okay, this will prove where you're from

[kiwi girl]

Another down under girl who would be from the North East if I was American.

I remember a few years ago i was on a club med holiday and went for the morning power walk. I got talking to an Australian guy in his 50s who after about five minutes said to me 'I haven't figured out if you are a kiwi or an aussie because we haven't talked about sex' yet

If you understand how Kiwis and Aussies tease each other that was actually pretty funny - even funnier when the next day i found out he was a priest

[crazycanuck]

The thing said i'm from the Inland North...ok..

c

[Bad JuJu]

Hey tehj--I got the same response you did:

Your accent is as Philadelphian as a cheesesteak! If you're not from Philadelphia, then you're from someplace near there like south Jersey, Baltimore, or Wilmington. if you've ever journeyed to some far off place where people don't know that Philly has an accent, someone may have thought you talked a little weird even though they didn't have a clue what accent it was they heard.

Well, it's close anyway. I did grow up in New Jersey, but in Newark, closer to NY, not south Jersey. Maybe what the thing is hearing is the influence of my having grown up with grandparents from Georgia, and oh yeah, the last 20+ years I've spent living in the south!

[chickwhorips]

Chick: where in WI are you originally from? I was born in Milwaukee and grew up in the 'burbs near Waukesha.

small farm town called mukwonago. though currently its not as small. the farm is no longer there and neither is the house i grew up in.

The thing said i'm from the Inland North...ok..

this is why i like you so much! you might not be from there, but you fit in with us well.

[DrBadger]

[QUOTE=chickwhorips;167405]small farm town called mukwonago. though currently its not as small. the farm is no longer there and neither is the house i grew up in.

I know mukwonago... I grew up in Wales before moving to MN! Gotta love being in the kindergarden and having to learn to spell your address when you live on Caernarvon Rd!

I am sure people are reading some of these WI town names and going mukw..ana...what!?! :-)

[chickwhorips]

i told someone that i work with where i was from, and he said where? mukwonago? where? mukwonago. where? muk-won-a-go. hmmm must be native american. yep!

my address i had to learn was S93W27390 Edgewood Ave, mukwonago, wi 53149
i could say the whole thing in one breath too! i was so proud. wow i still can too!