"I'm on it like a hornet" - it only rhymes if you're from Maine!!
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!! Of course they all thought I sound like Forrest Gump. Silly New Englanders, I have an NC Piedmont accent! Forrest was from Alabama
"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:
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
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"
Love people and use things; never the reverse.
Mt. Katahdin would be a lot quicker to climb if its darn access trail didn't start all the way down in Georgia.
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
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.
WALK ON
Jammies with attached feet are hot.
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."
"It goes to show you never can tell." - Charles Edward Anderson Berry
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...
WALK ON
Yo Superman. You up for a road trip?
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.
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!"
As I live, declares the Lord God, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked turn back from his way and live. Ezekiel 33:11