[martin_fierro]

Check out pittsburghese.com

[martin_fierro]

Ack. Make that "You Know You Are From PittsBurgh When...."

[Arthur McGowan]

You mean that: You know that if you would have went to Cleveland, you would have hated it.

[FormerLib]

How could you possibly post something like this and not mention 'gutchies' even once.

Hey, doan make me come up dere!

[Mad Dawgg]

One of the Things i will always remember was a Conversation I had with a bunch of Pittsburgh Steeler Fans when the piece of shit Art Modell moved the Browns to Baltimore (May he Rot in Hell) They always came to the Browns games and we had a running feud on whose team was best and all the hubub between rival Nfl teams! The Chant "Pittsburgh Sucks" was a fan favorite! (When Cleveland Stadium took up that Chant you could damn near hear it all the way to Akron!)

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:

Pittsburgh STILL Sucks

[Eska]

I was in anchorage one day and stopped in book store and there were these two guys lookin at some maps, so I asked them where yens headed, can't seem to lose it. Anyway, they got a harr and talked about all the changes in steel town.

Never move back after livin up here, but still miss all the ethnic/cultural festivals; food and such.

[ResistorSister]

A lot of these could also be, NE Ohioese.

[buccaneer81]

My ex-wife is a native of Beaver County. I don't miss hearing her dialect one bit. Drove me nuts.

[East Palestinian]

You sure you aint from Youngstown?

[Siouxz]

Store clerk: "Yins lookin for pickles? They're in ow four."

[layman]

You know you're from Pittsburgh if the sight of orange barrels and hopeless traffic jams makes you homesick.

[EverOnward]

My husband's from just outside Pittsburgh. Did I miss "yens" in your list? As in, "When yens comin' over for dinner?" My father-in-law loved to frequent the "Beer Garden." He'd drop off my mother-in-law at Mass every Sunday and head over to the beer garden. I'm from the West where we referred to such establishments as BARS.

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.

[foreverfree]

I grew up in the Philly corner of PA (Delaware County) in the 60s and 70s and though my first loyalty was and is with the Phils and Birds, being Pennsy-born and bred I could take a drop of pleasure in seeing the Bucs and Steelers representing my fair state in the WS/SB frequently during the Me Decade. On the other hand it would have been fun to have experienced adolescense at Three Rivers (RIP) while weaning my ears on KDKA and Groovy QVee, instead of WIP and KYW.

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

[spectre]

Most of my immediate relatives are in and around Pittsburgh (I was born in Swickley). LOVE to hear them talk...especially living here in Arkansas.

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

[MadelineZapeezda]

I used to shop at 'Gian Teagles' when I went 'down Hills'...........(prepositions, who needs them!)

[Vinnie]

I read these to my wife, a McKeesport native. She got a kick out of them.
When I read the 'jaggerbush' reference, she looked at me and said "Yeah?" what else are they called? LOL

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.

[layman]

You will find ex-Pittsburgers everywhere you go on the planet. That's because everyone gets the he** out of here as soon as they reach puberty.

[Dan from Michigan]

14. You've called someone a "jaggoff".

Hell, I do that and I'm from Michigan.

[Dan from Michigan]

BTW - No mention of Rolling Rock?

[Springman]

Chipped Ham!!! And Iror City Beer!!! LOL

[Old Professer]

11. You've ever drank and "arn"

It's been a long time since I had an Iron City beer.