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Regarding beverages, there's "pop" in the Midwest, and "soda" in the East.
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If you ever hear a group of Cincinnatians talking about how they like it, a 3-way or a 4-way or a 5-way, please do not jump to conclusions.

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If you ever hear a group of Cincinnatians talking about how they like it, a 3-way or a 4-way or a 5-way, please do not jump to conclusions.

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What? Please? Excuse me??
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Boy Howdy. Thank heavens we Ohioans don't talk funny.
Boy howdy

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Nobody says y'all any more.
I didn't get the memo, y'all.

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Gracie and a few others around here would know exactly what I meant if in the midst of conversation, I suddenly said, "Please." My fellow Cincinnatians would not look at me like I was from another planet, nor would they look around to see what I wanted them to give me. My fellow Cincinnatians would politely repeat what they had just said.

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Glad you 'splained this, Boomer. 'til now, whenever I heard "please" suddenly injected into a conversation it was pronouced "puhlease" and it didn't mean a Pennsylvania what. It meant "gimme a break".

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Dinner on the ground, usually, but not necessarily, around church events, is a southern tradition.
Southern where, cuz? I declare, I've never heard it.

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Regarding beverages, there's "pop" in the Midwest, and "soda" in the East.
You're right Sunflower. Southerners don't know from soda or pop. They drink co-cola.

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If you ever hear a group of Cincinnatians talking about how they like it, a 3-way or a 4-way or a 5-way, please do not jump to conclusions.

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Whatever it means will never live up to the conclusion I jumped to. Please, I'm sorry, excuse me.
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I had to type obits one weekend for a newspaper where I worked. I typed an obit that had tag-team preachers and dinner on the ground following the burial. Well, the burial would follow the preaching if the attempt at raising the deceased from the dead by the laying on of hands failed. I almost forgot...the dinner on the ground was to be held in the southern part of West Virginia next to the snake handling church.

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Well, BK--since we seem to be from the same part of the country --I remember the 'burial services" held in the homes of deceased---lots of preachers ----the preaching of "hell-fire" , etc., ---even at funerals. The procession through the house to "view"----then the picnic on the grounds----there were snake-handlers in Ky but not at my Southern Baptist Church--but I remember our "preacher" on the pulpit one Sunday---preaching his hell-fire, etc. There was a "person" in the church with her arm in cast---the accident which caused it happened one Sunday when she was not at CHurch--but obviously should have been---and he actually included a reference to it in his sermon "and if people are where they should be on Sunday mornings--certain "things" would not happen to them"----well needless to say we all knew who he was addressing that one to!!!!! and you Villagers have to appreciate the fact that she was actually golfing that Sunday morning and had a fall on the golf course.
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Oh my! It looks as though some conclusions may have been jumped to, even though I said not to. I guess I got some splainin' to do. -- Whoops. (I've been watching that Lucy marathon off and on today.)

Anyway, it refers to our chili. Chili on top of spaghetti. Here is a menu from Skyline Chili that explains it. Actually, there are a few Skylines in Florida. I bet one would be a big success in TV. The stuff is addictive.

http://www.skylinechili.com/signature.php

Now I must go sit on my couch-sofa-davenport and watch Castle.

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Regarding beverages, there's "pop" in the Midwest, and "soda" in the East.
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I am curious and scared to start a new post with the fear that it will go nowhere or that it repeats another genius idea. Big breath. Anyway, here goes.

I have read a few posts pertaining to roundabouts. Where I come from we call them traffic circles. When we lived in New England; they were called rotaries.

Also in New England, what I call turn signals were called directionals. (Signage in a sharp turn on my street even said, "Check your directionals" in case your turn signal was still on after the turn.)


I put my groceries in a shopping cart but my girlfriend in Woonsocket, RI, called it a carriage.

I call winter headgear a tobbagan. My yankee husband says it a tuque. Wassup with that??

I say I am getting ready to do....my sister-in-law in Tennessee says she's fixing too....bless her heart.

My list can go on and on. I say spaghetti sauce; you say gravy...
America is a big place, requiring one to be multi-lingual

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Here in Pennsylvania if we don't hear what somebody said, we say, "What?"
In Miami they say ¿qué?

Then I say... "Oh, good grief."
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Dang it Boomer, you got my hopes up but the nearest Skyline to TV is in Clearwater, 75 miles away.....gn
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When my wife and I are having a conversation, half of the words are usually "what"?
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Boy howdy



I didn't get the memo, y'all.



Glad you 'splained this, Boomer. 'til now, whenever I heard "please" suddenly injected into a conversation it was pronouced "puhlease" and it didn't mean a Pennsylvania what. It meant "gimme a break".



Southern where, cuz? I declare, I've never heard it.



Thank heavens Ohioans don't talk funny!




You're right Sunflower. Southerners don't know from soda or pop. They drink co-cola.



Whatever it means will never live up to the conclusion I jumped to. Please, I'm sorry, excuse me.
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Don't forget that the alleged citizens of Mass. call a Milkshake a "FRAP."


Fumar with extra Malt .......

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"Hows come" for why.
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