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Get the Towney mug.Middling-class Grosse Pointers whose social status has declined CONSIDERABLY the past two decades or so on account of regional economic decline, a burgeoning newly affluent group of parvenus, and their own personal financial misfortunes. While never as wealthy nor distinguished as some of their blue-blood, mansion-owning neighbors, this group once enjoyed a reasonable level of material comfort and local prominence back in the pre-cable TV, pre-PC, pre-internet, pre-cell phone age (nee' Cold War era) and tended to predominate in those avenues of community life usually considered "common": little league baseball, brownies and cub scouts, city and municipal gov't, ice cream socials, PTA, et al. Alas, since the Reagan presidency, this sub-culture, like the plight of most middle class Americans everywhere, has slowly dissolved away to the newer and more affluent types with their store-bought designer clothes, McMansions, strange accents, and even more questionable occupations in some cases. This has forced some GPers, as a means of survival, to choose either "trading up" - at the risk of being referred to derisively as "bourgoise", "new money", or "traitors to their former class" or a decidedly LESS inviting move "down market" at the further risk of being declared "declasse'." Those who try to stay as they are (somehow defying social gravity by hanging on by their fingernails), do so at the risk of acquiring the ambiguous and rather demeaning moniker "towney." People residing in this new-found purgatory give themselves away unintentionally but unmistakably: deferred maintenance and repairs on homes, older and/or used cars, worn and out-dated furniture, fewer social events, little or no holiday celebrations, et al. "Towney" in this context means precisely what it implies: residents of a notable town or prominent enclave who themselves possess neither the stature, influential ties, nor net worth of its more pedigreed citizenry and often find themselves "jobbed out" by such gentry, or scrounging for other meager income opportunities in order to make ends meet. This phenomenon, while specific to the above mentioned locale, is more than likely occurring in any number of formerly respectable pre-World War I communities across the United States.
The film adaptation of the novel "House Of Sand And Fog", while depicting an old Iranian family in social and economic decline (and their rather desperate attempts to camoflage said occurrence) could easily be transposed to reflect what a great many current (and former) Grosse Pointers are going through in light of changing times. Never with a bonafide pedigree and a sudden lower status, they become, in effect, Grosse Pointe Towneys. Oh, how the mighty have fallen !
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Michael Vernon Townley (born December 5, 1942) is a former agent of the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional currently living under terms of the US federal witness protection program. An operative of the Chilean secret police, Townley confessed, was convicted, and served 62 months in prison in the United States for the 1976 Washington, D.C., assassination of Orlando Letelier, former Chilean ambassador to the United States. As part of his plea bargain, Townley received immunity from further prosecution; he was not extradited to Argentina to stand trial for the 1974 assassination of Chilean general Carlos Prats and his wife.
Michael Vernon Townley (born December 5, 1942) is a former agent of the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional currently living under terms of the US federal witness protection program. An operative of the Chilean secret police, Townley confessed, was convicted, and served 62 months in prison in the United States for the 1976 Washington, D.C., assassination of Orlando Letelier, former Chilean ambassador to the United States. As part of his plea bargain, Townley received immunity from further prosecution; he was not extradited to Argentina to stand trial for the 1974 assassination of Chilean general Carlos Prats and his wife.
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Get the Townes Boat Ride mug.Arguably the best songwriter in country music.
Most famously wrote Pancho and Lefty.
You Are Not Needed Now
Greensboro Woman
Silver Ships of Andilar
Mr. Gold & Mr. Mudd
Heavenly Houseboat Blues
Most famously wrote Pancho and Lefty.
You Are Not Needed Now
Greensboro Woman
Silver Ships of Andilar
Mr. Gold & Mr. Mudd
Heavenly Houseboat Blues
Person : I will stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table and say that Townes Van Zandt is the greates songwriter in history!
Townes: I have met Bob Dylan's bodyguards, and if you think that you're going to stand on his coffee table, you are sadly, sadly mistaken.
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Allison laid an egg on me
And every time I turn around
It's floating through the air above my head
Well, I told Miss Hicks and she said, "Fine,
as long as you're back in your room on time
I'll keep you clean and the girls'll keep you fed."
Townes: I have met Bob Dylan's bodyguards, and if you think that you're going to stand on his coffee table, you are sadly, sadly mistaken.
--
Allison laid an egg on me
And every time I turn around
It's floating through the air above my head
Well, I told Miss Hicks and she said, "Fine,
as long as you're back in your room on time
I'll keep you clean and the girls'll keep you fed."
by AllisonLaidAnEggOnMe November 24, 2009
Get the Townes Van Zandt mug.She's an extremely good dancer, and she loves fruit, especially mangoes. She may not be the tallest person, but her feisty-ness makes up for it. She's bubbly, funny, and super chill. She's very quiet about things, but when it comes time to it, she speaks what's on her mind. Something about cute things always grabs her attention, especially dancers. (; She's sometimes confused about her feelings, but to get it out, she secretly writes about it. She really gives good advice, and if you need someone to talk to, she'll be there. She has one of the cutest little laughs, and whenever things get sexual in any sort of way, you bet she's gonna say "That's what she said." Don't take her for granted, because she is one girl you wanna keep in your life, especially as a friend. Everyone loves a Tawney.
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Example: Small Town Texan says to Out of Towner, "Boy, you a long way from California, you in Texan now, you Out of Towners are all the same!".
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