<p>Hey Cheers: What kind of meat are we talking?</p>
<p>I've been to plenty of MEAT MARKETS! They're in NYC and the action usually begins late on Friday evening! LOL!!!</p>
<p>My D complains that she doesn't have a first name, just 3 last names (all perfectly good family names). Guess we just wanted to make sure everyone knew who her people were. </p>
<p>To add to the MN list:
You know you are from MN if:
You live in the Minneapolis/St Paul metro area and refer to any other city(large or small) in Mn as "Out State"
You live in any other city in MN and refer to the entire Minneapolis/St Paul metro area as "The Cities"</p>
<p>Haha. Supermarket meat. Packaged. Think family packs of pork chops. that kind of thing. I didn't win any meat, but the friend sitting next to me in the pub did. And she was thrilled.</p>
<p>Why, what kind of meat did you think I meant :)?</p>
<p>Back from a biz trip with no internet!</p>
<p>Great additions and finally Minnesota. Loved the carpet line too. Here in Calif I carry a purse. In Manhattan it was a bag or a handbag. When I was an ex pat, un sac. Just so long as it is big!</p>
<p>SMS Mom: you can't give your kid 3 last names in MN: It would s*** to be named PETERSON JOHNSON HAUGLAND SERTICH!!</p>
<p>My mother carried a pocketbook. I carry a purse. My daughter carries a bag.
My mother had an icebox. We have a refrigerator. Daughter has a fridge.
M parents drank soda pop. We drank soda. Kids drank soft drinks.</p>
<p>Regional? Or generational?</p>
<p>Daughte: Amen to the "Coke/ Dr. Pepper" Conversation. Coca-cola is "Regular Coke" in Mobile</p>
<p>Having worked in university settings in Boston for more than ten years, I can say that it's the diversity of a school and not its location that determines the institution's "flavor." The schools where I worked were all very different from one another, even in a liberal town.</p>
<p>I grew up in Boston and attended college in the area and got to meet a lot of great students from all over the country and the world. There were students who were liberals and some who were ultra-conservative. Grad schools were in Idaho and Kansas where student populations weren't as diverse but Idaho was somewhat liberal (of course it was in the 70s). S is a senior at UCLA and D is a HS sr who has applied to schools in CA, GA, and NY. All of the schools have diverse student populations.</p>
<p>Tabbyzmom, I just saved your piece on NO for my son to see at Christmas. It was GREAT! I was glad to be in my Jeep on parent's weekend. Those naturally occuring speed bumps are something else!</p>
<p>Tabbyzmom, as a Newcomb alumna--back in the days when Newcomb was a separate school and the admission requirements were tougher than those of Tulane, let's also remember that New Orleans was not then referred to as "the Big Easy", and artichokes were a regular item in the dining hall.</p>
<p>I'll also remember the campus flooding with just a drop or two of rain. Simple--take off your shoes, roll up those bell-bottomed jeans and keep on going.</p>
<p>I also remember getting C's and D's at midnight at Cafe du Monde--or else going to Rick's Pancake Cottage. Is it still there???</p>
<p>along~, glad you enjoyed and I know your S will relate to the piece well. Yes, the potholes are something else...
dg5052, Cafe du Monde is alive and well. But Morning Call moved to Metry (aka Metairie).</p>
<p>I like Ben Stein, and this piece just seems to be an appropriate addition to this thread.
<a href="http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=7470%5B/url%5D">http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=7470</a></p>
<p>The NE is the place to be...so beautiful...and personally, I scratched Oberlin and Kenyon off the list after Ohio (I know the schools are liberal but that STATE, good god!)...Florida schools I refused to look at after the 2004 Debacle that ruined America...and Rice was temporarily on the list until I realized that I have big issues with any state that voted Dubya as its governor. My ED school is in a liberal state that will probably never go over to the dark side. In my case, I'm interested in being invovled in local politics so I needed a liberal community outside my college. Liberal/Conservative concerns are not always silly.</p>
<p>If we're talking about regional differences in vernacular, etc., in college, I asked some friends if they wanted to go to the party, and they said they didn't have to go, did I? It took me a while to figure out that due to my Boston accent, they thought I meant the potty. They also had me do the old "Pahk the cah in Hahvahd yahd" for their parents during parents weekend.</p>
<p>Haha Skeptical, I live in Ohio (but I'm French, so it's not really my home) and I agree, the state can be pretty bad. I really dislike Kenyon and Oberlin...well it's weird. I'm actually applying there, but I'm not sure it's the place for me.</p>
<p>About Ohio though...it's really okay if you stick to the urban areas. The rural areas might be a little scary for you, but Ohio isn't all about cows, you know.</p>
<p>Skeptical--Enthusiastic Dems are what's needed in Red States! Can't think of a better place to cut your teeth!</p>
<p>Littlemother; Haha on the potty story. I once introduced my H-to-be to a friend who then launched into an entire story about how he was living in New Orleans because he didn't want to go to Yale. WE both nodded along, very PC but a bit confused.</p>
<p>Hours later, we realized he meant JAIL! He didn't want to go to JAIL! (He was from Nicaragua).</p>
<p>Darn, it's back to the tired old "red and blue" polarizing talk. I liked this thread better when we tried to APPRECIATE the differences we have. Yes, I see the title. And yes, look at what most of the pages talk about. Good stuff! The heck with red and blue!</p>
<p>Tell em Tabbyzmom,</p>
<p>Potty and Jail have been the highlights of my day becaue I had not 1 but 2 laugh out loud moments. Back to the fun</p>
<p>So Digi,</p>
<p>tell us about your neck of the woods.</p>