Local jargon for Route 60, a main road connecting Mesa to Phoenix
"Notsoberfest" takes place the last weekend of September, kicking off La Crosse's famous Oktoberfest celebration. People stand around in beer tents and down pitcher after pitcher of beer. Just about everyone there is "not sober".
While outsiders might assume you can borrow money from your buddy and he will lend it to you, in Wisconsin we borrow everything. i.e. "Can you borrow me ten bucks?" "No, sorry. I can't borrow it to you 'cuz then I won't have enough left for the brat fry."
For some reason, low-numbered license plates have become a status symbol in Rhode Island, to the point of a rash of illegal auctions taking place for these prestigious items.
Term used to describe going out for fish dinner, usually on a Friday night. As in "are you going out for fish lunch tonight?"
Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis or IUPUI, the acronym that inspired the not-so-flattering nickname.
To bathe or shower.
The native Rhode Islanders' reference to the hordes of tourists from Massachusetts who swarm their beaches each summer.