Mike Hunt Says...

[swoopem]

Is this Vernor's Ginger Ale really all its cracked up to be?  Non Michigan natives like it and find it a transcendent type of experience?

Perhaps this is the elixir I need that will wash the bad taste out of my mouth from last season..and end any future negative posts about Derrick and Jake.   

I'm from Detroit and don't really like Vernor's all that much (which would probably get punched in the face if I admitted it back home). Faygo on the other hand, that's my shyt.

[augoman]

I learned to appreciate Vernor's while working in Detroit and pick it up in Wisconsin at Pick N Save stores.  Not fond of diet Vernor's.

[Benny B]

I'm pretty sure Woodmans carries Vernor's.

the incorrect use of the word "Borrow" is probably the worst WI colloquialism out there.

F me, next month is 1/2 of my life spent in Wisconsin.

But it is still, and always will be, pop.

Fast Forward to 0:45

http://www.youtube.com/e/OzO6Hz1dGsI

[dgies9156]

The Wisconsin "O"s and "A"s...as in "boat" and "flag" are absolutely hideous.

Growing up in Northeast Wisconsin I never noticed it but after 5 years in Chicago I now cringe every time I go home and talk to high school friends.

Try going back to Tennessee after a semester at Marquette LOL!

When I arrived on campus, I had a light southern accent. I spoke up in a Psychology class and a group of women from New Jersey began laughing. We never heard anyone talk like that," they said!

Who said New Jersey wasn't a different country?

[Tums Festival]

No, Vernors. For the float, especially. Can't get Vernors anywhere outside of Michigan which is a damn shame. I have nothing against Faygo and it was in the house I lived but I never did drink much soda (even when I worked for PepsiCo!) Vernors was exceptionally good so if I drank soda it was Vernors Ginger Ale.

It just popped in my brain - those floats are called Boston Coolers. I never understood why they weren't called Detroit Coolers...

You can get Vernors at Sendik's too.

[keefe]

You can get Vernors at Sendik's too.

Does Sendik's have a store in Bellevue or Redmond?

[Henry Sugar]

The entire article and set of maps from last year is interesting

http://www.businessinsider.com/22-maps-that-show-the-deepest-linguistic-conflicts-in-america-2013-6?op=1

[klyrish]

6. I've never heard anyone call it a Tyme machine
7. I must be misreading your phonetic representation of the accent... because I don't think I've ever heard that one.
13. Are we familiar with the same Milwaukee?
14. You're mistaking Milwaukee with Philly again.

Most of the phonetic stuff is from people on the south side/Cudahy. My step-grandma is from Cudahy and says all that stuff. It's infuriating. She is literally a perfect walking specimen of all of the annoying Wisconsinite stereotypes.

[barfolomew]

The entire article and set of maps from last year is interesting

http://www.businessinsider.com/22-maps-that-show-the-deepest-linguistic-conflicts-in-america-2013-6?op=1

Tiny lobsters are tearing this country apart.
Truer words...

[mu03eng]

Most of the phonetic stuff is from people on the south side/Cudahy. My step-grandma is from Cudahy and says all that stuff. It's infuriating. She is literally a perfect walking specimen of all of the annoying Wisconsinite stereotypes.

Klyrish, not picking on you....but is the inappropriate use of literal...is that a Wisconsin thing or an everybody thing.

If I hear one more person tell a story and end it with "I literally died", I will snap...literally and figuratively.

[Spotcheck Billy]

Mike Hunt Says...

Top-50 guard Quentin Goodin gets offer from Marquette

Point guard Quentin Goodin, who will be a junior this season at Taylor County (Ky.) High School, has received a scholarship offer from Marquette.

Goodin, 6-2 and 170 pounds, also has offers from Indiana, Michigan, Purdue and UNLV.

Goodin is rated by some services as a top-50 recruit nationally. Rated as one of the top prospects in the state of Kentucky, he has received interest, but no offers yet, from Kentucky or Louisville.

[Galway Eagle]

Klyrish, not picking on you....but is the inappropriate use of literal...is that a Wisconsin thing or an everybody thing.

If I hear one more person tell a story and end it with "I literally died", I will snap...literally and figuratively.

In all fairness they literally changed the definition of literally to include figuratively

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/15/living/literally-definition/index.html

[klyrish]

Klyrish, not picking on you....but is the inappropriate use of literal...is that a Wisconsin thing or an everybody thing.

If I hear one more person tell a story and end it with "I literally died", I will snap...literally and figuratively.

How is it incorrect when she literally does every single one of those WI stereotypes? She's not figuratively mispronouncing th's, saying "youse guyse," mentioning "the stop-n-go light on 76th and Layton," and so forth. She's literally doing it and is literally a walking WI stereotype.

[brandx]

Mike Hunt Says...

Top-50 guard Quentin Goodin gets offer from Marquette

Point guard Quentin Goodin, who will be a junior this season at Taylor County (Ky.) High School, has received a scholarship offer from Marquette.

Goodin, 6-2 and 170 pounds, also has offers from Indiana, Michigan, Purdue and UNLV.

Goodin is rated by some services as a top-50 recruit nationally. Rated as one of the top prospects in the state of Kentucky, he has received interest, but no offers yet, from Kentucky or Louisville.

Anyone notice that Hunt has had more blogs and blurbs about MU in the last 4 months than he had in the previous 4 years?

[4everwarriors]

That's 'cuz Bumstead wouldn't give him the time of day, hey?

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

The entire article and set of maps from last year is interesting

http://www.businessinsider.com/22-maps-that-show-the-deepest-linguistic-conflicts-in-america-2013-6?op=1

Soda is what I always called it.
Pop is fine.
Soft drink is fine too.
But "coke" is just plain wrong as that's just one flavor not a whole family of drinks.

[Lighthouse 84]

two more that still get said often in my house (wife was a Warrior also)

Oh for Chrissake...

Dontcha know....

[mu03eng]

Soda is what I always called it.
Pop is fine.
Soft drink is fine too.
But "coke" is just plain wrong as that's just one flavor not a whole family of drinks.

What do you call the white papery substance you use to blow your nose with?

[mu03eng]

How is it incorrect when she literally does every single one of those WI stereotypes? She's not figuratively mispronouncing th's, saying "youse guyse," mentioning "the stop-n-go light on 76th and Layton," and so forth. She's literally doing it and is literally a walking WI stereotype.

I think you used it correctly, didn't mean to imply otherwise....simply reminded me all of the people that literally use it wrong. 

[tower912]

What do you call the white papery substance you use to blow your nose with?

I was going to go with cocaine.....      Tissue?

[warriorchick]

Soda is what I always called it.
Pop is fine.
Soft drink is fine too.
But "coke" is just plain wrong as that's just one flavor not a whole family of drinks.

This map isn't quite accurate.  In the St. Louis area it's a"sodie". In Boston it's a "tonic".

[Spotcheck Billy]

What do you call the white papery substance you use to blow your nose with?

a Kodak?

[4everwarriors]

What do you call the white papery substance you use to blow your nose with?
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KO's Marquette contract, hey?

[leever]

What do you call the white papery substance you use to blow your nose with?

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel??????

But really, a Kleenex.  (Regardless of the actual brand)

[Benny B]

How is it incorrect when she literally does every single one of those WI stereotypes? She's not figuratively mispronouncing th's, saying "youse guyse," mentioning "the stop-n-go light on 76th and Layton," and so forth. She's literally doing it and is literally a walking WI stereotype.

Already discussed.

http://www.muscoop.com/index.php?topic=39489.0