Ear: Astorian

An interesting tidbit: An old blog posting from 2008 titled, “A true Astorian … Oregon, that is,” written by Matt Crichton, who goes on to enumerate 60 identifying “true Astorian” factors including:

“You know what a hill rat is … you know what sea lions sound like … you’ve thrown popcorn at Sneak (not Snake) at ‘Shanghaied in Astoria’ … you occasionally slip up and say ‘uff-da!’ … you really have to walk uphill both ways to get somewhere … you remember when there was no roundabout … you’ve been sledding on Eighth Street …

“You know at least five different words for ‘rain’ … you know the difference between a banana slug and a regular slug … (and) you always said you couldn’t wait to get out of Astoria, but you still live there, or go back often.”