[PRCo]

[Fred Schneider]

Swindler sent this out to a small list saying he thought we might  
appreciate it.   Have no clue why he didn't send it to our group.    
John, you forgot the winter of 1945.   I remember looking out the  
window one night and seeing the township road grader plowing snow in  
our driveway ... dad had done a real con job on them.   He had been  
shoveling every day for weeks it would seem.  And Christmas wasn't  
even there yet.   It was this time of the year.  His reason?   My  
mother was in her ninth month.   My sister was born three days before  
that Christmas and he wanted to be able to get the car out and get  
Mom to the hospital.   My memories of the snows that winter were that  
they were terribly deep.    Of course, when you are five years old  
and only three feet tall, a fifteen inch snow is mighty deep.   It's  
all in the perspective.






Subject:  Picksburgh


Ah yes! "Picksburgh."  Yinz  are from Picksburgh if . .

        1.  You didn't have a spring break in high school.


        2.  You walk carefully when it is   "slippy" outside.

        3.  You often go down to the "crick."

        4 . You've told your children to "red up" their rooms.

        5.  You can remember telling your little brother/sister to  
stop being so "nebby."

        6.  You've gotten hurt by falling into a "jaggerbush".

        7.   Your mother &n bsp;or grandmother has been seen wearing  
a "babushka" on her head.

        8.  You've "warshed" the clothes.

        9.  I ask you to hand me one of those "Gum-Bands" and you  
actually know what I'm talking about.

        10.   You know you can't drive too fast on the back roads,  
because of the deer.

        11.  You know Beaver Valley, Turtle Crick, Mars, Slippery  
Rock, Greentree and New Castle are names of towns. (and you've been  
to most, if not all, of them.)

        12.  A girl walks up to three of her girl friends and says,  
"HEY,YINZ GUYS"

        13.  You hear "you guyses," and don't think twice.   
(Example... "you guyses house is nice")

        14.   You know the three rivers by name and understand that  
"The Point" isn't just on a writing instrument.

         15.   Someone refers to "The Mon" or "The Yough" and you  
know exactly what they're talking about.

         16.  You remember the blizzard of 1993 (or 1976, or 1950,or  
1939, or...) and remember not being able to go outside because the  
snow was over your head and you would have suffocated!

        17.  Someone starts the chant, "Here we go Still-ers!" and  
you join in. In the proper cadence. Waving the appropriately colored  
towel.

        18.   Bob Prince and "There's a bug loose on the rug."  hold  
special meaning for you.

        19.  You've either eaten a Farkleberry Tart or know someone  
who has.

        20.  You drink pop, eat hoagies, love perogies and one! of  
you r favorite sandwiches actually has coleslaw and french fries ON it.

        21 .  You know what a "still mill" is.

        22.  You expect temps in the winter to be record breaking  
cold and temps in the summer to be record breaking hot.

        23.   You know what Eat 'N Park is and frequently ate  
breakfast there at 2:00 AM after the bar closed and made fun of  people.

        24.  You order < U>"dippy eggs" in a restaurant and get  
exactly what you wanted.

        25.  You spent your summers, or a school picnic at Kennywood,  
Westview, SandCastle, or Idlewild.

        26.  You've been to the Braun's Bread Plant or Story Book  
Forest for a school field trip.   ;      (We went to ! the Heinz  
plant and the Isaly's plant for cub scouts.)

        27.   "Chipped ham" was always in your refrigerator when you  
were growin' up.

        28.  You refuse to buy any condiments besides Heinz unless a  
Pittsburgh athlete's picture is on the side of the container.

        29.  When you call the dog or the kids you shout, " Kum-mear"  
and they come.

        30.   Franco, Roberto, and Mario don't need last names and  
you can recite their exploits by heart.

        31.  Food at a wedding reception consists of rigatoni,  
stuffed cabbage , sauerkraut and polska kielbasa. And don't forget  
the COOKIES !


You'll send this on to family and friends who used to live in the  
Pittsburgh area as well ! As to those who have never lived there,  
just so they can appreciate how different western PA really is.


Wonder how many of yinz guys actually understood all dat?  Some folks  
just don't get dem things.