Funny Terms and Names!

[70boss]

Ok, I just got this idea for a light-hearted thread when I read city-folk being referred to as " Leaf Peepers". Never heard that before. Add to this thread those funny, but good natured references we all make about city people, rural people, animals, crops, etc. you get the picture. Please keep it light hearted and funny, this is not meant ot offend anyone. If you " resemble that remark" please stand up and be proud and admit it and have some fun. Here are a couple:

Leaf peeper.....posted elswhere on this board

Granolas....refers to university student/professor/teacher type, usually weraing sandals (birkenstocks), untucked shirts, corduroy or linen pants.....etc.

I work in the car business in a large University town, but live in the country. We see granolas everyday, usually looking at import autos.

DINK.....innocent really.. Dual Income No Kids.....thats me, but we have one on the way due Sept 28!!

 

[toddler]

We get the "Leaf Peepers" here in Vermont every fall, the rest of the year we seem to call our tourists "Flat Landers" Good thing few of our tourists come from wyoming, colorado, etc or they'd probably laugh at us calling our big hills mountains/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
Todd

 

[RMulkey]

A few years ago for fun I spent a month at a furniture making school in Warren VT. I drove across the US by myself with the windows down and the stereo blasting and did all the things that would drive my wife nuts like going the Studabaker and Harley Davidson museum. I had never heard or the term leaf peeper and thought it was incredibly funny. I could not understand what was the big deal until the fall color exploded on the hills. Some of the most beautiful countryside I have ever seen. Lots of gentlemen’s farms with polo ponies and picture perfect pastures, surrounded by white fences. Warren, Stowe, Mt. Killington, all were beautiful. Apparently I timed my arrival just right to arrive before the leaf peepers swarmed in. The B&B I stayed at tripled the room rates for the newcomers. I must admit this was my first non-business, fun trip to New England and it was a very pleasant experience.

I grew up in California in the San Francisco area and to me ‘east’ was always Lake Tahoe, located on the California-Nevada border. I was also completely confused by the road signs in VT that said “bridges freeze before road”???? Now remember… I am from California. Cold to me means I need to wear socks or a sweatshirt… I did not own a heavy winter coat until after I graduated from college and started to travel for business. The owner of the B&B spent hours telling me of his frozen underground fuel oil tanks and other assorted –40 degree horror stories. It was hard to imagine those beautiful green rolling hills, covered in warm 70 degree sunshine could ever be so harsh. In the month I stayed, the nightly temperature dropped from the 40s to the 10s. I plan to spend some more time in the area when I have a chance. Next time, I plan to go to another fine furniture making school in NH near a shaker settlement. I cannot remember the name of the town but the name of the school is the Dana Robes Studio.

You can laugh at me if it makes you feel good/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif…

 

[ejb]

I live in Mass and was visiting my brother and sister-in-law in Maine...they have a not so nice term for the many Mass residents that head north during tourist season "Mass-holes"

 

[70boss]

I live in Wisconsin, and "FLATLANDERS" refers to anybody from Illinois, along with a few other choices terms. Wisconsin is Chicagoans playground.

Rob

 

[Rch]

FLATLANDER, a WI term has an interesting origin.The Chicago mob brought a lot of land around Eagle River and Rhindlander in the NE corner of the state in the 1920's.At that time that was really the booneys. Remember John Dillinger was almost cornered in a Rhinlander theater. Anyway,the mob imported Kentuckian moonshiners, a notorius closed-knit group, who refered to everyone else as "flatlanders".
A term I alway like was "weak in the helmet",i.e. dumb. Refering to an ****-compulsive, "He's so tight that when he talks, only the dogs can hear him"

RCH<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1>Edited by Rch on 04/07/01 09:39 AM (server time).</FONT></P>

 

[GlueGuy]

Around here, we refer to people living in the valley as "flatlanders". Some (not so kind) folks refer to the valley as "the pit". Since I have to go down there to work quite often, it doesn't work too well with my psyche to think that way.

My wife has lived on the San Francisco Peninsula her whole life. To her, anyone living east of Lake Tahoe is an "Eastener". (sometimes anything east of Mount Diablo!/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif)

Oh, and we live in North California (as opposed to Northern California). /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

The GlueGuy

 

[Harv]

<font color=blue>"He's so tight that when he talks, only the dogs can hear him"</font color=blue>

My favorite variation on that one (which happens to make it more appropriate for this board) is

"He's so tight it would take a tractor to pull a needle out of his butt!" /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif

No reference to make, model, tires, ballast, etc. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[GlueGuy]

My wife likes to say <font color=blue>"He squeezes a nickel 'till the buffalo roars"</font color=blue> /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif.

The GlueGuy

 

[Roy]

A guy I once worked with, use to always say, if something was totally worthless, 'Useful as **** on a bull' /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif.

Roy