{"id":832,"date":"2009-07-31T13:22:59","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T20:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/?p=832"},"modified":"2025-05-23T17:33:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:33:50","slug":"a-chicagoans-bostonian-tick-thursday-july-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/a-chicagoans-bostonian-tick-thursday-july-31\/","title":{"rendered":"A Chicagoan’s Bostonian Tick – Thursday July 31"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"117610830_84b5c99564\"<\/a>I am not from Massachusetts.\u00a0 I went to college there, but I didn’t grow up there.<\/p>\n

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Sometimes I use the word “wicked” as in: wicked cool, wicked fat, wicked mean, wicked wicked (if I’m talking about Dick Cheney for instance) and this habit can confuse people.\u00a0 Some demand to know if I am from Boston or if I’m imitating Boston people and if not what is the explanation for me using wicked?\u00a0 People get pretty confrontational about this word, which apparently is so identified with Boston that a non-Bostonian better have a good explanation for daring to use it.<\/p>\n

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So I have decide to explain why I slip a wicked in here are there.\u00a0 It’s a two part explanation, and I hope it dispels any notions of poseur-ness or douchey-ness on my part.<\/p>\n

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1. My best friend is from Massachusetts, was born in Massachusetts, and is apologetically full of Mass pride.\u00a0 The BF, like me, is an avid reader and wordsmith.\u00a0 Although the BF puts me to shame with one of the juiciest, most powerful brains I’ve ever had the privilege to see in action.\u00a0 So when I’m really missing the BF, I like to use “wicked” as an homage. I usually use it at least once a day.<\/p>\n

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2. People keep telling me I use the word F*CK too much, especially as an adjective, verb, adverb, and filler (instead of “um” or “er).\u00a0 Wicked is a satisfactory substitute.<\/p>\n

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So there you have it.\u00a0 It’s nothing to be alarmed about or feel threatened by.\u00a0 It’s not like I’m saying “lift” for “elevator” or “loo” for “pooper”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am not from Massachusetts.\u00a0 I went to college there, but I didn’t grow up there.   Sometimes I use the word “wicked” as in: wicked cool, wicked fat, wicked mean, wicked wicked (if I’m talking about Dick Cheney for instance) and this habit can confuse people.\u00a0 Some demand to know if I am from … Continue reading “A Chicagoan’s Bostonian Tick – Thursday July 31”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3739,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions\/3739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}