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Re: Gloucester MA (was: Re: Harry Potter (Film) Set)
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Thu, 14 Sep 2000 03:57:50 GMT
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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 on a fishing boat.
Julie
In lugnet.loc.us.ma, Tim Courtney writes:
> "Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message
> news:G0uxIx.77J@lugnet.com...
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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
>
> 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 get used to
> how funny you guys talk out here.
>
> That and the midwest jokes...ugg. Being from Wheaton, IL - Wheaton College
> is pretty big. Gordon is in the same league per se as Wheaton - prestigious
> Christian liberal arts schools. In chapel today, the dean of chapel guy
> refered to a speaker we had today being a Wheaton graduate and called it the
> 'Gordon of the midwest' - which didn't settle too well with me, but heck, it
> was all in good fun I know :-)
>
> BTW - Wheaton is probably a notch above Gordon in prestige, so that makes it
> that much more objectionable, IMO. But most of the people are from the
> east, midwest jokes are all too common. Oh well...I'll beat em with my
> superior pronounciation of English. ;-)
> --
>
> Tim Courtney - tim@zacktron.com
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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 (...) (26 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma)
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