pole monkey

A lineman for an electric utility or telephone company

They're either in CWA or IBEW

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Texas Weiner

A hot dog boiled in oil and served with onions and chili sauce. This is Paterson, NJ's contribution to American cuisine. People outside New Jersey will call this a "Coney Island" or 'chili dog", but they can't raise a candle to the Paterson Texas Weiner.

And yes, that's how we spell it! And if you want to start a big debate in Passaic County, NJ, just tell them that the Hot Grill in Clifton bakes better Texas Weiners than Libby's Lunch in Paterson or Pappy's Diner in Totowa. And you can say that everybody beats the Falls View.

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Q

A Federal Q2 siren, the last mechanical siren made for a moving vehicle. It's almost always used on fire apparatus.
It's loud as hell. R=The next best thing to playing an MP3 of "Move bitch! Get out the way!' on a badass PA system.

"It ain't a fire truck without a siren." Federal Signal slogan

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Brownie

A political appointee with no apparent qualification for his job except that he's a friend of a powerful politicain.

Former FEMA director Michael Brown. Nicked "Brownie" by George W. Bush.
Term was was coined by New York Times columnist Paul Krugman on Sep. 26, 2005

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South Hudson Institute of Tehnology

The US Military Academy at West Point, NY. This term is often used either by residents ot the lower Hudson Valley or by officers of the Army who went through ROTC or OCS.

Actually, it's the first engineering college founded in the USA

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nigger heaven

The upper deck at a stadium, arena or theater.
It comes from the Jim Crow era when black people were forced to sit in the balcony of a movie house

The blue seats in Madison Square Garden

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momeback

A sanitation worker (nice name for a garbagema)

He rides the tailboard of a garbage truck and shouts "Momeback!"

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