<p>Coureur: but thank goodness it wasn’t the Philadelphia accent (I hit a stow-en in the row-ed)</p>
<p>MacTech: Youve never had a birch beer? we need to get you one stat!!! lol. its a type of soda acctually, kinda related to rootbeer but it is alot better!!</p>
<p>I may live in NJ, but I’ve gone to summer camp in PA for years. I do call it “peeay.” The camp dining hall serves chipped ham and sometimes shoofly pie for a treat. About half the other ones apply to NJ as well :p.</p>
<p>I definitely know people who have hit a deer in the road more than once, and I’ve come perilously close. My front lawn has at times played host to seven or eight deer at a time. We also get chipmunks, raccoons, possum, millions and millions of squirrels of all varieties, and a few years ago, even a fox.</p>
<p>Birch Beer isn’t beer at all… it’s like root beer. Do you guys have that where you live?</p>
<p>My H was born in Lancaster, pronounced “LANK (uh) ster,” not Lang cast er.</p>
<p>I remember visiting PA after some time away, and smelled a skunk! I’d forgotten how common that was.</p>
<p>Dmd- you’ve forgotten that can can only buy kegs and cases at a beer distributor; if you want less you go to a “six pack shop” (where you can buy at most two sixes).</p>
<p>We visited SIL during the summer. What is with the “wait for green” signs on the traffic lights. I think that is what they said-H took a picture but I can’t figure out the digital camera.</p>
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<p>When I was still planning on getting married this past December, this was a very viable option! I had a fire hall sweet 16 party, very cheap way to get the job done. ;)</p>
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<p>I’ve known people to open a Blue Ball National Bank checking account just for the name! :rolleyes:</p>
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<p>Sometimes…or sometimes the potholes just get larger and larger and envelope cars! There was a pothole large enough that cars got stuck a few years back in Pittsburgh.</p>
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<p>And you know that you’re from Lancaster County if you know to avoid certain roads to avoid the horse and buggies :)</p>
<p>An FYI…I grew up behind a bank…there was actually a horse and buggy tie up at the bank…</p>
<p>Also…I got off the bus one day in probably middle school to find a broken down buggy at the stop (this was very unusual…even to us!)</p>
<p>Another FYI…FINALLY Route 30 is done with construction after God knows how many years! Makes navigation a lot quicker to get across county.</p>
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<p>Yep…one of those went through my windshield once just north of Pittsburgh proper…I bagged a 10-pointer!</p>
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<p>It’s actually “Lan-kist-er” to most of us…</p>
<p>Some other Pennsylvania-isms…</p>
<p>You know someone is from Philly because they say “wooder” instead of water…</p>
<p>There is a state divide on the “soda” vs. “pop” debate…</p>
<p>You know you’re from Lancaster if you live equidistant from a chocolate factory, pretzel factory, hard candy factory, popcorn factory, and a micro-brewery!</p>
<p>In response to how long you’ll be gone, you say in “awhile…” (this one got my parents steamed when I was a teen!)</p>
<p>You regularly back into parking spaces, no matter how tight they are!</p>
<p>You know what Turkey Hill is and miss it when you move away :(</p>
<p>Around Christmas time you see more vehicles with out of state plates than instate plates at outlet centers…</p>
<p>The first day of buck season is treated like a holiday!</p>
<p>You know how to pronounce Susquehanna.</p>
<p>You know Wawa (and/or Sheetz) is the best place for gas and munchies.</p>
<p>You think that the Creation Festival rivals that of Woodstock.</p>
<p>You know you’re from Lancaster if you can sing the “Hershey’s Chocolate World” song by heart.</p>
<p>You know what a “mummer” is…</p>
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<p>You know when you’re back into your home state after a long road trip by the sudden deterioration of road conditions!</p>
<p>Oh how I miss PA (well certain aspects…) :(</p>
<p>woo Pittsburgh Public Schools get a 2 hour delay Monday due to the Super Bowl. lol now that’s what I call a football city.</p>
<p>Actually, in Lancaster (and everyone I knew there pronounced it Lank -us- stir, but quickly) they just throw that “awhile” thing in any sentence, whether it makes sense or not – as in the waitress bringing the drinks and saying “here’s your drinks awhile” What? Was she planning to come and take them away later? They also use “already” funny – it means anytime in the past, not some time relative to the present. Saying “I saw a deer already” could mean you saw one 20 years ago, not that you have already seen one this season. Lancaster County has it’s own speech thing going in so many ways.</p>
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<p>For several years, a pothole would develop on I-81 exactly at the PA state line. My wife and I would be returning from a road trip and hit that pothole every time. We’d turn to each other, laugh, and say, “We’re home!”</p>
<p>When you’re driving up 83 from Maryland into PA the moment you hit the state line you immediately feel it. It’s a big thump because the road conditions turn to crap.</p>
<p>My husband has hit 3 deer - 1 in upstate NY and 2 in Pennslvania, the latter in the last 2 years. I have also hit a deer, but it was in upstate NY. When I hit mine, I was the last person of a 6 people office to hit one. My friends son hit a wild turkey and it left a big dent in his fender that he patched up with duct tape. Now, in lower Delaware where I grew up, we had to watch out for the chickens that would fall off the chicken truck. Made for exciting driving.</p>
<p>Around here the fire companies also own small after hours drinking places where you join and get a key. “Key day” is a tradional evening to go out down and have a couple of beers and play shuffleboard and shoot some darts.</p>
<p>At HS football games sometimes you can get pierogies and cabbage and noodles at the snack bars!</p>
<p>^^^^ And many people you know have had Lyme disease at least once. . . Our area is Lyme disease central - almost every dog and most of the people have had mild cases (my daughter and dog both did).</p>
<p>This thread is hilarious. My English teacher is from rural PA, and he always tells us crazy stories about growing up there. :p</p>
<p>Oh my gosh, I always thought most of those were just normal–and we left Aliquippa for South Florida when I was three!</p>
<p>My mom actually grew up in Aliquippa and I live 10 mins from there. My grandma still lives there too. It went such down hill though, which is a shame.</p>
<p>How weird, my husband’s grandmother once taught in Aliquppa- probably a one room school house early in the 1900’s. I remember because my husband and his siblings did a funny skit for his Grandparents 50th anniversary and in the skit his Grandmother was teaching the young students to spell “Aliquppa”. After several tries they all got it right and then she said, “Next, we’re going to learn to spell my name,… I’m Miss Zigenfuss”.</p>
<p>Oh, well, it was funny when they did it!</p>
<p>I’d heard it had turned rather awful, though I just remember it being beautiful long ago–those brick houses with the wide porches with concrete(?) supports. I no longer have family there. But I know PA’s still beautiful.</p>