[jjbrr]

I found the service road/frontage road/access road question interesting. I'm certain I've used all three, so my answer should be "I use them interchangeably" but obv that wasn't an option.

I don't recall which option jlall picked, but it was unique to Dallas and San Antonio and presumably was a big influence on the test's final (correct) results for him.

[blackshoe]

Happy New Year, all!

Sorry to hear about your trials, Phil, but it sounds like it's working out okay, so that's good.

I took the test too. It came up with three cities: Philadelphia, Newark/Patterson NJ, and Yonkers. I was born in Chicago, moved at three to Long Island, at five to Silver Springs MD, at seven to Manhattan (NYC, not KS), at nine to Pelham, which is pretty close to Yonkers. Stayed there until I graduated from high school, and since then I've lived in a lot of places, but I've been here in Rochester NY for the last twenty years. So it did pretty good, considering. I'd have thought that my time in places like SoCal and Hawaii, not to mention foreign countries, might have confused it, but I guess not.

I call 'em subs, and as far as I can remember, always have. I'm familiar with other terms, though, such as "grinder", and "hero". I remember a series of books back in the eighties, a take off on John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee. The main character was a guy named "Pepperoni Hero". He lived on a houseboat (in Chicago, of all places), as did McGee, but he won his in a crap game, and duly named her "The Crap". The first book was "A Hero Ain't Nothin' But A Sandwich". Memory sure is strange, ain't it?

[GreenMan]

blackshoe, on 2014-January-01, 22:06, said:

I call 'em subs, and as far as I can remember, always have. I'm familiar with other terms, though, such as "grinder", and "hero". I remember a series of books back in the eighties, a take off on John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee. The main character was a guy named "Pepperoni Hero". He lived on a houseboat (in Chicago, of all places), as did McGee, but he won his in a crap game, and duly named her "The Crap". The first book was "A Hero Ain't Nothin' But A Sandwich". Memory sure is strange, ain't it?

Indeed. The books, by Bill Kelly, were actually

• Sandwiches Are Not My Business
  
• Peanut Butter & Jelly Is Not for Kids
  
• Tuna Is Not for Eating

[kenberg]

I often have memories that involve a phrase or so. Many years ago I was on something of a Travis McGee kick. I think it was in The Girl in the Brown Paper Bag that I came across the following: There was this villain. It was clear that he was the villain, but proof was lacking. Through a series of events that I cannot recall at all, he became strung up dangling from a tree, still alive. Travis and the Sheriff came across this scene, and of course good guy Travis starts toward him to cut him down. The Sherrif grabs hin and says "Don't disturb the evidence, boy". I remember nothing else about the story, or of the other McGee stories either, except that as is often the case in such series they don't much differ one from the other. But this line I remember. Perhaps I will have an opportunity to use in myself sometime.

[helene_t]

I took the quiz also and ended up in New York City but noticed that several of the individual answers placed me in the South, Midwest, New England, Mountains, California, North West, Alaska. Not sure about Hawaii, though.

Of course I am not really part of the target audience. The pronunciation questions I can answer but many of the concepts I don't have words for as I am not a native speaker (and only spent three weeks in the US in total).

[kenberg]

helene_t, on 2014-January-02, 08:51, said:

I took the quiz also and ended up in New York City but noticed that several of the individual answers placed me in the South, Midwest, New England, Mountains, California, North West, Alaska. Not sure about Hawaii, though.

Of course I am not really part of the target audience. The pronunciation questions I can answer but many of the concepts I don't have words for as I am not a native speaker (and only spent three weeks in the US in total).

Aha. Perhaps the site really is a sting to uncover foreign nationals living in the U.S.. You are now on the governments watch list.

[blackshoe]

GreenMan, on 2014-January-02, 04:02, said:

Indeed. The books, by Bill Kelly, were actually

• Sandwiches Are Not My Business
  
• Peanut Butter & Jelly Is Not for Kids
  
• Tuna Is Not for Eating

Huh. So much for my perfect memory. Now what was I doing again?

[helene_t]

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