take it around behind the barn and put it out of its misery.

    If Coakley wins, it’s status quo ante, which sucks … but it’s better than the GOP getting yet another free “lesser evil” pass from pro-freedom folks when it runs a hack and when there’s a clearly superior candidate (Joe Kennedy) in the race.

  12. Thomas L. Knapp
    January 15th, 2010 @ 9:45 am

    Bob,

    Sorry, man. The whiskey just ain’t working any more and I’m getting temperamental in my old age 😉

    I do have to say that I’m very happy with the situation in Massachusetts:

    If Brown loses, the GOP establishment loses immediately, since he’s their candidate.

    If Brown wins, on the other hand the GOP establishment loses this November. It’s unfortunate that they’ll take the tea party movement, which had so much potential, down with them, but sometimes a dog gets sick enough that the only thing you can do for it is take it around behind the barn and put it out of its misery.

    If Coakley wins, it’s status quo ante, which sucks … but it’s better than the GOP getting yet another free “lesser evil” pass from pro-freedom folks when it runs a hack and when there’s a clearly superior candidate (Joe Kennedy) in the race.

  13. Bob Belvedere
    January 15th, 2010 @ 3:40 pm

    Knappster: I’ll glady send you some Maker’s Mark if that will help. Or a bottle of a nice sipping one I just discovered: Bulleit’s [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulleit_Bourbon].

  14. Bob Belvedere
    January 15th, 2010 @ 10:40 am

    Knappster: I’ll glady send you some Maker’s Mark if that will help. Or a bottle of a nice sipping one I just discovered: Bulleit’s [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulleit_Bourbon].

  15. Bob Belvedere
    January 15th, 2010 @ 3:41 pm

    Our small is their large…Hmmm…sounds like the way I would have to describe myself in my pre-marriage days: My small is their large.

    Quoted from and Linked to at:
    Stacy McCain In Bosstown III

  16. Bob Belvedere
    January 15th, 2010 @ 10:41 am

    Our small is their large…Hmmm…sounds like the way I would have to describe myself in my pre-marriage days: My small is their large.

    Quoted from and Linked to at:
    Stacy McCain In Bosstown III

  17. Thomas L. Knapp
    January 15th, 2010 @ 5:09 pm

    Bob,

    Heh … you’ll never hear me turn down free bourbon! I’m generally an Old Crow man, but the nicer bourbons are an occasional flirtation.

    The Bulleit’s higher rye content sounds … interesting.

    After following the Mighty Subs link in a previous entry here at TOM, I ended up jonesing for steak and cheese. My large is smaller than their small (standard grocery store hoagie bun), so I had two. And a Kentucky Tavern and Pepsi, of course (Pepsi Throwback — don’t know if they’re selling it nationwide or not, it’s the old Pepsi with cane sugar instead of corn syrup).

  18. Thomas L. Knapp
    January 15th, 2010 @ 12:09 pm

    Bob,

    Heh … you’ll never hear me turn down free bourbon! I’m generally an Old Crow man, but the nicer bourbons are an occasional flirtation.

    The Bulleit’s higher rye content sounds … interesting.

    After following the Mighty Subs link in a previous entry here at TOM, I ended up jonesing for steak and cheese. My large is smaller than their small (standard grocery store hoagie bun), so I had two. And a Kentucky Tavern and Pepsi, of course (Pepsi Throwback — don’t know if they’re selling it nationwide or not, it’s the old Pepsi with cane sugar instead of corn syrup).

  19. Rich Fader
    January 15th, 2010 @ 7:39 pm

    With that headline…no Speedo jokes? Are you kidding me?

    And Joe Kennedy? Consider this: When Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote that three generations of imbeciles were enough, he wrote it before the rise of the Kennedy clan.

  20. Rich Fader
    January 15th, 2010 @ 2:39 pm

    With that headline…no Speedo jokes? Are you kidding me?

    And Joe Kennedy? Consider this: When Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote that three generations of imbeciles were enough, he wrote it before the rise of the Kennedy clan.

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