Roundup: Stuff People on the North Fork Say
Think you can do a good impression of North Fork locals and uninitiated visitors? Let us know if you'd be interested in a 'stuff people say' video.
When we asked you on Saturday to chime in your ideas of typical catch phrases you always hear from North Fork locals and visitors, we received almost 50 responses — all very funny stuff and .... mostly very true.
Based on the Internet trend, "S--- Girls Say," we asked for "stuff" that locals, seasonal residents or visitors can be heard saying on North Fork sidewalks, shops and beaches. Some sayings everyone will get a kick out of, while others may only make sense to locals.
Thanks to everyone who contributed. Here are some of the best replies:
• I read about that on North Fork Patch
• Watch out for those 212 drivers
• Smells like Aldo is burning his beans again ...
• How do you spell Cutchogue?
• How do you SAY Cutchogue?
• If you were in Starbucks, you weren't really in Mattituck
• Is that a McDonald's or a country club?
• Are we still on Long Island?
• I have no cell phone reception
• Jellyfish? Where?! AAAAUUUUHHHH!! (splashing sounds)
• I have to run to Rivercity, need anything?
• Oh well, you know ... it's a Shelter Island thing ...
• Um, that's a tip jar, not a spit bucket
• This is more like New England than New York
• You take a left at the red barn and a right just past the huge tree, you can't miss it
• Peconic Bay Boulevard... the other, other way around
• You must be new. And still orange. THERE ARE NO BACKROADS ON THE NORTH FORK
• What do you mean restaurants don't deliver?
• Where are the public restrooms?
• We went clamming down in New Suffolk
• You live in a postcard
• I'm going up-island
• Otherwise known as the BBQs (Brooklyn, Bronx, and Queens)!
• Whoohoo! Party at Vineyard 48!
• Watch out for the old folks making left-hand turns!
• Save what's left
• Oh sh*%$ I missed the dump!
• Yikes! The traffic is backed up ... damn corn-stalkers
• Friggin' pumpkin-pickers
• Greenport is the next Sag Harbor
• Oh, no, not another bachelorette party!
• Why don't they just build a bridge to Shelter Island?
• Not for nothin', but ... (before launching into a tirade about citiots)
• What's a hamlet?
• From Shelter Island client: "I've lived here 35 years and I'm still not a local? WHEN will I be considered a local?" Me: "You? Sorry but never, but your grandchildren will be."
Have something to add? Please leave a comment below.
And if you're really into this, let us know if you'd be interested in North Fork Patch making a video — and if you want to be in it!
Gigi Gibbons
8:58 am on Thursday, January 26, 2012
"Why don't you people shop during the week, and leave the week-ends for us?"
(heard in a supermarket, while standing in line to pay)
If you do film a video, be sure to include New Suffolk's school bell being rung in the morning to announce the beginning of the school day.
Erin Schultz
3:35 pm on Thursday, January 26, 2012
Seriously tho, Gigi — it's terribly disrespectful of us residents to leave our houses on the weekends, let alone go shopping :) -- Nice idea for the video. We must also have Love Lane, downtown Greenport and, or course, Vineyard 48.
mhorine1
11:18 am on Saturday, January 28, 2012
When's high tide?