Tempe looking good tonight!

[lonestarnot]

[Wiley50]

1. Tempe?

Much more tastie than Tofu

[lonestarnot]

4. Tempe is a town by Phoenix. ASU is there with A mountain.

[Wiley50]

8. Tempe is a delicious fermented soybean product

you've never had any?

[lonestarnot]

13. Wha?

"Tempe is a delicious fermented soy bean product." You mean the brewery?

[bananas]

17. usually spelled tempeh nt

edit to add link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempeh

[lonestarnot]

20. ewww ick

tempeh mold, ammonia, fungus rhizopus oligosporus, ugh ugh and no tanks

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungus

[lonestarnot]

21. tempeh mold, ammonia, fungus rhizopus oligosporus, ugh ugh and no

tanks. Doesn't sound very delicious. Fermented beans. Took me a long time to acquire a taste for bean salad and I accidently bought a pickled version and ewwwww ick I'm back off that stuff. Will never eat bean salad again.

[havocmom]

2. as I recall, Tempe is NOT a hotbed of liberal activism

If folks are street blogging there, no wonder cheney is on a bird farm, mooning Iran. Things are getting hot for the junta

[lonestarnot]

5. LOL the arrow sign has lasted 24 hours on Mill Avenue! Heh.

[lonestarnot]

11. You recall correctly.

[Kali]

12. well, it is a university town so it is a bit more liberal than say

Scottsdale, or Buckeye.

[lonestarnot]

14. I don't think so.

[havocmom]

16. University where up and coming republicans go to learn how to game the system

in my observation.

The liberals gravitate toward U of A in Tucson ;)

[Kali]

19. well if yer gonna go and compare it to Tucson...

:hippie:

Still, Tempe (especially the older parts) is more progressive than most of the valley.

[Alexander]

22. Boy, you sure got that right.

Trying to motivate students to vote here is like pulling teeth from a hippo, and probably just as much fun.

Even the ones who identify themselves as "liberals" are, sadly, very poor at explaining why they are liberals, and fall back on demagogues like Michael Moore instead of thinking things through for themselves.

I distinctly recall on Election Day 2006, a friend of mine called me up, literally to ask me how to vote on various propositions.

"What's this Proposition mean? How should I vote?"

"Well, if you read it, it talks about property taxes and schools - you pretty much have to decide whether you want lower taxes or schools with more funding."

"Oh, ok. What about this one?"

:wtf:

Most people here, sadly, are intellectually lazy. They'd rather rely on someone else's talking points than look up facts and information for themselves.

PS - I've been to 12 countries and about 30 US states (including Utah), and the only place in the world people hassled me for having long hair was Tempe, Arizona.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

3. Go Tempe!

I used to live in AJ, Mesa and Chandler. I remember it being very Red. Glad to see things are changing! :bounce:

[lonestarnot]

6. Me too!

[ben_meyers]

7. Tempe Red? Hardly

It's one of the few progressive areas in Az. Former mayor Neil Giuliano was elected 4 times and was openly gay, He was also President of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD). Tempe is almost all ASU students and workers.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

9. Ahhh...memories I have of Tempe...

You see, there was this young lady, named Tara, who I met on the Rick Derringer tour...

sigh...salad days.

[lonestarnot]

10. Well explain why Harry Mitchell voted the way he did if it's not a redass fucking

pile.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

15. I was speaking of the valley in general

I never did live in Tempe (proper).

[EFerrari]

18. Go, TEMPE!

lol

:kick:

[lonestarnot]

23. kick

[Dora]

24. THAT's the Tempe I love and remember.

I guess it's time for me to join classmates.com. My 20-year is this summer.

Did anyone else in this thread grow up in Tempe?