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When I lived in Maine, I figured I should learn how speak English in the manner it's spoken there. Try as might, I was told I couldn't and wouldn't ever get it right.
Maybe they were just playing with me. Could be it can be learned only as a 1st language. Perhaps it's in the genes. Might be it's all part of their sophisticated training in detecting people from away and proper pronunciation is so subtle only natives can detect a difference, I don't know.
I may be a dumb Dutchman who will never get it, but I'm still willing to try, so give it your best shot and have fun with it.
Easy. Don't talk. Lips tight, Hmmph. Covers most everything.
Bring your Leica, bring your Zeiss. Just don't expect to blend.
Shades of Gray: Some time ago, I threatened to start a thread I knew would be too much fun. Since you've now invited it with your comment, I'll start it
Figures it'd hav somthin ta do wit tha way we talk:rolleyes:
How to sound like a native Mainah, disregard any spelling errors.......
If you're a visitor to Maine and would like to be able to fit in with the natives, here are a few tips on how to speak like a Mainah. The key is to relax your jaw. Say "Mainer." Notice the tension in your jaw and how it opens only slightly. Now say "Mainah," letting your lower jaw drop on the "ah" paht (er, I mean "part"). Practice saying it in an exaggerated manner to get the feel. Now you're ready for the rules of Mainespeak.
Words that end in "er" are pronounced "ah." Mainer = Mainah. Car = Cah. Mother and Father = Muthah and Fathah. Water = Watah. You get the drift.
Conversely, words that end in "a" are sometimes, but not always, pronounced "er." California becomes Californier. Idea becomes idear. Yoga becomes Yoger.
Drop the "g" in "ing." Stopping and starting = stoppin' and startin', or more correctly, stoppin' and stahtin'.
Broaden a and e sounds. Calf becomes cahf. Bath becomes bahth. Can't becomes cahn't.
Drag out some one-syllable words into two syllables. There becomes they-uh. Here becomes hee-ah.Getting the accent down is not all there is to speaking like a Mainah. You also need to learn some Maine lingo. Here are a few of my favorite Maine words or phrases. I'd love to hear some of yours.
Apiece: An undetermined distance: He lives down the road apiece.
Ayuh: Yup. Sure. Okay. That's right. You Bet.
Bug: Lobster
Cah: A four wheel vehicle, not a truck.
Chowdah: Chowder
Crittah: Any furry animal
Cunnin': Cute
Finest Kind: The very best
From Away: Not from Maine
Gawmy: Awkward or clumsy
Numb: Dumb. Stupid.
Pot: Lobster Trap
Prayer Handle: Knee
Quahog: Thick-shelled clam (pronounced co-hog)
Scrid:A tiny piece
Steamers:Clams
Wicked: Very. To a high degree, such as wicked good, wicked bad, wicked exciting, etc.
Won uff the wurts witch awlwase fascinated me iss hier oar as the English say here. In Maine, if ime knot mistakin, I thought the wurt hass 3 syllabulls.
Here may be thuh won wurt I most duhzeye-ah to learn how to spell as its pronounced. I do love the sound of ovah and othah, but here, which I can't spell as its spoken since I never mastered it, is absolutely incredible when spoken by a master.
I re-red the instructions. I'll work on it sum moe-ah.
I re-red the instructions. I'll work on it sum morah.
Teej meata right leica mainer tawks.
I hope so, that second line looks like tha dam spam that shows up in my E-mail inbox
boarstone
04-06-2008, 15:03
Wanna' no hos ta tawk lyka maina? try it during black fly season while standing still w/all your friends on trail....then you'll know why we shorten our words and phrases...and we don't stop to talk...if that don't get to the point, check it out in winter...we use quick shortened words to keep the mouth closed as tight as possible during freezing cold and clouds of black flies/muskeetoes!
I always figured Maine-speak might be some sort of adaptation which evolved in response to blackflies. Some Mainers don't really open their mouths much. They just kind of part their lips and the most remarkable sound comes out.
I always figured Maine-speak might be some sort of adaptation which evolved in response to blackflies. Some Mainers don't really open their mouths much. They just kind of part their lips and the most remarkable sound comes out.
That and living on the edge of civilization we say whatever the hell we want when and how we want cause there isn't usually anyone around to hear it.:p
warraghiyagey
04-06-2008, 15:43
Hiyah Woodsy:rolleyes:
Hiyah Woodsy:rolleyes:
Hiyah Wargy, o master of humor:rolleyes:
living on the edge of civilization we say whatever the hell we want when and how we want cause there isn't usually anyone around to hear it.:p
I noticed most times y'all don't hold back much and just let 'er fly.:rolleyes: Kinda refreshin' actually.:-?
Where R thowse rules posted some timago that covahud propah spellin and such?
I noticed most times y'all don't hold back much and just let 'er fly.:rolleyes: Kinda refreshin' actually.:-?
Only a problem in public places and social gatherings, neither of which appeal to me:rolleyes:
Wonder what the birds think when I hang a tree up cuttin farwood, all them funny soundin werds and all:eek:
warraghiyagey
04-06-2008, 16:10
C'mon Woodsy, what do those birds REALLY hear when you're cuttin up farwood?
C'mon Woodsy, what do those birds REALLY hear when you're cuttin up farwood?
well when the tree doesn't fall to the ground like its suppose to, just kinda leanin up against all the others standing there,
it goes something like this....... !*%#!%*#!*%# :o
I don't expect wonufthoes wurds is fathah.;)
I don't expect wonufthoes wurds is fathah.;)
Ayuh, tha otha is muthah:sun
Wonder what the birds think when I hang a tree up cuttin farwood, all them funny soundin werds and all:eek:
There's your problem right there. You should be concentrating on the nearwood. When you get to the farwood, you're already into Canada. I guess that's what you mean by the edge of civilization. Just keep going; it gets more and more civilized the farther you go.
Wonder what the birds think when I hang a tree up cuttin farwood, all them funny soundin werds and all:eek:
Isn't wirds spelled write like birds?:-? I can see this isn't about to happen overnight.:o
On the sixth day, God turned to the Archangel Gabriel and said: “Today I am going to create a land called Maine. It will be a land of outstanding natural beauty. It shall have tall, abundant mountains full of pine trees and eagles, beautiful sparkling lakes bountiful with bass and trout, forests full of deer and moose, high cliffs overlooking sandy beaches with an abundance of sea life, and rivers stocked with salmon”. God continued, “I shall make the land rich in resources so as to make the inhabitants prosper, I shall call these inhabitants Mainers, and they shall be known as the most friendly people on the earth.” “But Lord,” asked Gabriel, “don’t you think you are being too generous to these Mainers?”
“Not really,” replied God, “just wait and see the winters I am going to give them.” http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/laughing013.gif
Isn't wirds spelled write like birds?:-? I can see this isn't about to happen overnight.:o
It takes a lifetime to master the language, don't get to hung up on the spellin part, just spell it however you want it to sound, and try not ta run werds togetha
I can't find that spellin etiquette link.
Philippe
04-06-2008, 18:30
Farwood? What is that. Do you mean "fai-ah wood? Woodsy's post hit it right on the nose, if you want to speak Downeast. It won't do you any good in Northern Maine though. In Northern Maine they break the world into to groups: French and English. French = French. Polish = English. Kenyan = English. Albanian = French. Well you get it.
I have noticed that the weather reports are in Kenyan and French up north.
Paddling upstream. Translates to pissing in(to) the wind, when with the boys.
Number than a pounded thumb.
From Boston.
Farwood? What is that. Do you mean "fai-ah wood?You're right Phileppe, I just spelled it thataway so our suthin friends would know what i meant.
Maybe Philippe just spells bettah?
So the city flatlandah steps onto the poach (porch) of the rural Maine gen-ral (general) stoah (store) and asks the old geezer in the rockin' chayah, "Hey, old man, have you lived here all of your life?"
"Nawt yet!" the old Maineah replies flatly.
Poe ahch.
gen al.
stow ah.
City flatlander= from Boston
Old geezer= old faht
Nawt yet= how much $ did you spend at Bean's on the way up?
A Maine State trooper pulled over a pickup on Route 11. The trooper asked, "Got any ID?" The driver replied, bout what?
I'm not so sure standardized spellings within the US is necessarily a good thing. The English can spell things however they want and Americans can spell things however they want.
Why can't Mainers be allowed to spell how they speak? It just doesn't seem right! If Mainers were to spell as they speak we could have the pleasure of reading their thoughts, rather than our own.
Mark Twain wrote in dialect as did others. I think one thing about hiking the AT that makes it worthwhile is hearing just how many ways English can be spoken. Speech is one of the remaining things about America that has not yet become homogenized and I'm glad for it.:clap
Application to become a Mainah (http://www.gweep.net/%7Eabate/hick.html)
Falsifying information on application is subject to imprisonment
without beer.:eek:
Sheesh! You're not courting tourists with cash to burn, are you? I thought it was "Welcome to Maine. Now give us your money and please go away.";)
Shades of Gray;589092]Sheesh! You're not courting tourists with cash to burn, are you?
No worry, only bout a dozen applications are approved each yea, they almost always ah ex-Mainahs.
"Welcome to Maine. Now give us your money and please go away."
Hmmm, that sounds very familiar:)
Application to become a Mainah (http://www.gweep.net/%7Eabate/hick.html)
Falsifying information on application is subject to imprisonment
without beer.:eek:
Now that was wicked hilarious!!! :D
Why can't Mainers be allowed to spell how they speak? It just doesn't seem right! If Mainers were to spell as they speak we could have the pleasure of reading their thoughts, rather than our own.
Mainbonics? Probably not a good thing.
If people knew what we were thinking, it would be more difficult to sell them useless crap at insane prices. Need a lobster bouy?
Now that was wicked hilarious!!! :D
Women "from away" are encouraged to apply;) Hiking/fishing/hunting and camping skills are a plus!
Women "from away" are encouraged to apply;) Hiking/fishing/hunting and camping skills are a plus!
sounds like i just may get accepted, ayup. gots me some hikin, campin, and fishin skillz....i useta vacation in maine, ayup! :p:D
Mainbonics? Probably not a good thing.
If people knew what we were thinking, it would be more difficult to sell them useless crap at insane prices. Need a lobster bouy?
I wasn't thinking about reading Mainers' minds:confused::eek::rolleyes:, but rather processing what's read in dialect.:-?:);) In my mind, I sometimes hear Mainespeak when I read here some of what's written there regardless of how it's spelled.
You just miss the damn place.
I do. Were Maine nearer me, it would be nearer everyone else too. You'd get no peace. It would be like Vermont much of the year.
Ya kno tha tootbrush was invented right heah in ma ine. If it'd ben invented anywear else, it'd ben called a teethbrush http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/laughing013.gif
wakapak: sounds like i just may get accepted, ayup. gots me some hikin, campin, and fishin skillz....i useta vacation in maine, ayup! :p:DIts a hundred dollar non-refundable application fee, definitely worth a try.......
just kiddin, you'd likely fit in just fine round hee ah.;)
warraghiyagey
04-08-2008, 19:21
Ya kno tha tootbrush was invented right heah in ma ine........
Really? You'd think they'd be more popular there then.
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Ya kno tha tootbrush was invented right heah in ma ine.......
Really? You'd think they'd be more popular there then.
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warraghiyagey
04-08-2008, 19:41
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"I'm on it like a hornet" - it only rhymes if you're from Maine!! :D
I was just up there for the first time, having lived in the South my whole life those accents were a bit of a shock!! :eek: Of course they all thought I sound like Forrest Gump. :D Silly New Englanders, I have an NC Piedmont accent! Forrest was from Alabama :D:D
"I'm on it like a hornet" - it only rhymes if you're from Maine!! :D
I was just up there for the first time, having lived in the South my whole life those accents were a bit of a shock!! :eek: Of course they all thought I sound like Forrest Gump. :D Silly New Englanders, I have an NC Piedmont accent! Forrest was from Alabama :D:D
"I'm on it like a honet" rhymes pretty good. see, ya jus gotta spell it right!
Anyhow, with the recent invention of the intanet, Mainahs just had ta develop their own definitions for all them fancy terms.
Hee ahs what they cum up with::D
Computer Terms for Aroostook County (Northern Maine)
1. Log on - Make the wood stove hotter
2. Log off - Don't add no more wood
3. Monitor - Keep an eye on that wood stove
4. Download - Getting the firewood off the truck
5. Floppy disk - What you get from downloading too much firewood
6. Ram - The thing that splits the firewood
7. Hard Drive - Getting home in the winter
8. Prompt - What the US mail ain't in the winter
9. Window - What to shut when its cold outside
10. Screen - What to shut in black fly season
11. Byte - What the black flies do
12. Bit - What the black flies did
13. Mega Byte - What the BIG black flies do during trout season
14. Chip - Munchies for TV
15. Micro Chip - What's left in the bag after you eat chips
16. Modem - What you did to the weeds growing in the driveway
17. Dot matrix - Old Dan Matrix's wife
18. Lap top - Where the beer spills when you nod off
19. Software - The dumb plastic knives and forks at McDonalds
20. Hardware - Real stainless steel cutlery
21. Mouse - What makes the holes in the Cheerio box
22. Main frame - What holds the house up, hopefully
23. Enter - The only way to win those magazine sweepstakes
24. Web - What a spider makes
25. Web site - High corners of the ceiling
26. Cursor - Someone who swears
27. Search Engine - What you do when the car dies
28. Screen Saver - repair kit for the torn window screen on the camp
29. Home Page - map you keep in your back pocket in case you get lost in the woods
30. Upgrade - Steep hill
31. Server - waitress
32. Mail Server - male waitress. Darn few in Maine
33. MS DOS - Some new disease they discovered
34. Sound Card - One of them technological birthday cards that plays music when you open it
35 User - The neighbor who keeps borrowing your stuff
6. Browser - A problem moose in the Garden or Blueberry patch
37. Network - Mending holes in the gillnet
38. Internet - Complicated fish net repair
39. Netscape - What haddock do when you don't do your network
40. Online - good sign there'll be clean clothes this week
41. Off line - the clothes pins let go and the laundry falls on the ground - better luck next week
JustaTouron
02-04-2010, 17:03
Mainer is preety much just a sub dialect of Bostonian. I lived in "Roe Diland" for a while which also has a dialect that is very similiah.
The key tip is any where you see an "R" it is silent.
Any word that doesn't have an "R" add one.
The best example of this is "Data Center"....pronounced "dader centah"
Mainer is preety much just a sub dialect of Bostonian.
Maybe in the portion of Maine that is a suburb of Boston.
You can also find some really bad jokes about Maine here:
http://www.wror.com/loren-and-wally/men-from-maine.aspx
Ah like this thread. Ahm frum Nawth Carahlinah. K2
The Old Fhart
02-06-2010, 11:48
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:D:welcome
We don't want to take all the credit for being different, so lets let the northern Vermonters in on the fun, and don't forget, northern New Hampshire is somewhere between the two:
You know you're from northern Vermont when...
you've taken your kids trick-or-treating during a blizzard.
you only own three spices- salt, pepper and ketchup.
you design your Halloween costumes to fit over a snowsuit.
the mosquitoes have landing lights.
you have more miles on your snowblower than your car.
you have 10 favorite recipes for venison.
the local Hardware store on any Saturday is busier than the toy stores at Christmas.
you live in a house that has no front steps, yet the door is one yard above the ground.
driving is better in the winter because the potholes get filled with snow.
making it home during Mud Season is a competitive sport.
you think everyone from the city has an accent.
you think sexy lingerie is tube socks and a flannel nightie with only 8 buttons.
you owe more money on your snowmobile than your car.
the local paper covers national and international headlines on l/4 page, but requires 6 pages for sports.
at least twice a year, the kitchen doubles as a meat processing plant.
the most effective mosquito repellent is a shotgun.
your snow-blower gets stuck on the roof.
you think the start of deer hunting season is a national holiday.
you head south to go to your cottage.
you frequently clean grease off your barbecue so the bears won't prowl on your deck.
you know which leaves make good toilet paper.
the town officials greet you on the street by your first name.
there is only one shopping plaza in town.
the major parish fundraiser isn't bingo- its sausage making.
you find -20F a little chilly.
the trunk of your car doubles as a deep freezer.
you attended a formal event in your best clothes, your finest jewelry and your snowmobile boots.
you can play road hockey on skates.
shoveling the driveway constitutes a great upper body workout.
you know the 4 seasons: Winter, Still Winter, Almost Winter, and Construction.
the municipality buys a Zamboni before a bus.
you actually 'relate' to these jokes, and forward them to all your Northern friends.
:welcome:D
Jammies with attached feet are hot.:)
Old Grouse
02-06-2010, 17:02
A tourist family in a Suburban stuffed with kids, bikes, lobster pots, etc., etc, pulls up to a Filling station outside Bath. The driver asks, "Say, Pop, can I take this road back to New York?"
"Might as well," says the Mainer, "Looks like you got everythin' else in thayah."
There are these 4 guys driving in a car together, 1 from Maine, 1 from Vermont, 1 from Massachusetts, and 1 from New Hampshire.
Down the road a bit, the man from Maine starts throwing bags of potatoes out of the car window, the man from NH asks what are you doing that for? The man from Maine says, we have so many potatoes just lying around our state and I'm just sick and tired of seeing these things.
Down the road a bit more, the man from Vermont starts throwing jugs out maple syrup out of the car window, the man from NH asks what are you doing that for? The man from Vermont says, we have so many of these jugs just lying around our state and I'm just sick and tired of seeing these things.
And moments later....
You guessed it...
The man from New Hampshire throws the man from Massachusetts out of the window...
Yo Superman. You up for a road trip?:eek:
Mainah born and raised... Why's there no cussin' in this thread? Mainahs cuss. A lot. Is that verboten on here, or sumthin??
Depends on what kindah cussin yure talkin bout. Sum's OK. The othah stuff displays leica bunchah stahs.
Old Hiker
03-02-2010, 22:34
Mainah born and raised... Why's there no cussin' in this thread? Mainahs cuss. A lot. Is that verboten on here, or sumthin??
Ay-yuh. ............
When I lived in Maine, I figured I should learn how speak English in the manner it's spoken there. Try as might, I was told I couldn't and wouldn't ever get it right.
Maybe they were just playing with me. Could be it can be learned only as a 1st language. Perhaps it's in the genes. Might be it's all part of their sophisticated training in detecting people from away and proper pronunciation is so subtle only natives can detect a difference, I don't know.
I may be a dumb Dutchman who will never get it, but I'm still willing to try, so give it your best shot and have fun with it.
Flatlandah, ayah!
So the young city fella sees th' ol' Mainah settin' on th' pawch in his rockah.
Asks th' young fella, "Hey, old man - lived here all your life?"
Th' ol' Mainah ansahs matta-o'-facly, "Naht yet!"
I think I heard that one somewhere before.
There are these 4 guys driving in a car together, 1 from Maine, 1 from Vermont, 1 from Massachusetts, and 1 from New Hampshire.
Down the road a bit, the man from Maine starts throwing bags of potatoes out of the car window, the man from NH asks what are you doing that for? The man from Maine says, we have so many potatoes just lying around our state and I'm just sick and tired of seeing these things.
Down the road a bit more, the man from Vermont starts throwing jugs out maple syrup out of the car window, the man from NH asks what are you doing that for? The man from Vermont says, we have so many of these jugs just lying around our state and I'm just sick and tired of seeing these things.
And moments later....
You guessed it...
The man from New Hampshire throws the man from Massachusetts out of the window...
Seen on a restroom wall, "Welcome to New Hampshire - now go home!"
apudreamer
03-02-2010, 23:26
I ain't finished with the snow blowah in the dooah yahd yet. Need to tie down the blue tahp too, but watch out fo the dog out back, else he might muckle on to yah.
My snowblowah is a real maunstah!
watch out fo the dog out back, else he might muckle on to yah.
"From Mass eh, you had your shots?"
skinny minnie
03-03-2010, 10:25
This thread is hilarious. I love Maine. And Western Mass says "idear" too. :rolleyes:
DrRichardCranium
03-03-2010, 10:36
I grew up near Boston.
I just gotta say, this thread is wicked retahded.
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If you see this bumper sticker on a Maine vehicle, please don't take offense. It's just a crusty Yankee way of trying to warn you of the consequences of being lured by a short, pleasant, stay in summer weather (after bug season) into moving here. Don't! We have winter every year, and it's not that short, wimpy, washed out approximation of winter that occurs in more southerly states. This is the real thing. It's long, and it's COLD!!! Our cars rust out. Our tempers get short, and by the end of a typical winter we are cranky enough to buy crusty, mildly insulting, bumper stickers. I'm actually a poor source of information on the rigors of winter. I like it. I see it as that blisfull season between tourist season and Blackfly season, but the effect on normal people is profound, so beware!
If you have visited Maine in the spring, you know that Maine grows two things in admirable abundance; trees, and biting insects. The insect part is the other reason kindly, socially responsible Maine people buy the "go home" bumper stickers. No kind-hearted Yankee likes to see new arrivals blundering around town with their eyes swollen shut from Blackfly bites looking for a store that sells Old Woodsman's Fly Dope. It's just "wicked pathetic" to use a local turn of phrase. (See Maine Sensitivity Training (http://www.mainecottagegarden.com/humor/sensitivity.html))
However, if you don't mind a long winter, and enjoy scratching a few insect bites to pass the time during those two, or three weeks in summer that we let the wood stoves cool down enough to paint 'em, ...... Welcome to Maine.
pass the time during those two, or three weeks in summer that we let the wood stoves cool down enough to paint 'em, .
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Optimist. :)
Some old threads just get eeven beddah as th' yeeahs go by!:)
There's your problem right there. You should be concentrating on the nearwood. When you get to the farwood, you're already into Canada. I guess that's what you mean by the edge of civilization. Just keep going; it gets more and more civilized the farther you go.
Sad isn't it?
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Not quite. Those bumper stickers are mostly used by outastatas, who are trying to discourage their old friends from messing up their good thing. Very selfish, but what can one expect from folks from away.
Us Mainahs, welcome everyone. Someone has to keep us in beer.
Weary
Not quite. Those bumper stickers are mostly used by outastatas, who are trying to discourage their old friends from messing up their good thing. Very selfish, but what can one expect from folks from away.
Us Mainahs, welcome everyone. Someone has to keep us in beer.
Weary
Beeah, Weary, beeah.;)
We got that in Vrode Eyeland, too. The "V" comes mostly from the folks in Cvanston (Cranston). Yep, here most folks here are too lazy to open their mouths when they talk, too (must be hard work [hahd wiwk] - funny, I nevah noticed it).
Bvuce is my middle name. :D.
I have a good friend named Tevvy (Terry).
English is such a fun topic to discuss. Good thing, because apparantly it's a real BORE to learn......:rolleyes:
Not quite. Those bumper stickers are mostly used by outastatas, who are trying to discourage their old friends from messing up their good thing. Very selfish, but what can one expect from folks from away.
Us Mainahs, welcome everyone. Someone has to keep us in beer.
Weary
Insert "Leave awl yur munny," between the lines. But most can pronounce money, and have sense enough not to say this too loudly.
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Summertime Manners
Don't be impressed. We're not like this all the time. All this summery urbane manner and exemplary good behavior ... it's all a sham! All the polite phrases, the colorful local dialects, and the gentle, self-abasing humor ...; it's Wickid silly, and ... 'Tain't real, yanno.
If we can shoot deer in deer season, can we unlimber old betsy in tourist season? 'Just kidding ... sort of. By the end of the summer we get awfully tired of stepping lively, and looking folksy and interesting, and quaint, and rustic, and uttering "downeast" witicisms, and all the other things that I can't think of right now that look good to people from Broken Hoe, NJ. Thankfully, the summer is short! Then we can go back to looking like slobs, driving like idiots, being impolite, and talking without using "wickid" as a modifier for every other noun.
By the end of September when you show up for the foliage color if you notice the lawns look a little shabby, our cars aren't washed, and some of us don't have our hair combed, just go ahead and turn your attention back to the beautiful fall colors. WE'RE relaxing! And don't worry. By next summer we'll be rested and as impressive as all-get-out. .......... OK, OK. We'll be wickid impressive.