The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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Chuck, nice to see you're ok. But, dude, you did NOT just say you-unses. You could take those suitcases and move here to the desert. We have no tornadoes, hurricanes, or other assorted natural nastiness (120 degree heat doesn't count. That's just par for the course). And as an added bonus, we will have you referring to everyone as 'dude' in 6 months. Did I mention the guacamole?

(just kidding about you-unses, dude. Ah yoused to have a healthy dose a Tecksas in mah own voace)

Yikes! John Wayne just rode by!

Nuh huh. You have tornados. And hailstones the size of grapefruit (my car was never the same again). And then there's the flash floods, rattlesnakes, scorpions, black widows....Nice try, there, zonie!

And yeah, he said "you-unses" - not bad for a guy from like Chicago, is it?

Now, if he was talking Texan, it'd be "ya'll" which is both singular and plural.

I've lived here in the Valley for 20 years of my life, and have never seen a tornado or a single hailstone. We can get hail, but it is rare, and getting rarer by the year. As for our crawly things, they live in the desert for the most part. A larger threat to one's general well being is the drive-by. Hee hee. Ok, you're in Phoenix or Tucson? I can't remember which one.... We were near Gila Bend in the summer of 1987 when the thunderstorm dropped three, count 'em three, funnels down and made my previously monotone car a nice primer-and-brown arrangement, with an "interesting" texture. The new windows I had to get were an improvement, though! The washed-out road was rather a bummer - we had to stay in some ratty little place until the water went down enough for us to get through. Ah, well, you know, it all looks the same from the interstate.

And if he could spend some time back there, we might be graced with a 'youse-unses'. That's a scary thought - I tend to think in sound a lot. If that makes sense. And I am now hearing an entire conversation done in that dialect. Oy!

You're not really bad, you're just drawn that way. (Movie trivia, anyone?)

"You-unses"? I always thought that was miscombobulated Pennsylvanian....I look into it after I get this place retted up.

Yeah, they have flesh colored duct tape to deal with the one (er.. two) body part but I have no clue about the hair.

What's that sailing over my head? Oh, it's the chat. I wonder what language they're speaking?

Apart from everything else I don't get, what is 'retted' Richie.

...and Merle we Aussies say pissed off. It's a bit more delicate that straight out 'pissed'. It has nothing to do with irrigation and all to do with irritation, PP.

Apart from everything else I don't get, what is 'retted' Richie.

I think he means "Redded." Which I have heard used as a way of saying cleaning or putting things in their places around the house. I first heard it being used by a Kentuckian.

redd v.

Forms: 5- red, 6- redd, (7, 9 redde), 8 rade. pa. tense and pa. pple. 7- redd, 9 red; also 5 reddyt, 6 reddit. [= MLG. and Du. redden, in the same senses, but the origin and relationship of the forms is not clear. It is possible that they are independent developments from ME. r{emac}den and the equivalent LG. rêden, reiden (see REDE v.2), in Eng. by assimilation of the vowel of the pres. and inf. to that of the pa. tense and pa. pple. (cf. KEP v.). Most of the senses of the word are also represented under RID v.]

6. a. With up. To put in order; to make neat or trim. (Also in U.S. and general use.)
Also, to clear up by discussion or explanation, to criticize sharply, assail with invective, etc. (see Eng. Dial. Dict.).

1718 RAMSAY Christ's Kirk Gr. III. vii, Right well red up and jimp she was. 1768 ROSS Helenore III. 121 Anither forward unto Bony-Ha', To tell that there things be red up an' bra'. 1820 SCOTT Abbot xxvi, Doctor Lundin failed not to be a confused sloven, and his..housekeeper, whose life, as she said, was spent in ‘redding him up’ [etc.]. 1842 Spirit of Times (Philad.) 12 Aug. (Th.), I never used to red up their chamber without thinking of it. 1854 MRS. GASKELL North & S. xxxvii, To do something that she suggested towards redding up the slatternly room. 1864 E. A. MURRAY E. Norman I. 160, I left her and Kristy redding up their hair, and making themselves grand. 1887 P. M'NEILL Blawearie 99 The other pair on having the wall-face redd up fell to ‘holing’ once more. 1896 E. HIGGINSON Flower that grew in Sand 120 ‘You got your front room red up, Emarine?’ ‘No; I ain't had time to red up anything.’ 1909 A. QUILLER-COUCH True Tilda xix. 258 They tumbled out and redded up the place in a hurry. 1912 MULFORD & CLAY Buck Peters i. 19, I guess you two men can take care of each other while I red up. 1951 L. CRAIG Singing Hills xix. 181 You take this baby while I redd up the room. 1977 J. AIKEN Five-Minute Marriage ix. 141 The rooms..are all clean and redd up, sir.