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02-19-2008, 06:08 PM
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There's no R in Acadia!!!
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: The northern end of a rock in the Atlantic Ocean (Maine)
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Come to think of it... I've gone a$$ over teakettle quite a few times! (In my world, it means to take a tumble..)
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02-19-2008, 06:28 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Northern Maine
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OK, I'll take credit for introducing the terms yip and yip yawed in this forum, but the terms were introduced to me by Chester Thwing around 1944. Chet had a Stanley Steamer (made in Maine) and I used to ride in it. The term originated among the shipbuilders who built the clipper ships on the Maine coast.
Chester Thwing; Now, there's a Maine name.
Tunk: To tap heavily into place. Tunk that sill over a little before we set the joist on it.
Last edited by Northern Maine Land Man; 02-19-2008 at 06:41 PM..
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02-19-2008, 07:00 PM
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"Embrace the suck!"
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Join Date: Nov 2007
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yep, some of that Mainah talk made it to the south, as I have heard of tunk, and quite a few of the old sayings from Maine are the ones the Scotch-Irish used in the south. Have you heard of the word tote? To tote means to carry.
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02-20-2008, 10:06 AM
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Location: Palmyra, Maine
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I heard a$$ over band box too
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02-21-2008, 06:19 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Atlanta
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mainebrokerman
another i hear alot is "unthaw" as in "thaw"
"whats for suppa mothuh? well, im thinking bout unthawing some deerburger for shepards pie"
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OMG!!! I just learned that my entire life of 33 years i have been saying unthaw!!!!!
Mom would always gripe if she for got to unthaw meat that morning for dinner.
I am laughing so hard! Thanks!  |
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02-21-2008, 07:45 AM
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Living in Exile
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: WV and Eastport, ME
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CreditWitch
OMG!!! I just learned that my entire life of 33 years i have been saying unthaw!!!!!
Mom would always gripe if she for got to unthaw meat that morning for dinner.
I am laughing so hard! Thanks! |
Being stuck with a logical mind, it has always seemed to me that if you unthaw something, it will be frozen again.
Same problem with flammable and inflammable. |
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02-21-2008, 02:28 PM
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Or IRRregular. LOL I guess I am numma then a pounded thumb
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02-21-2008, 02:51 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Northern Maine
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As George Carlin said, "We have flammable, inflammable and noninflammable. Why do we have three words? It seems to me that it can flam, or not flam. How can it be more complicated thatn that?"
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02-21-2008, 10:54 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mensaguy
Being stuck with a logical mind, it has always seemed to me that if you unthaw something, it will be frozen again.
Same problem with flammable and inflammable.
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That's why you're the mensa guy!! |
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02-22-2008, 07:48 AM
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"status" from Dale Carnegie
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: a step from New Brunswick...
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lol....I love words like that!
Traditionally Mainers don't take "kindly" to those who brag or put themselves on display.....I remember one of my mother's favorite sayings....."there's no conceit in her family, she's got it all!" It's one of my favorites to this day!   |
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