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Sent to us from Poland!
Click here for
an incredibly funny version of some Japanese newscasters
reporting on the name of our lake
Check out
Shades of Grey
and their
Webster Lake Song!
VISITORS GUIDE TO THE FOREIGN COUNTRY OF
BOSTON
There's no
school on School Street, no court on Court Street,
no dock on
Dock Square,
and no water on Water Street. Back
Bay streets are in alphabetical "odda" --
Arlington,
Berkeley,
Clarendon, Dartmouth, and so on.... So are South Boston
streets -- A, B, C, D, etc.. If the streets are named after
trees (e.g., Walnut, Chestnut, Elm), you're on Beacon Hill.
If they're named after poets -- you are in
Wellesley.
Massachusetts Avenue is Mass Ave. Commonwealth Avenue
is Comm Ave. South Boston is Southie. The South End is the
South End. Eastie! is
East Boston. The North End is East of the
former
West End. The
West End and Scollay Square are Gone.
Jamaica Plain is JP, Savin Hill is Stabbin' Hill. Mattapan is
Murda-pan.
Frappes
have ice cream; milkshakes don't. Soda is CLUB SODA.
Pop is Dad. Schrod is whatever they tell you it is. Usually
fish.
It's not a water fountain -- it's a "bubblah" It's not a trash
can;
it's a trash barrel. It's not a shopping cart; it's a shopping
carriage.
It's not a purse; it's a pockabook. They're not franks; they're
haht dahgs. Police don't drive patrol units or black and whites.
They drive a "crooza." If you take the bus, your on the
"looza crooza." It's not a traffic circle, it's a rotary. "Going
to the islands" means
Martha's Vineyard
and Nantucket.
The Pat's
= The Patriots The Sox = The Red Sox Do! n't pahk
your cah in Hahvid Yahd ... it will be towed for big bucks.
Don't wear
Orange
in Southie on Saint Patty's Day The colored
lights on top the old Hancock tell the weatha * Solid Blue =
Clear View * Flashing Blue = Clouds due * Solid Red = Rain
ahead * Flashing Red = Snow instead * Except in Summa .
Flashing Red = Red Sox game rained out Route 128 is also
I-95 south. It's also I-93 north. You can't get there from
here. The underground train is not a subway. It's the "T"
and it doesn't run all night. (Fah Chrysakes, this ain't Noo
Yawk.)
Boston
folks think it's their God-given right to cut off someone
in traffic. Using your turn-signal is a sign of weakness. Six
inches of snow is a "dusting." 63 degree ocean water
temperature is warm.
Rhode Island
accents are annoying.
And how to properly pronounce some local communities:
> > Worcester = Woostah Gloucester = Glawstah Woburn
= Wooban Revere = Re-vayuh Quincy = Quinzee Medford
= Meffa Danvers = Davvus Swampscott = Swarmskit
Billerica = Bill Rikka Leominster = Lemon Stah.
And of
course, Webster (Web-stah) has the lake with
the long Indian name ......
ChaggoggagoggMunchoggaggoggChabunnagunnagugamogg
(or something like that) -- Means "You fish on your side, I
"ll fish on my side, and Nobody fish in the middle."
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