A kind reader who takes issue with some of the crude postings would like me to post this clarification of her position which I will gladly do because of her thoughtful response.
We aren’t always going to agree what is appropriate or not but I appreciate her pointing out the positive as well.
She writes-
Dear Joey,
Saw the copy of my EMail this a.m., so please add this to it.
Of course I realize it is your blog to do with as you wish…and you have done some spectacular things for sure. And you should know I am just as good with salty and a good laugh as anyone. It’s just that it seems that all of Sharon’s great pix and David’s pix and your coverage of whazzup and your pix of your trips and your family and early morning Gloucester all get dimished when you have …not just salty but… downright crude stuff. I know Gloucester, I know her very well and I love her, all of her. But I don’t think there are many women who would like to have the caption under their laughing and having a good time pic with the word “ho” in it. Not if they told you the truth. And I don’t think a guy should do that anyway…why disrespect women to get a laugh..why can’t you say “the gals” having a good time whatever? Everyone would still love seeing such a picture of people being happy. If your beautiful wife was at a party, would you want someone to call a pic of her with her friends “the ho’s” …or in 15 years, your daughters?. I bet not. So, I’m not holier than thou as you might think from my first note…I just don’t get why you take the great stuff you have accomplished and your great photography and your great family and drag it down with guys sitting on toilets on docks with skivvies around their ankles…In any case, you won’t hear from me again and I’ll still go to GMG for all the good stuff, of which there is plenty, and I thank you for a wonderful Gloucester site.
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While I think there is a disconnect where the nice woman thinks that I truly mean that women are ho’s and bitches instead of it being a joke or a term of endearment.
My wife routinely says to her girlfriends “what’s up bitches?”
It’s just a joke.
As for the toilet humor which sometimes Paulie Frontiero posts, I stand behind him as a great contributor to the blog.
Sometimes I need to reel him in but he loves the blog as much as anyone and his contributions are invaluable just like Sharon’s and Quirky Paul M, Alicia, Laurie, David Cox, Donna Ardizzoni, Joanne Silva, Thom Falzorano, Donna Ardizzoni, Mike Lindbergand the great Manny Simoes.
I appreciate our readers and won’t do a disservice to them by serving up a watered down vanilla blog full of dull service announcements. And while we never bash politicians or local businesses we also don’t promote stuff we don’t believe in. So it is what it is folks. We ain’t changing.
I’m not a saint and I’m not pretending to be one. But I hope you know that what you see is me, is us and we consider all our readers and contributors great friends.
-Your Pal Joey
Good Morning Gloucester 
What are you trying to say? Don’t drag me into this.
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Don’t drag you into this??? LOL!
OK Mr Saint!
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Paul,
I’d just be more concerned about Joey “standing behind you”!
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Thanks for the advice Hedge.
Joey even threw his wife under the bus on this one.
When the bombs fly, you gotta watch out for the schrapnel!
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well as far as the person sitting on the pooper reading a newspaper ? come on now people show me your hands , after you wash them ofcorse . ( even) the woman who sais it’s crude , can she or anyone else say they have not read a newspaper, magizine , something whille on the pooper ? ofcorse you have !!! and it was made to be funny , and it was !! and as far as the bitches and ho thing , when used “really” meaning it about women it’s wrong , but in jest ? my wife and her girlfriends use it to playing with each other also joey . It’s called having fun with life. if a person took everything serious in life , WELL , AHH – WHAT A POOPIE LIFE THEY WOULD HAVE !! Well its just my opinion and you know they say, opinions are like %#$@^& ah well you know the rest . keep up the good work guy’s and gulls .
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Hey, I think GMG is the best. I also have got to go along with the lady on the issue of what we call women (and men, for all that matters). Although (sadly) you don’t have the audience of Don Imus, we’re talking the same issue. (Howard Stern is another planet.) To keep its credibility GMG needs to stay on the right side of that very thin (almost invisible) line. (I suppose you could use five-dollar words like “ladies of the night,” or “streetwalkers,” or “prostitutes.” But that isn’t what you mean, is it?) I think GMG is a great blog. Drawing the line between bathroom talk and xxx (okay, only one x) won’t make it any less great.
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I’m with the lady who wrote you. As for callling your friends “bitches”… to each there own, but most of us women do not. We’ve had to fight too hard not to be referred to in such a fashion. Yes, you can do what you want and the offended can not read.
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