# Hail to Pitt! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 26, 2000, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hail-to-pitt/34647 "2000-09-26T19:33:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2000, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hail-to-pitt/34647/21 "2000-09-27T06:12:44Z")
Heath, I went to Point Park. Now that’s something to be ashamed of. ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2000, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hail-to-pitt/34647/22 "2000-09-27T06:30:22Z")
Hail to Pitt, Hail to Pitt Every loyal son Hail to Pitt, Hail to Pitt 'Til the victory is won The gold and blue shall wave forever On high through fair and stormy weather We’ll sing our praises far and wide Until the end of time Hip Hooray, Hip Hooray for dear old U-N-I We’ll give a grand old ALLEGHENEE-GENACK-GENACK-GENACK We’ll wave and cheer For many a year And sing our songs Out loud and clear For our university PITT! PITT! Every loyal son PITT! PITT! 'Til the victory is won … (Look, it’s the same lyrics over again, and it’s too early in the morning to type the rest, 'kay?) I wuz there from '87 to ‘90, so the current truly sickening pizza place on Forbes (or anywhere else) is probably not the truly sickening pizza place of my youth. Astro Pizza. “Large pizza, two toppings, five bucks.” Yup, five bucks’ worth of indigestion on a lovely Wonder Bread crust. Oook. ---
**Author:** ![MysterEcks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@MysterEcks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysterEcks)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2000, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hail-to-pitt/34647/23 "2000-09-27T09:17:29Z")
**AETBOND417** said: > [@](#): > > Nits? I thought you called yourselves the Lions. Nits are lice. How disturbing. The whole name is Nittany Lions. Usually, we just call 'em the Lions. This year, Nits is more appropriate. **Plavacek** > [@](#): > > Although I must admit, the Floating Lion drill your marching band does is REALLY cool, and I was a bit ashamed when we booed your band. That’s ok–we expect that of Pitt fans. ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2000, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hail-to-pitt/34647/24 "2000-09-27T13:38:44Z")
Heath. Take that back. I plan to have a perfectly good engineering career. I did come here for the academics, believe it or not. And they let you rent the floppy shoes. ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2000, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hail-to-pitt/34647/25 "2000-09-27T15:00:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Heath Doolin \* > \*\*I would have gone to Pitt but the self requirement of bringing my own clown car and big floppy shoes stopped me. \*\* Well, don’t be ashamed because you can’t afford a clown car. There’s a government program to help you with that sort of thing. Keep the faith, bucko! > [@](#): > > \*\*However I hear that a lot of Pitt people go on to great futures in the hotel sanitation and mass food services fields \*\* Jealousy will get you nowhere. Ask that other street-wack you sit next to all day long if **he** can manage to feed the pigeons today. Then go apply at the McDonalds down own Forbes Ave. It’s not unreachable, you just gotta believe! ---
**Author:** ![Kepi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kepi/32/7251_2.png) [@Kepi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kepi)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2000, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hail-to-pitt/34647/26 "2000-09-27T15:30:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > Ever eat the fry boats at Primanti’s? Thank you. Thank you very much. Now you have me craving a kolbassi and cheese with egg sandwich from Primanti’s. Only there ain’t no Primanti’s here in Texas. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2000, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hail-to-pitt/34647/27 "2000-09-27T16:04:39Z")
Well, Pitt Dope Fest is the last weekend in Feb. You could manage to show up and get a Primanti’s whatever you want… ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2000, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hail-to-pitt/34647/28 "2000-09-27T16:15:55Z")
THen there’s the North Park Lounge chain…for their lounge fries…with cheddar and mozarella and bacon… [http://www.pittsburghese.com/](http://www.pittsburghese.com/) Airyago, a cupple a phrases in Pixburg, dahn nair. (If you’ve ever heard Marn Cope talk, you know what I mean!) Kennywood’s Open (hehehe…guess…) Laid aht-a viewing at a funeral home (NO ONE uses “to be” in Pixburg. You have to say, “The house needs painted”, instead of “The house needs to be painted.”) Up air-up there Dahntahn-downtown Dem stillers-If you don’t know this one you’re an idiot… an at (and that…Dem stillers on an at.) Ahr-hour Arn-iron, Arn City (every true pittsburgher knows what this is!) Yinz-the Pittsburgh version of Y’all! Crick-creek Fahr-fire flahr-flower cahr-Coach Cowher Gumband-rubber band Hunky Hand Grenade-stuffed cabbage rolls, (or halupki, in my family-they’re disgusting!) Iceball, or icyball-snow cone Jaggers-thorns jimmies-sprinkles lickin’-spanking maahtins-mountains car-NEG-ie…everyone else says CARnegie. Meer/Mirra-mirror Old Frothingslosh-who knows THIS ONE? orrnj-orange pahr-power Pigs in a blanket-see hunky handgrenades…everyone else thinks of hot dogs and cheese in bisquit dough-we think of stuffed cabbage rolls-yuck! pop-soda raht-route worsh-wash Yarmer Yarger-Jaromir Jagr Da Point Da Strip (Strip District) Da Tubes (Libertyville Tunnels) Eaten Park (Eat N’ Park-the BEST restaurant chain around!!) Laytrobe (Latrobe, supposed to be La’Trobe, as it is french…) Permanees (Primantis, all their sammishes have fries on em!) sahside-south side sliberty, easliberty-east liberty ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2000, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hail-to-pitt/34647/29 "2000-09-27T16:20:16Z")
I use yinz, thank you. It is the easiest way to translate second person plural verbs. Cogitatis -\> yinz think. ---
**Author:** ![Kepi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kepi/32/7251_2.png) [@Kepi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kepi)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2000, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hail-to-pitt/34647/30 "2000-09-27T16:33:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > Eaten Park (Eat N’ Park-the BEST restaurant chain around!!) Oh, and now you have me wanting some Smiley cookies. Why doncha just go ahead and mention Bruster’s Ice Cream in Robinson so that my stomach will let out a hunger roar that people 5 cubicles over can hear? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hail-to-pitt/34647.md?page=1)