Which makes me wonder, how did the term become used for a sidewalk that runs alongside a house to the back yard? It's hardly a temporary passage like a gangplank.

Have you heard that term used as I've described in Michigan? At first I thought it was distinctly a Chicago term (Chicagoans embrace it as their own), but I've heard it used in Milwaukee as well.

I think I know that meaning too. There are lots of funny anecdotes about Wisconsinites going abroad (like, to Illinois) and asking puzzled people where the bubbler is. I haven't heard any bubbler stories from cheeseheads coming back from Cali, though -- I'll have to keep my ears tuned for them. They should be interesting!

A yellow handled good'ern.

I'm still trying to figure it out.

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I had to look that one up. I had heard it as a term for a drinking fountain before.

In some parts of the country, it's neither pop nor soda, but coke. Example: What kind of coke do you want? I'll have a Dr. Pepper.

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83 300D Turbo with manual conversion, early W126 vented front rotors and H4 headlights 400,xxx miles
08 Suzuki GSX-R600 M4 Slip-on 22,xxx miles
88 Jaguar XJS V12 94,xxx miles. Work in progress.

The "Bubbler" was a product advertized/sold in eastern Wisconsin (Green Bay/Milwaukee Television markets) in the '60s.

It was a screw-on water-drinking fountain head that went on the faucet on the outside of your house.

That would keep the kids outside and not allow them to drag dirt and crud into Mom's just-vacuumed carpet or just-washed floors.

Summertime was when this product was hitting its heyday...

Since then, every drinking fountain, in schools, churches, public places was refered to as a "bubbler" - 'cause the damn things on the outside of your homes looked like the real things in public. Only...they failed faster than a clean kid on a Sunday morning before getting into the car to head to church.

Guaranteed!

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..'77 - 280E - 123.033.12 / > 128.20 K
...'67 - El Camino - 283ci / > 207.00 K
....'75 - Yamaha - 650XS / < 21.00 K
.....'87 - G20 Sportvan / > 206.00 K
......'85 - 4WINNS 160 I.O. / 140hp
.......'74 - Honda CT70 / Real 125
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“I didn’t really say everything I said.”
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In and around Cincinnati, people will say "Please?" when they don't hear you the first time,like other folks may say "excuse me" or "could you repeat that". It's not as common as it was when I was a kid, but older folks still say it. I have to imagine it has a basis in German language...

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I can't speak for the rest of Connecticut, but my social circle use Smeagol (like from Lord of the Rings) as an insult, in all participles, and word forms. Smeagolled, Smeagolling, Smeagality, etc.

Also popular is 'mutiny', which makes any action against a friend totally okay.

Pic related, it's Smeagol.

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1987 560SEL (210,000 miles)

Sorta like being "Munsened".

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See how many can understand this little story about Australian life ~

Australiana - Austin Tayshus - YouTube

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I no longer question authority, I annoy authority. More effect, less effort....

1967 230-6 auto parts car. rust bucket.
1980 300D now parts car 800k miles
1984 300D 500k miles
1987 250td 160k miles English import
2001 jeep turbo diesel 130k miles
1998 jeep tdi ~ followed me home. Needs a turbo.
1968 Ford F750 truck. 6-354 diesel conversion.
Other toys ~J.D.,Cat & GM ~ mainly earth moving

Sloppy Joe- a cold delicatessen sandwich.There are minor variations depending on the deli, but it is always a triple decker rye bread sandwich made with one or more types of sliced deli meat, such as turkey, ham, pastrami, corned beef, roast beef, or sliced beef tongue, along with swiss cheese, coleslaw, and Russian dressing.

and

When asked about how far away something is...the answer is in time, not distance. "How far is that?" "about 45 min. from here".

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"If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you're going to see some serious %$&^."

Buck two eighty
The unspoken cost of any number
of things

In Australia a Sloppy Joe is a woolen jumper that is a couple of sizes too big

We give distances in time as well, normally to the nearest hour. 1hr ~ 60 miles

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I no longer question authority, I annoy authority. More effect, less effort....

1967 230-6 auto parts car. rust bucket.
1980 300D now parts car 800k miles
1984 300D 500k miles
1987 250td 160k miles English import
2001 jeep turbo diesel 130k miles
1998 jeep tdi ~ followed me home. Needs a turbo.
1968 Ford F750 truck. 6-354 diesel conversion.
Other toys ~J.D.,Cat & GM ~ mainly earth moving

Fourty-eleven was always a number beyond comprehension..."Quit asking me fourty-eleven times, son...No means NO!!!"

Distance in Ohio was given in miles. When I moved to Utah, it was given in time. After living there for a few months, I understood why it was done that way. Living in PA now, I still give it in units of time.

Also, here in PA, when some one is upset about something, they say they are "Jacked-off". The first time I heard it, a guy at work was talking about something his wife did that really upset him before he left for work. Imagine the look on my face when I heard "My wife is really jacking me off..." Yeah...I nearly spit my coffee out at him.

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I am guilty of this. I grew up near Hartford where everything is pretty close, so minutes was pretty much all you needed within The boundaries of NYC and Boston. Living down here in Philly, it takes well over an hour to drive from one end to the other of the city, then you hit farmland not too far west. I'm workin on it haha

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- 2004 Mazda RALLYWANKEL
- 2007 Saturn sky redline
- 2004 Explorer...under surgery.

Past: 135i, GTI, 300E, 300SD, 300SD, Stealth