Contestant on "The Price is Right" is from Massachusetts. "I bet you have a wicked cool prize for her," Drew Carey said. "Wicked awesome," Johnny the Offscreen Announcer replied, trying his hardest to sound like a Townie or something.
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Slow day for AG
By Anon
Thu, 12/05/2019 - 12:27pm
Price is Right and soup for lunch...like a day home from school. Or a day in the life of Adam.
No soup for you
By Gary C
Thu, 12/05/2019 - 1:18pm
What makes you think he's having soup? I was thinking more like a corn beef on rye.
My first thought was
By Waquiot
Thu, 12/05/2019 - 5:25pm
Perhaps a sub headline about how AG watches The Price is Right.
Lets be fair
By cybah
Thu, 12/05/2019 - 7:08pm
Lets be fair, there were a few national announcements today worth staying home and flicking on the TV for. He might have had it on 'bz in between stuff and it just happened to be on in the background.
The rest of America thinks
By BostonDog
Thu, 12/05/2019 - 2:36pm
We can speak only 8 words:
"Wicked" and something about illegally parking in Cambridge.
I once had to answer an
By anon
Thu, 12/05/2019 - 3:12pm
I once had to answer an icebreaker question at work about hometown stereotypes. I believe I called it: something about putting your vehicle at rest on a specific part of the Harvard campus. Because I did not want to actually say it.
Thank you for not mentioning B**ntown
By Gary C
Thu, 12/05/2019 - 3:44pm
I bet people in the Windy City hate when out-of-towners try to sound cool by saying that too.
But what am I to make of the
By anon
Thu, 12/05/2019 - 4:23pm
But what am I to make of the van I've seen a few times already advertising the services of Beantown Drains?*
*Not sure if it had New Hampshire plates.
Nobody calls Bostonians Townies
By anon
Thu, 12/05/2019 - 3:30pm
Except for the newbies who don’t know better. When traveling I don’t call the locals townies.
Ya, dude
By adamg
Thu, 12/05/2019 - 7:38pm
I was thinking of actual Townies, you know, people born and bred in Charlestown. That's why I capitalized it.
New Yorker
By scott
Fri, 12/06/2019 - 7:16am
...
Just got off a quite long
By Patriciax
Thu, 12/05/2019 - 3:42pm
Just got off a quite long work phone call with a women with the most charming southern drawl.
As we finished up our work and were just chit chatting, I mentioned I loved her accent. She said she was going to say the same !?!?! What? I have no accent!
wicked cool
By Ishmael Jones
Thu, 12/05/2019 - 3:52pm
Could also be a reference to Steve Van Zandt's record label "Wicked Cool Records". Carey has a show on Van Zandt's Sirius channel on Friday nights.
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By scott
Thu, 12/05/2019 - 4:09pm
Well that's just pissah
Yes.
By Anon
Thu, 12/05/2019 - 6:52pm
Very pisser
Does anyone in Boston who isn't a tourist
By jmeltzer
Thu, 12/05/2019 - 7:49pm
still say "wicked"?
Those of us who grew up here
By anon
Fri, 12/06/2019 - 7:03am
Those of us who grew up here and aren't ashamed.
TPIR
By Bugs Bunny
Thu, 12/05/2019 - 8:18pm
Did the contestant make it on stage? If so what game? Mountain Climber? Ten Chances?
“Wicked is used ...
By Lee
Fri, 12/06/2019 - 10:41am
... in other odd pockets around the country. It’s used in the UK as well.
Awesome is universal.
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