Archive through May 21, 2001

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Noslonna

Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 02:55 pm Click here to edit this post

Schoolmarm thanks for the correct spellings of those norwegian words! lol. I always just heard them said and guessed at the spelling.

Nagster

Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 03:45 pm Click here to edit this post

Saw a rather good one on the back window of a truck today.

"Sanity is the playground for the unimaginative."

Former Milwaukeean here, and can remember these well.

"Where the streetcar bends the corner, down by Mitchell Street."

"Johnny, go broom off the snow. The sidewalk's getting thick."

Coke or Pepsi or any soft drink was definitely soda, while a baby carriage was a baby buggy. Relatives in Duluth, MN referred to a soft drink as pop.

Then there's:

One taco short of a combo meal.

Cammie

Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 03:47 pm Click here to edit this post

Schoolmarm,

I'm from Pittsburgh and, yes, we do have a language of our own. My cousins from out of state say they can't understand half of what people are saying!!

sammich - sandwich
wooshrag - wash cloth
gumband - rubber band
red up - clean up
GianIggle - Giant Eagle, a grocery store

Max

Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 04:37 pm Click here to edit this post

Here in Oregon....

In Portland, Couch Street is KOOCH Street, not KOWCH.
The Willamette River is the will-AM-it, not the will-a-MET.
Lake Oswego is Lake os-WE-go, not os-WAY-go.
Boring is a town, not just how we feel about people who complain about the weather.
Fossil, Spray, Drain, and Sandy are towns, too.
Tigard is TIE-gard, not TIGG-erd.
In Portland, umbrellas are for wimps. It rains here. You won't melt. Deal with it.

And most importantly, it's OR-a-gun, not or-EE-gon or OR-gun. You'll see some bumperstickers that say ORYgun, too.

Lancecrossfire

Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 04:44 pm Click here to edit this post

Max, I have heard many people say will-a-met-EE for thew Willamette River and Valley.

Heard way too many sports casters over the years (well, once electricity was invented) say or-EE-gon. For some reason I wanted to throttle all of them. They made way to much money to not learn the right way to say the same of the state for at least the duration the the game they were covering.

Guruchaz

Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 06:09 pm Click here to edit this post

I remember my mom would pronounce Italian dressing as "Eye-talian dressing". I guess I had unknowingly picked that up from her growing up and got teased about saying it that way one time when some friends and I ate at a restaurant.

It's amazing the pronunciations you pickup from your parents growing up.

Juju2bigdog

Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 10:17 pm Click here to edit this post

Juju and Bigdog drank out of a bubbler today in the Botanical Garden in Sydney. They don't seem to have bubblers in the U.S. much anymore, although I can remember them being in parks in my childhood. Anyhow, they had bubblers all over the botanical gardens today, including a very old time and huge drinking fountain. You turn the handle, and the water shoots or bubbles straight up and you have to put your mouth over the top of a vertical stream of water (as opposed to elliptical in drinking fountains), and it gets all over your face.

Noslonna

Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 11:13 pm Click here to edit this post

I love bubblers... so much fun drinking water against gravity... dontcha love how is gets in your nose?

Max

Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 11:48 pm Click here to edit this post

We still have bubblers here in Portland. They call them "Benson Bubblers." They used to run continuously (no buttons to push to get a drink of cool, refreshing water), but with the water shortages a couple of years ago, they changed them to on-demand delivery to conserve water. :)

Guruchaz

Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 11:49 pm Click here to edit this post

Ok, so all this "bubbler" talk doesn't involve a tub. whew!

Juju2bigdog

Thursday, March 15, 2001 - 03:05 pm Click here to edit this post

Gu, that is the alternate definition of bubbler.

Norwican

Friday, March 16, 2001 - 08:39 am Click here to edit this post

When you refer to someone as "a good egg".
Does anyone know where that one came from?

Norwican

Friday, March 16, 2001 - 08:41 am Click here to edit this post

Oh, and my Dad calls my Mom his "little lutefisk" (it's a Norwegian thing LOL)

Noslonna

Friday, March 16, 2001 - 09:18 am Click here to edit this post

Norwican that is so funny! My gramma was the one that gave our family the expession "larsamon!" to scold a husband... but my grandpa (Lars) called her his "lita lutefisk" too! I guess you know that lutefisk is a made by soaking dried cod in lye for a couple days. lol

Willi

Friday, March 16, 2001 - 09:20 am Click here to edit this post

willy nilly

uh huh huh :)

Norwican

Friday, March 16, 2001 - 10:22 am Click here to edit this post

OMG Nos, that's hysterical!

Yes, unfortunately I know what lutefisk is... yuk!
My Dad insists on serving it at all holidays... it is apparently an acquired taste lol.

Schoolmarm

Friday, March 16, 2001 - 01:57 pm Click here to edit this post

Oh, my!! I can't believe others on the board know what lutefisk is!!!

Smells aweful, tastes aweful, could clean the stains out of the coffee pot. Can you believe eating codfish cured in lye? It looks like white jello.

My Mom would ruin a good piece of lefse by putting mashed potatoes and lutefisk on it and rolling it up.

They really don't eat it in Norway anymore...it's considered "poor man's food". But as long as Grandma was alive, we had lutefisk every Christmas in northern Iowa. I hear that there are lutefisk church socials amongst the Lutherans in the Dakotas, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Maybe we should start a "strange holiday food" thread....could be fun!

Mishamisha

Friday, March 16, 2001 - 07:42 pm Click here to edit this post

Juju, while down under, NEVER say you're "stuffed" (too full). It's the same as saying you're "fvcked".

I always hear them saying OR-eh-gone on TV.

Then again, I'm one french fry short of a Happy Meal, so what do I know

Guruchaz

Friday, March 16, 2001 - 08:12 pm Click here to edit this post

Jeesh! I'm not travelling anywhere if all the harmless slang I've learned growing up is going to get me in trouble.

uh huh huh

Noslonna

Friday, March 16, 2001 - 10:01 pm Click here to edit this post

Guru..stay close to home. In certain parts of the world, uh huh huh, means somthing quite different.

Willi

Saturday, March 17, 2001 - 02:16 pm Click here to edit this post

humdinger.

That's a real "humdinger."
LOVE that expression.

:)

Grooch

Saturday, May 19, 2001 - 10:16 am Click here to edit this post
"Don't get your panties in a wad!"

I know its an insult, but it's like Fruitbat's Tampon gun. When someone says it, it makes you just stop, then you just have to laugh.

Max

Sunday, May 20, 2001 - 09:45 pm Click here to edit this post
"My dogs are barkin'!" Translation: "My feet hurt!"

I said that this weekend and had to explain it to someone who had never heard it before. :)

Whit4you

Sunday, May 20, 2001 - 11:21 pm Click here to edit this post
This looks like a fun topic that I missed, thanks Max :)


Back when people used to gimme-a-hard-time for being to verbose (just my first month or so here) I'd sneak into the archives and type to my hearts content lol :)

Here are some sayings

Two sheets to the wind = drunk
Splitting the sheets = breaking up (I use this one all the time)

Picking out china = (getting serious - I used this one all the time when I used to date, "I'm not picking out china here, just thought we should discuss XXXXXXXX)

You make a better door then a window (when someone is standing in front of TV)

If you'd listen with your ears instead of your mouth.... (my mom used to say this to me all the time)

rug-rat (I've always used this as an affectinate term for a little child, for some reason some people don't think of it as affectionate so over the years I use it less and less... but my son will always be my rug-rat :)

she's off in la-la-land

Gail

Monday, May 21, 2001 - 03:55 am Click here to edit this post
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