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3. Are you from Milwaukee?

Wed Nov 1, 2017, 10:23 PM

Nov 2017

Just wondering, "bubbler" is a regional word for drinking fountain that seems to be unique to Milwaukee (and maybe one location out east).

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Papadopoulos is now the Typhoid Mary of the Trump campaign [View all] Xipe Totec Nov 2017 OP

That's lovely. Turbineguy Nov 2017 #1

Love it!!! dhol82 Nov 2017 #2

Are you from Milwaukee? The Velveteen Ocelot Nov 2017 #3

Also used in Boston Xipe Totec Nov 2017 #6

I was born in Milwaukee; we moved away when I was 7. The Velveteen Ocelot Nov 2017 #7

Not quite. In Bahstan, it would be a bubblah Stinky The Clown Nov 2017 #11

Papadopoulos? Who is that? Never met him. I think he doc03 Nov 2017 #4

"Excuse me, could you speak into the flower on my lapel?" AJT Nov 2017 #8

Yeah, many staffers are probably cooperating by now Cicada Nov 2017 #10