101 ways you know your from Boston...

[maveric]

http://www.bluemassgroup.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=5684
Can anyone relate?

[Chan790]

1. Yeah

and I've never even lived north of the CT border.

[Maestro]

2. That's funny.

I've never been to Boston but I found myself laughing at many of them. And I can pronounce good ole Yaz's name. He was one of my favorite baseball players in the 70's.

[Cobalt Violet]

16. So you don't know the joy of driving in rotaries?

Once your in you have the right of way, and you better exercise that right. I know someone who got pulled over for yielding the right of way in a rotary.

[Redstone]

3. ...If you know where the apostrophe goes (hint, hint). Other than that:

1) Worcester: WOOsta.

2) Billerica: BillRICKA

3) Gloucester: GLOSta, and

4) Haverhill: AVrill.

Too easy.

Redstone

[Cobalt Violet]

12. WIStah.

HAVrill.

[Redstone]

22. Well, those are the Cambridgian pronunciations. Your results may vary. And could it

be more obvious that you and I are real New Englanders, when we're arguing about which of our pronunciations are more different from the rest of the world? I like it.

Redstone

[Cobalt Violet]

27. I'm from Southie, not Cambridge.

:rofl:


But seriously I can tell the difference between Revere and Dorchester accents. We definitely have quite a few accents that make up the New England accent. I'm only an hour out of Boston now and I have an accent to the natives out here.

[Redstone]

29. Same way with southern accents. I only lived down there for a few years, but I can still

tell West Virginia from South Carolina every time.

Redstone

[Gormy Cuss]

39. Wusstah and HAIVE-rill.

There was a long discussion in the Lounge about a year ago on Worcester. Denis Leary says Wistah. My friends from Worcester (different neighbors and eras) all said that Wuss-tah was closer than Wistah. Most of the people I knew who were natives of the Boston street car suburbs pronounced it Wusstah too.

[Cobalt Violet]

44. My friend from Texas would pronounce it like it's spelled, Worcester.

:rofl: No one knew what he talking about at first. "Worcester, where's that?"

[maveric]

54. WIStah is correct. How about Peebity?

SUMvill too?

[jmm]

17. A teacher in high school

told us of how a boy who had recently moved to the area asked some classmates where he could buy cleats. A few mentioned he go to a particular store and even told him the address but he couldn't find it on a map so he asked her for help. She asked if he was sure he had the correct street name and he insisted he did but he couldn't find the city on a map. She asked to see the address and he had written down that the city was "Medfa."

The moral of this story for anybody trying to get directions from a local, get it in writing.

[Redstone]

23. Not to mention "Wabin." But it's OK, here in Connecticut we have a town that

all the Connecticutters insist is "Woocut."

Even though it's spelled "Wolcott."

Redstone

[idgiehkt]

4. lol

30. You intentionally give wrong directions to tourists, feel bad when they drive off, but then say to yourself, "Ah, screw 'em."

Good to know. Not from there, but I'll take a map when I visit, lol

:rofl:

[Cobalt Violet]

13. I've done it but not on purpose.

I did feel bad.
But ya, what could I do. Done is done. "Screw 'em".

That was a long time ago.

[jmm]

5. We do recognize the letter "R" as a part of the English language

We just stick it on the end of words like idear.

[Redstone]

8. Spoken as a true Bostonian. You are the real thng, yes?

And in Boston, you don't get a parking ticket, you get a "slip," am I remembering correctly?

Redstone

[jmm]

19. I'm a St. E's baby, live in a triple deckah,

know brown bread comes from a can, and have a brother named Sully so yeah, I'm the real thing. I've never thought of "slip" as a local term but now that I think about it I never heard somebody who wasn't originally from the area refer to it as a slip.

[Redstone]

21. The triple-deckah may indeed be the ideal townhouse. Three very spacious apartments,

and each with its own back porch on which to cool off, dry the laundry, and have loud discussions with the neighbor on the same level, even if across the alley.

No sarcasm included. I meant what I said.

Redstone

[maveric]

55. I grew up in triple deckahs in Lawrence.

But they burn so fast and bright.
see Lawrence MA

[KamaAina]

6. 7. Your social security number starts with a 0.

My SSN starts with 0 -- but I'm from Connecticut, or as it is sometimes known, Massachusetts Jr.

edit: "29. Sure there are 6 New England states, but Connecticut really doesn't count."

[Gormy Cuss]

9. All standard issue New England SSNs start with zero.

The Northern states have double zeros at the beginning. Some Mainers can even claim '007' numbers.Bond. James Bond.

[Redstone]

28. Connecticut is the New Jersey of New England. Meaning that people think of it as

a place to drive across when you're going from someplace to somewhere else.

In Connecticut's case, from New York to Boston.

Redstone

[ghostsofgiants]

7. Where's "You are terrified of Lite-Brite"?

[MANative]

10. Just read this to my DH and we're laughing so hard

the teahs ah streamin' :) And extra points for people who remember "I'll be blasting you!".... And we both worked for Caldor :cry: Loved that place!

And don't forget... Howard Johnson's Coffee Ice cream!

[Kat45]

11. Those are great!

I just emailed them to a bunch of my friends. Shit, I'm even old enough to remember Big Brother Bob Emery. I had a Big Brother jigsaw puzzle when I was little.

[Cobalt Violet]

14. 71. You can't look at the zip code 02134 without singing it.

So true. Still 'til this day.

[maveric]

56. Big Brother, Captain Bob, Major Mudd,Rex Trailer, Siomon's Sanctorum.

Major Mudd was the best because he was on twice a day and showed Stooges flicks.

Remember what Major Mudd's spaceship was named?

[Cobalt Violet]

15. 63. You know that the Mass Pike is some sort of strange weather dividing line.

And so isn't 128 and 495. It's just weird the way that works. It seems to be pretty precise.


And that reminds me that would be ROOT 128 and ROOT 495.

[Redstone]

24. "And so isn't," as you just pointed out without knowing it, is another.

Redstone

[Cobalt Violet]

30. I didn't catch that.

Others would say "And so is". Either way it means the same thing to me.

Wow. Good one.

[Redstone]

35. Hey, I grew up in Vermont but spent my summers in Cambridge.

Redstone

[Kat45]

18. I also liked the ones people added on as later comments/replies.

"How many cookies did Andrew eat?" Man, I remember that commercial was always on:

"How many cookies did Andrew eat?
Andrew ate eight-thousand.
How do you keep your carpets neat?
Call Andrew8-8000."

It's amazing how persistent commercial jingles can be in your head. And this jingle is also a reminder that phone numbers used to begin with two letters, rather than numbers, and a word would be used to designate the letters. AN would be Andrew. I grew up in Watertown, and our number began with WA6- (which stood for Walnut6).

[marzipanni]

42. LOL-I was just thinking as I read these replies, "I bet these people remember

'How many cookies did Andrew eat?'"and then not two seconds later I read your post.
I haven't read the list yet, I decided to read the whole thread before I do.
I grew up in Weston, I remember waiting for the bus from Watertown to Cambridge after getting off the one from Waltham on my teenage forays into the city. My friend and I would get Lamejun and little Armenian"pizzas" from the Armenian bakery. My brother likes to get baba ghannouj and other foods at a little store near there, forty years later.

[maveric]

57. A rush of memories just hit me notmyprez! Remember this:

"Before you go back to school you go to Zayres.."

[woofless]

20. Things I learned as a child North of Boston.

Wednesday is Prince spaghetti day. There IS a god and his name is Ted. Za-rex sucks. Maple Leaf hotdogs rock. Any milk but Hood's is poison. Blue denim pants are dungarees. You need at least two kind of skates. We left MA when I was 12 in 1964. I still hit on about 80% of that list.

Woof

[Redstone]

25. Za-Rex? Good Lord, I'm not the only one who remembers that dreadful stuff?

It was supposed to be a cheaper alternative to bottled soda, but all it did was to remind you that your family couldn't afford anything that actually tasted good.

Blech. Give me Fizzies instead, any day.

Redstone

[Cobalt Violet]

34. It made good homemade snow cones

Well, they seemed good at the time but I was a kid.

[maveric]

58. My parents would buy bottles of that shit for summer vacation.

NASTY!

[yewberry]

31. Ick.

I accidentally drank Za-Rex undiluted when I was little. Never agin.

*sniff*

[Cobalt Violet]

32. You hit more than me on the list.

And I've been here all my life. Most of the sports and drinking ones I missed. I hit on most of the others.

[meegbear]

48. And that you have to PAY to get into the city

unlike those South Shore douch... , but I digress.

[yy4me]

51. And the only dungarees were Wranglers with the patch!

[graywarrior]

26. 46. You can complete the following: "Lynn, Lynn..."

Bwahahahaha
:rofl:

[yewberry]

33. City of sin: you don't come out the way you went in.

Oh, yeah. Just like old times.

I think my mom (from Ipswich) is physically incapable of saying "Lynn" without doing the entire rhyme.

[graywarrior]

36. Bet I know her.

[yewberry]

40. Whoa. You might be right.

I think my mom might be just a little older than you are (just going from your photos)--she was HS class of '62, I think.

Dang, I really miss Ipswich. The whole North Shore, really. (Okay, not really Revere.)

[maveric]

59. I remember saying that. But from Lawrence, I didnt have much to brag about.

Lawrence, Lowell and Lynn. The Nasty Killer "L's".

[meegbear]

46. HIGH-FIVE!!

And people all over the COUNTRY can finish it!

[yewberry]

37. You know why the North End smells like molasses on hot days

You know what NECCO stands for

You are still baffled by Willie Whistle

You knew you were almost home from a NH or ME vacation when you saw the giant cactus (Hilltop)

You drink out of a bubbler

You know that your mom's wallet is in her pockabook

The smallest beer is a pint

You're okay with the road being North and South at the same time (128-95-93)

Garbage goes in the barrel


Oh, man, am I homesick.

[graywarrior]

38. The Hilltop. Remember when somene stole the cow?

:rofl:

[yewberry]

41. Did they ever get that thing back?

Geez. People messing with local history like that... :D

[graywarrior]

49. One of the thefts was an MIT prank

The hall is home to Ferdi, a large fiberglass cow with a mortarboard on its head. Ferdi was stolen from the lawn in front of the Hilltop Steakhouse in Saugus and placed atop MIT's Great Dome in 1981.

Leonard DeRosa, a restaurant official, says the owner was initially upset about the theft. "But then we got so much publicity about it. We got inundated with people who came to see the place where it was missing," DeRosa says. "I've been here 24 years, and it still comes up often."

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=29&art_id=qw981346980403B213


One other, the cow was ransomed, his head decapitated and the kids were caught and made to pay restitution. Hahahahaha

[krispos42]

43. you spell "you're" like "your"? :-) n/t

[yy4me]

45. What a way to start the day! As an old timer, I remember all of

this stuff. A couple of others:

The building of Shoppers World
3D at HO-JO's
The construction of Route 128-it went only to about Woburn((Woobin)
The Chateau in Framingham along with Vaughn Monroe's Meadows
Norumbega Park

Good grief, this could go on all day. What fun, brings back happy memories, keep it up!

[meegbear]

47. 63. You know that the Mass Pike is some sort of strange weather dividing line.

:spray:

[yellowdogintexas]

50. #102: you know which subway car opens to Filene's Basement!

I STILL miss Filene's Basement.


LOL, my native Bostonian friend taught me how to go from Harvard Square to Filene's on a 45 minute lunch and get serious shopping done! She knew which car and which door opened right in front of the entrance to the basement, and we were never late getting back.

good ole days.

[WilliamPitt]

52. 103. LED cartoon characters make you shit your pants.

:)

[Burma Jones]

53. Do Mug N Muffin shops still exist?