It's a Rhode Island obsession; everyone goes out and buys milk and bread before a storm (or in the case of snow, before a possibility of a flurry).
The bread is so if the powah goes out, ya can make sangwiches. Not for nuttin, but, I dunno what milk'll do 'cept sowwah.
(I mean, if you're visiting, it's one thing, but if you lived here, your obsession with milk and bread would come back; you'd do what you had to do. And the wife says, "Hey, you know what? This coffee milk's too strong".)
Why is this just a Rhody thing? I think Mass does this too. I mean seriously, my wacky coworker wanted to board up her house, and she's in West Roxbury.
/hurricane-victim-fail
Oh, and which one is the marquee symbol? I flunked keyboard-symbols 101.
There are pockets of it all over the country, but RI's milk-and-bread thing is directly related to the Blizzard of '78. Maybe MA's, too. I was in Wilmington during that storm. Hella big piles of snow.
just do [marquee]fill in text[/marquee], only use the < > tabs instead of the [] ones. You write out the "marquee", there's no keyboard symbol AFAIK.
During the first blizzard of my mom's first winter in Indiana, she went to the store expecting a similar effect. Only she lived in a college town, so in fact there was plenty of milk and bread, but no beer or chips...
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Date: 2010-09-02 03:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-09-02 08:04 pm (UTC)The milk and bread fetish that RI gets before storms started here.
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Date: 2010-09-02 11:44 pm (UTC)Best as i can figure it, we must all have a Snow = make French Toast thing.
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Date: 2010-09-02 04:07 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-09-02 08:23 pm (UTC)The bread is so if the powah goes out, ya can make sangwiches. Not for nuttin, but, I dunno what milk'll do 'cept sowwah.
(I mean, if you're visiting, it's one thing, but if you lived here, your obsession with milk and bread would come back; you'd do what you had to do. And the wife says, "Hey, you know what? This coffee milk's too strong".)
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Date: 2010-09-02 08:59 pm (UTC)(Also: HEE! :-D)
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Date: 2010-09-03 03:32 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-09-02 04:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-09-02 08:07 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-09-02 04:31 pm (UTC)Like I said, I'm hoping for stormy, but not damagingly so.
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Date: 2010-09-02 08:00 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-09-02 04:44 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-09-02 05:12 pm (UTC)like this!
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Date: 2010-09-02 07:58 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-09-02 08:51 pm (UTC)/hurricane-victim-fail
Oh, and which one is the marquee symbol? I flunked keyboard-symbols 101.
:D
*holds you down incase of wind*
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Date: 2010-09-02 09:24 pm (UTC)just do [marquee]fill in text[/marquee], only use the < > tabs instead of the [] ones. You write out the "marquee", there's no keyboard symbol AFAIK.
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Date: 2010-09-03 04:13 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-09-03 06:43 pm (UTC)