[martin_fierro]

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[martin_fierro]

One thing that really struck me on a visit to Da 'Burgh a few summers ago was this scene:

Wifey and I were checking out that relatively new science museum dahn by the river/old Three Rivers stadium.

On one of the top floors of that museum was a room full of Macintosh computers with internet connections. Very little visitor traffic there at the time. The only people my wife & I saw there surfing the Web were AMISH/MENNONITES (not sure which) -- complete with traditional garb. That struck me as really cool.

[babaloo999]

I always wondered what the correct pronunciation of Carnegie was.

[MsGail61]

We moved away in 1972 but I still remember being threatened with:

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.

[pops88]

What about lemon blend? I never realized, my mom being from "Clintin," it was also x42's name. LOL! I want to know who thought up "84" as a town name. Last time I was back in PGH I made my sister take me to King's for perrogies. Now I'm a little homesick. And the Incline, Eatin Park, Isley's...ahhhhh.

[agrace]

2. You often go down to the "crick"

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.

[quietolong]

To show wife later bump

[exmoor]

YOU KNOW YOU ARE FROM PITTSBURGH WHEN......I don't know..maybe when you look like the Pitts or have Pitts?

[exmoor]

YOU KNOW YOU ARE FROM PITTSBURGH WHEN......I don't know..maybe when you look like the Pitts or have the Pitts ?

[Glenn]

Tomorrow is the one-year anniversary of my "landing" in Pittsburgh. I've never been happier than I have been living here. It took a little getting used to after 15 years in the south but I've slowly managed to discover just what a gem of a place this is.

[Tijeras_Slim]

YUNZ! LOL!
I went to school in Meadville in the late 70's and went out with a girl from Port Vue who told me that her mother's advice about boys consisted of "Watch out for Glassport boys."

[Benrand]

YOY!

AND DOUBLE YOY!!

[thesharkboy]

Thanks for the memories! I forgot all about chipped ham. We used to have chipped ham sandwiches and "pop" on hot summer days in Eastern Ohio. The accent and the "yunz" thing goes approximately to about I-77 (New Philadelphia/Cambridge) before being replaced by a bland Midwestern accent.

[gobucks]

This, THIS post was just great. Mostly grew up in SE Ohio, so about 75 percent of all of it was so true I about died. Talk about great memories. Thanks.

Oh yes, I did live in Cory for two years. The burgh experience would have been perfect if I had found the right republican suburb, but I was dumb and picked an itialian democrat stronghold. Folks there were ok nice, but November was a tough time of year for me there.