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    Quote Originally Posted by woodsy View Post
    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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    Originally Posted by woodsy
    Ya kno tha tootbrush was invented right heah in ma ine.......
    Quote Originally Posted by warraghiyagey View Post
    Really? You'd think they'd be more popular there then.


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    "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

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    Quote Originally Posted by quasarr View Post
    "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

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JustaTouron View Post
    Mainer is preety much just a sub dialect of Bostonian.
    Maybe in the portion of Maine that is a suburb of Boston.

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    You can also find some really bad jokes about Maine here:

    http://www.wror.com/loren-and-wally/men-from-maine.aspx

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    Ah like this thread. Ahm frum Nawth Carahlinah. K2

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    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

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    Jammies with attached feet are hot.

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    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

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    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

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    Yo Superman. You up for a road trip?

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    Mainah born and raised... Why's there no cussin' in this thread? Mainahs cuss. A lot. Is that verboten on here, or sumthin??

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    Depends on what kindah cussin yure talkin bout. Sum's OK. The othah stuff displays leica bunchah stahs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Isa View Post
    Mainah born and raised... Why's there no cussin' in this thread? Mainahs cuss. A lot. Is that verboten on here, or sumthin??
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    Quote Originally Posted by emerald View Post
    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.
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    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

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