Tuesday, August 19, 2008
How to speak Cabdriver in Square-banks, Alaska
Places in Fairbanks, in no particular order
The large optical organ - The Big I (bar)
Dead Fox - Red Fox (bar)
Infections - Rejections - (and my personal favorite) Erections - Reflections (strip club)
Ho Boat - Show Butt - Showboat (strip club)
Port-a-Potty - Airport
Scare View Manor - Fairview Manor (low income apartment complex)
Taco Hell - Taco Bell
Blows - Lowes
Home Despot - Home Depot
Wally World - Mall Wart - WalMart
Bentley Small - Bentley Mall
North Weird Building - Northward Building
Golden Showers - Golden Towers (state subsidized housing)
Diddle Lipper - Little Diaper - Little Tripper - Little Dipper apartments
Pary's Java Hut - formerly known as Pary's Crackhouse until he met me on the street with a gun for saying "Pary's Crackhouse" on the radio
Prozak Pawn - Rozak Pawn
Crapper's Cavern - Trapper's Tavern
Wildlife Refuge - (I seem to be the only one who says, and my personal favorite:) Arctic Barf - Arctic Bar
Tama-crack - Tamarac Inn (as opposed to Tamarack St.) (Neither of which is mis-spelled)
Munster - Munson Hotel (a long-term hotel comprised primarily of Atco units)
Crack-o-vitch - Jackovitch apts
More BS - MBS complex on campus, (Moore-Bartlett-Skarland Hall)
The Stick - North Pole (town)
I know I am forgetting something. Additions? Greg? Chris? Dave? Anyone?
The large optical organ - The Big I (bar)
Dead Fox - Red Fox (bar)
Infections - Rejections - (and my personal favorite) Erections - Reflections (strip club)
Ho Boat - Show Butt - Showboat (strip club)
Port-a-Potty - Airport
Scare View Manor - Fairview Manor (low income apartment complex)
Taco Hell - Taco Bell
Blows - Lowes
Home Despot - Home Depot
Wally World - Mall Wart - WalMart
Bentley Small - Bentley Mall
North Weird Building - Northward Building
Golden Showers - Golden Towers (state subsidized housing)
Diddle Lipper - Little Diaper - Little Tripper - Little Dipper apartments
Pary's Java Hut - formerly known as Pary's Crackhouse until he met me on the street with a gun for saying "Pary's Crackhouse" on the radio
Prozak Pawn - Rozak Pawn
Crapper's Cavern - Trapper's Tavern
Wildlife Refuge - (I seem to be the only one who says, and my personal favorite:) Arctic Barf - Arctic Bar
Tama-crack - Tamarac Inn (as opposed to Tamarack St.) (Neither of which is mis-spelled)
Munster - Munson Hotel (a long-term hotel comprised primarily of Atco units)
Crack-o-vitch - Jackovitch apts
More BS - MBS complex on campus, (Moore-Bartlett-Skarland Hall)
The Stick - North Pole (town)
I know I am forgetting something. Additions? Greg? Chris? Dave? Anyone?
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Scare view is no longer. Demo started yesterday for the upscale retirement condos.
Toxic Hell=Taco Bell
Spendy's=Spenards
Toxic Hell=Taco Bell
Spendy's=Spenards
Pickle Town (north or south)= Ft Wainwright.
Meat Market=Greyhound
Back in the day anyway.
haven't driven a hack in over twelve years.
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Meat Market=Greyhound
Back in the day anyway.
haven't driven a hack in over twelve years.
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