'Burgher-isms!
Posted By: Fatty on 2006-02-01
In Reply to: terrible towel - mt
YUNZ ARE FROM PICKSBURGH
Ah yes! Picksburgh. Yunz are from Picksburgh if ...
1. You didn't have a spring break in high school.
2. You walk carefully when it is slippy outside.
3. You often go down to the crick.
4 You've told your children to red up their rooms.
5. You can remember telling your little brother/sister to stop being so nebby.
6. You've gotten hurt by falling into a jaggerbush.
7. Your mother or grandmother has been seen wearing a babushka on
her head.
8. You've warshed the clothes.
9. I ask you to hand me one of those Gum-Bands you actually know
what I'm talking about.
10. You know you can't drive too fast on the back roads, beause of the deer.
11. You know Beaver Valley, Turtle Crick, Mars, Slippery Rock, Greentree and New Castle are names of towns . (and you've been to most, if not all, of them.)
12. A girl walks up to three of her girl friends and says, HEY YOONZ GUYS
13. You hear you guyses, and don't think twice. Example...(you guyses hahse is nice)
14. You know the three rivers by name and understand that The Point
isn't just on a writing instrument.
15. Someone refers to The Mon or The Yough and you know exactly what they're talking about.
16. You remember the blizzard of 1993 (or 1976, or 1950, or 1939, or...)and remember not being able to go outside because the snow was over your head and you would have suffocated.
17. Someone starts the chant, Here we go Still-ers! and you join in.
In the proper cadence. Waving the appropriately colored towel.
8. Bob Prince and There's a bug loose on the rug. hold special meaning for you.
19. You've either eaten a Farkleberry Tart or know some one who has.
20. You drink pop, eat hoagies, love perogies and one of your favorites sandwiches actually has coleslaw and french fries ON it.
21. You know what a still mill is.
22. You expect temps in the winter to be record breaking cold and temps in the summer to be record breaking hot.
23. You know what Eat 'N Park is and frequently ate breakfast there at 2:00 AM after the bar closed and made fun of people.
24. You order dippy eggs in a restaurant and get exactly what you wanted.
25. You spent your summers, or a school picnic, at Kennywood, Westview, Sand Castle, or Idlewild.
26. You've been to the Braun's Bread Plant or Story Book Forest or a school field trip. (We went to the Heinz plant and the Isaly's plant for cub scouts.)
27. Chipped ham was always in your refrigerator when you were growin' up.
28. You refuse to buy any condiments besides Heinz unless a Pittsburgh athlete's picture is on the side of the container.
29. When you call the dog or the kids you shout, Kum-mear and they come.
30. Franco, Roberto, and Mario don't need last names and you can recite their exploits by heart.
31. Food at a wedding reception consists of rigatoni, stuffed cabbage,
sauerkraut and polska kielbasa. You'll send this on to family and friends who used to live in the Pittsburgh Area as well as to those who have never lived there, just so they can appreciate how different
western PA really is!
I wonder how many of Yoonz guys actually understood all dat? Some folks just don't get dem things.
32. You grocery list had the word Oleo on it.
And may I add one of my personal favorites - Djeat? No, Djew?
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