Penn-A-Phrase Contest underway in Pennsylvania

MetroSource newswire | 11/18/03 | NA

[prisoner6]

Penn-A-Phrase Contest underway in Pennsylvania

(Harrisburg, PA) - Pennsylvnaia Governor Ed Rendell has started a new contest in the state. They are seeking a new one-line slogan to inspire people to come to Pennsylvania. The governor says there are two catagories, one for school students the other fot everyone else. The aim is to come up with a new phrase to poost tourism in the state. Contest winners will ahve their cahce to design their own Pennslvania vacation as thei prize.

SOME SUGGESTIONS...

VISIT PENNSLYVANIA...BRING CASH!

PENNSLYVANIA...RIGHT NEXT DOOR TO OHIO!

PENNSYLVANIA...JUST LIKE CALIFORNIA BUT WITHOUT THE FUN STUFF AND NICE WEATHER.

PENNSLYVNAIA..WHERE PEOPLE LIVING IN FLIRIDA GREW UP.

COME TO PENNSYLVANIA...SURE NO GAMBLING,BUT WE GOT PEIROGIES.

COME TO PENNSLYVANIA...CUZ WE NEED THE MONEY.

PENNSLYVANIA...SOMETIMES IT'S OK...SOMETIMES...NOT OFTEN.

WHERE GAMBLING IS STILL ILLEGAL..PENNSYLVANIA.

PENNSLYVANIA...C'MON, TAKE A CHANCE!

PENNSLYVANIA...NO LEGAL GAMBLING!...ILLEGAL, THAT'S ANOTHER THING.

PENNSLYVANIA...CUZ YOU DON'T REALLY WANT TO VACATION SOME PLACE NICE.

PENNSLYVANIA...LAND OF BIG TAXES AND BIGGER WOMEN!

PENNSLYVANIA...EVERYBODY'S LEAVING SO THERE'S ROOM FOR YOU!

PENNSLYVANIA...NOT AS BAD AS YOU THINK. CLSOE THOUGH...

WHY PENNSLYVANIA? BECAUSE...UMMM...IT'S NOT FRANCE!

STEEL MILLS ARE GONE SO IT'S OK TO BREATH...SORTA. PENNSLVANIA.

PENNSLYVANIA...WHERE I NICE VACATION IS ONLY A PLANE TRIP AWAY!

PENNSYLVANIA...GET OVER IT!

PENNSLYVANIA...SOMETIMES THERE'S SUN.

PENNSYLVANIA...WE'RE OK'D BY THE FDA!

PENNSLVANIA...EASIER TO SPELL THAN MASSACHUSETTS!

WE'VE GOT A PLACE FOR YOU...PENNSYLVANIA!

PENNSLYVANIA...NO SHARK ATTACKS!

PENNSYLVANIA...MOST OF OUR ROADS ARE PAVED.

PENNSLYVANIA...IT'S NOT A GAMBLE.

INTERCOURSE, BLUE BALL, BIRD-IN-HAND, NANTY GLO...ALL IN PENNSYLVANIA!

PENNSYLVANIA...OUR 2 BIGGEST CITIES START WITH "P".

PENNSLYVANIA...NO GAMBLING SO YOU CAN'T LOSE!

DO IT IN PENNSLYVANIA...OR DON'T.

PENNSLYVANIA...WE'RE CHEAP!

AND ON THE 8TH DAY, GOD MADE PENNSYLVANIA. MISTAKES HAPPENS.

PENNSLYVANIA...WE'RE OK, YOU'RE OK.

WHY PENNSYLVANIA? BECAUSE IT HAPPENS!

PENNSLYVANIA...NOW YOU DON'T FEEL SO BAD, DO YOU?

prisoner6

[Willie Green]

Root cellars were usually a good spot for aging a batch of pickled eggs if there wasn't any room in the fridge. Also fruitcakes wrapped in cheesecloth and placed in a metal tin after soaking with rum/whiskey. (But it depends on how cool the root cellar got in winter. My gramma's was underneath the front porch with a door opening into the basement, so it got pretty cool out there without actually freezing. Couldn't do it in summer, it was just a bit too warm. But all her mason-jar canning was also kept downstairs on shelves, it stayed cool enough for that.)

[gcruse]

PENNSYLVANIA -- ARLEN SPECTOR CAN'T LIVE FOREVER

[P.O.E.]

Howzabout:

Don't Mess With Pennsy - We'll Shoot Back Atcha!

[Temple Owl]

See Fat Eddie eat a WAWA Hoagie.

[Temple Owl]

Great post! I cannot improve on that.

[meowmeow]

Is there a commode in your cellar, right out in the open, next to the washer and dryer?

LOL!! YES...my poor DH really hates that when we visit my folks and we're sleeping in the basement (the nice part, in front of the Frankin Stove) and the nearest bathroom is, well, the commode next to the washer and dryer in the laundry room! kb2614 and I never gave it a thought when we were kids. If someone was in the bathroom, you went to the laundry room...

[oldironsides]

You forgot the Pennsylvania land of men with tiny parts

[Willie Green]

I grew up in the 'Burgh believing that EVERYBODY had a commode in the cellar.
(Sometimes it didn't work for one reason or another, but at least it was there.)
It wasn't until I was much older that I realized that this was a somewhat "unique" luxury that was popular in the region. Many other areas of the nation don't do it (as much) unless they've actually remodeled and "finished" their basement with perhaps a game room and a "powder room" (with an actual bathroom sink/mirror and maybe even a shower).
But a standalone commode next to the washing machine?

LOL! People look at me like I'm nutz when I mention that!

[small voice in the wilderness]

BWHAHAHAHAHA!!!

[gcruse]

Heh.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Actually, I have always thought that a pictorial of 'Bathtub Marys' would be sellable...paging the National Endowment for the Arts...maybe I can get a grant.

And just because I have to admit to this too...I also grew up in a house with a commode in the basement (freestanding, with a tissue holder contraption welded to one of the posts that held up the beam, the seat was replaced with a snazzy avecado colored one in about 1978...I never, ever used it--I always thought the basement was creepy). We had no dryer, but the traditional clotheslines in the basement. We also had a coal cellar (where my dad kept his snow tires--mom didn't want them near the clean clothes). You can't make this stuff up...

[Petronski]

PM, my reserve office space is in a finished basement, approximately 15 feet from the commode-washer-basin cluster. When that description was posted, I laughed out loud. Back in the day, even though we always had a dryer, there were clotheslines down here too.

And I'd love to have a 'bathtub Mary' in my yard, though I don't know really where to begin....

Great thread.

[meowmeow]

Here in VA (and probably lots of other places), you can't even do that free-standing commode thing - additional commodes must be in their own little room if they are not part of a bathroom. Found that out talking to our plumber.

[Kay Ludlow]

PENNSYLVANIA - THE FINEST ROAD SYSTEM OUTSIDE OF ETHIOPIA!!!

LOL! Since I spend a lot of time on PA highways criss-crossing the western part of the state, I can certainly identify with that!

PENNSYLVANIA - WHERE THE SPENDING NEVER STOPS!