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Post by finding on Mar 10, 2008 19:09:20 GMT -5
but i don't PLAN to go somewhere to strike up a convo with a random stranger. that's a midwest thing obviously. That's where my dad gets it from. I guess you can take the boy away from the farm . . . .
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Post by RO on Mar 10, 2008 19:26:59 GMT -5
fine, make me sound rude and anti-social! i am PLENTY friendly and nice -- just ask the coffee cart guy who tells me what a nice girl i am every day. and i DO end up talking to people randomly (especially freaks, unfortunately) but i don't PLAN to go somewhere to strike up a convo with a random stranger. that's a midwest thing obviously. UMMM, I was NOT accusing you of not being friendly or nice! I think you are super nice. You do have the freak light of attracting the odd. But that is a loveable trait. Would you like to come to a BBQ??? My house.
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Post by Dave on Mar 10, 2008 20:44:49 GMT -5
I can only think of a couple of snow related ones: If I tell you the snow is panked in front of the door do you know what I mean? People don't shovel snow here, we move it, or we scoop it and we use a "Yooper Scooper" instead of a shovel. www.flickr.com/photos/pelennor/447411853/I don't know if this is local, but the other day a kid told me he had to book it to lunch if he wanted any pizza.
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Post by Dave on Mar 10, 2008 20:46:16 GMT -5
We drop the "to the" when we say where we are going as in "Want to go mall?"
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Post by sheyd on Mar 10, 2008 20:57:50 GMT -5
We book it, too (or boogie) - but none of the other stuff, Fre, and we don't live that far apart!
We bbq, not cook out, but apparently not like in Texas - food is another regionalism (big time).
Oh - and we have LONG drawn out goodbyes. Goodbyes usually take 5 minutes to hours. - and some of us say M'bye.
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Post by soupnazi on Mar 10, 2008 21:11:54 GMT -5
Oh goods...one of the things I hated about Cincinnati...that, and "how are you'ns?"...One time, in a very nice Cincinnati restaurant, spending a ton of money...the waitress asked me "how'r you'ns?", and I realized I could have saved the money and went to the truckstop in Kentucky. Anyway... I know a girl in Delaware, that talks about her and her friends going "down the beach" or "down the city". "To" apparently does not exist in the northeast.
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Post by jules on Mar 10, 2008 21:27:45 GMT -5
yes, i'll go to your bbq, RO. if we cook out. fre, that is the coolest snow contraption i've ever seen. but dropping "to the" would make me insane. it reminds me of the "i love lamp" scene in "anchorman." www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5xvlTBtHL0coming back from down under, i find myself saying "how you going?" which makes me both laugh and cringe. i think steamed cheeseburgers are strictly a regional thing. they look gross but are sooo yummy.
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Post by ionysis on Mar 10, 2008 23:29:45 GMT -5
I think being British disqualifies me from this thread - pretty much everything I said would seem "regional" to you guys!
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Post by goods on Mar 11, 2008 7:52:16 GMT -5
I think being British disqualifies me from this thread - pretty much everything I said would seem "regional" to you guys! Yea yea go eat your spotted dick and toastie at the pub ya bird.
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Post by ionysis on Mar 11, 2008 9:33:42 GMT -5
I wonder if anyone actually does eat spotted dick these days? I can't remember having it sin ce I was a kid.
Look no english cuisine can be as disgusting as some of the stuff I saw when I went to the state fair in Wisconsin - deep fried cheese stick and these cream filled pastry things being inhaled by obese couples weaing baseball caps and fanny packs. It was just so wrong. And the pig racing... I ask you... PIG racing?!!
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Post by goods on Mar 11, 2008 9:41:06 GMT -5
Did you try any of the deep fried cheese sticks and cream filled pastry things? HEAVEN!!! Pig racing? Never done that one and I live in Kentucky!
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Post by jules on Mar 11, 2008 9:59:51 GMT -5
ionysis, no worries. I've become fairly accustomed to most things Brit working with my customers there and visiting London twice a year. (I even find myself using "bloody" now and then since it's such a fabulous curse word.) I love learning more!
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Post by ionysis on Mar 11, 2008 10:02:12 GMT -5
It is a good one. I use "damn" and "bugger" a lot too!
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Post by sheyd on Mar 11, 2008 10:11:08 GMT -5
The BEST one was the hope my Aussie friend had for me... that my ex would "lose his wedding tackle in a freak accident involving a public toilet and a badly eroded powerline" omg - I thought I would die laughing, and he was surprised I hadn't heard of it before!
Shey
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Post by goods on Mar 11, 2008 11:56:49 GMT -5
BOLLOCKS!
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