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Formerly serving on Ss Cyril & Methodius Seminary Advisory Board for some 6 years and spending two weeks there each summer for 4 years during diaconate formation, I became somewhat familiar with PA surroundings. So for all you who hail from the Keystone State, this is for you:
You know you're from Pennsylvania if:
1."Hey youz guyz" is your standard greeting, and its politically correct for all sexes.
2. The first day of Buck season and the first day of Doe season are school holidays.
3. One of the highlights of your life was a field trip to Penn's cave and Horseshoe curve.
4. You know exactly what to do when your mother tells you to "red up" your room.
5. You know the time and location of every "wing night" in a 20 mile radius.
6. You don't think people from Philly or Pittsburgh talk funny.
7. You don't understand what all the hype is about for Yeungling or Rolling Rock beer, you've been drinking it for years even though Iron City is cheaper.
8. You consider an exotic vacation a trip to the Jersey shore.
9. You are over 35 yrs. old, have never been outside of Pennsylvania and don't see any need to leave.
10. You own only three spices "salt, pepper and Heinz ketchup".
11. You design your children's Halloween costumes to fit over a snow suit.
12. Driving is always better in winter because the potholes are filled with snow.
13. You find 20 degrees just a little chilly.
14. You can recite the four seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and construction.
15. Words like "hoagie", "sub", "chipped ham", and "pop" actually mean something to you.
16. You can use the phrase "fire hall wedding reception" and not even bat an eye.
17. You think very little of an Amish buggy on the road.
18. You learned long ago how to "step carefully" around the buggy tie-ups in the supermarket parking lot.
19. You constantly refer to Pennsylvania as "PA" (pronounced Pee-ay). How many other states do that?
20. You can go 2 weeks in winter without sunshine and think this is normal.
21. You know that Blue Ball, Intercourse, Climax, Bird-in-Hand, Virginville, Paradise, Mars, and Slippery Rock are PA towns.
22. There is no such thing as a "Philly Cheesesteak". Its just called a Cheesesteak since everybody knows where they come from.
23. You actually understood all these jokes and are now forwarding them to your PA friends.
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23. You actually understood all these jokes and are now forwarding them to your PA friends. Yep, ya got that rite... All them Ohians 'll luv it too 
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You know, I'm often asked what it is that makes Pennsylvanians so darned happy.
Well, I'll let you in on a little secret.
It's the scrapple.
Andrew
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24. You understand that Shoo-fly pie is not something one might step into in a cow pasture.
25. You don't think Beachy Amish are guys who wear suspenders at the seashore.
26. You enjoyed a soft drink called 4%, and never wondered "4% of what?"
27. You don't find anything odd about miles of farmland with nary an electric line in sight.
28. You know where Bethlehem is and can't understand why anyone would be wailing at a wall there.
29. You realize that "Black Bumper Mennonites" doesn't describe quaintly dressed folk performing the latest dance craze at a Rave.
"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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One more PA thing ya left out...I have traveled around the world and foreigners may not be able to point out where Pittsburgh is on a map, but they all know who Punxy Phil is.
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You forgot to post www.pittsburghese.com [ pittsburghese.com] Also: You know that Washington, Houston, Mars, Moon, Apollo and Eighty-Four are just small towns. At least in Western Pennsylvania, the word is "yunz", as in "yunz guys".
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"You know where Bethlehem is and can't understand why anyone would be wailing at a wall there."
Because the Wailing Wall is in Jerusalem.
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Originally posted by Mike C.:
Because the Wailing Wall is in Jerusalem. Mike, Couldn't understand why you were being so obtuse, then I realized  Many years, Neil, listening to his wife chortling (the only word for it) at the thought of him eating crow :rolleyes:
"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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Fr. Deacon John,
We taught you pretty good! Nice job!
Deacon Paul.
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There is Yinz, as in the waitress asking, "what can I get yinz to drink, this phrase seems to be from west-central to western pa.
It's the easterners that say youz.
Don't forget the road is slippy, use a gum-band, that's not a brook, it's a crick (creek).
I've seen this list for years.
the most true is the firehall wedding reception.
It gets really weird when people want to go drink yuengling at the boney dumps.
PA is great, in the east you have philly, the west pittsburgh, and the middle which, is almost like its own sovereign nation.. not being able to identify with any particulars of the big cities.
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Don't forget Schuylkill Co. "Yous from 'Chen'do"??
"Yinz" is to Pittsburgh as "Yu'inz" is to Johnstown (Schantstahn)!
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PA is great, in the east you have philly, the west pittsburgh, and the middle which, is almost like its own sovereign nation.. not being able to identify with any particulars of the big cities. Carville, when running Governor Casey's campaigns made described the Pennsylvania as "Philadelphia on one end Pittsburgh on the other, with Alabama in the middle." UC, I never knew "yu'inz" to be local; I always just thought the "yinz" was a vulgar corruption of "yu'inz". 
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Djs,
How is "Schantz" (as in Joseph Schantz)translated from the PA Deutsch into English as "Johns"? I thought "Johann" was "John" in the Germanic languages??
p.s. Don't forget that while Pittsburghers say "worsh", those in the Johnstown area use a longer "schwa" vowel-sounding "whaaawwsh" as "Go wash your clothes in the creek (kqrick, not "creeek")!
All that PA Deutch mixed with the Scotch-Irish speech, not to mention the later arriving Hunkies and Italianos have made a unique Western PA dialect! And we all thought that "multiple dialects" were a problem found only in the "Carpathians"! :p
Ungcsertesz (who says "soda" and not "pop"!)
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