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Penn-A-Phrase Contest underway in Pennsylvania
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Posted on 11/18/2003 3:54:52 AM PST by prisoner6
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To: mountaineer
Pennsylvania: a reason to go to W.Va. for all your beer, wine and cigarette needsLMAO......and not too long ago for Krisy Kremes.
NEW REASON: For football teams to get their butts kicked.
To: kb2614
Hey, I gradumatated from a Pennsylvania publik skool! And look how I turned out!
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posted on
11/18/2003 9:18:21 AM PST
by
Ayn Rand wannabe
(Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups!)
To: prisoner6
PENNSYLVANIA - WHERE THEY MAKE YOU BUY BEER BY THE CASE IN HOPES THAT YOU'LL DRINK LESS.
83
posted on
11/18/2003 9:20:31 AM PST
by
dirtboy
(New Ben and Jerry's flavor - Howard Dean Swirl - no ice cream, just fruit at bottom)
To: 2banana
PENNSYLVANIA...AREN'T YOU GLAD YOU DIDN'T GO TO NEW JERSEY? NEW JERSEY - IT'S FREE TO COME HERE FROM PENNSYLVANIA, BUT YOU HAVE TO PAY TO LEAVE...
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posted on
11/18/2003 9:21:34 AM PST
by
dirtboy
(New Ben and Jerry's flavor - Howard Dean Swirl - no ice cream, just fruit at bottom)
To: Willie Green
Is there a commode in your cellar, right out in the open, next to the washer and dryer? (And if you don't have a dryer, is there a clothesline strung up in your cellar?)This is too funny. Yes to both, we had a dryer and the line was still up........ as well as the fruit cellar in case of fallout!
To: 2banana
"PENNSYLVANIA - Where you can't buy beer on Sundays and where you can't buy beer and wine in the same store and where it is illegal to buy beer in another state and bring it back home with you..." But you can actually buy wine and liquor on Sundays. They just started opening some of the larger State stores on Sundays a couple of months ago. Sigh, still no beer though.
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posted on
11/18/2003 9:34:18 AM PST
by
Jaxter
("When they come for your guns, give 'em your ammo first.")
To: MadelineZapeezda
The cellar commode served an obvious purpose in homes with just one bathroom and large families. The cellar was a convenient location because that's where the drain went anyway, (which is why it is also located next to the washer.) Oftentimes, there was also a large, utility sink located there as well. It could be used as a "suds-saver", recycling the soapy water that was used in the washer. You might get 3~4 loads of laundry out of the same batch of wash water while it was still lukewarm. Whites and linens were always first, colored and extra grungy clothes later. They didn't recycle rinse water. Water was cheap. Heating it and adding soap cost money.)
There were two reasons for the cellar clothesline. One is that it's too blasted cold in winter to hang the clothes outside. The second was that drying indoors minimized the soot that landed on the freshly washed laundry when the mills were in full-swing.
The old-timers really were quite sensible.
To: Ayn Rand wannabe
Iz gradmated frum pEnnsylvaNia publik skule tu!! I is a guvurment kontracter nOw!!
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posted on
11/18/2003 10:09:49 AM PST
by
kb2614
(".....We've done nothing and were all out of ideas!!")
To: Pyro7480
You're killin' me. I hate it when my "pop" comes out my nostrils. I'm originally from the north coast where you get looked at funny for talking about hoagies, spiedies, and soda.
...Where your college roommates from Pittsburgh, LAN-cast-er, and Philadelphia (referred to by natives as filelfia) gather around to hear you talk funny
...Where we drink wahter, not wooder
...Where "houseafire" is a way of describing anything fast. (She was talking like a houseafire, he was running like a houseafire)
...Where Penn State is ivy league (Ya mean you're not going to Grove City?)
...Where you can get legacy admission to Slippery Rock, and be proud of it.
...Where Erie County tried to secede in the '70's but couldn't get those folks in Buffalo to give up their name of Erie County
...Where Welch's grape juice and Wonder Bread are served for communion
...Where "doncha know" is the appropriate ending to all sentences, doncha know.
...Where icebox, studio couch, stove, record player, chest 'o drawers, rug and curtains still describe things in your home
...Where knotty pine panelling is still cool interior decor
...Where you stuff the turkey with dressing
...Where you've never played stoopball
...Where "I've got to light the fire" means you're turning up the thermostat
...Where a breezeway is a really cool thing to connect your house with your 1 car garage (What's a great room, anyway?)
...Where it's still cool to have a bathtub Mary, a flamingo, or a gazing ball in your yard
...Where garage is a one-syllable word (grudge)
...Where a roof is a ruf and a creek is a crick
...Where you can legitimately root for the Yankees, Indians, Pirates, Yankees or Mets; or the Browns, Steelers, Bills or Jints
...Where you look at the Big Ten logo and know that the hidden little "11" is meant for you
...Where you buy things on your chargeaplate
...Where ladies raise money by selling $5.00 worth of baked goods for $1.25
...You have a fine choice of polka shows on Sunday radio, some in German
...Where Erie International Airport means you get a couple flights a day from Toronto
...Land of Tom Ridge and Freddie B (Biletnikoff)
...In a word, "slush"
...Got melk?
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posted on
11/18/2003 10:10:29 AM PST
by
ntnychik
To: Jaxter
But you can actually buy wine and liquor on Sundays. They just started opening some of the larger State stores on Sundays a couple of months ago. Sigh, still no beer though. That is because you can only buy it by the case (that is the f**ken law). Would be unseemly trying to get that case into the family station wagon with the kids right after church.
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posted on
11/18/2003 10:19:35 AM PST
by
2banana
To: ntnychik; martin_fierro; Willie Green; MadelineZapeezda
...Where you buy things on your chargeaplateWhich you took to the downtown Joseph Horne's on Stanwix to buy deli meats (first floor).
To: lovecraft
the convenience store guy told me...go to W Va to buy my smokes.If you want to save a dollar or two per pack, come on over to WV! Our idiot philandering governor made sure the cigarette taxes went up on smokes, but they're still lower than PA's.
Hey, both WV and PA have idiot Democrat governors! What a concept.
To: mountaineer
I'm proly coming over today after work...they say it's only bout 25 minutes to the border...
Running for the border!
To: 2banana
That is because you can only buy it by the case (that is the f**ken law). Would be unseemly trying to get that case into the family station wagon with the kids right after church. You can buy 6-packs on Sunday --- if you can find a bar that's open. :~(
PENNSYLVANIA: WHERE NICE FOLKS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME AND YOUNZ JAGOFFS CAN JUST STAY WHERE YOU'RE AT
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posted on
11/18/2003 10:49:25 AM PST
by
Ditto
( No trees were killed in sending this message, but billions of electrons were inconvenienced.)
To: Willie Green; martin_fierro
OMG when were you ever at my dad's house???
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posted on
11/18/2003 11:01:21 AM PST
by
xsmommy
To: Willie Green
you even knew about the utility sink!!!!
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posted on
11/18/2003 11:02:51 AM PST
by
xsmommy
To: xsmommy
OMG when were you ever at my dad's house???
you even knew about the utility sink!!!!Sometimes I think I've spent most of my life in cellars...
I've become an EXPERT!!!
To: Willie Green
my dad built our house, so we lived in the foundation while he worked on it. gramma's house in Verona had both a coal cellar and a root cellar.
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posted on
11/18/2003 11:19:32 AM PST
by
xsmommy
To: ntnychik
Where it's still cool to have a bathtub Mary...I didn't figure out those were bathtubs until I was about 30 years old.
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posted on
11/18/2003 11:21:32 AM PST
by
Petronski
(I'm *NOT* always *CRANKY.*)
To: Ditto
You can buy 6-packs on Sunday --- if you can find a bar that's open. :~(Pennsylvania, where $14 buys you a case of beer Monday thru Saturday, or two sixpacks on Sunday.
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posted on
11/18/2003 11:23:51 AM PST
by
Petronski
(I'm *NOT* always *CRANKY.*)
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