Boston English pops up in the weirdest places

By adamg on Thu, 12/05/2019 - 12:03pm

Contestant on "The Price is Right" is from Massachusetts. "I bet you have a wicked cool prize for her," Drew Carey said. "Wicked awesome," Johnny the Offscreen Announcer replied, trying his hardest to sound like a Townie or something.

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Slow day for AG

By Anon on Thu, 12/05/2019 - 12:27pm.

Price is Right and soup for lunch...like a day home from school. Or a day in the life of Adam.

No soup for you

By Gary C on Thu, 12/05/2019 - 1:18pm.

What makes you think he's having soup? I was thinking more like a corn beef on rye.

My first thought was

By Waquiot on Thu, 12/05/2019 - 5:25pm.

Perhaps a sub headline about how AG watches The Price is Right.

Lets be fair

By cybah on Thu, 12/05/2019 - 7:08pm.

Lets be fair, there were a few national announcements today worth staying home and flicking on the TV for. He might have had it on 'bz in between stuff and it just happened to be on in the background.

The rest of America thinks

By BostonDog on Thu, 12/05/2019 - 2:36pm.

We can speak only 8 words:

"Wicked" and something about illegally parking in Cambridge.

I once had to answer an

By anon on Thu, 12/05/2019 - 3:12pm.

I once had to answer an icebreaker question at work about hometown stereotypes. I believe I called it: something about putting your vehicle at rest on a specific part of the Harvard campus. Because I did not want to actually say it.

Thank you for not mentioning B**ntown

By Gary C on Thu, 12/05/2019 - 3:44pm.

I bet people in the Windy City hate when out-of-towners try to sound cool by saying that too.

But what am I to make of the

By anon on Thu, 12/05/2019 - 4:23pm.

But what am I to make of the van I've seen a few times already advertising the services of Beantown Drains?*

*Not sure if it had New Hampshire plates.

Nobody calls Bostonians Townies

By anon on Thu, 12/05/2019 - 3:30pm.

Except for the newbies who don’t know better. When traveling I don’t call the locals townies.

Ya, dude

By adamg on Thu, 12/05/2019 - 7:38pm.

I was thinking of actual Townies, you know, people born and bred in Charlestown. That's why I capitalized it.

New Yorker

By scott on Fri, 12/06/2019 - 7:16am.

...

Just got off a quite long

By Patriciax on Thu, 12/05/2019 - 3:42pm.

Just got off a quite long work phone call with a women with the most charming southern drawl.
As we finished up our work and were just chit chatting, I mentioned I loved her accent. She said she was going to say the same !?!?! What? I have no accent!