Posted on 12/07/2001 8:15:51 PM PST by martin_fierro
YOU KNOW YOU ARE FROM PITTSURGH 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.
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?
11. You've ever drank and "arn"
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.
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
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 wife 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 beleive that "Ize" is the abreviation for " I was"
31 You know some one from "Sliberty , Esliberty or Wesliberty.
32. You've played witha 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 ham was always in your fridge when you were growing up
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"
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"
Hey, doan make me come up dere!
Anyhow I dreaded meeting up with these guys when the announcement became official and Art was taking the beloved Browns away! I figured they would rub it in and I was really in no mood for their gloating. Finally the face to face came and much to my surprise they were outraged, they were absolutely outraged and I will never forget these words:
"We Hate the Cleveland Browns... and we wanna continue to HATE the CLEVELAND Browns not the f&%$*#@ Baltimore Browns! AND, We hope Art Modell F&%$*#@ Dies!"
Well the Browns went away and it looked like CLeveland would never get football back! Then by persistance and BS and many long negotiations The Cleveland Fans got back the Browns and we got Season tickets again. I went to the preseason games and though the stadium was nice it just didn't feel right! Then came opening day against Pittsburgh and lo and behold my old rival Pittsburgh buddies showed up and had a present that damn near brought tears to my eyes! They had stopped on the way in and bought a t-shirt at one of those little kiosks that sell souviners!
Its a Black t-shirt with huge white letters that says:
Never move back after livin up here, but still miss all the ethnic/cultural festivals; food and such.
[flipping a booger in Modell's general direction]
Now that a few years have passed, doesn't it seem as if your comment that "it wasn't the same" doesn't fit anymore? The Browns are back.
Do they still have 1-900-FAT-GIRL commercials during the TV hit "Bowling for Dollars?"
Also, another unique custom: When one dies, it is the custom to place in the coffin of the deceased a favorite item of his/hers. When my father in-law died, we asked permission from the funeral home to place a deck of cards, chewing tobacco and a bottle of beer in the coffin with him. They said that would be a lot easier to handle than the full set of golf clubs they managed to pack away with one guy.
Yunz is ignernt.
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