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Old 11-10-2008, 01:45 PM
 
Location: Seattle-area, where the sun don't shine
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I don't know, I think eBay snipers are lower forms of life. That, and the Education forum on city-data comes pretty close.
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Old 11-13-2008, 08:13 PM
 
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"MIZZLE", a term coined, I believe, by Steve Pool, beloved long-time meteorologist on KOMO 4 to mean real Seattle "rain" -- more than mist and less than drizzle.

to "BUCKY" as in "Please Bucky that over to Sam's office today." A business term in daily office speech. Bucky's is a company name. They started a bicycle courier service in downtown Seattle and were reliable and cost-effective. By the mid 90's, people were using the company name as a verb! That resulted in the following becoming verbs in daily speech: FedEx, UPS, and Fleetfoot (another local courier service).

“LESSER SEATTLE” A term coined by long-time journalist Emmett Watson to signify encouraging outsiders to think of Seattle as wet, moldy, dark, dismal and boring, in order to prevent people wanting to come here and thus keep Seattle from growing.


That old line won't work with me if the goal is to keep me from moving there. I like it when it is dark and raining. Besides I used to live in Everett so I have an idea of what the weather is like.
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Old 11-13-2008, 08:42 PM
 
Location: Seattle-area, where the sun don't shine
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"206 mafia" - People who think you don't have the right to say you're from Seattle unless you live in the 206 area code.
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Old 11-13-2008, 10:17 PM
 
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people say "bro" "hella" and "like" a lot
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Old 11-15-2008, 09:18 PM
 
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"Underdog" at the playground - it means run under the swing while the child is on it and push them from the other side.
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Old 11-16-2008, 03:03 PM
 
Location: SF,CA
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people say "bro" "hella" and "like" a lot
For a city that dislikes California so much I find it funny that so much of the culture and style, including the slang you listed is copied in Seattle.
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Old 11-16-2008, 03:13 PM
 
Location: Arizona
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For a city that dislikes California so much I find it funny that so much of the culture and style, including the slang you listed is copied in Seattle.
The city doesn't dislike CA and when exactly were those terms "copied'?
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Old 11-17-2008, 09:25 AM
 
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Californians love to have this mentality that they are hated everywhere outside of California....News flash, we don't hate you.
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Old 11-17-2008, 01:42 PM
 
Location: SF,CA
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News flash, I don't care at all.

I'm not a native Californian, I'm even worse, a native New Yorker. Everybody hates us wherever we go but I enjoy where ever I'm living.

I hear those terms all day long here in Seattle as well. This city seems to have a love/hate relationship with California. People love to bash the influx of Californians but they also style themselves like them. Strange situation.
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Old 11-19-2008, 07:42 AM
 
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News flash, I don't care at all.

I'm not a native Californian, I'm even worse, a native New Yorker. Everybody hates us wherever we go but I enjoy where ever I'm living.

I hear those terms all day long here in Seattle as well. This city seems to have a love/hate relationship with California. People love to bash the influx of Californians but they also style themselves like them. Strange situation.
Native New Yorker. Atlanta,GA has a love-hate relationship with New Yorkers, even more of a hate relationship with the NY Yankees.

I can see the correlation.
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