SpeedRacer 1 #1 November 13, 2006 Welcome to Bawstin For those of you who have never been to "Bawstin", this is a good guideline. I hope you will consider coming to "Beantown" in the near future. For those who call New England home, this is just plain great! Information on Boston and the surrounding area: There's no school on School Street, no court on Court Street, no dock on Dock Square, no water on Water Street. Back Bay streets are in alphabetical "oddah": Arlington, Berkeley, Clarendon, Dartmouth, etc. So are South Boston streets: A, B, C, D, etc. If the streets are named after trees (e.g. Walnut, Chestnut, Cedar), you're on Beacon Hill. If they're named after poets, you're in Wellesley. Massachusetts Ave is Mass Ave; Commonwealth Ave is Comm Ave. South Boston is Southie. The South End is the South End. East Boston is Eastie. The North End is east of the former West End. The West End and Scollay Square are no more; a guy named Rappaport got rid of them one night. Roxbury is The Burry, Jamaica Plain is J.P. How to say these Massachusetts city names correctly: **Say it wrong, be shunned** Worcester: Wuhsta (or Wistah) Gloucester: Glawsta Leicester: Lesta Woburn: Wooban Dedham: Dedim (like denim w/ a D in the N pace) Revere: Re-vee-ah Quincy: Quinzee Tewksbury: Tooks berry Leominster: Lemon-sta Peabody: Peabuddy Waltham: Walth-ham Chatham: Chattum Definitions: Frappes have ice cream, milkshakes don't. If it is fizzy and flavored, it's tonic. Soda is CLUB SODA. "Pop" is Dad. When we want Tonic WATER, we will ask for Tonic WATER. The smallest beer is a pint. Scrod is whatever they tell you it is, usually fish. If you paid more than $6/pound, you got scrod. It's not a water fountain; it's a bubblah. It's not a trashcan; it's a barrel. It's not a spucky it's a sub. It's not a shopping cart; it's a carriage. It's not a purse; it's a pockabook. They're not franks; they're haht dahgs. Franks are money in France. 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 rubber band, it's an elastic. It's not a traffic circle, it's a rotary. "Going to the islands" means Martha s Vineyard & Nantucket. If something's good, it's "pissa". If something's really good, it's "wicked pissa". The Pat's =The Patriots The Sox = The Red Sox The C's = The Celtics The B's = The Bruins Things not to do: Don't pahk your cah in Hahvid Yahd they'll tow it to Meffa (Medford) or Slumaville (Somerville). Don't sleep in the Common. (Boston Common) Don't wear Orange in Southie on St. Patrick's Day. Things you should know: There are two State Houses, two City Halls, two courthouses, two Hancock buildings (one old, one new for each). The colored lights on top the old Hancock tell the wetha: "Solid blue, clear view...." "Flashing blue, clouds due...." "Solid red, rain ahead...." "Flashing red, snow instead...." - (except in summer; flashing red means the Red Sox game was rained out) Route 128 is also I-95 south. It's also I-93 north. 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). Order the "cold tea" in China Town after 2:00 am you'll get a kettle full of beer. Bostonians... think that it's their God-given right to cut off someone in traffic. Bostonians..think that there are only 25 letters in the alphabet (no R's). Bostonians...think that three straight days of 90+ temperatures is a heat wave. Bostonians...refer to six inches of snow as a "dusting." Bostonians...always "bang a left" as soon as the light turns green and oncoming traffic always expects it. Bostonians...say everything in town is "a five-minute walk." (Pronounced "wok") Bostonians...believe that using your turn signal is a sign of weakness. Bostonians...think that 63-degree ocean water is warm. Bostonians...think Rhode Island accents are annoying. Speed Racer -------------------------------------------------- Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NWFlyer 2 #2 November 13, 2006 Niiiice ... this will be good info when I make an appearance at corporate HQ in Cambridge next month. "There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Muenkel 0 #3 November 13, 2006 You pretty much got it. I'll just add one more. Bostonians think the western border of the Commonwealth is Route 128 south or known as I-93 north or known as I-95. Bostonians are also extremely sick of the Big Dig still being dug. Chris _________________________________________ Chris Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
masterblaster72 0 #4 November 13, 2006 QuoteDon't sleep in the Common. (Boston Common) Why not? I took a one-hour nap in the Common last April and slept quite soundly. Just wonderin' -- seemed like a safe, clean place to me. Be humble, ask questions, listen, learn, follow the golden rule, talk when necessary, and know when to shut the fuck up. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ematteo 0 #5 November 13, 2006 And the Massachusetts Turnpike is the Turnpike or Mass Pike, no matter how many people write "I-90" on their maps. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Muenkel 0 #6 November 13, 2006 QuoteAnd the Massachusetts Turnpike is the Turnpike or Mass Pike, no matter how many people write "I-90" on their maps. Or....'The Pike'. Chris _________________________________________ Chris Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hobojoe 0 #7 November 13, 2006 I'm from Boston and that is dead-on Well played Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mrGuy 0 #8 November 14, 2006 Yah? Ya got a problim withat?! No really...whats ya friggin point? So, you goin ta school in Bawstin, or ya just workin there takin good payin union jobs away from the southies? hu? ya gonna ansa that friggin question oh what? friggin tawrists. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
legorowbot 0 #9 November 14, 2006 Good to know since I'm staying in Auburn all week for work. The accents are driving me nuts!Why does it say "Append signature to post" when I don't have a signature? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mrGuy 0 #10 November 14, 2006 Oh, you'll hear an accent in Auburn, but nothing like the real thing..go thirty miles east and it gets wickid bizzah. But of course we all have accents...and the deep south, as well as the midwest "fargo" accent is just as strange. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
akarunway 1 #11 November 14, 2006 QuoteYou pretty much got it. I'll just add one more. Bostonians think the western border of the Commonwealth is Route 128 south or known as I-93 north or known as I-95. Bostonians are also extremely sick of the Big Dig still being dug.LOL. Wonder why?>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/19/natsios-darfur/> Guess who built the 'Big Dig'? Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown, & Root. Boston ought to sue them into bankruptcy. ChrisI hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mailin 0 #12 November 14, 2006 actually they probably will. A woman was killed when part of the tunnel collapsed onto her car... it'll be the biggest 'car related' lawsuit in history... and they can't sue the contractors because 2 of them (the biggest ones) have gone out of buisiness - so that leaves the big dogs... JenArianna Frances Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
akarunway 1 #13 November 14, 2006 Quoteactually they probably will. A woman was killed when part of the tunnel collapsed onto her car... it'll be the biggest 'car related' lawsuit in history... and they can't sue the contractors because 2 of them (the biggest ones) have gone out of buisiness - so that leaves the big dogs... Jenhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNc1NGlZpN0I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites