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"Matthew Miller" <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote in message news:slrn8s22bf.idt.....bu.edu... (...) Either way, us midwesterners get it right ;-) -- Tim Courtney - tim@zacktron.com (URL) - Centralized LDraw Resources (URL) - Zacktron Alliance ICQ: (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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(...) There's a town in Ohio pronounced the same way but actually spelled "Wooster".... (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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(...) Well here too. But it's the sort of charge that tends to only happen in the event of a crash. (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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"Steve Bliss" <steve.bliss@home.com> wrote in message news:qop1ssgbq48urqd...4ax.com... (...) it (...) Neither did I, until I came here. (...) I guess I'm in the same boat with you Steve, according to some ;-) -- Tim Courtney - tim@zacktron.com (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma)
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(...) I didn't know the 'English' was so hard to pronounce.... Steve "exhausted my lifetime allotment of pointless LUGNET posts" Bliss (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma)
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(...) Heh. I used to be able to do it from memory, but this time I looked it up to be completely sure of the spelling. I do know what it *means* off the top of my head, though (which is something I forgot to mention in the footnote to my last post). (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Yowza! I'd heard of that place but I never knew if it was real. Not only is it a sesquipedalian monstrosity, but it has 17 g's! Did you type it from memory or did you have to look it up? I don't know any off the top of my head, but I know that (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) If you think Gloucester and Worcester are bad, you should stay away from Lake Chargoggagoggmanchau...amaugg[1]. eric [1]Yes, it's a real place (near where my Dad grew up), yes, I've been there (last time was the 3rd of July), yes, I can say (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Massachusetts really isn't that hard a name to remember how to spell. It is spelt just like it sounds just as many Native American names are (at least in New England). Granted its a long name but not real difficult. (...) Well being from New (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Worcester gets butchered much more often than Gloucester ;-) Woooster, War-chester, Wuss-stah, ... -- -Rob. ===...=== New sets and parts for sale or trade: (URL) Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:G0uxIx.77J@lugnet.com... (...) (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma)
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Around here, (FNQ, Australia) if you follow someone too closely, you can get booked for tailgating. At night, you have to watch out for inconsiderate so-and-so's who drive up right behind you and blind you with their headlights which always seem to (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Well, the Massachusetts drivers are fine, it's the rest of you who don't know how to drive :-) :-) :-) Actually, the Massachusetts driving habits become less scary when you realize that it isn't so much aggressive driving as decisive driving. (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Ugh!! Now that commercial jingle is running thru my head - something something something "Gloucester Fisherman". The only part I remember is "Gloucester Fisherman" and an image of an elderly, gray (light) haired & bearded man with a yellow raincoat (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma)
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"Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:G0uxIx.77J@lugnet.com... (...) "glow-chester-shire" (...) Where in the world does he get -shire from?? Heck, I'm from the midwest too, and I always thought it was glow-chester. Oh well, gotta (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma)
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(...) I have a friend from MN who visited there and calls it "glow-chester-shire" ("glow" rhyming with "plow"). :-) I think I've also heard Gloucester called "glocks-tah" and "gluss-tah." --Todd (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma)
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"Shiri Dori" <shirid@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:G0usBJ.72v@lugnet.com... (...) Well, those of us from out of state refer to the drivers in Massachusetts as something entirely different - but that one I can't mention on Lugnet ;-) -- Tim (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Gawd, these Mass-ACHU!!-setts (1) names are confusing in general <grin>... I don't see why they don't just name it Glosster, if that's how they're gonna pronounce it... While we're on it, them British might as well have spelled Boston "Baw- (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Just got back from grocery shopping and found this short term offer there. With the purchase of any 6 participating products purchased at Star or Shaw's Supermarkets between September 10th and September 23rd you get a $25 Gift Certificate to TRU. (...) (24 years ago, 11-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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I was just wondering when you are going to have the pictures up from the truck in Foxboro? -Alex (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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(...) Bison County is a really good place to hold the meetings when folks from out of town are going to be there due to the proximity of The Construction Site- kinda killing two birds with one stone. That said, none of the times I've reserved the (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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