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Thu Oct-20-05 12:12 PM
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What is the OFFICIAL term for a native of Massachusetts? |
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It can't be "Masshole." It just can't. Massachusettsan? Massachusite?
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Thu Oct-20-05 12:13 PM
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Fri Oct-21-05 08:09 AM
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60. I was gonna say Masshole! |
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Thu Oct-20-05 12:14 PM
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Thu Oct-20-05 12:55 PM
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I wanted to say "Nutmegger" but that's another state.
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Thu Oct-20-05 01:10 PM
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Thu Oct-20-05 02:32 PM
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40. Gay Stater is another one I've heard. |
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Thu Oct-20-05 12:17 PM
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Thu Oct-20-05 12:17 PM
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4. I'm not a native, but I'm definitely a Masshole |
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:D
And I drive like a complete lunatic in neighboring states to prove it
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Thu Oct-20-05 12:20 PM
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5. Pinko tax-happy commie |
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Thu Oct-20-05 01:12 PM
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26. Welcome to civilization. |
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x( It's quite a culture shock to those coming from the Midwest.
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Thu Oct-20-05 05:53 PM
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I like Mass. I just have to learn how to keep my Yankee shirts at home when I go there. :P
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Thu Oct-20-05 12:30 PM
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Thu Oct-20-05 01:29 PM
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30. You're being such a Masshole..... |
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Bay Stater is the name on all the tourist brochures, but we know better, don't we? Actually, I think the Massholes congregate east of I-495, and the Bay Staters are west of it, although there are exceptions.}(
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Thu Oct-20-05 01:41 PM
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I was a west-of-495'er personally (Worcester)
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Fri Oct-21-05 01:28 AM
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57. So you're a Wormtowner? |
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Fri Oct-21-05 08:12 AM
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61. Never heard that term before. |
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Fri Oct-21-05 01:32 PM
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Thu Oct-20-05 12:32 PM
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Thu Oct-20-05 12:32 PM
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8. Nobody insults MY state and gets away with it!! |
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Thu Oct-20-05 12:34 PM
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10. Man, Don't be such a Masshole! |
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Thu Oct-20-05 12:50 PM
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14. You're from Pittsburgh?? It figures... |
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The only culture you'll find there is in a cup of yogurt...;)
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Thu Oct-20-05 12:54 PM
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At least here I can drive somewhere faster than I can walk it.
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Thu Oct-20-05 12:57 PM
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18. Hey we're better now with the Big Dig almost completed... |
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Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to Hyannisport to hob-knob with the hoi polloi...:silly:
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Thu Oct-20-05 01:08 PM
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ok have fun. I'd prefer to bike around Block Island myself, but each to his own.
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Thu Oct-20-05 01:12 PM
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25. Actually I'm having fun at work instead of working. |
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Just posted and saw you listed in the Pittsburgh Zombie attack thread too...back to work...:(
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Thu Oct-20-05 01:11 PM
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23. Pittsburg is nice, ... |
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... but Boston is still Boston. Forget about driving. Use the T. It goes everywhere. Anyway, on the few occasions I drove it was never a real problem. The road directions are confusing to an outsider, but the traffic isn't THAT bad if you drive like a New Englander (recklessly).
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Thu Oct-20-05 01:37 PM
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33. Anyone who hasn't lived there can't comment |
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I don't know about you, but I lived there for 8 years. Generally you can forget about driving, but many people can't afford to live within T range anymore. 1600 bucks a few years ago for a 2 bed in arlington where you had to ride a bus for 20 minutes, minimum, just to get to Alewife T station, to ride the T for an hour to get downtown. Still faster than driving, but still...yuck.
To say traffic isn't that bad makes me wonder how long you spent there, and how much you drove, and where. Traffic there is/was horrendous.
Anyway Boston has gone downhill. Far too crowded these days and once you're older than 25 there isn't much to do that doesn't cost an arm and a leg.
From 18-25 it's a kick ass town. After that a sane person wants something nicer IMHO.
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Thu Oct-20-05 01:47 PM
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36. Grew up in Worcester, will feel free to comment anyway. |
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Thu Oct-20-05 02:10 PM
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Anyone is obviously free to comment on anything they like. I simply won't pay much heed to someones comments about what it's like to live in a city (traffic, culture, whatever) unless they've lived there for at least a few years as an independent adult.
I've been to L.A. twice. Couldn't really stand the place. I won't comment on what it's like to live there though, because I really have no idea.
I lived for four years growing up in Dallas. I won't comment on that though because it's hard for a fourth grader to really judge what it's like to live in a city.
I know plenty of born and bred, as well as adopted, Bostonians who will verbally defend their fair city to the death, and I love each and every one of them (including my Sister).
My point is that unless you've lived there. Really lived there. You don't really know it. Someone who grew up in Worcester knows Boston as well as someone who grew up in Youngstown Ohio knows Pittsburgh. I simply don't give their comments much credence.
That's what I meant.
:pals:
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Fri Oct-21-05 01:31 AM
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58. Is the common behind city hall safe for turtles? |
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Thu Oct-20-05 03:29 PM
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46. Driving in Boston (scared) |
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Lived there for three years while in law school (Cambridge, technically) and the drivers there are enough to scare the hair off a gorilla. Real Boston drivers stamp little pedestrian silhouettes on the driver's door the way WWII pilots painted rising suns or swastikas on their planes to symbolize a kill. Official Masshole driving posture: Right foot on the floor, right hand on horn, left hand extended out window giving the bird.
And the roads! Let's say you're looking for 18 Old Stink Town Road. You find said road and it has no No. 18 but ends in a brick wall. Ask native for directions. "Nah, ya want the New Old Stink Town Road. It's five miles from here and runs nawth and south, not east and west."
Other than that, I did love Boston, honest. But I hated riding with anyone, and just took the T, which was great.
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Thu Oct-20-05 04:27 PM
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48. Say, you did live in Cambridge. |
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Your description was close to perfect, except you neglected to mention that neither Old Stink Town Road nor New Old Stink Town Road had a street sign, and if either is off on Mass Ave you'll never see a sign for that street either.
Pedestrians have notches in their belts for each time they dodged those drivers. It's an art form scooting out of the way while still allowing the opportunity to slam the side of the car with whatever object is handy and to yell SLOW DOWN AHHS-HOLE at the top of your lungs.
I must admit that I feared being a pedestrian much less in Boston than I do in San Francisco. The drivers in this fair city think brakes are for sissies.
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Thu Oct-20-05 04:38 PM
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:rofl:
So true. If you couldn't plot something in relation to Mass Ave, you were doomed to wandering like the Flying Dutchman. Fortunately the liquor store, grocery store, bookshops and Chinese restaurants were all right on Mass Ave or in Harvard Square. I wonder if Bartley's Burger Cottage is still there...?
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Thu Oct-20-05 12:33 PM
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but others usually go with Bay Stater, which is soooo boring, imho.
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Thu Oct-20-05 12:34 PM
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Thu Oct-20-05 01:10 PM
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22. It'll be a cold day in hell when a Bay Stater calls themself a "Yankee" |
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Thu Oct-20-05 01:15 PM
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28. Didn't even think about the baseball team. |
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To foreigners, all Americans are Yankees.
To Americans, only those who live in the North are Yankees.
To Northerners, only New Englanders are Yankees.
New Englanders know that true Yankees are people with English-speaking ancestors in North America (below the 48th parallel) prior to the Revolution.
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27. What color is a Yuppie? |
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Thu Oct-20-05 03:17 PM
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44. Don't get me to lying. |
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Thu Oct-20-05 02:31 PM
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Bay Staters are the only residents not called by their state's name. I never knew that.
Hi :hi: I'm a Bay Stater!
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Fri Oct-21-05 06:56 PM
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65. I thought Mainers were also called Down Easters... |
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But the Official List sez no. That apparently settles that.
I'm in Halifax, NS myself--Haligonian, or as Cape Bretoners pronounce it, "Them god damn snotty mainlander bastards".
:hi:
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Thu Oct-20-05 01:05 PM
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19. Massachusian, believe it or not. |
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For all the rhetoric about Taxachusetts, taxes are much worse here in Ohio. Don't know about now, but when I let the Bay State in 1991, there was a 5% state income tax with exemptions and a 5% sales tax on everything except food, clothes, periodicals and baby stuff.
Ohio has a state income tax PLUS an local income tax where you live AND where you work. Most towns of residence allow a set-off for income tax paid to the town of employment, but not all. Also, the sales tax varies by county. This county is 6.5% and around Cleveland it is 8.5%. Plus, only food is exempt and only food eaten away from a restaurant. Also, MA has Prop. 2 & one half property tax ceilings. I don't believe they exist here.
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Thu Oct-20-05 01:17 PM
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29. My NH friends would call me a Masshole. |
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Thu Oct-20-05 01:48 PM
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Yes, it's Massachusean. Sorry. No wonder most opt for Bay Stater or simply New Englander.
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Thu Oct-20-05 01:30 PM
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31. it's alll about the Masshole |
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Yeppers.
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they're 'jimmies' not 'sprinkles'
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Thu Oct-20-05 01:32 PM
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32. people from Athol, MA |
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Thu Oct-20-05 01:42 PM
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35. Isn't Athol one of the "lost towns"? |
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Thu Oct-20-05 02:42 PM
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42. All of them are Kennedys? |
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Thu Oct-20-05 03:23 PM
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45. When I lived there I heard Massachusettensian |
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but that strikes me as a syntactical abomination. "Masshole" was used generically. ;)
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Thu Oct-20-05 04:38 PM
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Edited on Thu Oct-20-05 04:41 PM by Gargoyle
who live west of Worcester I would prefer West Massachusian. :silly:
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Thu Oct-20-05 05:49 PM
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53. I believe it's pronounced "Mahs-hole" |
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Thu Oct-20-05 11:06 PM
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55. someone who wishes they lived in Rhode Island??? |
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Fri Oct-21-05 08:00 AM
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59. Mass is pretty bumpy. |
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It ain't the Rockies, but it ain't Kansas neither.
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Fri Oct-21-05 08:15 AM
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as in "That's a wicked pissah"
They say it all the time
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Fri Oct-21-05 08:35 AM
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63. Mahican, Massachuset, Housatonic, Stockbridge, Narraganset, Wampanoag |
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and Algonquins....
You know, the indigenous people, not the colonists.
*cough*
For being a native of Massachusetts...
*cough*
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