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frugal-one
10-9-16, 11:39am
https://www.yahoo.com/news/alec-baldwin-as-the-snl-donald-trump-does-cringeworthy-embrace-of-leaked-video-scandal-133445643.html
Rogar
10-9-16, 3:43pm
Alec Baldwin has found a true calling. Last week's was good, too.
catherine
10-9-16, 6:00pm
Really.. he's excellent. And so is Kate McKinnon as Hillary. I thought that skit was hilarious. Not because I'm so pro-Hillary or so anti-Trump but because good political humor is so priceless.
IshbelRobertson
10-10-16, 10:56am
This cannot be viewed outwith the USA.
LDAHL
10-10-16, 11:03am
This cannot be viewed outwith the USA.

Hey, I learned a cool new word! I'm going to start using "outwith" forthwith in my daily conversation.

Thanks!
razz
10-10-16, 11:16am
Not even in Canada either. I did see the earlier skit though so maybe this later one will show up some where else.
Alan
10-10-16, 11:38am
This cannot be viewed outwith the USA.There's a version on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIWarOJKd4M
IshbelRobertson
10-10-16, 1:26pm
Hey, I learned a cool new word! I'm going to start using "outwith" forthwith in my daily conversation.

Thanks!

Still used all the time in Scotland, but not in some other areas of the UK.
LDAHL
10-10-16, 5:23pm
Still used all the time in Scotland, but not in some other areas of the UK.

It's funny how that works. I grew up around Chicago, where we referred to soft drinks as "pop". I now live a couple of hours north of where I was born, where they call them "soda".
IshbelRobertson
10-11-16, 5:04am
That would be 'juice' in Edinburgh, and 'ginger' in Glasgow!

Why juice for carbonated sugar water, I have no idea!
creaker
10-11-16, 8:16am
It's funny how that works. I grew up around Chicago, where we referred to soft drinks as "pop". I now live a couple of hours north of where I was born, where they call them "soda".

It's not as often in New England, but you can still hear people order a "tonic" with their grinders.
LDAHL
10-11-16, 8:43am
It's not as often in New England, but you can still hear people order a "tonic" with their grinders.

I've heard that in Providence, especially from older people. In New Jersey, I've heard it referred to as "seltzer". A lot of Southerners say "coke" as a sort of generic term for soft drinks.
Alan
10-11-16, 8:53am
A lot of Southerners say "coke" as a sort of generic term for soft drinks.When I was just a tot running barefoot in the south, the correct term for all soft drinks was CoCola.
LDAHL
10-11-16, 9:08am
When I was just a tot running barefoot in the south, the correct term for all soft drinks was CoCola.

I met a lot of Southern guys in the service (that region seems to have more of a martial tradition than the US in general), and they also seemed to regard it as a breakfast drink. I heard it said that Southerners made the best fighter pilots because anyone who had coke and grits for breakfast must surely welcome death.
iris lilies
10-11-16, 9:11am
It's not as often in New England, but you can still hear people order a "tonic" with their grinders.
What is a grinder?
catherine
10-11-16, 9:18am
What is a grinder?

Grinder in New England is the same as a hoagie, submarine sandwich, hero, etc. elsewhere. I grew up in CT and had ham and cheese grinders all the time.
LDAHL
10-11-16, 9:21am
What is a grinder?

That leads to a whole new discussion of "grinders", "hoagies" and "subs".

I wonder why tasty things that are bad for you have so much regional variation. Look at Tex Mex vs. Cal Mex, or Chicago vs. New York style pizza.
herbgeek
10-11-16, 10:19am
It's not as often in New England, but you can still hear people order a "tonic" with their grinders.

And its pronounced TAWN -ick. ;)

I grew up in CT, but went to college in MA. Next state over, you'd think we would speak the same language, but no. There were a whole bunch of new words I'd never heard anywhere else, including bubbler (pronounced bub-lah). Someone on the first day of college asked me where the bubbler was, and I had no idea what they were talking about (its a water drinking fountain).
creaker
10-11-16, 10:32am
That leads to a whole new discussion of "grinders", "hoagies" and "subs".

I wonder why tasty things that are bad for you have so much regional variation. Look at Tex Mex vs. Cal Mex, or Chicago vs. New York style pizza.

The one that got me (moving from upstate NY to NH in early 70's) was ordering a milkshake, and finding no ice cream in it (a major disappointment when you're 12). Oh, you wanted a frappe.
LDAHL
10-11-16, 11:06am
The one that got me (moving from upstate NY to NH in early 70's) was ordering a milkshake, and finding no ice cream in it (a major disappointment when you're 12). Oh, you wanted a frappe.

Try asking for an egg cream in Los Angeles.
catherine
10-11-16, 12:36pm
Try asking for an egg cream in Los Angeles.

Mmmm.. egg cream.. >8)

I never had an egg cream until I met my husband who was from Westchester County, north of NYC. We have tried to order them outside of the NY area, without much success.
LDAHL
10-11-16, 1:59pm
Mmmm.. egg cream.. >8)

I never had an egg cream until I met my husband who was from Westchester County, north of NYC. We have tried to order them outside of the NY area, without much success.

If people only knew.

I've also found that the quality of pastrami seems to deteriorate as you move west.
Rogar
10-11-16, 4:20pm
In my neck of the woods a grinder usually referred to a hot sandwich with meatballs, Italian sausage, or similar, thus the term grinder. Hoagies and subs were used interchangeably and were usually cold cuts.