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) Subject: RE: BS: Help on an Assignment Please! From: Peace Hershey Susguehana River |
17 Nov 05 - 06:47 PM (#1607631) Subject: RE: BS: Help on an Assignment Please! From: Peace Susquehanna River |
17 Nov 05 - 06:51 PM (#1607632) Subject: RE: BS: Help on an Assignment Please! From: GUEST,Bizibod Pennsylvania 65000 |
17 Nov 05 - 06:56 PM (#1607639) Subject: RE: BS: Help on an Assignment Please! From: pdq Heinz ketchup |
17 Nov 05 - 06:57 PM (#1607640) Subject: RE: BS: Help on an Assignment Please! From: bobad Pennsylvania Dutch Pittsburg Penguins Philly Cheese Steak Philadelphia Cream Cheese Rolling farmland |
17 Nov 05 - 06:58 PM (#1607641) Subject: RE: BS: Help on an Assignment Please! From: Ebbie The birthplace of the United States of America. |
17 Nov 05 - 07:04 PM (#1607644) Subject: RE: BS: Help on an Assignment Please! From: Leadfingers Pencils ?? |
17 Nov 05 - 07:08 PM (#1607653) Subject: RE: BS: Help on an Assignment Please! From: Peace Philadelphia lawyer |
17 Nov 05 - 07:11 PM (#1607656) Subject: RE: BS: Help on an Assignment Please! From: bobad "All in all I'd rather be in Philadelphia". |
17 Nov 05 - 07:13 PM (#1607658) Subject: RE: BS: Help on an Assignment Please! From: Peace Bill Cosby |
17 Nov 05 - 07:19 PM (#1607661) Subject: RE: BS: Help on an Assignment Please! From: Peace Gettysburg |
17 Nov 05 - 07:21 PM (#1607663) Subject: RE: BS: Help on an Assignment Please! From: pdq polkas |
17 Nov 05 - 07:24 PM (#1607665) Subject: RE: BS: Help on an Assignment Please! From: bobad Keystone State |
17 Nov 05 - 07:29 PM (#1607670) Subject: RE: BS: Help on an Assignment Please! From: bobad "The Allegheny Moon" |
17 Nov 05 - 07:34 PM (#1607673) Subject: RE: BS: Help on an Assignment Please! 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) Subject: RE: BS: Help on an Assignment Please! From: Sorcha Has the highest rate of auto/deer crashes in US. |
17 Nov 05 - 07:41 PM (#1607681) Subject: RE: BS: Help on an Assignment Please! From: GUEST,mg Do I have to be the first to say CHOCOLATE and shoo-fly pie. |
17 Nov 05 - 07:49 PM (#1607688) Subject: RE: BS: Help on an Assignment Please! 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) Subject: RE: BS: Help on an Assignment Please! 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) Subject: RE: BS: Help on an Assignment Please! From: SINSULL Pennsylvania Polka |
17 Nov 05 - 08:36 PM (#1607725) Subject: RE: BS: Help on an Assignment Please! From: Edain i've only ever been there once but it was january and bloody cold |
17 Nov 05 - 08:39 PM (#1607728) Subject: RE: BS: Help on an Assignment Please! 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) Subject: RE: BS: Help on an Assignment Please! 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) Subject: RE: BS: Help on an Assignment Please! From: SINSULL Shiloh Centralia - site of underground coal fire burning since 1962 |
17 Nov 05 - 09:05 PM (#1607753) Subject: RE: BS: Help on an Assignment Please! From: wysiwyg The CD-full of Northern Tier images on my computer? ~S~ |
17 Nov 05 - 09:34 PM (#1607770) Subject: RE: BS: Help on an Assignment Please! From: dianavan American Bandstand |
17 Nov 05 - 09:36 PM (#1607772) Subject: RE: BS: Help on an Assignment Please! 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) Subject: RE: BS: Help on an Assignment Please! 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) Subject: RE: BS: Help on an Assignment Please! 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) Subject: RE: BS: Help on an Assignment Please! From: bobad Rolling Rock beer |
17 Nov 05 - 10:21 PM (#1607804) Subject: RE: BS: Help on an Assignment Please! 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) Subject: RE: BS: Help on an Assignment Please! 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) Subject: RE: BS: Help on an Assignment Please! From: Joe Offer Pencils Come from Pencilvania... (click) |
17 Nov 05 - 10:44 PM (#1607817) Subject: RE: BS: Help on an Assignment Please! From: wysiwyg Pennsyltucky. ~S~ |
17 Nov 05 - 10:47 PM (#1607822) Subject: RE: BS: Help on an Assignment Please! 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) Subject: RE: BS: Help on an Assignment Please! 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) Subject: RE: BS: Help on an Assignment Please! 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, |
17 Nov 05 - 11:39 PM (#1607853) Subject: RE: BS: Help on an Assignment Please! 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, |
17 Nov 05 - 11:59 PM (#1607860) Subject: RE: BS: Help on an Assignment Please! 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) Subject: RE: BS: Help on an Assignment Please! 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) Subject: RE: BS: Help on an Assignment Please! 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) Subject: RE: BS: Help on an Assignment Please! From: LilyFestre LOLOLOL!!! Now that's creative!!!!!!!! Michelle |
18 Nov 05 - 10:00 AM (#1608149) Subject: RE: BS: Help on an Assignment Please! From: MMario soft pretzels, lebanon bologna, Joe Magerac, Liberty Bell |
18 Nov 05 - 10:04 AM (#1608153) Subject: RE: BS: Help on an Assignment Please! 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) Subject: RE: BS: Help on an Assignment Please! 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) Subject: RE: BS: Help on an Assignment Please! From: BuckMulligan "Where the Allegheny and the Monongahela meet to from the Ohio." |
18 Nov 05 - 12:19 PM (#1608279) Subject: RE: BS: Help on an Assignment Please! 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) Subject: RE: BS: Help on an Assignment Please! From: kendall The roughest interstate highway I ever saw. |
18 Nov 05 - 04:31 PM (#1608408) Subject: RE: BS: Help on an Assignment Please! From: Cluin Turkey, stuffing, and cranberry sauce. |