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  • #16
    Not surprisingly my map was red in the west, blue in the south, and yellow/orange in the NE. What I didn't like is it said the places which most closely matched my speech patterns was some place in Arizona and Reno, NV.
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    • #17
      Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui View Post
      Found it interesting to see I was more North Jersey than South Jersey - Newark/Patterson, Jersey City, Yonkers

      Apparently, my most distinctive answers for the cities was "Mischief Night" as the night before Halloween for Newark/Patterson and "sneakers" as the shoes you where for Jersey City and Yonkers.
      I only know of it as Mischief Night. What are other names for it?


      I can't believe what some people call some things though. Calling water fountains bubblers? Really?

      Sneakers
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      • #18
        Yeah, I said we had no name for the night before Halloween.
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        • #19
          It's a contraction of "All Hallows' Evening". People who think the evening before that needs a name are retarded.

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          • #20
            In Montreal we called it Mat night. But I've heard it called mischief night so that's what I put.
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            • #21
              I didn't even know the night before halloween was a thing. Just, y'know, October 30.

              My most distinctive answer is apparently Brew Thru. I've never been to such a thing, but a friend of mine talked about them once so I was familiar with the concept.
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              • #22
                North-West. Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane.
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                • #23
                  Oklahoma City, Ft. Worth and Tulsa
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                  • #24
                    It thinks I'm from San Francisco.
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                    • #25
                      Originally posted by Al B. Sure! View Post
                      http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...018040200b0400

                      Sharing results looks broken. This is what I got:

                      Wow. You match three of the ****tiest cities in the whole country.

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                      • #26
                        Miami, Honolulu, Pembroke Pines FL. The only thing this quiz is sure about is that I'm not from DC. Can't argue with that.
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                        • #27
                          new york, various parts of new england, the northern midwest and hawaii.
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                          • #28
                            although i doubt very much that i actually sound like anyone from those places.
                            "The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.

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                            • #29
                              Got me in stockton, santa rosa, sactown. pretty much close.
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                              • #30
                                I got Anchorage, Tallahassee and Des Moines. The test seemed confused, but it did get me on Alaska == BC. So there's that. The antipode was NYC and Philly. For some reason the strongest part of the South was Northern Florida. (but not anywhere else in the deep south), the plains states (but not North Dakota), which isn't a surprise, and Texas, again not a surprise.
                                Last edited by Ben Kenobi; December 24, 2013, 16:46.
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