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[Cakers3]

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@lovesrecess wrote:

I’m in Texas. I would not even know where to begin....😎

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@lovesrecess   Well now howdy.

We've howdied but we haven't shook.  LOL

Now that dog won't hunt.

[september]

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@Cakers3 wrote:

My all time favorite?  Masshole.

Hands down.

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@Cakers3   What do you feel about that term?

I recently moved to a Massachusetts border state and heard that for the first time and found it to be very rude.  

some of my neighbors (we're in a new community) are from Massachusetts and are very good people 

[Cakers3]

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@september wrote:

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@Cakers3 wrote:

My all time favorite?  Masshole.

Hands down.

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@Cakers3   What do you feel about that term?

I recently moved to a Massachusetts border state and heard that for the first time and found it to be very rude.  

some of my neighbors (we're in a new community) are from Massachusetts and are very good people 

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@september   It is used for rude drivers in and out of Mass and/or rude tourists from Mass, at least that is how I came to learn the term.  You wouldn't walk up to just anyone and call them that-but if a person is driving like a fool or being an obnoxious tourist-then it would be used.

There are slang terms for people from Maine, e.g.-Mainiacs.  Another for people from New Hampshire but I cannot remember it.

I don't have a problem with it-because people in Mass can be terrible drivers.  LOL Is it rude?  Maybe.  But not to be used lightly.

However, the word was added to the Oxford English Dictionary several years ago so I guess it has earned it's place in the English language.

[september]

@Cakers3    I think I just don't like terms that lump a lot of people from one state (area) into the same general group.  

I've lived in three different states, and have seen bad drivers in all of them.  Nice and not-so-nice people in all of them...etc 

[proudlyfromNJ]

I've also lived in a number of states. They all had bad drivers.

[aroc3435]

@Cakers3 @september   I've never heard that term for Massachusetts drivers  but when I lived in Rhode Island long ago in the 70s they got the reputation for being bad drivers because they would forget that they weren't in Mass and would pass on the right--which was legal in their state, but not the ones around them.

One of the many reasons I am an urban creature and do not drive. My nerves would be so jangled I'm sure I would cause or be in an accident.

aroc3435

Washington, DC

[Tinkrbl44]

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@Cakers3 wrote:

A little diversion for those who would like to share.

For me:

Bang a u-ee (yoo-ee) (Make a u-turn.)

Wicked and wicked pissah. (Most excellent, cool)

Frappe (silent "e").  Order a milkshake and you will end up with syrup flavored milk instead of ice cream. syrup,  and milk.

Leaf peeper.  (Usually a tourist arriving to see the colors of the trees changing in the Fall but can be local folks, too)

Grinders (submarine sandwiches)

Barrel (Trash can)

Carriage (Grocery cart and I've had strange looks down here using this one lol)

Blinker ("blinkah".  Turn signal)

Elastic (rubber band)

Packie (Package Store where you buy liquor)

State-ee (State Trooper or "troopah")

And of course:  Pahk the cah in the Hahvahd Yahd because you must drop the "r".

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@Cakers3 

I've never heard any of these local sayings ... ballpark, where do you live?   

[proudlyfromNJ]

@Tinkrbl44  My family lives in Massachusetts and talk like that.

[Cakers3]

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@september wrote:

@Cakers3    I think I just don't like terms that lump a lot of people from one state (area) into the same general group.  

I've lived in three different states, and have seen bad drivers in all of them.  Nice and not-so-nice people in all of them...etc 

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@september   It's ok if you are not comfortable with the term.  It doesn't bother me and I was born, raised, educated, etc. in Mass for over 50 years.  I can see how somebody coming in from another state may think it wrong but it's all in perception.

I think some of you are missing the point about bad drivers.

It had to do with OTHER states coining the term-and the term stuck. 

Bad drivers coming over the NH border to get out of sales tax and rude tourists coming over the NH and ME borders, which also have their own derogatory nicknames, as do other states.

I can think of worse things people can be called and I'm going to leave it at that.

[Cakers3]

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@aroc3435 wrote:

@Cakers3 @september   I've never heard that term for Massachusetts drivers  but when I lived in Rhode Island long ago in the 70s they got the reputation for being bad drivers because they would forget that they weren't in Mass and would pass on the right--which was legal in their state, but not the ones around them.

One of the many reasons I am an urban creature and do not drive. My nerves would be so jangled I'm sure I would cause or be in an accident.

aroc3435

Washington, DC

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@aroc3435   The last time DH and I flew into RI to get up to MA - as soon as we boarded the shuttle and the driver took off-"Yep, we are back in New England".

I think the upper NE states at one time (maybe still in some spots) were more rural and not so congested as MA and RI; even CT.  It may be why drivers are more rushed and maybe even impatient; it's one thing to drive on a back road vs. driving on some major highways.

Getting to the Cape in the summer could be a wait, wait, wait in traffic.