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Posted by Cam Bortz (Member # 55) on :

I had an opportunity to see the legendary folk singer Tom Rush in concert last night, in Easton, Mass. Along with some great music, Tom regaled us of stories from his native New Hampshire and his current home in Wyoming.

A few priceless phrases from New Hampshire:
"If it don't rain today it's gonna miss one helluva good chance." Or to someone complaining about winter weather: "I 'spect August will cure this."

A neighbor, a French Canadian, commenting on crime: "I went out for my snowshoes to get from the barn, and there up on the wall they was gone!"
...and on recovering from a hangover: "I feel a helluva lot more like I do now than I did a little while ago I tell ya."
...and ordering breakfast: "Gimme two eggs side-by-each and a pair of toast."
...and finally, on barn repair: "I'm gonna prop her up here with a four-by-twice."

I've always loved language, especially regional and ethnic phrases and terms. Anyone else have some to share?

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"A wise man concerns himself with the truth, not with what people believe." - Aristotle

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. - Raoul Duke (Hunter S. Thompson)

Cam
Finest Kind Signs
256 S. Broad St.
Pawcatuck, Ct. 06379
"Award winning Signs since 1988"

Posted by David Wright (Member # 111) on :

I know he's probably not your favorite guy but go this link:
http://www.mediaresearch.org/columns/newscol/col20010322.html
Dan Rather has a million of them, none of which I am sure, are original.

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Wright Signs
Wyandotte, Michigan
Since 1978
http://www.wrightsigns.bigstep.com

Posted by George Perkins (Member # 156) on :

One of my favorites is actually a line out of a movie. Laura Dern to Nicholas Cage in "Wild at Heart" "You got me hotter than Georgia asphalt"

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George Perkins
Millington,TN.
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"I started out with nothing and still have most of it left"

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Posted by Graham Hodge (Member # 168) on :

Good topic, I've been thinking of the power of words through fine music. A favourite (UK spelling)of mine is Irish vocalist Sean Keane. He features regularly on a radio show I host called Celtic Connections. One song called The Green Among The Gold recalls the struggle of the Irish leaving their shores for Australia. Here are some of the words:
And so beneath the Southern cross
They sang their songs of Ireland,
They sent her sons and daughters there in the hungry days of old,
They played their jigs and reels
Beneath the skies of their new homeland,
For Irish hands have woven strands of green among the gold.

Nowadays when times are hard at home,
Some people take a notion
To start a brand new life upon the far side of the globe,
And now they find their hearts are stranded somewhere in mid-ocean,
Though their days are full of sunshine and their future's full of hope.

Their children sing a broken life of
Shearers and bush rangers,
They learn to play our music and to dance
The steps of old.
Though their hearts are in Australia,
They never will be strangers
To the land they left behind them,
They're the green among the gold.

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Gray M. Hodge
Cam River Signs
Somerset, Tasmania.

Posted by Don Coplen (Member # 127) on :

So, Gray...you're a radio show host? Some of the stuff ya learn new bout folks here all the time! Cool!

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Don Coplen aka "SaintPete"
Coplen Designs
St.Petersburg, FL dcoplen@mindspring.com

Posted by Wm. J. Krupinski (Member # 1746) on :

Yah, hey! Being originally from over there on the south side of Milwaukee (home to this year's International Panel Jam, which is actually in Waukesha), you could say I got a million of 'em, too! I love regional dialects and sayings, but here's some from my hometown;

Down by where the trolley bends the corner...

Bring me a drink, would ya, from the bubbler, hey...

Husband; Dis meatloaf is ice cold, I kid you not.
Wife;I'll bet you a buck two-eighty the stove's on the fritz, ain'a?

Let's go down to the South Shore yacht club and watch the submarine races...

There's more, but I think I got to do some research down by the National Liquor Bar...

Bill Krupinski
Jefferson, Wisconsin--moments from Waukesha, home of the SWINE sponsored International Letterheads 2001 Milwaukee Panel Jam & Schmooze-fest DeLuxe, thank you very much!

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