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"
The Slithereedee crawled out of the sea
He may catch all the others but he won't catch me
No he won't catch me, old Slithereedee
He may catch all the others but he won't.....
{slurp, slurp, slurp, slurp} Ahh.
As far as "Old Frothingslosh" is concerned:
"Old Frothingslosh, the pale, stale ale for the pale, stale male. The ONLY beer with the foam on the bottom."
I named it sh## on a stick. Actually it's pretty good.
Asked my wife. It's a hickey.. We called them passion marks
Yep, one runs past the hunting cabin up in Potter County.
6. You've ever "warched" or "wershed" the laundry.
Dad's been warshin clothes and dishes my whole life.
19. You drink "pop", eat "hogies" "pierogies" and "gyros"(jy-rows).
I lived in Central PA til 9th grade, then moved west to south of Pittsburgh, and the first time I asked for soda, I got "You want an ice cream soda?" And it's spelled HOAGIES. :)
21. You didn't have IHOPS or wafflehouses
But there's always Eat N Park!
23 You cheer for the stillers
Those same Stillers play the Jets tomorrow, as a matter of fact - the only time before the playoffs (and it looks like they WILL be in the playoffs this year!!!) that we can see them here in NJ.
28 You go food shoppin at Jine Iggle
HAHAHAHAHA! Sounds like my mother-in-law. That's GIANT EAGLE for the rest of you folks.
29 You don't have a spring break in high school
I didn't realize that was a local thing, but no we didn't.
36 You love Pensivanya
I'd move back in a second...but I REFUSE to move anywhere near Pittsburgh! The Susquehanna is west enough for me.
40 You are reading this and will forward it to family and friends who used to live in "da-burgh"
Most definitely. I even went to the link to check it out. :) My husband and I both grew up in PA - he is from Oil City, which is north of Pittsburgh, and I went to high school in Canonsburg. We met at Penn State.
Thank you!
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