Um, excuse me. We need to talk.
As you live in California, you are not allowed to say: Ayup. That is only allowed in New England. If you persist in such flagrant violation of common custom, I am not sure what will happen to you.
(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Wed 13 Jan 2010, 23:10, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

i thought it was a yorkshire thing.

( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 13 Jan 2010, 23:11, Reply)

Nope, Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire.
Any Brits using it just want to be like us.

(Of course I've never been to Yorkshire but as I live in an isolated hick community in a small state in the middle of east jesus no where, I of course know everything and am completely closed minded)
(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Wed 13 Jan 2010, 23:15, Reply)

oh!
okay then...
*backs away*
( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 13 Jan 2010, 23:25, Reply)

Did you ever see the movie "Deliverance"
"Squeal like a pig boy"
(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Wed 13 Jan 2010, 23:29, Reply)

You got that soft mouth.

(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Wed 13 Jan 2010, 23:32, Reply)

de da ling de ding de ding de ding.......
da ding de ding de ding de ling.........
( Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 0:03, Reply)

It's a Yorkshire thing,
and I'm from Yorkshire originally. So there. You yanks got it off us.
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Wed 13 Jan 2010, 23:17, Reply)

It's actually really strange how many people up here believe it is only something people who were born
here should be allowed to say. They can get down right angry if they think a "flatlander"* is trying to speak like them.

(*Flatlander: someone whose great great grandparents were from here and for whom the four or five generations of inbreeding that occurred before they got good roads generally lowered the average IQ about 50 points).
(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Wed 13 Jan 2010, 23:20, Reply)

you sure a flatlander isn't someone who lives in a two dimensional world?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland
( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 13 Jan 2010, 23:26, Reply)

Nope, after all of the maple syrup, there aint too many flat bodies up here.
Had to read that in graduate school. Had an interesting but rather strange Brit professor with two PhD's teaching a philosophy of science class and he made us read it (among many other similar books) to show how our perrception of things is controled by our environment, training, what we area taught, etc,., etc,., and so on.
(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Wed 13 Jan 2010, 23:32, Reply)

really that is interesting

( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 13 Jan 2010, 23:45, Reply)

zzzzzzzzzzzz
Sorry, fell asleep reliving those days (actually it was interesting, the book sucked but the concepts were very valid).
(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Wed 13 Jan 2010, 23:47, Reply)