{"id":524,"date":"2006-08-30T13:24:45","date_gmt":"2006-08-30T17:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/MondoLizzie\/2006\/08\/30\/you-know-you-are-from-fall-river-if\/"},"modified":"2006-08-30T13:24:45","modified_gmt":"2006-08-30T17:24:45","slug":"you-know-you-are-from-fall-river-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/you-know-you-are-from-fall-river-if\/","title":{"rendered":"You Know You are From Fall River if . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

From the MySpace page of Veronica Paige<\/a>:<\/p>\n

you know you’re from fall river if… <\/p>\n

i may not live there anymore, but you gotta represent!<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a2\u00c2\u00be You have ever “cruised the ave,” or even spoke the term “cruise the ave.”
\n\u00c2\u00a2\u00c2\u00be You know who Lizzie Borden is and how many “whacks” were involved.
\n\u00c2\u00a2\u00c2\u00be You refer to everyone on Earth as “guy.”
\n\u00c2\u00a2\u00c2\u00be You have a rock solid preference when it comes to ordering from Domino’s or Papa Gino’s.
\n\u00c2\u00a2\u00c2\u00be You know who “Skip” Karam is.
\n\u00c2\u00a2\u00c2\u00be You attended, are attending, or are destined to attend B.M.C. Durfee High School.
\n\u00c2\u00a2\u00c2\u00be You know who Mr. Attar is\/was.
\n\u00c2\u00a2\u00c2\u00be You have at least some Portuguese in you.
\n\u00c2\u00a2\u00c2\u00be You also know all the Portuguese swears.
\n\u00c2\u00a2\u00c2\u00be You live in a 3-family victorian tenement.
\n\u00c2\u00a2\u00c2\u00be Your grandparents worked in the mills.
\n\u00c2\u00a2\u00c2\u00be You are aware that you have a 50\/50 shot at having the Brightman St. Bridge be closed for repairs.
\n\u00c2\u00a2\u00c2\u00be The Taunton River is like a part of you, but you’d never dare swim in it.
\n\u00c2\u00a2\u00c2\u00be You know exactly what “Fall River Celebrates” every August.
\n\u00c2\u00a2\u00c2\u00be You take your chow mein strained, thank you very much.
\n\u00c2\u00a2\u00c2\u00be You have the thickest dialect in the country–to the point where it is no longer English.
\n\u00c2\u00a2\u00c2\u00be You don’t say, “He got his ears pierced,” you say, “He got his ee-yiz pee-isst.”
\n\u00c2\u00a2\u00c2\u00be Your favorite cold drink is coffee milk and your favorite hot drink is a Dunkin Donuts “Lahge, extra cream, extra suga.”
\n\u00c2\u00a2\u00c2\u00be Providence is 15 minutes to the right, New Bedford is 15 minutes to the left, and Boston is an hour up.
\n\u00c2\u00a2\u00c2\u00be In the summer, you can be found at Horseneck.
\n\u00c2\u00a2\u00c2\u00be Westport means The Beach.
\n\u00c2\u00a2\u00c2\u00be You’ve never come to an intersection without seeing “NO TURN ON RED.”
\n\u00c2\u00a2\u00c2\u00be You have friends named Manny and Miguel. Their last names are either Medeiros, Mello, Silva, or De-something.
\n\u00c2\u00a2\u00c2\u00be You’re Catholic.
\n\u00c2\u00a2\u00c2\u00be You call it a “grinder”–not a sub or a hoagie.
\n\u00c2\u00a2\u00c2\u00be You’ll fight to the death defending your grinder shop, Marzilli’s or Marcucci’s.
\n\u00c2\u00a2\u00c2\u00be You use the word “wicked” as in “wicked good” more than all the people in Boston combined.
\n\u00c2\u00a2\u00c2\u00be New Bedford sucks!
\n\u00c2\u00a2\u00c2\u00be Providence might as well be your capital.
\n\u00c2\u00a2\u00c2\u00be You were born at Charlton Memorial.
\n\u00c2\u00a2\u00c2\u00be You can’t remember a time when Ed Lambert wasn’t the mayor.
\n\u00c2\u00a2\u00c2\u00be You’ve ever counted the humps on the “Seven Hills” to see if there are actually seven hills.
\n\u00c2\u00a2\u00c2\u00be You’re from “Faw Riva.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the MySpace page of Veronica Paige: you know you’re from fall river if… i may not live there anymore, but you gotta represent! \u00c2\u00a2\u00c2\u00be You have ever “cruised the ave,” or even spoke the term “cruise the ave.” \u00c2\u00a2\u00c2\u00be You know who Lizzie Borden is and how many “whacks” were involved. \u00c2\u00a2\u00c2\u00be You refer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6-degrees-of-separation","category-fall-river-news","category-on-the-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}