After reading some different sayings in another thread, I want to know more. Tell me your regional or family sayings. If the meaning isn't obvious, tell me what it means, too!
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Sploosh!!Double flusher, an OoO special occasion.....
The Brits do that also. When they say s word that ends in an 'a' like 'Maria' it ends up sounding like Marier. I don't get it....Idear- (idea) NYC must have the "r" sound at the end of the word.
The river that runs through town is the Cache la Poudre. It has a history, and you'd like to think that it would be called something like "Caush lah Pohd-ray." Nope. It's "Cash luh Pooder." Or really, "Pooder."
"You bet" replaces "you're welcome."
Soft drinks are "soda pop."
Directions on the Front Range are given not in left-right but east-west. "Go north on College Avenue to Horsetooth and turn west." That's because the mountains are looming to the west, and we always know where the west is.
Fourteeners are mountains in Colorado that rise over 14,000 feet, and we have more of those than any other state.
The Mousetrap is the interchange of I-25 and I-70 in Denver.
NoCo is Northern Colorado, and it covers Denver up the I-25 corridor to Wyoming and nudges east to Greeley. FoCo is Fort Collins, which is the lovely jewel of a small city that I live in. We are the Napa Valley of craft breweries. It's also called "Collins" and "the Fort," although there are other "Fort" places in Colorado: Fort Morgan, Fort Lupton, and those aren't even Army post "Forts."
The Front Range is the collection of communities that stretch along the base of the mountains of the north/south I-25 corridor, pretty much from Pueblo south up to Fort Collins north. More generally, it's the downslope east from the Continental Divide.
The West Slope is the portion of Colorado that's downslope west from the Continental Divide.
There really is a South Park in Colorado from which the crude animation show is based. It's not just a town but an area. It is distinguished from Middle Park and North Park.
If you say the "People's Republic," you're talking about Boulder.
Aurora, a southwest Denver suburb that sprawls out to the arid plains, is "Saudi Aurora."
If someone from the Central Time Zone on east refers to the "mountains" in their area, smirk happens.
I freakin' love this state.
Fine as frog hair split four ways in the sand is pretty good too!Fine as Frog Hair = something is really good!
Fine as frog hair split four ways in the sand is pretty good too!
I have a client who says "Better than snuff and not half as dusty "