No worries, I've seen proof of his roots that consisted of black leather jackets with lots of zippers, and a box of Motley Crew tap"e"s....

HOLY SHIT MIKEY WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO LEARN TO TPYE?

<<But I grew up in the ADKs, and hate to hear them denigrated>>

Yeah, after all these years the word "Dacks" still makes me cringe about as much as when I hear the sound of fingernails being scraped along a blackboard.

I suppose the reaction is similar to that of San Francisco residents hearing their city called "Frisco," which has been known to incite fairly mild-mannered people to fisticuffs.


Somehow I thought "The Honk" was the name of Learningtolead's estate (you know, like "Tara"), not the name of the entire town.

Stop calling it "Gunks" its Shawwwwwwaaaangunks...that drives me insane.

cool you & Mike Rawdon should write a book on How Not to look like a tourist / How to be a local when you're from somewhere else. Or better yet Local pet peeves that are ghey

dude.

talus said ghey.

Pronounced Shwangum or something ridiculous like that. Yorick?

It is now!

At least calling it the "Daks" is just a contraction... Instead of just a blatant mispronunciation of the name...

Like, Warshington or OreGONE

I mean what the...

I used to live in Oregon and the locals pronounce it Organ. Kind of like Bluxi.