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by ampersandranch
Tue Apr 11, 2006 10:01 pm
Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
Topic: Goosey Night
Replies: 9
Views: 53390

Re: Goosey Night / sliding pond / Petticoat Day

Goosey Night is Passaic County; Cabbage Night is Bergen County as far as I know.. We were Bergen county; all the kids in my school called it Goosey Night. My sister and I were the odd ones out. My dad grew up in Passaic county, I'll have to remember ask him what he went by. Not that he ever would h...
by ampersandranch
Mon Jan 09, 2006 6:52 pm
Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
Topic: Goosey Night
Replies: 9
Views: 53390

Goosey Night

I couldn't help but notice that "goosey night" was left out of the list of night-before-Halloween choices. I went with Cabbage Night, since that's what my sister called it (and WHERE did she get that?) but kids in my area would look at her with blank stares. I was raised in north suburban ...
by ampersandranch
Mon Jan 09, 2006 6:48 pm
Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
Topic: Welcome!
Replies: 15
Views: 39736

Hmmm... not only am I third-generation NYC-metro area, but reading the actual responses to my questions puts me pretty strongly in Northern or Entire US - yet my score was only a 41%. Curiouser and curiouser!
by ampersandranch
Mon Jan 09, 2006 6:43 pm
Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
Topic: Soft Drinks: pop, soda, coke, et al
Replies: 84
Views: 639919

I grew up in northern NJ where we always referred to "soda" as our sweet, fizzy drink of choice. Now that I live in Colorado, I sometimes ask for a pop so as to not confuse the locals.

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