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Originally Posted by christyleigh
Hi there Mr. B..... from "The West coast of New England" - I like it  I've only been across your Lake Champlain on the ferry .... but it sure is a beautiful place. Used to sail down the other end of VT in my Siren 17 on the 2 giant N.E. Power Co reservoirs on the back side of Mt Snow about 15 years ago. I used to keep a few of my previous boats up in your old stomping grouds Greenwich Bay, NG Bay for a while before moving down to Wickford too..... Welcome  |
Sir Stanley
Muchos gratias for the warm welcome. I’m hoping to make Wickford (for the non locals, it’s pronounced WIK-fid) one of my ports-o-call on next summer’s adventure. Come to find out I have reciprocity (when first mentioned, a cousin in Coventry thought that might be a medical affliction) at the WYC through the CHNYC over in the East Passage, just N of the bridge.
I so look forward to being surrounded by the Ro- DY-lun accent I’ve lost over these so many years. When I first tossed my anchor out to the Admiral a few hundred years ago, I introduced her to another cousin who has the thickest Craaaaaaanston accent you could imagine. Given my wife’s North Dakota accent (think the movie “Fargo”) it was fun just eaves dropping.
So my cousin asks my wife: “ So Kay, you got P-S-Deahs?” and the Admiral responds (read in Fargoese now) “Well, I don’ knowww, iis dat sumtin de doktur could telll mee?”
Thence my cousin grabs her ear lobe and says: “ no, no, PEE-usd-deeeeahs…..I’m askin’ if yaw EEE-yahss are PEE-usd awe not.”
‘Tis a better spoken than written yarn, but I so look forward to the land of Saugys, Awful-Awfuls, Dels, coffee syrup, vinegar on French fries, Johnny cakes, and folk who know the difference between Pawtucket, Pawtuxet, and Pawcatuck.
I hope we get to cross swords.
Cheers,
MrB