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:soapbox: I just need to vent !!!! IT'S TOO DAMN COLD HERE !! >:( I'm sick of riding my bike in my dreams :-\ somebody send a warm day my way will ya please :nixweiss: just throw your exhaust Northeast ???
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heres a hot one from the desert southwest!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Gonna be 52 here on Sunday! Not to worry... the 1st nice day ride will be that much sweeter! 8)
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:soapbox: I just need to vent !!!! IT'S TOO DAMN COLD HERE !! >:( I'm sick of riding my bike in my dreams :-\ somebody send a warm day my way will ya please :nixweiss: just throw your exhaust Northeast ???
Jack,
10 years ago, I woke up one morning, walked out the door in 10 below 0 weathah, slipped, fell on my ass, banged my head on the ice I slipped on and swore that was it. Moved to San Diego less than a year later. Do I miss Maine. Sure for the two months a year when it's warm and the mosquitos aren't so thick they carry off dogs, cats and small children. Two months out of twelve just ain't enough. You're an electrician ? They build about 1,000 houses a week out here, every 6 months there's a new neigborhood and they have to build schools, stores, shops etc to support it. I'd say being an electrician in Southern California's gotta be as sure a bet as there is when it comes to finding work.
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Jack,
You're an electrician ? They build about 1,000 houses a week out here, every 6 months there's a new neigborhood and they have to build schools, stores, shops etc to support it. I'd say being an electrician in Southern California's gotta be as sure a bet as there is when it comes to finding work.
You could say about the same thing for many parts of Florida, as well. Tomorrow it's going to be 67 and sunny where I am. Florida's not nirvana, but one winter (if you can really call it that) down here will make you understand why so many folks move here. I think as an electrician you'd have your pick of jobs/contracts.
Hey BB, the wife and I went to Bah Hahbah in mid-May one year. We thought springtime in New England, and all that. She took a sweater and I took a cotton windbreaker. We went for a hike on Cadillac Mountain (open, bare rock face) and it started sleeting with freezing rain. Got down to just above freezing and then the fog rolled in. Our day hike turned into something like a military survival exercise--couldn't find the trail in the fog and getting colder and wetter and the rocks getting slicker by the minute.
Now we laugh about it and call that day the "Bar Harbor Death March". The good thing about it was how good the fireplace felt that night and the beer and lobster at the local restaurant was excellent.
That wasn't the only time I've visited Maine but it was the coldest.
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Thanks for your warm thoughts guys ::) My parents live in Maine, so I know I don't have it half as bad as they do up there !! You are correct, I am an Electrician, and I'm sure I could find work just about anywhere, but it's nice to know where the construction is booming :2vrolijk_21: who knows......maybe I'll slip and fall, then come to my sences too ;D god knows there's enough ice out there today to do just that >:( I'm thinking about warm thoughts at "Weirs Beach" !!! :cucumber: SHWIIIIINNGGGG !
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You could say about the same thing for many parts of Florida, as well. Tomorrow it's going to be 67 and sunny where I am. Florida's not nirvana, but one winter (if you can really call it that) down here will make you understand why so many folks move here. I think as an electrician you'd have your pick of jobs/contracts.
Hey BB, the wife and I went to Bah Hahbah in mid-May one year. We thought springtime in New England, and all that. She took a sweater and I took a cotton windbreaker. We went for a hike on Cadillac Mountain (open, bare rock face) and it started sleeting with freezing rain. Got down to just above freezing and then the fog rolled in. Our day hike turned into something like a military survival exercise--couldn't find the trail in the fog and getting colder and wetter and the rocks getting slicker by the minute.
Now we laugh about it and call that day the "Bar Harbor Death March". The good thing about it was how good the fireplace felt that night and the beer and lobster at the local restaurant was excellent.
That wasn't the only time I've visited Maine but it was the coldest.
Beah and Lubstah Red, get it right ok Dude ?
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Wiers Beach,, aint that in New Hampshire?
OK, I'm old and don't feel like hunting through threads. Where did you say Hicktown is again????????
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Wiers Beach,, aint that in New Hampshire?
OK, I'm old and don't feel like hunting through threads. Where did you say Hicktown is again????????
Ayuh, Weirs is in Cow Hamshire. I believe Hicktown is in Pennsylvania. Could be wrong but that's what I believe :D
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Ayuh, Weirs is in Cow Hamshire. I believe Hicktown is in Pennsylvania. Could be wrong but that's what I believe :D
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I think he said in Ma, near Cape Cod. Hoist! 8)
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:D Hoist is right.... I just call it " hicktown" ;) I'm In Mass. About 1/2 hour north of " The Cape" Good impressions guys 8) I think I saw some " Mainer" in there with the "AYUH" :P But here in " Buhstin" I " Pahk Mah Cah" & I "staaht Mah Halay" 8) :D
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:D Hoist is right.... I just call it " hicktown" ;) I'm In Mass. About 1/2 hour north of " The Cape" Good impressions guys 8) I think I saw some " Mainer" in there with the "AYUH" :P But here in " Buhstin" I " Pahk Mah Cah" & I "staaht Mah Halay" 8) :D
And you yanks make fun of the way us Southerners talk? ;)
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You tell 'em TC. Down here in the south, we put on this act of being uncultured hicks with no ed-ju-mah-kation just to keep the riff raff out. It's not working all that well though..., we seem to be overrun with northerners and south of the border southerners here in Texas.
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You tell 'em TC. Down here in the south, we put on this act of being uncultured hicks with no ed-ju-mah-kation just to keep the riff raff out. It's not working all that well though..., we seem to be overrun with northerners and south of the border southerners here in Texas.
Just in case any of you southern fried bikers didn't bother to attend history class in high school, the Pilgrims landed in Massachusets, NOT Texas or any other points south. Other than the Native Americans, I guess that makes us Yankees, First Americans :D
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Just in case any of you southern fried bikers didn't bother to attend history class in high school, the Pilgrims landed in Massachusets, NOT Texas or any other points south. Other than the Native Americans, I guess that makes us Yankees, First Americans :D
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One thing that always amused me about that first landing on Cape Cod. 21 Nov 1620, Standish comes ashore. They find some corn stored by the locals. Steal it. Decide they don't like the place for lack of fresh water. And leave :drink: .
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Just in case any of you southern fried bikers didn't bother to attend history class in high school, the Pilgrims landed in Massachusets, NOT Texas or any other points south. Other than the Native Americans, I guess that makes us Yankees, First Americans :D
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Hi SPIDERMAN,
you might want to check out this link? Jamestown Virginia settlement in 1607 sound familiar? ;D
http://www.apva.org/history/index.html
That would be the first English settlement but I think the Spanish beat us to North America too. :huepfenlol2:
St.Augustine Florida is the oldest European continiously settled city in America founded by the Spanish in 1565.
Then you have the Vikings in Newfoundland between 1000 and 1013 if you want to count that as a settlement?
Plymouth Rock was 1620. ;)
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The Jungle Prada Park street st. petersburg fl 1532? Jose Gaspar I think it said on the sign that it was the first landing.....
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Outraged and spiteful, the daughter-in-law conspired with the prime minister to frame Gaspar for stealing the Spanish crown jewels. Upon hearing news of his imminent arrest, ordered by Charles III, Gaspar commandeered a ship, the Floridablanca, and escaped. Swearing an oath to revenge his treatment by Spanish officials, he resolved to plunder any ship flying the flag of Spain. The year was 1783.
Gaspar took the Floridablanca and escaped to the Gulf coast of Florida. He established his base in Charlotte Harbor (near modern-day Fort Myers). He adopted a new name and the career of Gasparilla, the Pirate began.
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Its been so damn cold here in Paducah Kentucky I looked out in my backyard this morning and I saw a beagle with a set of jumpers cables trying to boost off a jack rabbit ...... MAN THIS WEATHER sucks ....if it warms up it rains and if it clears up it drops below freezing!
Bubba
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Beah and Lubstah Red, get it right ok Dude ?
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Hey, you're the "Mainah". Me, I speak English. ;D
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Hey, you're the "Mainah". Me, I speak English. ;D
Maniacs Red, we're all freakin Maniacs
Ayuh
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Maniacs Red, we're all freakin Maniacs
Brian: I'm taking Maine-speak classes.
"How to Sound Like a Native Mainah from Wickipedia.
Words that end in "er" are pronounced "ah." Mainer = Mainah. Car = Cah. Mother and Father = Muthah and Fathah. Water = Watah.
Conversely, words that end in "a" are sometimes, but not always, pronounced "er." California becomes Californier. Idea becomes idear. Yoga becomes Yoger.
Drop the "g" in "ing." Stopping and starting = stoppin' and startin', or more correctly, stoppin' and stahtin'.
Broaden a and e sounds. Calf becomes cahf. Bath becomes bahth. Can't becomes cahn't.
Drag out some one-syllable words into two syllables. There becomes they-uh. Here becomes hee-ah.
Getting the accent down is not all there is to speaking like a Mainah. You also need to learn some Maine lingo:
Apiece: An undetermined distance: He lives down the road apiece.
Ayuh: Yup. Sure. Okay. That's right. You Bet.
Bug: Lobster
Cah: A four wheel vehicle, not a truck.
Chowdah: Chowder
Crittah: Any furry animal
Cunnin': Cute
Finest Kind: The very best
From Away: Not from Maine
Gawmy: Awkward or clumsy
Numb: Dumb. Stupid.
Pot: Lobster Trap
Prayer Handle: Knee
Quahog: Thick-shelled clam (pronounced co-hog)
Scrid:A tiny piece
Steamers:Clams
Wicked: Very. To a high degree, such as wicked good, wicked bad, wicked exciting, etc."
How about this, BB?
I had a wicked good bug with the finest kind of chowdah fah dinnah, but I buhned mah fingahs bein so gawmy, so I moved the pots off the seat and got in the cah to go to the Doctah's house down the road apiece. But the Doctah's from away and he was so numb he thought a crittah bit a scrid off me fingah, instead of bein buhned, so I slapped me prayer handle and got back in the cah. I stopped by the bah and had a beah and steamers since they weh oot of quahogs and then went back up the road apiece to my hoose.
How's that, Big B? Can I get a "ayuh"?
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