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"Yinz wanna go to Eat N' Park, get some eggs n'at?"
- Drew Carey on The Price Is Right, responding to a contestant who said he was from Pittsburgh

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This was brought to my attention by a Chicagoan, of all people. :)

Can anyone recommend a good local polka band who has a recording I could buy? My family does a Secret Santa exchange each Christmas, and my person is a big polka fan, so I thought I'd get her something unique since Pittsburgh loves its polkas. Google has led me to The Trel Tones, Matt Wasielewski, and Grkmania -- anyone ever heard of any of these ( Read more... )

Channel 4 has been running this first video for a week or so now -- usually during the evening news -- and the song totally keeps getting stuck in my head. Enjoy!

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ok. i have lived in pittsburgh for over 5 years and in the suburbs for 13 years of my life. i was born in michigan and believe me, when i moved here at the ripe old age of 8, there was a big, how should we say...language difference? i was actually put into speech therapy in fourth grade because i refused to say the word wagon as waagiinnn and ( Read more... )