Finally! Barry Freed gets a copy of the lyrics to the song that gets played all the time at Jake Ivory's.

It's the most pressing question facing the chattering classes of Yahoo Answers.

The consensus? Yes, if you're a dude from Boston trying to score with Southern belles. No if you're a chick who broke up with a guy from Boston - or you're an out-of-state Republican who thinks Ted Kennedy has a Boston accent.

"The Hub?" Pfft, you're dating yourself. "Athens of America?" Oh, please, how old are you, anyway? "Land of the bean and the cod?" Don't even get me started.

Boston today is also known as Three Stripes or Three for the Stripes, as Notorious Nate Dogg explains:

It's a rap thing, rappers from Boston talk about the three stripes a lot. That's why people in hoods in Boston wear Adidas a lot more than people elsewhere. I've heard that it's because, when you make a lower-case B (as in "Boston") with your hands, your middle, ring and pinky fingers come together in three stripes.

Yahoo Answers has marked this question as resolved:

His Boston Accent is taking over my relationship?

When ever we go out, people are always making remarks the way my boyfriend of 4 months talks. I like it but it is getting to be a big hassle.

The winning answer? Basically: "Oh, grow up!"

Also, check out some of the alternative definitions for "Boston" on the Urban Dictionary, including:

A popular nomenclature, first coined by the people of Massachusetts to describe a colossal labyrinth of seemingly unnavigable streets and causeways.

and

For the most part the weather is just like Philadelphia. Except a little colder.

Myownworstcritic begins to compile a list. Yes, he has Robin Williams in "Good Will Hunting" and Tim Robbins in "Mystic River."

He might be adding an actor or two in "The Departed":

... judging from the trailer, the Boston accents, with the exception of Wahlberg's, are universally awful. Nicholson's is especially bad. ...

Of course, as we all know, Wahlberg is a Dot rat.

Proving once again why it is truly the Paper of Record, the New York Times hired linguists to determine whether New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg - of the Medfid Bloombergs - is losing his Boston accent. Their conclusion: he is.

For some reason, Mikeyc found himself yesterday at the Ohio/Pennsylvania border. Must've been tired, because he made the mistake of asking a store clerk for a tonic:

This poor teenage girl looked at me like I had three heads. No clue. Right up there with the Texan who thought I was Australian when I was working down in Disney World. ... Grew up Charlestown. Moved all the way out Somerville (haha). I feel like a trained chimp when I go away. People are always like, "say this. Say that". I travel a lot so it always happens. EVERY place I go. Without fail ...

Sean discusses attempts to wean Bostonians from using that phrase.

Eeka reports a craigslist posting advertising:

a 6 draw dresser

Sarcastic Sam replies that one of his co-workers has a Post-it note on her filing cabinet:

letterhead in last draw

In some Boston neighborhoods, a hoodsie is a cute teen-age girl. Brightonjohn, though, writes that in his neck of the woods - the Faneuil housing project in Brighton - it had a different meaning:

Across from the project is a playground officially known as McKinney Field but referred to universally as "Faneuil Pahk." "Ovah the pahk," as we'd say, every Fourth of July, the City of Boston would provide free Hoodsies to any kids who asked. Hundreds of kids would line up. The playground workers, teenagers, usually, who copped an easy summer job from some local politician, were pretty diligent about making sure that each kid got only one. Some kids, bolder than I, would always make a stab at getting a second or a third by getting back in the line but usually got caught, somehow. It was a great game.

Back across the street, the project management would run dances, "reckid hops", in the project's recreation hall. Because no older teens would be caught dead at one of these affairs crowded with 11-to-13-year-olds, they were derisively known by all as "Hoodsie hops", a reference to the young kids, not the ice cream cups.