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05-22-2008, 10:37 PM
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Location: wilkes-barre
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Hershey Highway?
Where is this Hershey Highway I keep hearing about? I cannot find it on any maps.  |
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05-22-2008, 11:41 PM
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City Boy in The 'Burbs
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"Spending Yet Another Holiday Season Alone"
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Reston, VA : We're too "progressive" for sidewalks or streetlights.
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Oh good Lord. You are NOT being serious, are you?  I believe that's a derrogatory remark people make towards homosexuals (or at least the connotation I've overheard customers saying at work about us is along those same lines).  |
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05-23-2008, 02:03 AM
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Location: Cicero, NY
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i cant believe you asked that
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05-23-2008, 08:14 AM
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this has to be a joke
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05-23-2008, 09:29 AM
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Maybe it's not a joke. I honestly did not know what people meant when they said this until I was 35. I had never heard this growing up and it was not a common phrase in the South where I had lived for a number of years. It was not until our move back to PA that I found out.
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05-23-2008, 01:22 PM
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Location: Harrisburg, PA
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I thought the Hershey Highway was a euphemism for an anatomical feature until I moved to PA. Then I saw the segment of one of the US routes thru Hershey with the streetlights shaped like wrapped Hershey's kisses. Then I had seen it, the actual Hershey highway! Don't remember if it is 322 or 422. Heh, I live near Harrisburg, but have no reason to go near or thru Hershey so haven't been there for years.
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05-23-2008, 04:27 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Cape May NJ
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Both
A euphemism as explained, as well as a name for Rt 322 in Dauphin County. I heard the phrase Hershey highway as described by some here for years before I actually found that some refer to that segment of Rt 322 by the same name. If I were asking directions, etc. I think I'd simply say Rt 322, I wouldn't want someone to get the wrong idea asking "How do I find the Hershey Highway" |
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03-12-2009, 08:11 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Hershey, PA
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I am from VA and have lived in the Hershey area for 3 years, I have never heard this expression. I definitely wouldn't give directions using the term "Hershey Highway" nor would I use the term for anything else.
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03-12-2009, 07:16 PM
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This is so funny I was laughing out loud. I am gay and I have NEVER heard this and I am from here. I think I will integrate it into my vocabulary. I would have expected that road that branches off 322 to the front gates of the park. LOLOLOL!
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03-13-2009, 03:01 AM
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Never Looked Back
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: PA
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Thread necro on the ol hershey highway huh?
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