thought i would add this
YOU KNOW YOU'RE FROM WESTERN PA IF......
~you walk carefully when it is "slippy" outside
~you often go down to the "crick"
~you've told your children to "red up" their rooms
~you've ever gotten hurt by falling into a "jaggerbush"
~your mother or grandmother has ever been seen wearing a "bubushka" on her head
~you've ever "warshed" the laundry
~you know you can't drive too fast on back roads, becuase of the deer
~"gumbands"....need I say more?
~you know Beaver Valley, Mars, Moon, Slippery Rock, and New Castle are actually names of towns
~a girl walks up the three of her girl friends..."hey GUYS"
~you her you guyse, and don't think twice (ex. you guyses house is nice)
~you know the three rivers by name. yup, sure you do. but the tie breaker would be, can a person then spell them. If that still does not work, then name, pronounce correctly and spell the name of the main tributary into the Monongahela at McKeesport
~you remember the blizzard of '50 and not being able to go outside because the snow was over your head, and you would have suffocated
~you've made an igloo and the neighborhood kids have played in it.
~you drink "pop", eat "hoagies", love perogies and gyros
~you know what a "still mill" is
~you expect temps in the winter to be record breaking cold and temps in the summer to be record breaking hot
~you know what Eat'N'Park is and the song that goes with it....Eat N Park's the place...for...SMILES
~Y'ns is a commonly used word
~you didn't have a spring break in high school
~you spent your summers at Kennywood, Sandcastle, or IdleWild
~you've been to the museum and Pittsburgh Zoo for school field trips
~you've swum(!) in either the river or the fountain at the Pointe
~you know every word to Here We GO. (Here we go, steelers, here we go, pittsburgh's going to the superbowl)
~Chipped ham was always in your refridgerator when you were growin up
~you refuse to buy any condiments besides Heinz
~no matter how hard you try you can't stop speaking the Pittsburghese
~when you mis-behaved, you got a licken'
~your mom belonged to a card club
~your favorite time of the year during school was the KDKA "farcal berry pirogie" radio fund raiser
~your last name has 10 or more letters in it (2 of them are Z and/or V) and nobody can pronounce it
~the only food served at your wedding was rigatoni and stuffed cabbages
~you think all wedding receptions take place at the fire hall
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