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You Know You're From Wisconsin When

Yooper said:
Yooper towns are fun to listen to the Call Centers in India to try.

Ishpeming
Negaunee
Escanaba
Manistique
Keeweenaw Bay

Then you get the French Influence, too:
Seul Choix Pte.
Sault Ste. Marie
L'Anse
Au Train
Epoufette
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How in the bloody HELL did you forget Ontonagon...and, for that matter, Gogebic County? (Latter is more of the French influence...) LOL Both are tougher than the ones in the first group...and what about Tahquamenon Falls?

At least ROCK is an easy one, LOL.

Chequamegon...Shuh-QUAH-muh-gun?
 
...whereas in Colorado, we have:

Brush
Rifle
Dinosaur
Eagle
Burns
Aspen
Gateway
Pine
Orchard
Brook
Rush
Falcon
Rye
Golden
Deer Trail

...yes, those are all towns in Colorado. And they don't get much more difficult than that. :D

Lex
 
If somebody gave me a blank map of Colorado, with the list of these fifteen towns, and with fifteen plain dots added to the Colorado map, I'd be able to match seven of them to the dots correctly, I think...
 
^ How about Pueblo, pronounced by oldtimers as Pee-eh-blow!

But, I've always been fascinated by Ponderay, Idaho ... the town on the shore of Lake Pend Oreille. Both are pronounced the same, but somehow when the town was named they forgot how to spell it. Or pronounce it. Or something. :rolleyes:
 
hotdog1846 said:
^ How about Pueblo, pronounced by oldtimers as Pee-eh-blow!
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Grandma used to call it, like most of the really old folks I know here, as Peew-Eb-Low. The explanation was because it used to stink.

Some other Colorado place names there isn't a general consensus of how to pronounce them:
Lafayette
Louisville
Buena Vista
San Luis (Valley, Mountains)

And some that are fun watching non-locals mangle:
Berthoud (either the Town or the Pass)
Estes Park

(And just to prove I'm not trying to hijack Kevbo's thread, guess what? There's a Culver's in Thornton now!! (!) Just passed it yesterday...I almost stopped. 96th or therabouts and Washington! Order a Butterburger!)
 
OK, so how is Estes Park pronounced by the locals? It doesn't look like it could be butchered all THAT badly...

regarding hotdog's Ponderay...there's a lot here to ponder, eh? I've always been convinced that the name for Wooster, Ohio was similarly spelled by "expatriate" New Englanders who didn't know how to spell Worcester, LOL - that second-largest-city-in-New-England (sorry, Hartford and Providence) is one of the champs of enunciative butchery.
 
So I was at a birthday party at a dive bar on Saturday where they had karaoke.

Somebody sang a song about lutefisk.
 
frankfrank said:
OK, so how is Estes Park pronounced by the locals? It doesn't look like it could be butchered all THAT badly...

regarding hotdog's Ponderay...there's a lot here to ponder, eh? I've always been convinced that the name for Wooster, Ohio was similarly spelled by "expatriate" New Englanders who didn't know how to spell Worcester, LOL - that second-largest-city-in-New-England (sorry, Hartford and Providence) is one of the champs of enunciative butchery.
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"ponder, eh" ... :lol: OK, so if the New Englanders can butcher a name too, I won't blame "Ponderay" on the fact that there are more loons in Lake Pend Oreille than people in Ponderay. :D

I've always pronounced "Estes Park" as "ehs-tis park", but I've heard some try to say it as "ehs-tees". My favorite, though, is my nickname for it:

Testes Park. *|*
 
kevbo said:
So I was at a birthday party at a dive bar on Saturday where they had karaoke.

Somebody sang a song about lutefisk.
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#-o

My relatives were in a while back from Sweden. They brought us some lutefisk.

If I wanted to kill myself, I'd think of eating something less nasty.

Funny thing, though. My great grandparents had a house in Merrimac. My uncle went to Sweden and he finally understood why they settled there: it looked just like home.
 
I might be from Wisconsin, but I can't pronounce a lot of the cities there... Doesn't help that I rarely visited anything out side of the Chippewa valley. T_T

Everything you said about WI is true. XD
 
looseliam said:
My great grandparents had a house in Merrimac. My uncle went to Sweden and he finally understood why they settled there: it looked just like home.
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MERRIMAC!!??

I know exactly where that is. I have a couple of dear friends who now live on the east side of Madison, who got married in Merrimac in 1986 and lived there for a while. She HATED it (she's an "urban" type from Philadelphia), he loved it...

There's some surprisingly small towns in WI that I'm quite familiar with, such as Readstown, Gays Mills (YES there is such a place), Suring, Cecil, Fence, Athens, Chilton, Omro, Nelson, Phillips...and I'm one of those horrible Illinois people, LOL.
 
frankfrank said:
MERRIMAC!!??

I know exactly where that is. I have a couple of dear friends who now live on the east side of Madison, who got married in Merrimac in 1986 and lived there for a while. She HATED it (she's an "urban" type from Philadelphia), he loved it...

There's some surprisingly small towns in WI that I'm quite familiar with, such as Readstown, Gays Mills (YES there is such a place), Suring, Cecil, Fence, Athens, Chilton, Omro, Nelson, Phillips...and I'm one of those horrible Illinois people, LOL.
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Frank! :wave:

We've met! And, like the vast majority of "Flat Landers", YOU are "Good Peeps"!! (group)

I went to college in Evanston, and most of my school buds still live in the Chicago area. I LOVE Chicago!! ..|

However, here, up North of "The Border", many of the fast driving, inconsiderate, RF's (Rich Fucks), with IL plates, are just down right inconsiderate of our more easy going ways! And, they're giving everyone else with IL plates a bad name! :slap:

(What's the difference between a BMW and a Porcupine? Porcupines have their pricks on the outside! :lol: )

Frank ... YOU, and most IL people, are not anywhere near "horrible", in any sense of that term! However ... those "righteous" few ... :grrr:

Keep smilin'!! :kiss:(*8*)
Chaz ;)
 
Well yes gabriel, I was drunk and misread the post. I believe I admitted that later and I did feel a little embarassed about it.

Shit happens man. I actually felt a little bad about it until I read that reply. Hahaha now I know I had nothing to worry about.

Thanks for making me feel better, name caller guy. ..|

And feel free to talk more shit to me, I already put you on ignore. Have a good one bud
 
gabriel1957 said:
I am taking this time to post a public apology to JERRY for my post in reply to a post he made. I had not scrolled down further to read that he had apologised for his post.

I do believe he may have me on ignore and will not see this, but anyway I do apologise for being a nasty person.
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Thank you Gabriel, I took you off ignore because I was curious to see what you had written.

I'm sorry I was such a drunken moron that night, I was being an idiot so I can't blame you for being upset with me. I wasn't too happy with myself either the next day. That definitely wasn't "me" in that post, it was straight alcohol.

I'm glad that we could get over it, I don't like having enemies. (*8*)
 
This has been fun. I've done business with a mfg facility in L'Anse for many years - get a TL every 60 days or so. Unfortunately, the company moved customer service to a consolidated location nationally, so I don't get to talk to the folks in the UP much any more. Really nice folk.

But, didn't we switch states moving to L'Anse? I thought we were talking about WI? L'Anse is MI UP - at least the one I'm thinking of is. Come to think of it, so is Sault Ste. Marie -- what is this, squatter's rights? The UP is disjoint from the thumb, you can't get to MI from MI w/out going thru another state our country?, so you're just annexing them? I guess that's a good thing. It's nice to be wanted.

As for some of your names, I live at the Western Door of the Iroquois Nation - LOTS of names to give you competition. Plus, as I've made mention, too, some French Canadian influence from the 18th C carryover.

Irondequoit
Canandaigua
Gonandagan
Cheektowaga
Tonawanda
Seneca
Oneida
Cayuga
Keuka
Canisus (not to be confused w/ Canesius)
Oh, yeah, Niagara

Avon - Not like Shakespeare's Town or the cosmetic company.
Bergen
Charlotte - NOT like NC, or the friendly pig.
LeRoy (THAT should be a hint!)
Castille

Ever have a White Hot? aka "Porker" I actually laughed a couple years ago when I flew to Atlanta for a computer software user's group meeting, and the lunch buffet included Knockwurst - flew 1000 miles to have a white hot and kraut! "Porker" is a misnomer - Pork and Veal.

In addition to our more famous manufacturer's (Kodak, Xerox, Bausch & Lomb) we also have Kraft Cool Whip Mfg, Leroy is the home of the Jello Museum. And Constellation Brands, spirit purveyor extraordinaire - yes, they even own a piece of Aussieland and "The Continent", is based right here. The little engine that could - to think, they have skid row bums to thank for the capital that fueled their growth -- Richard's Wild Irish Rose!

Now they buy and sell vintners worldwide, left and right.

And, Helluva Good sells Cheese Curds too! Been there, done that! lol
 
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