Random Thoughts – July 17th
Belmar, NJ Mayor Rips Guidos Who Come To Jersey Shore

NYPost.com - The mayor of a two-bit Jersey beach town has been trash-talking Staten Island - kicking sand at helmet-haired, bar-brawling women, clueless blondes and loud-mouthed "guidos" who flock to the resort's seaside, bars and rentals. Belmar Mayor Ken Pringle says his four-page rag on Staten Island visitors was simply tongue-in-cheek, but visitors are seething, with one calling the parody pure misogynist racism. "If it weren't for Staten Islanders, there probably wouldn't be a Belmar," fumed firefighter Kevin Erkman, 25, from St. George. "I think the mayor should shut his face." The maelstrom was set off by Pringle's zingers in the July 4 edition of "Belmar Summer Rental News," a flier he personally publishes about tourism life in his 6,000-resident town - where the population swells to around 50,000 on some summer weekends. "We think of Guidos as a kind of rare bird: They flock to our shore towns during the warm months, and are as welcome as, oh, Canada geese," he wrote. "They're always tanned to the color of coconut shells, and easily identified by their plumage: satin shirts and shirt skirts on the females; Armani Exchange T-shirts and artfully distressed jeans on the males." He added: "The call of the Guido is bellowing, and frequently slurred, invariably starting with the sound, 'Yo,' followed all too often by some creative variation on an expletive beginning with the letter 'F.' "
Wait a minute where have I heard of Belmar before? Hmm, think Dave think. Come on….come on! Oh I remember! Going to Belmar in my car….B-E-L-M-A-R!






