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Boston English pops up in the weirdest places

By adamg on Thu, 12/05/2019 - 12:03pm

Contestant on "The Price is Right" is from Massachusetts. "I bet you have a wicked cool prize for her," Drew Carey said. "Wicked awesome," Johnny the Offscreen Announcer replied, trying his hardest to sound like a Townie or something.

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By Anon on Thu, 12/05/2019 - 12:27pm.

Price is Right and soup for lunch...like a day home from school. Or a day in the life of Adam.

By Gary C on Thu, 12/05/2019 - 1:18pm.

What makes you think he's having soup? I was thinking more like a corn beef on rye.

By Waquiot on Thu, 12/05/2019 - 5:25pm.

Perhaps a sub headline about how AG watches The Price is Right.

By cybah on Thu, 12/05/2019 - 7:08pm.

Lets be fair, there were a few national announcements today worth staying home and flicking on the TV for. He might have had it on 'bz in between stuff and it just happened to be on in the background.

By BostonDog on Thu, 12/05/2019 - 2:36pm.

We can speak only 8 words:

"Wicked" and something about illegally parking in Cambridge.

By anon on Thu, 12/05/2019 - 3:12pm.

I once had to answer an icebreaker question at work about hometown stereotypes. I believe I called it: something about putting your vehicle at rest on a specific part of the Harvard campus. Because I did not want to actually say it.

By Gary C on Thu, 12/05/2019 - 3:44pm.

I bet people in the Windy City hate when out-of-towners try to sound cool by saying that too.

By anon on Thu, 12/05/2019 - 4:23pm.

But what am I to make of the van I've seen a few times already advertising the services of Beantown Drains?*

*Not sure if it had New Hampshire plates.

By anon on Thu, 12/05/2019 - 3:30pm.

Except for the newbies who don’t know better. When traveling I don’t call the locals townies.

By adamg on Thu, 12/05/2019 - 7:38pm.

I was thinking of actual Townies, you know, people born and bred in Charlestown. That's why I capitalized it.

By scott on Fri, 12/06/2019 - 7:16am.

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By Patriciax on Thu, 12/05/2019 - 3:42pm.

Just got off a quite long work phone call with a women with the most charming southern drawl.
As we finished up our work and were just chit chatting, I mentioned I loved her accent. She said she was going to say the same !?!?! What? I have no accent!

By Ishmael Jones on Thu, 12/05/2019 - 3:52pm.

Could also be a reference to Steve Van Zandt's record label "Wicked Cool Records". Carey has a show on Van Zandt's Sirius channel on Friday nights.

By scott on Thu, 12/05/2019 - 4:09pm.

Well that's just pissah

By Anon on Thu, 12/05/2019 - 6:52pm.

Very pisser

By jmeltzer on Thu, 12/05/2019 - 7:49pm.

still say "wicked"?

By anon on Fri, 12/06/2019 - 7:03am.

Those of us who grew up here and aren't ashamed.

By Bugs Bunny on Thu, 12/05/2019 - 8:18pm.

Did the contestant make it on stage? If so what game? Mountain Climber? Ten Chances?

By Lee on Fri, 12/06/2019 - 10:41am.

... in other odd pockets around the country. It’s used in the UK as well.
Awesome is universal.