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BS: Help on an Assignment Please!

17 Nov 05 - 06:45 PM (#1607627)
Subject: BS: Help on an Assignment Please!
From: LilyFestre

I am working on a list of words that describe Pennsylvania, the land, people, sports, resources, and other things unique to the state. The purpose of this list is to share with a group of 30 college students who will then be challenged to write a new state song. The words list that I end up with will be read aloud to evoke memories of the state to encourage a more vividly detailed end product.

So....what do you think of when you think of Pennsylvania?

List as many as you can please!

Many thanks!

Michelle


17 Nov 05 - 06:47 PM (#1607629)
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From: Peace

Hershey
Susguehana River


17 Nov 05 - 06:47 PM (#1607631)
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From: Peace

Susquehanna River


17 Nov 05 - 06:51 PM (#1607632)
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From: GUEST,Bizibod

Pennsylvania 65000


17 Nov 05 - 06:56 PM (#1607639)
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From: pdq

Heinz ketchup


17 Nov 05 - 06:57 PM (#1607640)
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From: bobad

Pennsylvania Dutch

Pittsburg Penguins

Philly Cheese Steak

Philadelphia Cream Cheese

Rolling farmland


17 Nov 05 - 06:58 PM (#1607641)
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From: Ebbie

The birthplace of the United States of America.


17 Nov 05 - 07:04 PM (#1607644)
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From: Leadfingers

Pencils ??


17 Nov 05 - 07:08 PM (#1607653)
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From: Peace

Philadelphia lawyer


17 Nov 05 - 07:11 PM (#1607656)
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From: bobad

"All in all I'd rather be in Philadelphia".


17 Nov 05 - 07:13 PM (#1607658)
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From: Peace

Bill Cosby


17 Nov 05 - 07:19 PM (#1607661)
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From: Peace

Gettysburg


17 Nov 05 - 07:21 PM (#1607663)
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From: pdq

polkas


17 Nov 05 - 07:24 PM (#1607665)
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From: bobad

Keystone State


17 Nov 05 - 07:29 PM (#1607670)
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From: bobad

"The Allegheny Moon"


17 Nov 05 - 07:34 PM (#1607673)
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From: Rabbi-Sol

You have to get the album "A Pennsylvania Homecoming" by Dr. Adrian Bianconi (Dr. B). There are over 20 songs on this 74 minute album that describe every geographical region Pennsylvania as well as all the major historical events that took place there. I belive that Dr. B's website is www.morninglacemusic.com If that is not correct check it out on Google. You can do your entire assignment from this one album.
                                              SOL ZELLER


17 Nov 05 - 07:39 PM (#1607679)
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From: Sorcha

Has the highest rate of auto/deer crashes in US.


17 Nov 05 - 07:41 PM (#1607681)
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From: GUEST,mg

Do I have to be the first to say CHOCOLATE and shoo-fly pie.


17 Nov 05 - 07:49 PM (#1607688)
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From: Allan C.

Gosh, virtually all of the answers so far contain more than one word. Let me join the throng by adding: horrible roads.


17 Nov 05 - 08:21 PM (#1607711)
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From: LilyFestre

Here are some of mine:

Philadephia
Benjamin Franklin
The Liberty Bell
The Steelers
Allentown
Steel production
Coal mining
fishing
hunting
snowmobiling
skiing
Little League
Crayola Crayons
Hershey
The Amish
Mountains
Row Houses


Keep 'em coming.....

Michelle


17 Nov 05 - 08:26 PM (#1607719)
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From: SINSULL

Pennsylvania Polka


17 Nov 05 - 08:36 PM (#1607725)
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From: Edain

i've only ever been there once but it was january and bloody cold


17 Nov 05 - 08:39 PM (#1607728)
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From: GUEST,Deda

Two expressions found nowhere else: "Ret off the table" (for "clean off) and the team they call the Pittsburgh "Stillers".


17 Nov 05 - 08:42 PM (#1607734)
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From: SINSULL

Thomas Paine
James Buchanan
Betsy Ross
Daniel Boone
George McClellan
Rachel Carson
Robert Fulton
Milton Hershey - chocolate!
Lee Iacocca
Andrew Carnegie
Charles Taze Russell, founder of the Jehovah Witnesses
Clifford Odets
Stephan Foster
Mary Cassat
Man Ray
Andrew Wyeth
Andy Warhol
Ed Wynn
James Stewart
Broderick Crawford
Gene Kelly
Charles Bronson
Mario Lanza
Marian Anderson
Marilyn Horne
Earl "Fatha" Hines (Hines, Hines & Dad)
Jimmy Dorsey
Martha Graham
Jim Thorpe
Honus Wagner
Roy Campanella
Johnny Unitas
Joe Nameth (Broadway Joe)
Wilt Chamberlain
Arnold Palmer
Johnny Weismuller (Tarzan)
Grace Kelly


17 Nov 05 - 08:45 PM (#1607735)
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From: SINSULL

Shiloh
Centralia - site of underground coal fire burning since 1962


17 Nov 05 - 09:05 PM (#1607753)
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From: wysiwyg

The CD-full of Northern Tier images on my computer?

~S~


17 Nov 05 - 09:34 PM (#1607770)
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From: dianavan

American Bandstand


17 Nov 05 - 09:36 PM (#1607772)
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From: Rapparee

Kauffman House
Youghagany (spelled wrong) River
Whiskey Rebellion
Ft. Necessity
Ft. Ligonier
Valley Forge
King of Prussia Shopping Center
First and Worst Turnpike
Ft. Duquoisne (or however it's spelled)
Pittsburg
Erie
Zippo lighters
Flintlock rifles
Declaration of Independence
Benedict Arnold
Johnstown Flood
Mollie Maguires
Main Line
Rosemont College
Villanova University
Temple University
Mike Fink


17 Nov 05 - 09:40 PM (#1607777)
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From: Bobert

Well, there ain't much I can say good about PA... It is the site of the second bloodiest battles of the Civil War... Onlu Antietam, jsut a few miles south beats it out...

It is home to the Philadelphia Eagles, whoes fans are the most redneckish football fans in the universe... These are the folks who threw snowballs at Santa Claus...

I mean, this one one danged redneck state... Glad that most of ytou all don't vote 'cause yer too busy huntin' deer 'er spittin' tabacco...

Okay, hey, you all do have Carlisle and the car shows....

An' some purdy danged mountains...

And Lake Erie...

And the Amish markets and shops in Lancaster...

Sniff...

And the....

Oh, I can't go on.... Why the heck is it that Gettysburg just hurts my heart???

Bobert


17 Nov 05 - 09:44 PM (#1607782)
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From: SINSULL

What do you call those big stick soft pretzels they sell on every street corner with mustard?

Cheesesteak


17 Nov 05 - 10:15 PM (#1607800)
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From: bobad

Rolling Rock beer


17 Nov 05 - 10:21 PM (#1607804)
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From: Peace

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that the nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

That's why, Bobert.


17 Nov 05 - 10:31 PM (#1607812)
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From: Bobert

Bull, Bruce...

Don't get all carried away with Lincoln... There was a lot of George Bush in him...

Southern, redneck, emotional and dumb...

Licoln could have averted the Civil War but it wasn't in his political intrests...

Sound familiar???

Bobert


17 Nov 05 - 10:32 PM (#1607815)
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From: Joe Offer

Pencils
Come from Pencilvania...

(click)


17 Nov 05 - 10:44 PM (#1607817)
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From: wysiwyg

Pennsyltucky.

~S~


17 Nov 05 - 10:47 PM (#1607822)
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From: Ron Davies

Several friends from the UK have said, when we've been driving through the mountains, that it strongly reminds them of Wales.   There's a reason for Bala Cynwyd, Bryn Mawr (hope I've spelled them right) etc.


17 Nov 05 - 11:21 PM (#1607843)
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From: artbrooks

Actually, this is Jenn--grew up in Pittsburgh.

Joe Magarac. Woods. Creeks. Runs. Presque Isle. Carnegie Institute and Carnegie libraries. Tipples. Slag Heaps--glowing at night. Iron City Beer and of course, Old Frothingslosh--the pale, stale ale with the foam on the bottom. Mr. Rogers, his neighborhood, and many neighbors. Art says, two seasons: winter and road construction. (and this is different from where you live, and we live, how?) Deer whistles. Pymatuning Dam, and canoes on the lake or on the Connequinessing Creek at Camp Carondawanna. The Tamburitzans, and tamburitza of all sizes. Pierogies. Lasagna. Gyros. Knowing when you got near home on the highway because of the names on the political signs--some with way too many vowels, others with way too many consonants.
Cook's Forest. Brady's Bend. Trilliums, bloodroot, violets and dog-tooth violets, spring beauties and April beauties and Solomon's seal, true and false, Indian pinks, and Mayflowers.

Thanks for the memories.


17 Nov 05 - 11:26 PM (#1607847)
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From: GUEST,.gargoyle

Totally assinign assignment!!!

What light-house of higher education (instructor's name even more helpful) tossed this one into the waves?

Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page and you will recover enough information to complete the "TASK" without further "help."

Sincerely,
Gargoyle


17 Nov 05 - 11:39 PM (#1607853)
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From: GUEST,.gargoyle

Ouch - crossed below the line!!!

Posted... and then read.... you MC bio/postings....woman....you are a certifiable "wacko-jacko" and deffinately one of the reasons I should not stray below the bar.

Sorry to intrude upon your space in the under-world.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle


17 Nov 05 - 11:59 PM (#1607860)
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From: JohnInKansas

The Clothespin
The Bridge to Nowhere
The Philly Folk Festival

Actually, after two separate six month "assignments" in Philadelphia (and a half-dozen shorter trips), my strongest memories are probably the smell of Southside Philly, although you probably don't want that in the state song.

John


18 Nov 05 - 07:02 AM (#1608015)
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From: LilyFestre

Great lists and ideas!!

I'll be sharing this in just a few hours. Thanks for all your help!!!

Michelle

PS. Gargoyle, it's too bad that you can't be bothered to list what comes to mind when you think of Pennsylvania because sometimes you have some interesting posts.


18 Nov 05 - 07:17 AM (#1608026)
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From: Cluin

A particular move in office martial arts in which a sharp pencil is thrust deep into the neck vein of an enemy or office associate.

"Wilkins, get your thievin' hand off my stapler or so help me, I'll pencil-vein ya a good one!"


18 Nov 05 - 09:52 AM (#1608146)
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From: LilyFestre

LOLOLOL!!!

Now that's creative!!!!!!!!

Michelle


18 Nov 05 - 10:00 AM (#1608149)
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From: MMario

soft pretzels, lebanon bologna, Joe Magerac, Liberty Bell


18 Nov 05 - 10:04 AM (#1608153)
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From: Janie

Steel Mills
the wonderful neighborhoods of Pittsburgh
The wet cold winters off the lake in Erie, PA
Urban working class
(you can tell I am much more familiar with western PA than any other part of the state!

Janie


18 Nov 05 - 10:12 AM (#1608162)
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From: ejsant

Hey Michelle,

Jim Thorpe
The hanging of the Molly Maguires
Anthracite
Shale
The Grand Canyon
Brilliant Mountains
Simpler Life
Mining Disasters
Casino Gambling
Out of state municipal waste
Rt. 6
The lush Lancaster Valley
Home Rule
The Delaware River
The winding Susquehanna River
Appalachia
Glass making
Steel
Bethlehem
Liberty Bell
Antiquing

Good luck with the project. I hope to see you guys soon.

Peace,
Ed


18 Nov 05 - 10:50 AM (#1608195)
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From: BuckMulligan

"Where the Allegheny and the Monongahela meet to from the Ohio."


18 Nov 05 - 12:19 PM (#1608279)
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From: M.Ted

Root Beer, American Bandstand, The Slinky, The Endless Mountains, The Delaware Water Gap, Gambel and Huff, Frank Rizzo, "Hey Yo!", and Youzers, Yunsers, and Yinzers--


18 Nov 05 - 12:44 PM (#1608296)
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From: kendall

The roughest interstate highway I ever saw.


18 Nov 05 - 04:31 PM (#1608408)
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From: Cluin

Turkey, stuffing, and cranberry sauce.