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How do you pronounce it, then?

BTW......has anyone here actually seen or even heard of a "drive-thru" liquor store?

Yup - the Brew-Thru's a big thing on North Carolina's Outer Banks.
www.brewthru.com/index.cfm

The vowel is an ah sound, like when the dentist makes you open your mouth, but less drawn out.

variol son wrote:The test is screwed anyway. I don't pronounce aunt in any of those four ways.

BRITS OUT!

What's on the back of my Celtic jersey.

36% (Yankee). You are definitely a Yankee.

I didn't know there was a road along the highway and I've never ever heard of "cabbage night"

variol son wrote:The vowel is an ah sound, like when the dentist makes you open your mouth, but less drawn out.

That's a dialect from many different parts of the country unique to a group known as "wealthy".
See Thurston Howell the 3rd from Gilligan's Island for reference.

Brew-Thru kicks major booty. My drive down for senior break in 1989 was brilliant. I was the only over-21 member of the trip. I was passed out in the back seat, the driver filched my driver's license and bought $200 worth of booze from one of those joints.

BTW, don't try to walk thru one of them, they have no sense of humor.

i'm enjoying this image of you, Cail!!!!


no sense of humor!!!hahahahahaha! you funny this evening!

What can I say, I'm a mushroom.....A fun guy....


I slay me....

Seriously, bad idea to walk through a drive-through liquor store. Especially when you're sweaty and bleeding 'cause the guy with the car just hit a tree.

package stores. we have package stores in New England. they deliver.

Cail wrote: BRITS OUT!

Yeah! SHOW US YOUR BRITS!

oh, uh...i'm just realizin we actually had something like those drive thru things...we called 'em moonshiners.
hunnertuntwenny proof.

Growing up in NV, we didn't even have liquor stores, much less drive thru ones. In a land where the bars never close and the liquor is in the same isle as the beer...

44% (Yankee). Barely in the Yankee category.

Can't you just hear the disappointment in Fist's post?

45% (Yankee). Barely in the Yankee category.

That was fun. Just what I would expect living in the North but having Southern relatives!

in New Hampshire we have state liqour stores. the best? the two on the highway between Concord and Manchester. one south, one north. just pull off the highway, get your booze, cigs and lottery tickets.

variol son wrote:The vowel is an ah sound, like when the dentist makes you open your mouth, but less drawn out.

Read this post three times now, and I've just realized what it reminds of: The Legendary Black Beast of AAAAAGHHHHHHHH!

I love the state liquor stores in Virginia. You can't beat the name "ABC Store." (Alcoholic Beverage Commission) It doesn't even sound like a liquor store. And their bags are an elegant blue color that provides for easy sneaking onto dry campuses.

When my parents retired they moved down to the middle of absolute nowhere down in Arkansas. Most of northern Arkansas consists of "dry" counties. Now, I rarely drink (maybe a few glasses of wine a year, usually in fine restaurants or at weddings) so that wasn't usually a problem for me.

The one time it was a problem was in Jonesboro. Now, this is a major college town, mind you. My dad had gone to the big hospital there for cancer surgery and I flew down to spend the weekend with him. At the time there was no direct flight from Detroit to anyplace within the state of Arkansas, so I had to dink around and change flights in various cities just to get down there (and I depsise flying, so this was very stressful). Then, when I finally got into Little Rock I had to drive something like five hours to get to the hospital where my dad was.

After visiting hours were over I went to the Holiday Inn, where I had a reservation for the night. I had not eaten anything since breakfast, and I was both exhausted and very hungry. So I left my room and went in search of the hotel restaurant. Normally I stay out of hotel restaurants because a lot of them have poor food, but I was so tired and hungry I wasn't in the mood to drive around Jonesboro and try to find anything better.

So I wander around the hotel and find what looked like the restaurant. So I walk in and ask the hostess for a table for one, nonsmoking. She told me I had to buy a membership in order to be served there.

I just stood there and looked at her.

I must have looked pretty frazzled and shell shocked because she did eventually take pity on me and explained that this was the private club where they served alcohol and if all I wanted was food, there was a restaurant closer to the front lobby.

Apparently because it was in a dry county, in order to get a drink you have to be the member of a private club. So this was the hotel's way of providing alcohol to its patrons. They charged something like a $5 membership.

The food in the restaurant was of poor quality, by the way. To this day I have wondered if I should have "joined the club", not to drink, but just in case the food was any better.

in Lake Jackson, next town from here, you have to have a membership to drink, but it is free. this goes for a chain or mom and pop restaurant.