Darryl from New Shannon on KXNO shows
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Here around Waterloo we refer to the corporate John Deere offices or manufacturing as “Deere’s” and I’ve never noticed it until it drove my wife (not from the area) nuts. We also never say someone got hired, it’s “they got on” somewhere.
“Jimmy got a new job, he got on at Deere’s in Waterloo”
One of my best friends from ISU 'got on' at Abbott Labs in the far N suburbs of Chicago. He said the old timers there called it "Abbott's."
The 'got on' thing is fairly common I think.
My buddy from the East instead of saying they "called in sick" say they "called off sick." I'd never heard that one before.
Waterloo and Dubuque are both communities that use the term Deere’s when saying anything about John Deere.
If you hear that term in a bar you can probably win a beer on betting you know where that person is from.
They have no idea the rest of the world is using the name Deere.
Many locals in pella call vermeer manufacturing “Vermeer’s”. Strange thing.
There are people from Iowa who can't even say Des Moines right.
Not to intentionally resurect an old thread, but I just heard "Derek from New Sharon" call into the Dave Ramsey show on Tuesday (via podcast) calling himself "Pete from Chicago". He mentioned driving through Iowa and something about getting screwed over by a car dealership.
What an odd dude. He clearly needs a hobby.
What an odd dude. He clearly needs a hobby.
He just called DP show to talk about Purdy. So proud to have him nationally representing the state of Iowa and ISU. Lol!
Sounds like he has one that he loves to me...
Him going toe to toe with Dave Ramsey for some reason sounds wildly entertaining to me.
So true. I listen to mostly talk radio locally, WGN or the local sports station. Just because I am never in the car for more than a few minutes on a daily basis and they tend to have less commercials than the music station. So, instead of listening to commercials for my 4 minute drive. I think most of the appeal for me is just trying to figure out the mentality of people who call into these shows that think the general public care about what it is they have to say.
The second I heard “Derek in Iowa” I cringed and knew exactly who was coming. Thankfully it was brief and not as bad as I was expecting.
I always thought it was a contrived character for Chris and Ross' Fanatics show. Apparently not the case.
Dp laughed, then let him go after saying Iowa pissed it down their leg against wisky.
