and a lot of it applies to RI'ers too - they're all funny.

When I lived in California, people made fun of me for saying No Suh! I didn't know not everyone said that!

Yes Way.

I gotta go by the packie, and stop at the Spa for tonics and maybe a grinder

Recite this line outside a 100 mi. radius of The Hub, they'll thnk you're speaking Sanskrit....

I've been away from there for decades and i still use some of these terms. and have the full-on accent at times.

I often provide a disclaimer: "You can't move far enough away or long enough to shake that stuff off."

A disclaimer I use for myself and other New Englanders whom I encounter out here in the west.

Wicked Pissah!

As a born & bred Pittsburgh native who now lives no where near there, I think I may need to adopt it myself. Thirty years away and I still can't shake the word 'gumband' from my vocabulary...

You stay far enough away for long enough to have that fade from your DNA!!

And many of them I would use today, and some of my friends even in Maine and NH would scratch their heads trying to understand what the heck I am talking about.

My California friends, forget it! They would have no idea. They used to make fun of my Boston accent all the time, and I laughed along with them, of course.

"Wicked Pissah" is the best, used in local Dunkin Donuts commercials last year, I doubt they ran anywhere else

(in the Hilltowns of Western Mass) even we use some of those expressions.

Although we don't have that funny Boston accent...

The only people who referred to it as "The Combat Zone" was the news media as in "there was another stabbing tonight in The Combat Zone".

suburbs sure did.