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"
I did attend a Phils-Bucs twinbill at Three Rivers on the day Pope Paul VI died in 1978 (the bulletin was flashed on the scoreboard), and another Bucs game in '89, and drove through the outskirts of Allegheny Co. on the TP on the way to Canton in '99.
BTW my neighbors are from Westmoreland County. I haven't listened for Pittsburghese in their voices. Do they talk like that in Greensburg?
foreverfree
I beg your pardon, but it's spelled YUNZ. <}:)~
DO THEY EVER! 'At Picksburgh accent is RILL strong 'aht 'air in Grinsburg.
If they take "shars" (as in showers), yes. Ah, Westmoreland County -- some of the BEST Italian stores EVER. The cheeses, the meats, the pastries -- the food is plastic here in Northern Virgina compared to Pennsylvania.
How about "windowsill"...and "get me that "hickey" over there. Then, let's go and get an "ice-krene cone" or maybe a "samwich".
sw
I wanna goe shawpin aht Monroeville or at the new Costcoe in Cranberry, but I live aht in California (the state, not the tahn) now. They look at me funny when I tahk.
Woops. My apologies. I only know I've tried for almost 30 years to help my husband talk close to normal. I think he considers it his duty to God, country and his ancestors to speak Pitssburghese 'till the end of his days. Is there anyone else from Pittsburgh that says "breakTHast" instead of "breakFast?" ...drives me CRAZY!
One she uses all the time when playing 'tug o' war' with the dog.. "lef go".
My son lives N. of the airport in Hopewell twp., a beautiful area.
He was driving us around one day and suggested we go to Orens Donut Shop in Beaver Falls for the best donuts on the planet. I don't know how those people get out of that valley in a snowy winter. The shop was closed for the afternoon BTW.
sw
I was back westmoreland about 5 years ago, sure had changed. Wall to wall strip malls forever, far as eye can see. Depressing to me from an Alaskan perspective, but normal to Pittsburghers and thats ok, had lots of good times there. For a big city, Pittsburgh not all that bad.
Was that DeLaillos up along 30? Do they still have the airshows up latrobe?
They make chipped ham for me up here in alaska too, just got to teach them how.
I miss the ethnic food over the holidays too. Many people in alaska not familiar with such things.
Midland. The garden spot of Beaver County. LOL!
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