I was stuck on I-95 yesterday evening on my way home due to a 6 car pollup (in baltimorese). Four lanes across and lots of gawkers :shock: looking at my car. I was worried there'd be another accident. Anyway, this guy pulls up beside me in a clean looking blue taurus and toots his horn. He asks me what kind of car I'm driving. "Chrysler Crossfire", I tell him. And then in disbelief he says "That's a Chrysler?" "Yep." In 2 mph traffic I shuffle ahead, and then a few moments later the taurus is beside me, and then the guy let's loose this question: "Is it a prototype or production." :lol: I almost soiled my dark slate leather. I wanted to laugh out loud (wouldn't have heard it over the cicadas anyway) before I politely answered. Just another fun day of owning a Crossfire. To date, I've yet to see another Crossfire in MD other than one with a dealer tag when I was driving my beater.

 

Almost as funny as my experience. A young guy in a mid 90's camaro pulls up next to me at a redlight.

Camaro: That must be a fun car to drive.
Me: Yup, sure is.
Camaro: What kind of car is that?
Me: Chrysler Crossfire.
Camaro: What's it got, like a V12 or something?
Me: <laughing> nope, just a 6 Cylinder.
Camaro: Oh
Light turns green I take off and leave him in the dust. His camaro was only an RS so I'm assuming it was only a 305ci.

 

Sitting at a light yesterday, the object of adoration of a 14-ish year old boys school group. Looked at them, and hit the spoiler button, thought they'd lost their minds! 14-year old boys is not a group I particularly need to impress, but it was still fun.

However, it's "Bawlmorese" ( Born on Lafayette)

 

Hey Rob, where in Bawlmer are ya hun? I growed up in Randalllstown (really Rockdale but people have no idea where that is) at mom's and Perry Hall at dad's. In fact I was just down there at dad's on Sunday.

 

Last year 7-5-03 i bought a 350Z a nice car i thought i got a lot of ??ss on the z but after a few weeks of owning it i started to regret my purchase !I ended up selling it and getting my xfire and for the pass 6-7 months still enjoy it!But not one day goes by without someone asking me how i like it or what is it !I just tell them it's one the best i've ever owned !

 

The other day I was at the Post office parked out front just getting back into the car. White Acura driving by, two beatiful blonde college girls in it.
Acura stops, one of the blondes says "hey nice car buddy".

Ok this months payment was well spent!

 

in perry hall. about 1/4 mile from the high school. :lol:

 

GET THE F OUTTA HERE!!!! You know where Vicky Road is?

 

yep. i live on deviation. walk my mutt along ballygar and kilbride to vicky most days.

 

What a small world. My dads place, which is actually where I spent most of my time from 13 on, is on Vicky right near Bowline. He has the Pontiac Bonneville and Honda Pilot in front of the house, oh and a nice red maple in the front yard. Its tan house with a brick front.

Damn I know exactly where you are, I bet you can actually see the back of his house across the common area pond. LOL I remember riding my BMX bike back over near your street as a kid.

Once I get my XFire and get down that way again, which I always do, we have to hook up. BTW what year did you graduate HS and did you go to PH?

 

yeah, but i didn't want to confuse nobody. they just started offerin BSL (bawlmorese as a second landwedge) in the hoskulls. never said i was perfick. is lafayette anywheres near droodle park?

 

Here is a strange one. Couple of guys in big pick em up truck rolled down the window to ask me what it is. So I tell them it's a Chrysler Crossfire. Then the dude asks "is it like a PT Cruiser or something?". This question had me stumped. How is a Crossfire like a PT Cruiser? The obvious answer was no but I got lost in trying to figure out what he could possibly think was similar about them. The light changed before I could think of an answer. Still don't have a good answer other than they are both Chryslers. If I run into the guys again I think I will just answer yes and let them figure out what it means.

 

OK, y'all are gonna make me post this arentcha....

I have it in a word doc as well if you want me to email it to ya.


THE MERLIN DIALECT
Only a Merlin resident could appreciate... The Merlin Dialect

The Merlin Dialect is spoken by a mixed population which inhabits a triangular area on the western littoral of the Chesapeake Bay, bounded roughly by a line commencing at Towson's Toyota, then westward to Frederick Mall, thence following the western border of the cable TV franchise and the string of McDonalds' along Route 50 to the Bay. All of these lands and the natives thereof are known as the Land of Merlin. They divide it further into semi-tribal areas called Cannies "COUNTIES" (e.g., Ballmer Canny, PeeJee Canny, Hard Canny, etc.). The dialect area is centered on a market center called Glimburny, where the people come on weekends to trade their goods. Because of the numerous words and phrases common to both Merlin Dialect and modern English, linguists have long postulated that there is some kinship between the two. Speakers of Merlin Dialect are all able to understand Standard English from babyhood, chiefly because of their voracious appetite for television. However, they invariably refuse to speak Standard English, even with outsiders who obviously do not understand a word they say.


Lesson 1 Vocabulary

Baldmer - Our city

Merlin - Our State

Arn - What you do to wrinkled clothes

Bulled Egg - An egg cooked in water

Chest Peak - A large nearby body of water

Colleyflare - A white vegetable

Downey Owe Shin - Summertime destination "Down to the ocean" (such as Ayshun City)

Droodle Pork - Druid Hill Park

Faren Gins - Red trucks that put out fires

Hi Hon - How we always say "hello"

Holluntown - Highland Town

Nap Lis - State of Merlin capital

Ole Bay - What our crabs taste like

Oreos - Not a cookie, but our baseball team

Payment - That strip of cement that you walk on

PohLeese - Those guys in uniform that git ya when you're speeding

Share - Hot water that cleans you in the morning

Tarred - What happens when you work too hard

Warsh - What we do with dirty clothes

Winders - Those glass things that we look out of

Paramore - Power mower

Brawl - Broil

Sem elem - Seven Eleven

Allanic - an ocean

Arnjuice - from the sunshine tree

Aspern - what you take for headaches

Bald - some people like their eggs this way

Calf Lick - bleevers are Protestant, Jewish, and ...

Canny - a state gubmit division, such as Anne Arundel or Prince George's

Far place - requires wood

Farmin - the people who fight fars

Ford - opposite of backward

Klumya - Rouse's new city (Columbia)

Meer - what you look at in the morning

Munlaw - married to your fodlaw

Norf Abnew - North Avenue

Numb - a conjunctive 1st person pronoun: "Aw've bin workin six errors numb tarred."

Plooshin - let's get it out of the Cheaspeake

Sarn - what a pleece car or Farn Gin makes noise with

Slong - "good-bye"

Sore - drainage under the street Spearmint - experiment

Warshnin - our nation's capital

Wooder - what you wrench your hands with

Yerp - Europe Zinc - where you wrench your hands or wash your dishes

Youz - you all


Lesson 2. Oral Exercises

Listen and Repeat:

Merlin: Ah herd sarns at sod the hass a bat hunnert toms lass not. Itsem Ann Earl Canny farn gins.

Standard: I heard sirens outside the house about a hundred times last night. It's those Anne Arundel County fire engines.

Merlin: She raider boskle from Droodle Pork to dantan Ballmer wither oz clazed.

Standard: She rode her bicycle from Druid Hill Park to downtown Baltimore with her eyes closed.

Merlin: The Hard Canny Toms sayz the canny cancel pace pained bon ambalances.

Standard: The Howard County Times says the County Council postponed buying ambulances.

Merlin: Pitcher bane seat owen. Weer goon danny ayshun.

Standard: Put your bathing suit on. We're going down to the ocean.

Merlin: Ah sawn ambalance good dan Rosters Tan Raid a bat a huunert molls an air, nit was **** dan rain.

Standard: I saw an ambulance going down Reisterstown Road about a hundred miles an hour, and it was pouring down rain.

Merlin: It spaced a snaid mora. Better pitcher snay tars owen.

Standard: It's supposed to snow tomorrow. Better put your snow tires on.

 

sometimes we walk over there. as a matter of fact just last weekend i was bitten by a dog on bowline. only thing was that it was my own dog.

i graduated in '86 but not from PH. i went to north harford high in pylesville (norhtern harford county). when i got married i sold my house in abingdon and moved in with my wife in ph to keep her daily commute convenient.

cool. i haven't met any crossfire owners in person. mine's that primer color they call alabaster and you can see it parked in front of the house when you drive by on ebenezer.

 

Thats cool, yeah I graduated in 86 as well but went to Curley downtown. How long have you been in PH? I still got tons of friends there. Were you there when everyone used to hang out at the BK on Perring and Joppa? I think it moved around a bit since I was there all those years ago and a lot of guys hang out in a lot up on Belair Road at a grocery store.

Now to the other people around, mind you, this isnt just a bunch of punks, these are guys with REAL show quality rods like 40's Mercurys and T buckets and such.

 

Just an idea........ couldn't your conversation be carried on by PM??? This is a XF forum.

 

But we are discussing meeting up with our XFires

 

a little less than 2 years. went to north plaza mall (off joppa rd., at perring parkway so probably the same area you mentioned) a couple weeks ago. all the classics and even some late models (vettes, stangs, lightnings, etc.) gather there every saturday night. last year they would meet in the lot where the new safeway is on belair rd. but they were asked to leave.

 

Sorry, maybe we can move it to the Michelin Pilot Sport PS2 board. :P