You know you're from...
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mjules & anat_astarte and doing now because I was up all night and am now too tired to actually drive home... I chose Pittsburgh since that's where I'm from originally...and always will be in my mind.
1. Go to Google (or Yahoo) and type, "You know you're from (your city or state) when...."
2. Cut and paste the list.
3. Bold the items that apply to you.
YOU KNOW YOU ARE FROM PITTSBURGH WHEN......
1. You walk carefully when it is "slippy" outside.
2. You often go down to the "crick"
3 You have to "red up" before company comes over
4. You've ever gotten hurt by falling into a "jaggerbush"
5. You know that Ahia is a river, a boulevard, and a state. (I know I live there now...)
6. You've ever "warched" or "wershed" the laundry.
7. You know where Beer Falls is.(beaver falls)
8. Mr Webster is wrong. You know full well that "ain't” is correct English.
9. You know you can't drive too fast of back roads, cause-udda-deer.
10. "Gumbands" .... need i say more? (my students never know what I mean)
11. You've ever drank and "arn" (frat parties and pool parties, couldn't pay me to drink it now)
12. You've ever told someone to "quit jaggin around"
13. You know that Clinton, Monaca, and Beaver, are actually names of towns.
14. You've called someone a "jaggoff".
15. You hear you guyses" or "yins" and don't look twice.
16. You know the 3 rivers by name and can pronounce them correctly, but refer to the as ... da Mon, da Al, and da O.
17. You hate Cleveland although you've never been there. (I lived there 4 years, it earned the hate)
18. You know where KerNEGgy is and you like his museum and "liberries".
19. You drink "pop", eat "hogies" "pierogies" and "gyros"(jy-rows).
20. You drink Melk.
21. You didn't have IHOPS or wafflehouses (this no longer applies but growing up we didn't)
22. You know what a still mill is
23 You cheer for the stillers
24 You expect temps in the winter to be record breaking cold and temps in the summer to record breaking hot.
25. You go dahntahn to da strip district and take your significant other with you. Be sure to get a Permanee's sammich while yins are der hangin out an ‘nat.
26. You know where Picksburgh is
27 You can find Zillionopal of a map
28 You go food shoppin at Jine Iggle
29 You don't have a spring break in high school
30 You believe that "Ize" is the abreviation for " I was"
31 You know some one from "Sliberty , Esliberty or Wesliberty.
32. You've played with a dekkacards
33 You know the picksburgh zoo is in "Hilinpark" and have been there for school field trips.
34 You say "Mc Connells Mills" although you know that there is only one mill there
35 You what is meant by "the POINT"
36 You love Pensivanya
37 Chipped chopped ham was always in your fridge when you were growing up (My parents loved it, i won't touch it usually)
38 If you've ever been "ascared" because that "nebby" old lady across the street saw you do something bad and you know she will " tell on you" (I had no idea that ascared wasn't a real word until college creative writing)
39. No matter how hard you try you can't stop talking Picksburghese.
40 You are reading this and will forward it to family and friends who used to live in "da-burgh"
why yes I bolded them all. I DO talk this way. Seriously.
mjules & anat_astarte and doing now because I was up all night and am now too tired to actually drive home... I chose Pittsburgh since that's where I'm from originally...and always will be in my mind.1. Go to Google (or Yahoo) and type, "You know you're from (your city or state) when...."
2. Cut and paste the list.
3. Bold the items that apply to you.
YOU KNOW YOU ARE FROM PITTSBURGH WHEN......
1. You walk carefully when it is "slippy" outside.
2. You often go down to the "crick"
3 You have to "red up" before company comes over
4. You've ever gotten hurt by falling into a "jaggerbush"
5. You know that Ahia is a river, a boulevard, and a state. (I know I live there now...)
6. You've ever "warched" or "wershed" the laundry.
7. You know where Beer Falls is.(beaver falls)
8. Mr Webster is wrong. You know full well that "ain't” is correct English.
9. You know you can't drive too fast of back roads, cause-udda-deer.
10. "Gumbands" .... need i say more? (my students never know what I mean)
11. You've ever drank and "arn" (frat parties and pool parties, couldn't pay me to drink it now)
12. You've ever told someone to "quit jaggin around"
13. You know that Clinton, Monaca, and Beaver, are actually names of towns.
14. You've called someone a "jaggoff".
15. You hear you guyses" or "yins" and don't look twice.
16. You know the 3 rivers by name and can pronounce them correctly, but refer to the as ... da Mon, da Al, and da O.
17. You hate Cleveland although you've never been there. (I lived there 4 years, it earned the hate)
18. You know where KerNEGgy is and you like his museum and "liberries".
19. You drink "pop", eat "hogies" "pierogies" and "gyros"(jy-rows).
20. You drink Melk.
21. You didn't have IHOPS or wafflehouses (this no longer applies but growing up we didn't)
22. You know what a still mill is
23 You cheer for the stillers
24 You expect temps in the winter to be record breaking cold and temps in the summer to record breaking hot.
25. You go dahntahn to da strip district and take your significant other with you. Be sure to get a Permanee's sammich while yins are der hangin out an ‘nat.
26. You know where Picksburgh is
27 You can find Zillionopal of a map
28 You go food shoppin at Jine Iggle
29 You don't have a spring break in high school
30 You believe that "Ize" is the abreviation for " I was"
31 You know some one from "Sliberty , Esliberty or Wesliberty.
32. You've played with a dekkacards
33 You know the picksburgh zoo is in "Hilinpark" and have been there for school field trips.
34 You say "Mc Connells Mills" although you know that there is only one mill there
35 You what is meant by "the POINT"
36 You love Pensivanya
37 Chipped chopped ham was always in your fridge when you were growing up (My parents loved it, i won't touch it usually)
38 If you've ever been "ascared" because that "nebby" old lady across the street saw you do something bad and you know she will " tell on you" (I had no idea that ascared wasn't a real word until college creative writing)
39. No matter how hard you try you can't stop talking Picksburghese.
40 You are reading this and will forward it to family and friends who used to live in "da-burgh"
why yes I bolded them all. I DO talk this way. Seriously.
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Date: 2010-07-22 08:05 pm (UTC)Helps to have a mother and father who grew up in New Jersey and the surrounding area.
When Cousin Mary got lost in Philly, while trying to get back to Delaware she called me...full well knowing I would understand the lay of the land and tell her which way to go. Gerry thought my directions were a bit odd "Consider the roads being built like a wheel spoke...start at center, calling that Philly....now which wheel spoke are you on?" I listened for a moment, grinned and calmly told her to turn around right then and there or she'd be in New Jersey so fast her head would spin. Hit a certain road then go South.
When I got off the phone, Gerry gave me a funny look and I told him the roads in PA originally were in a wheel spoke pattern! It was easier to describe it that way, since Mary did tend to think like me when it came to driving directions.
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Date: 2010-07-22 10:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-22 10:20 pm (UTC)*huggles*
BTW when Mary got back into Delaware she called her boss, and told him how she got unlost. When she finally was transferred to Wyoming, they were still telling new hires how to find their way back to Delaware by using the wheel spoke analogy!
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Date: 2010-07-22 08:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-22 10:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-22 08:20 pm (UTC)*is predictably confused*
I'm searching for a good London one to torment enemy with. She's going to be here this time next week - whee!
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Date: 2010-07-22 08:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-22 09:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-22 10:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-22 09:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-22 10:16 pm (UTC)Gumbands = rubber bands
Arn = Iron City Beer, local microbrew that's been around FOREVER.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_City_Brewing_Company
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Date: 2010-07-22 10:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-22 10:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-22 08:49 pm (UTC)...Wait, what are gyros called in the real world?
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Date: 2010-07-22 10:17 pm (UTC)I think people might call them year-ohs...strange people
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Date: 2010-07-22 09:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-22 10:18 pm (UTC)Yes, I'm beginning to think no one knows what I'm talking about
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Date: 2010-07-22 10:23 pm (UTC)Well given the students you work with every day, I can see why you'd question that.
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Date: 2010-07-22 10:26 pm (UTC)Oh less than half the class came today, the first day after the exam
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Date: 2010-07-22 10:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-22 10:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-22 09:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-22 10:04 pm (UTC)Hahahaha
Date: 2010-07-23 02:04 am (UTC)Re: Hahahaha
Date: 2010-07-23 02:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-23 02:44 am (UTC)I tried "Tucson" first, but apparently it's changed a lot in the last twenty-odd years, because a lot of the answers don't match my memories (although "you hate Phoenix and can give 10 reasons why" rings true still, as does "high school parties are held in the desert").
I'll have to try Phoenix and see what I get.
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Date: 2010-07-23 03:26 am (UTC)