# PA **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [October 6, 2006, 12:17am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pa/185435 "2006-10-06T00:17:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shaggy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/shaggy/32/5945_2.png) [@Shaggy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Shaggy)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 12:17am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pa/185435/1 "2006-10-06T00:17:10Z")
Once a Pennsylvanian, ALWAYS a Pennsylvanian! About Pennsylvanians You’ve never referred to Philadelphia as anything but “Philly” and New Jersey has always been “Jersey” You refer to Pennsylvania as “PA” (pronounced Pee-ay). How many other states do that? “You guys” is a perfectly acceptable reference to a group of men & women You know how to respond to the question “Djeetyet?” (Didyoueatyet?) You learned to pronounce Bryn Mawr, Wilkes-Barre, Schuylkill, the Pocono’s, Tamaqua, Tunkannock, Bala Cynwyd, Duquesne & Monongahela. You know what a “Mummer” is, and are disappointed if you can’t catch at least highlights of the parade. You know what “Punxsutawney Phil” is, and what it means if he sees his shadow. The first day of buck & the first day of doe season are school holidays. You know how to get ‘rid’ of things and how to read up. You can use the phrase “fire hall wedding reception” & not even bat an eye. You can’t go to a wedding without hearing the "Chicken Dance," at least one polka & either an Italian song (sung in Italian,) or “Hava Nagila.” At least 5 people on your block have electric “candles” in all or most their windows all year long. You know what a “Hex sign” is. You know what a “State Store” is, and your out-of-state friends find it incredulous that you can’t purchase liquor at the mini-mart. You own only 4 condiments: salt, pepper, mustard & ketchup. Words like “hoagie,” “crick,” “chipped ham,” “sticky buns,” “shoo-fly pie,” “pierogies” & “pocketbook” actually mean something to you. That’s PA slang You can eat cold pizza (even for breakfast) and know others who do the same. (Those from NY find this “barbaric.”) You not only have heard of Birch Beer, but you know it comes in several colors: Red, White, Brown, Gold. You know several places to purchase or that serve Scrapple, Summer Sausage and Hot Bacon Dressing You can eat a cold soft pretzel from a street vendor without fear & enjoy it. It almost always comes with mustard. You know the difference between a cheese steak & a pizza steak sandwich, and know that you can’t get a really good one outside PA. Except Atlantic City on the boardwalk. You live for summer, when street & county fairs signal the beginning of funnel cake season. Customers ask the waitress for “dippy eggs” for breakfast. You know that Blue Ball, Intercourse, Paradise, Climax, Bird-in-Hand, Beaver, Moon, Virginville, Mars, Middlesex, and Slippery Rock are PA towns. (and the first 3 were consecutive stops on the Reading RR) You know what a township, borough, and commonwealth is. You can identify drivers from New York, New Jersey, or other neighboring states by their unique & irritating driving habits. A traffic jam is 10 cars waiting to pass a horse-drawn carriage on the highway in Lancaster County. You know several people who have hit deer more than once. You carry jumper cables in your car & your female passengers know how to use them. You still keep kitty litter, starting fluid, de-icer, or a snowbrush in your trunk, even if you live in the south. Driving is always better in winter because the potholes are filled with snow. As a kid you built snow forts and leaf piles that were taller than you were. Your graduating class consisted of mostly Polish, German, & Italian names. You know beer doesn’t grow in a garden but you know where to find a beer garden. You also know someone who lives “down the lane” You actually understand all this & send it on to other Pennsylvanians or former Pennsylvanians! YEH ! ! THAT’S “PA” AND WE LOVE IT ---
**Author:** ![German\_with\_a\_Bowtie](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/german_with_a_bowtie/32/5967_2.png) [@German\_with\_a\_Bowtie](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/German_with_a_Bowtie)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 3:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pa/185435/2 "2006-10-06T03:42:38Z")
Truth… Chipped Ham, Dippy Eggs, Pop Out of towners just don’t get it. I also heard that the first day of deer season, more Pennsylvanians are armed than most countries armies! ---
**Author:** ![Pewter](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/pewter/32/5936_2.png) [@Pewter](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Pewter)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 4:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pa/185435/3 "2006-10-06T04:39:26Z")
yup ---
**Author:** ![SP71Supra](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/sp71supra/32/5955_2.png) [@SP71Supra](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SP71Supra)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 5:48am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pa/185435/4 "2006-10-06T05:48:38Z")
PA sucks ---
**Author:** ![JackdUp](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jackdup/32/6015_2.png) [@JackdUp](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JackdUp)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 6:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pa/185435/5 "2006-10-06T06:01:21Z")
^^^ Only because of Rendell’s new emissions legislation and Gary Alt’s f\*cking up of the hunting season fines? ---
**Author:** ![F-B-A](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/f-b-a/32/6022_2.png) [@F-B-A](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/F-B-A)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 7:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pa/185435/6 "2006-10-06T07:31:52Z")
what no \*yinz \*pop \*da’n ta’n (down Town) \*n’ nat (an that) otherwise All true ---
**Author:** ![mp3ray](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mp3ray/32/5994_2.png) [@mp3ray](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/mp3ray)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 7:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pa/185435/7 "2006-10-06T07:39:45Z")
PA’ers leave out the verb “to be” “The clothes need washed” is not proper English ☹ ---
**Author:** ![MONTE\_SS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@MONTE\_SS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MONTE_SS)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 8:16am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pa/185435/8 "2006-10-06T08:16:30Z")
😉 > [@OFFICIAL Buffalo Sabres Thread](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-buffalo-sabres-thread/25170/2758): > > PA sucks ---
**Author:** ![bgblockelcamino](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bgblockelcamino/32/5997_2.png) [@bgblockelcamino](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bgblockelcamino)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 8:27am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pa/185435/9 "2006-10-06T08:27:33Z")
You live for summer, when street & county fairs signal the beginning of funnel cake season. FTW ---
**Author:** ![Sinner6.0L](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/sinner6.0l/32/6016_2.png) [@Sinner6.0L](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Sinner6.0L)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 10:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pa/185435/10 "2006-10-06T10:12:27Z")
> [@THIS is how to do a burnout](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/this-is-how-to-do-a-burnout/24846/5): > > PA’ers leave out the verb “to be” > > “The clothes need washed” is not proper English ☹ 🤣 :finger: that’s me ---
**Author:** ![rookee](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/rookee/32/5972_2.png) [@rookee](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/rookee)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 10:24am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pa/185435/11 "2006-10-06T10:24:29Z")
🤣 Pa’rs love to hate on PA… then get really defensive when somebody tells them that their town of 100 ppl and one stop light suck. ---
**Author:** ![SCHMEIDER](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/schmeider/32/6032_2.png) [@SCHMEIDER](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SCHMEIDER)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 12:37pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pa/185435/12 "2006-10-06T12:37:18Z")
gotta love PA ---
**Author:** ![Zack01GC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a183cd/32.png) [@Zack01GC](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Zack01GC)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2006, 7:59am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pa/185435/13 "2006-10-07T07:59:42Z")
Another thing I’ve heard about PA is… “L.A. on the west side (Pittsburgh), New York City on the east side (Philly), and Southern Alabama everywhere else.” ---
**Author:** ![ShalerPunk](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/shalerpunk/32/5976_2.png) [@ShalerPunk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ShalerPunk)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2006, 8:07am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pa/185435/14 "2006-10-07T08:07:25Z")
> [@X-box live gamertag thread\*\*edited with list\*\*](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/x-box-live-gamertag-thread-edited-with-list/22265/942): > > Another thing I’ve heard about PA is… > > “L.A. on the west side (Pittsburgh), New York City on the east side (Philly), and Southern Alabama everywhere else.” that’s pretty true… i used to live in York county, and a neighbour had “HOWDY Y’ALL!” painted on his barn roof so planes could see it from overhead. ---
**Author:** ![SCHMEIDER](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/schmeider/32/6032_2.png) [@SCHMEIDER](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SCHMEIDER)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2006, 8:17am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pa/185435/15 "2006-10-07T08:17:36Z")
^^^^ haha thats cool shit ---
**Author:** ![Laura00WS6](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/laura00ws6/32/6017_2.png) [@Laura00WS6](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Laura00WS6)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2006, 9:11am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pa/185435/16 "2006-10-07T09:11:30Z")
🤣 ive read this before You know that Blue Ball, Intercourse, Paradise, Climax, Bird-in-Hand, Beaver, Moon, Virginville, Mars, Middlesex, and Slippery Rock are PA towns. (and the first 3 were consecutive stops on the Reading RR) ---
**Author:** ![cleanquick306](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/48db29/32.png) [@cleanquick306](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/cleanquick306)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2006, 11:37am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pa/185435/17 "2006-10-07T11:37:11Z")
i definately ordered “dippy eggs” when i was younger and the chick didnt know what i wanted…must have been a noob ---
**Author:** ![Laura00WS6](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/laura00ws6/32/6017_2.png) [@Laura00WS6](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Laura00WS6)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2006, 2:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pa/185435/18 "2006-10-07T14:25:45Z")
go over to ohio and try and order ice cream with jimmies…they have no idea what your talking about. ---
**Author:** ![YellowZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/edb3f5/32.png) [@YellowZ](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/YellowZ)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2006, 2:45pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pa/185435/19 "2006-10-07T14:45:24Z")
PA is such a fucking backwards ass state. The state store and property taxes have got to be the biggest fucking jokes. Damn I wish I could leave. ---
**Author:** ![Zack01GC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a183cd/32.png) [@Zack01GC](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Zack01GC)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2006, 2:46pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pa/185435/20 "2006-10-07T14:46:58Z")
> [@5/20 Nyspeed BBQ @ Chestnut Ridge \*\*PAYMENT INFO INSIDE\*\*](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/5-20-nyspeed-bbq-chestnut-ridge-payment-info-inside/24869/31): > > PA is such a fucking backwards ass state. The state store and property taxes have got to be the biggest fucking jokes. Damn I wish I could leave. Truth.