Tourist rules for your city

[casualmadness]

...and by Ocean Beach, MD you mean Ocean City, MD. TOURIST!

Blow it out yer ass! You know what I mean!

Having moved here from Seattle, I always get confused as Seattle has an Ocean Beach. My g/f is always correcting me whenI call it Ocean Beach.

 

[unbasslichkeit]

...and by Ocean Beach, MD you mean Ocean City, MD. TOURIST!

By Ocean City, Maryland you mean "Down the Ocean?" Right?

Now let's hear you SAY that. THEN we'll see who's the turrist around here.

Hon.

 

[baba]

By Ocean City, Maryland you mean "Down the Ocean?" Right?

Now let's hear you SAY that. THEN we'll see who's the turrist around here.

Hon.

Don't even test me on a Balmer accent. Cuz Ime gohn down ne Ohwshen n get me sum crebs dis summer hun!

 

[casualmadness]

Don't even test me on a Balmer accent. Cuz Ime gohn down ne Ohwshen n get me sum crebs dis summer hun!

I'm not even sure what this says...

It cracks me up to hear people say "Balmer."

I didn't believe that people said that when my g/f told me. Then we went to Baltimore one night for a concert and some local band was opening the show. After the first three or four songs, the singer started talking to the crowd. First words outta his mouth..."How you doin' Balmer!?!?!"

 

[Lalabadie]

Oh yeah. If you flash your headlights at someone in Quebec, for whatever good reason you have (lights off on the other car, or just because you're going to pass it), there's a very good chance the driver will give you a friendly finger. Many drivers take everything as an offense.

Don't turn right on any red light, sometimes there's a sign telling you between which hours you can, or that you totally can't.

 

[ksandvik]

Speaking of tourist car drivers in California:

* Stop and wait for red lights even if it's mostly allowed to turn right when red (the non-cases have traffic signs)
* Honk the horn
* Drive exactly the driving speed, while most drive 10% faster, but not faster.
* Use the right lane when driving slower than the rest.
* In LA, don't use blinkers, while up here in the north it seems nobody uses them, sigh.

--Kent

 

[dataBASS5]

Nothing made me wish my car had a Vulcan cannon mounted on my Civic more than that horse$h!t....like they never saw rain?

Speaking of violence in the South. I'm a transplant here in Raleigh. And back in Indianapolis, when we'd get mad at someone, we'd just simply hit them.

But down here, you first "haul off" and then hit them.

 

[kevteop]

New Jersey, we don't have tourist problems. (nice state slogan, no??)

If that's the case, why does everybody at the shore throw "Bennys Go Home" parties on labor day each year?

I don't mind the tourists in York, but I can't stand the people who come here to go to the races. They are unbearable. A bit like the aforementioned Bennys, actually!

 

[unbasslichkeit]

Don't even test me on a Balmer accent. Cuz Ime gohn down ne Ohwshen n get me sum crebs dis summer hun!

That's cred, right there.

Hey - you know what the best way to find how many baby boomers in a club are from Baltimore? Walk up to the mike and in a loud voice, say the following:

"HEY!! GET OFFA THAT FURNITURE!!! ARE YOU TRYING TO RUIN IT!!!???"

The people who look as though they've been hit full on by the Flashback Machine? They're natives. (The line BTW is from a commercial for plastic furniture slipcovers which ran in the 60's. If you grew up in Baltimore, and if you ever watched TV after school, you heard this commercial - a lot.)

 

[Gard]

+1, except the bold part. If you want to be blasted by Journey nonstop, and see fireworks and parachuting Elvises (no, I'm not kidding), go to Telecom Conglomerate Park or whatever the heck they're calling the White Sox field now. If you want to see actual baseball and ivy, and drink Old Style instead of wine coolers, come to Wrigley.

Last of the REAL baseball parks. That travesty across town, and all the shennagains they put on, that ain't baseball.

It's been too long since my last pilgrimage, maybe next year...maybe next year...ivy and bricks and real grass...I even cried the night of August 8, 1988...it's supposed to be played under REAL light too, isn't it?

 

[MakiSupaStar]

No that island that you see is not Japan. There is no deep end. Yes this is the pacific ocean. No Pamela Anderson does not work here.

 

[Tony In Philly]

No that island that you see is not Japan.

Do you mean somebody actually asked you if Catalina Island was Japan?? What kind of excuse for geography do they teach in schools these days? :scowl:

 

[MakiSupaStar]

Do you mean somebody actually asked you if Catalina Island was Japan?? What kind of excuse for geography do they teach in schools these days? :scowl:

Sadly yes. Not far behind that is the question that asks if it's Hawaii.

 

[AmyTheFreak]

I don't even know what tourist rules would be in our city... mostly... come here and spend a lot of your money.

I WORK at a tourist attraction! My biggest rule of late would be...

Don't come on my tour with a stupid shirt that is trying to make people that believe in evolution seem like idiots.... because I'm just going to think you are an ignorant... butthole.

 

[GregC]

Last of the REAL baseball parks. That travesty across town, and all the shennagains they put on, that ain't baseball.

It's been too long since my last pilgrimage, maybe next year...maybe next year...ivy and bricks and real grass...I even cried the night of August 8, 1988...it's supposed to be played under REAL light too, isn't it?

Oh yeah, definitely. Lived here for a few years, been to maybe 10 games and not one of them has been at night. If you do make the pilgrimage, let me know, we'll get a beer. I am, currently at least, within walking distance of the park.

 

[WickedPissah]

We don't know where Whitey is
Don't try to talk like us
When you drive by a cop, don't make eye contact.
You don't "Go to Cape Cod" you go "Down the Cape"
Worcester= "Wüster" not "wor sess ter"
Stoneham "Stone'm" not "Stone ham"

 

[Bruce Lindfield]

Do you mean somebody actually asked you if Catalina Island was Japan?? What kind of excuse for geography do they teach in schools these days? :scowl:

Sadly yes. Not far behind that is the question that asks if it's Hawaii.

Hence the popularity of "Lost" in the US!!!

 

[emils]

1. Do not call locals Yugoslavian, you'll get some some extra flavouring in your coffee
2. You don't have to yell to be understood, most people here speak at least one of the most popular laguages
3. Please do not drive under speed limit, sudenly brake to check the road signs and then continue to drive slowly, plan your trip in advance
4. No, your 4X4 won't fit through there, that street was built 7000 years ago

 

[casualmadness]

Speaking of violence in the South. I'm a transplant here in Raleigh. And back in Indianapolis, when we'd get mad at someone, we'd just simply hit them.

But down here, you first "haul off" and then hit them.

That's hilarious.

 

[Tapout73]

In Kansas City, Don't say u wanna try some classic KC que and ask where KC Masterpiece is.