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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Tuesday, February 10, 2004 - 6:28 pm
YOU KNOW YOU'RE FROM CHICAGO IF... You know what the phone number for Empire Carpet is! Your living room is called the "front room." (pronounced fronchroom) You don't pronounce the "s" at the end of Illinois, and you become irate at people who do. You measure distance in minutes (especially "from the city"), and everything is pretty much 15 minutes away. You have no problem spelling or pronouncing "Des Plaines." Your school classes were canceled because of the cold weather. Your school classes were canceled because of the hot weather. You've switched from heat to air conditioning in the same day. Your grocery stores don't have sacks; they have bags. You end your sentences with prepositions: "Where's my coat at?" or "If you go to the mall, ! I wanna go with," or "Come by and pick me up." Your idea of a great sandwich is when the meat is twice as big as the bun, it has everything on it, and a slice of dill pickle is on the side. You always carry jumper cables in your car. You drink "pop," not soda. You understand that I-290, I-90, I-94, and I-294 are all different highways. You know the names of the interstates: Stevenson, Kennedy, Eisenhower, Dan Ryan, and the Edens, but you call them all "expressways." You refer to anything south of I-80 as "Southern Illinois." You refer to Lake Michigan as "The Lake." You refer to Chicago as "The City." The "Super Bowl" refers to one specific game in a series of 35 played in January of 1985. No matter where you are, when you hear the term "Downtown," you immediately assume they're talking about downtown Chicago. You have two favorite football teams: The Bears, and anyone who beats the Packers! You read "The Trib." You drive to the North suburbs by taking "The Outer Drive" even though no such road exists. You think 35 degrees is great weather to wash your car! You know what goes on a Chicago Style Hot Dog. You know what Chicago Style Pizza REALLY is. You know why they call Chicago "The Windy City." (And no, it's not cuz it's windy!) You understand what "lake-effect" means. You know the difference between Amtrak and Metra, and know which station they end up at. (Do note the preposition.) You ride the "L." You can distinguish among the following area codes: 847, 630, 773, 708, 312, & 815. You respond to the question "Where are you from with a "side." Example:"WEST SIDE," "SOUTH SIDE," or "NORTH SIDE." You wear gym shoes, not sneakers.
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Tuesday, February 10, 2004 - 6:50 pm
You never go out without a hat, and even wear it while driving. You can tell who is not from the city by the bare head.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Tuesday, February 10, 2004 - 9:50 pm
ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They're all good, but "You've switched from heat to air conditioning in the same day" is one of my favorites.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Tuesday, February 10, 2004 - 10:46 pm
Darn it ... now I have that silly Empire commercial jingle stuck in my head, lol ...
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Schoolmarm
Member
02-18-2001
| Wednesday, February 11, 2004 - 2:48 am
CRUD, Julieboo....I'm from "Downstate" Illinois, and *I* even have that Empire commercial going through my head now! I'm also craving Uno's pizza. Thanks for the memories, and I hope to make the Chicago meeting!
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Wednesday, February 11, 2004 - 7:41 am
Oh dang, Marm ... now I'm drooling for Uno's or Due's pizza ...
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Jan
Member
08-01-2000
| Wednesday, February 11, 2004 - 11:00 am
Sounds like Chicago used to be a Canadian city! . We also know how to correctly say Illinois and Des Plaines, are well acquainted with "lake-effect", have grocery bags, jumper cables and pop and all that weather stuff. Hey, we are with you on that too! ....well it just seems to me that Chicago would make an excellent Canadian city. We'd welcome you with open arms  
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Schoolmarm
Member
02-18-2001
| Wednesday, February 11, 2004 - 11:03 am
Yeah, but would you take in all of Wisconsin, too? LOL 588-6300 Empire.....Did I get it right? I haven't lived in Illinois since 1979. Ahhhh the power of music (ok, well, a jingle)!
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Bob2112
Member
06-12-2002
| Wednesday, February 11, 2004 - 11:15 am
588-2300 Empire Today is now nationwide, and has 800-588-2300 for a tollfree number. One of there old jingles has the 800 quickly dubbed in before the cheesey chorus that everyone seems to remember, five-eight-eight two-three-hundred and it sounds kinda silly.
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Azriel
Member
08-01-2000
| Wednesday, February 11, 2004 - 12:06 pm
Well, I know now that I'm definitely not from Chicago. Is it really pronounced fronchroom? 
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Hippyt
Member
09-10-2001
| Wednesday, February 11, 2004 - 12:57 pm
My hubby says 'I wanna go with' and so do my kids.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Wednesday, February 11, 2004 - 4:46 pm
Jan, do you pronounce "Des Plaines" -- (phonetic spelling) "des planes"? (There's both a river and suburb in the Chicago area with that name.)That's the way it's pronounced in the Chicago area.
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Ocean_islands
Member
09-07-2000
| Thursday, February 12, 2004 - 9:18 am
I'm wondering why Des Moines and DesPlaines are not pronounced the same.
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Bob2112
Member
06-12-2002
| Thursday, February 12, 2004 - 12:22 pm
OI, I think they are different words. 
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Jan
Member
08-01-2000
| Thursday, February 12, 2004 - 6:28 pm
I would not pronounce the final s on any of those words. As far as I know, they are from French and the "s" would be silent in French. I am not a good French speaker and have an atrocious accent so I wouldn't go by me..but I would be tempted to pronounce it as "day plen"...but I know there are French Canadians on this board and they can probably tell you better PS LOL Bob
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Ocean_islands
Member
09-07-2000
| Thursday, February 12, 2004 - 8:11 pm
I speak fluent French, but being from Chicago I know that Desplaines is "Dessplaynes" and Desmoines is "Duhmoyne".
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Fabnsab
Member
08-07-2000
| Saturday, February 14, 2004 - 2:38 am
SO many of those apply to Cleveland too. Too funny. Fronchroom is SOOOOOO true!
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