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Started by Ed Anger, August 04, 2009, 09:52:29 AM

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jimmy olsen

#660
September 20, 2013, 07:19:00 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on September 20, 2013, 06:39:38 AM
I would have thought all Yankees called tennis shoes "sneakers".
Don't call us Yankees!  :mad:

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Eddie Teach

#661
September 20, 2013, 07:47:30 AM
Your state borders Connecticut and Massachusetts, you're about as Yankee as they come.  :P
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jimmy olsen

#662
September 20, 2013, 07:49:46 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on September 20, 2013, 07:47:30 AM
Your state borders Connecticut and Massachusetts, you're about as Yankee as they come.  :P
We're New Englanders, limit your insults to those foul New Yorkers.  :mad:
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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Grey Fox

#663
September 20, 2013, 07:53:46 AM
New England :)
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CountDeMoney

#664
September 20, 2013, 07:54:45 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on September 20, 2013, 07:49:46 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on September 20, 2013, 07:47:30 AM
Your state borders Connecticut and Massachusetts, you're about as Yankee as they come.  :P
We're New Englanders, limit your insults to those foul New Yorkers.  :mad:

Really, douchebahhhg.

DGuller

#665
September 20, 2013, 08:08:29 AM
 :huh: Calling sneakers "sneakers" is just a Northeastern thing?

Eddie Teach

#666
September 20, 2013, 08:10:35 AM
Quote from: DGuller on September 20, 2013, 08:08:29 AM
:huh: Calling sneakers "sneakers" is just a Northeastern thing?

Indeed. I prefer to call them "rogues".  :nerd:
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merithyn

#667
September 20, 2013, 08:16:11 AM
Quote from: DGuller on September 20, 2013, 08:08:29 AM
:huh: Calling sneakers "sneakers" is just a Northeastern thing?

Sneakers is interchangeable with tennis shoes in the Chicago area. Does that help?

I usually call them tennis shoes, though I also use gym shoes or running shoes.
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garbon

#668
September 20, 2013, 08:25:20 AM
Quote from: merithyn on September 20, 2013, 08:16:11 AM
Quote from: DGuller on September 20, 2013, 08:08:29 AM
:huh: Calling sneakers "sneakers" is just a Northeastern thing?

Sneakers is interchangeable with tennis shoes in the Chicago area. Does that help?

I usually call them tennis shoes, though I also use gym shoes or running shoes.

Yeah, I generally say tennis shoes but sneaker or any of your other ones are pretty understandable.
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Eddie Teach

#669
September 20, 2013, 08:31:11 AM
It would probably take a few seconds to register if somebody called them "trainers" though.
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Caliga

#670
September 20, 2013, 09:17:45 AM
Quote from: DGuller on September 20, 2013, 08:08:29 AM
:huh: Calling sneakers "sneakers" is just a Northeastern thing?
Kentucky is definitely "tennis shoes" country.
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derspiess

#671
September 20, 2013, 09:37:24 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on September 20, 2013, 07:19:00 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on September 20, 2013, 06:39:38 AM
I would have thought all Yankees called tennis shoes "sneakers".
Don't call us Yankees!  :mad:



Southwest Ohio uses a secret term :ph34r:
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Eddie Teach

#672
September 20, 2013, 09:45:51 AM
You know, I expect Guller will start having nightmares about that map.  :hmm:
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crazy canuck

#673
September 20, 2013, 05:47:19 PM
I am surprised that "tennis shoe" is such a common usage in the US given the small percentage of the population that actually plays tennis. 

Eddie Teach

#674
September 20, 2013, 05:53:31 PM
It's larger than the percentage of spies and stalkers.
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