Random n@.
Posted by pittgirl on 28 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: Random
1. I said “slippy” twice yesterday. I NEVER say “slippy” mostly due to the fact that when I went to college I made a very intentional effort to lose my Burgh accent and to banish certain words from my vocabulary. Words like gumband, buggy, yinz, redd up, pop, slippy. I got tired of the odd looks, ya know?
That was then. This is now. Once you leave the Burgh and come back, you come back more of a Burgher than when you left. You come back and you EMBRACE those words and you throw them around proudly. I am a Burgher. Hear me raw-wer!
So while I unintentionally almost never use Burgh words in my everyday speaking, yesterday, slippy just kept slipping out.
I think maybe subconsciously I’m honoring the late, great Myron Cope and that very inherent, lovable, embraceable Burghiness that he carried in his heart and proudly let be heard by anyone that was fortunate enough to be on the receiving end of his spoken word.
Two things that Burghers far and wide are emailing me:
- We must get our Terrible Towels out of our closets and fly them now.
- There must be a statue.
I agree.
2. EDIT: Darn it! It’s been removed.
Square peg. Round hole. Date with PittGirl.
It made me laugh, you guys.
(h/t Blee)
3. I wonder, can I hire this guy to follow me around everywhere I go? “There’s a pigeon, sir. There’s a pigeon. There’s five pigeons. There’s a pigeon pecking at my eyeball. There’s a pigeon trying to take a camera phone picture up my skirt.”
(h/t The Mysterious M)
4. So a casting agency was fired from the Shelter movie for seeking people to populate a fictional town with a “West-Virginia holler” feel. Particularly, they were looking for odd-looking children and people with an “inbred” look about them.
Too bad, because I had JUST THE GUY!
OMG. I’m kidding, minions. I’m. Just. Kind. Of. Not. Kidding.
(h/t DW, BagitTagit, and unsatisfied)
5. I can’t help but wonder if maybe Snowman committed suicide.
(h/t Tim)
6. March 20. That will be the day I walk out of the house in a cardigan, walk back in my house, take off my cardigan, hang it up, grab another from my closet and put that cardigan on. I’ll zip it up with a flourish and a poorly sung ditty about you totally need to be my neighbor, yo! Then I’m going to feed my fish that I don’t have, make a telescope with construction paper, freak out when Lady Elaine Freakin’ Demon Fairchild blinks at me, and wrap it all up nicely by teaching my dog a life lesson about the importance of washing one’s paws after playing in a puddle of his sister’s pee.
Won’t YOU be my neighbor?
(h/t Mel)
22 Comments »
on 28 Feb 2008 at 10:22 am 1.Chris said …
PittGirl!! Freakin’ Lady Elaine!?!?!? Years.of.therapy….I’m just sayin’
on 28 Feb 2008 at 10:30 am 2.Me said …
Lady Elaine Fairchild always scared the bejesus out of me.
on 28 Feb 2008 at 10:33 am 3.PittinDC said …
Most Burgh words I’ve been able to get out of my every day vernacular, as people in DC look at me like I’m an idiot when I say I’m going to go grab a pop. But I have never, EVER, been able to stop saying “slippy.” I don’t know what it is about that word, but it will not go away.
However, when I’m drunk… the Burgh totally comes out. As they say, you can take the girl out of the Burgh, but you can’t take the Burgh out of the girl.
on 28 Feb 2008 at 10:37 am 4.unsatisfied said …
yeah, that lady elaine pic is scaring the hell out of me. it reminds me of that cracksmokinteachersaidewhore who got busted earlier this week.
seeing that cat in the hats reminded me, for some reason, of that part in “better off dead” when lane’s mom and dad wear those ridiculous deer outfits for Christmas.
and, my first “h/t” for the burgh blog — woohoo!
on 28 Feb 2008 at 10:41 am 5.HickoryChick said …
First, I’d like to thank you for the freakin’ stroke I had when I went to theburghblog this morning and saw a 6 inch head shot of Lady Elaine Fairchild. Thanks.
I’m also very sad to hear about the casting company being fired(!) for looking for freaks for the ‘Shelter’ movie. I already started rounding them up! What am I going to do with them now? Perhaps I’ll start a traveling carnival.
Finally, if I have this right, we’ll be waving our terrible towels in the burgh tomorrow (sniff, sniff) and wearing zip up cardigans from Sears on March 20? Wow. It really IS the end of an era.
on 28 Feb 2008 at 10:41 am 6.Mrs Pitsberger said …
#1. I screamed ALMOST as loud when I saw Lady Elaine Fairchild’s extreme close up as I did when I saw Lukey’s. You’re scaring me, PG.
#4. I’m totally a minion…but that’s funny!
#5. Some people are lucky that their pets do not have opposable thumbs and therefore cannot grasp weapons.
#6. Don’t forget to change your shoes.
on 28 Feb 2008 at 11:11 am 7.deebee said …
I was in high school before I realized slippy wasn’t a word.
And yes I still use it,now I’m going to redd up the house.
Rest in Peace Myron.
on 28 Feb 2008 at 11:26 am 8.Sofa King said …
Did anyone else notice that Mr. Rogers and Myron Cope died exactly 5 years apart to the day? Interesting coinky-dink.
on 28 Feb 2008 at 11:54 am 9.Ex-Pat Pittsburgh Girl said …
I have all of my Terrible Towels out. I already had one in my office (along with the 35 or so Pittsburgh sports related bobbleheads, beanie bears and other knick-knacks). My desk is now bare, with the exception of my Terrible Towel, a small Steelers hardhat from the groundbreak for Heinz Field, a Bettis beanie bear, and sitting center stage — my Myron Cope bobblehead. Off to the right, a small framed picture of Mister Rogers in his red cardigan. Even the Sea-chickens fans in my office (I live in Portland, OR) have stopped by to console me. I actually heard the news about Myron via a condolence e-mail from a co-worker who is a Raiders fan (they despise the Sea-chickens fans even more than I do).
Also, they say pop in the Pacific Northwest so I’m not always getting corrected anymore.
on 28 Feb 2008 at 11:57 am 10.dwight said …
No! No! No! Long live “POP.” Yinz, gumband, redd up … never used and find annoying, but pop? If you gave it up for “soft drink,” okay (nerdy, but okay), but please don’t tell me you say “soda,” now! If so, I’ll have to start calling you PhillyGirl.
on 28 Feb 2008 at 11:59 am 11.Ravishing Rick said …
Dear PittGirl this guy is looking for a Pittsburgh Girl
CL 588283905 the moment I saw I thought Pittsburgh Girl
PittGirl,could they be one in the same?????????????
on 28 Feb 2008 at 12:10 pm 12.chrys said …
Thanks for the laugh, I just realized that I told my kids not to run up our sidewalk yeaterday, because it is slippy!! LOL!! OMG.. I am passing it on.
As for the kitten hats… poor Snowman..:( I hope there are no crazy hats where he is now.
on 28 Feb 2008 at 1:34 pm 13.Still A Fan said …
5. maybe not. a shameless plug:
http://steelcityslant.blogspot.com/2007/12/truth-comes-out.html
one of mine loves that crap. i swear he’s human. and a little bit gay (not that there’s anything wrong with that).
nah, you know what? i looked at snowball’s pics again. he absolutely off’d himself.
on 28 Feb 2008 at 2:20 pm 14.Pensgirl said …
I’m so sad that people intentionally remove ‘Burgh words from their vocabs! I don’t have the accent, but I love our words and I’ve intentionally worked on keeping them. If people try to make fun of me for it, I just say maybe they’d have some fun local words too, if they were from anyplace remotely special.
on 28 Feb 2008 at 2:39 pm 15.Gunn Lino said …
As to the firing of the casting agency….that’s a little harsh I think, I mean they are giving otherwise unemployable people a chance to make a mark in film history.
Where’s the ACLU when you need them?
on 28 Feb 2008 at 3:47 pm 16.Kat said …
No! No! No! Long live “POP.”
Right on. Pop isn’t a Pittsburgh word–it’s a half-the-country word. You can pry “pop” out of my cold, dead vocabulary.
on 28 Feb 2008 at 5:15 pm 17.Lily said …
I really like the “word” slippy.
on 28 Feb 2008 at 5:25 pm 18.windy city steel city said …
I moved to Chicahgo nearly 16 years ago from Beaver Cahnty and still need a tahl to dry myself off after a shah-er and respect Coach Cahr. Dad has had Stiller tickets since ‘74 and I bleed black n goald.
Recently my Mom was diagnosed with breast cancer so I am moving back to the area this spring to be near her while she fights it. Everyone I have talked to in my job search has been great and it pleases me to know how helpful and friendly a Yinzer can be. Looking forward to making the Golden Triangle my home.
I am a realtor specializing in lofts / condos, so any info on the market would be helpful. Look for http://www.steelcitylofts.com, http://www.steelcityneighborhoods.com and http://www.dahntahn.com coming to Da ‘Burgh soon.
Special shout aht n’@ to PittGirl and this blog for keeping me informed while tickling my funny bone with a hammer.
on 28 Feb 2008 at 5:47 pm 19.justretiredguy said …
It wasn’t until I was in the Army that I realized I had an accent. Being from south 18th and Pius, it sometimes gets a little thick. I remember telling some other GIs a joke about money falling “dahn a sore”. I litteraly had to spell sewer and was amazed that they had no idea what I was saying.
Well, time to go shovel the driveway. It’s all slippy an’at dere.
on 28 Feb 2008 at 5:52 pm 20.justretiredguy said …
Lady Elaine? I thought it was a close up of Sophie Masloff.
on 28 Feb 2008 at 9:03 pm 21.Sue said …
While walking with a Jeresy native friend I mentioned how my dog ran over to that “crick” and got full a “jaggers n at”. Took her awhile to decode.
My kids are not supposed to “cuss” or the punishment is reddin up and runnin the “sweeper”. One of my kids first non baby food meals was peorgies.
My children have picked up only a few mispronounciations, like Mere for Mirror and Bloon, for balloon. Oh well I tried, I’m sure the Burgh will still have them come college time. ha
Sue
on 28 Feb 2008 at 10:33 pm 22.Minion77777777777777 said …
I saw the comment about the West Virginia Holler feel and knew just about which picture of Ben you were going to put with it. Too funny. Good thing he lost the beard, or they’d be begging him to be in the dang movie.