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Re: Phrases Midwesterns say that drive you nuts
« Reply #50 on: May 13, 2022, 02:41:35 PM »
I have been made fun of for saying "covered dish dinner" instead of "potluck"

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« Reply #51 on: May 13, 2022, 02:47:51 PM »
Is washeteria a Texas thing or a southern thing?  First time I heard it, I had no idea what they were talking about.

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« Reply #52 on: May 13, 2022, 02:48:33 PM »
I'll bite, what is "ope?" Oh Pee?  When is it said?

Used when running into someone, starting to get someone's attention, excuse me situations.

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« Reply #53 on: May 13, 2022, 02:49:24 PM »
I have been made fun of for saying "covered dish dinner" instead of "potluck"

I feel enraged by both of those terms, mostly because I know I'll probably hate every dish there except the party potatoes.

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« Reply #54 on: May 13, 2022, 02:50:44 PM »
I have been made fun of for saying "covered dish dinner" instead of "potluck"

I feel enraged by both of those terms, mostly because I know I'll probably hate every dish there except the party potatoes.
I will fill up on barely warm fried chicken

Are party potatoes the same thing as funeral potatoes?

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« Reply #55 on: May 13, 2022, 02:54:06 PM »
See-ment for cement.

this is the #1 worst one, my god i am enraged just from the mention of it. besides the lol putting the emphasis on the wrong syllable (which is actually kind of adorable), why would you call concrete "cement"? do you call a cake "flour"?

"happy birthday nicname, i got you a flour!" enraged.

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« Reply #56 on: May 13, 2022, 02:54:46 PM »
Lol ok construction nerd

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« Reply #57 on: May 13, 2022, 02:56:32 PM »
I have been made fun of for saying "covered dish dinner" instead of "potluck"

what is that and why do you say it? seems like it takes forever to say

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« Reply #58 on: May 13, 2022, 03:01:13 PM »
I have been made fun of for saying "covered dish dinner" instead of "potluck"

what is that and why do you say it? seems like it takes forever to say

oh sorry did I make you late to go build a cement wall????

anyway this is a covered dish dinner:



I also like to fill up on meatballs at these! Fun fact: in California spam masubi and lumpia is at every covered dish dinner

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« Reply #59 on: May 13, 2022, 03:04:38 PM »
I have been made fun of for saying "covered dish dinner" instead of "potluck"

I feel enraged by both of those terms, mostly because I know I'll probably hate every dish there except the party potatoes.
I will fill up on barely warm fried chicken

Are party potatoes the same thing as funeral potatoes?

One in the same but I only accept corn flake version.  Chips is weird.  Maybe my family changed it to "party" to be more positive.

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« Reply #60 on: May 13, 2022, 03:05:36 PM »
I've only ever heard potluck in connection with church events. Never heard covered dish dinner.
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« Reply #61 on: May 13, 2022, 03:05:57 PM »
I have been made fun of for saying "covered dish dinner" instead of "potluck"

what is that and why do you say it? seems like it takes forever to say

oh sorry did I make you late to go build a cement wall????

anyway this is a covered dish dinner:



I also like to fill up on meatballs at these! Fun fact: in California spam masubi and lumpia is at every covered dish dinner

Would YOU like some HAM????

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« Reply #62 on: May 13, 2022, 03:13:17 PM »
I've only ever heard potluck in connection with church events. Never heard covered dish dinner.

I think "covered dish dinner" is only ever said in Lake Woebegone.

As far my own contribution to this thread, I made fun of dax the other day for saying "for sell."

I also have a Kansas friend who says "rest'runt" instead of restaurant. I make fun of him, too.

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« Reply #63 on: May 13, 2022, 03:14:33 PM »
I say ope if someone startles me. I don't use it in place of "excuse me."

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« Reply #64 on: May 13, 2022, 03:17:25 PM »
I say ope if someone startles me. I don't use it in place of "excuse me."

Turn a corner and run into someone.  Surprised but the only term to use there other than ope is excuse me?

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« Reply #65 on: May 13, 2022, 03:18:16 PM »
I say ope if someone startles me. I don't use it in place of "excuse me."

Yeah, it's just a generic interjection for me. If I'm squeezing past people at, say, a movie theater, I don't say, "ope! ope! ope!". It's just a string of "Scuse me. Pardon me. Thank you. Sorry."

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« Reply #66 on: May 13, 2022, 03:19:54 PM »
Yeah, "excuse me" is something I say when I'm trying to get past someone. It's premeditated.

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« Reply #67 on: May 13, 2022, 03:24:22 PM »
Ope may be the midwest term I'm most supportive.  It's a perfect term for so many situations.

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« Reply #68 on: May 13, 2022, 03:26:30 PM »
I find myself saying something like "Hup" instead of "Ope" but it feels the same

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« Reply #69 on: May 13, 2022, 03:33:16 PM »
none of those dishes are even covered [redacted].
i will grant you that also most of the dishes are not pots. there might be two pots total there. but it is still up to chance what you get and if it is any good. maybe plateluck is more apt.

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« Reply #70 on: May 13, 2022, 03:37:11 PM »
I've only ever heard potluck in connection with church events. Never heard covered dish dinner.

I think "covered dish dinner" is only ever said in Lake Woebegone.

As far my own contribution to this thread, I made fun of dax the other day for saying "for sell."

I also have a Kansas friend who says "rest'runt" instead of restaurant. I make fun of him, too.

i have a boomer coworker from nebraska who has quite the list of enragements but these are the only two i can think of now

"di-furnt" instead of different
the classic "for all intensive purposes"

there is also a guy i see a lot in a bicycle swap FB group who repeatedly posts stuff "priced to sale fast".

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« Reply #71 on: May 13, 2022, 03:37:36 PM »
this has been a great airing of the grievances thread, thank you phil

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Re: Phrases Midwesterns say that drive you nuts
« Reply #72 on: May 13, 2022, 03:42:32 PM »
I also blame my Western Kansas born and bred mom for teaching me the wrong pronunciations of certain words, and I've spent my life trying to purify my language from her early crimes. "Pellow" instead of pillow. Oh, hello, pellow! AY-g instead of egg. Excetera...

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« Reply #73 on: May 13, 2022, 03:44:17 PM »
"melk" is unforgiveable

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« Reply #74 on: May 13, 2022, 03:44:42 PM »
none of those dishes are even covered [redacted].

how do you think they were transported einstein