Meaning of penn state white out game12/5/2023 ![]() You also mentioned about “co-opting OUR Philadelphia Eagles motto”! Well to inform you, we’re not some fly by night cheesesteak shop out of Arizona. With that being said, we started the slogan well before the Super Bowl hype and everyone using it in Philadelphia. ![]() In your article you noted that we opened a year ago. I’m not at liberty to say anything about the steak shop in the stadium, but here to clarify your dig about the “Philly Thing”! Sending this to enlighten you and give you a few facts on the article you published about Pats Steaks coming to State College while trying to throw digs about two establishments already here. Owner Joseph Ford took offense and penned this missive: In my story the other day about Pat’s Steaks expanding to Penn State, I had some fun at the expense of a newish Penn State cheesesteak shop that I said co-opted the 2022 Eagles motto “It’s a Philly Thing” for their store. Reader Mail: About Those Penn State Cheesesteaks… Department of Corrections? More like Department of Rejections. What’s more amazing than all that is that another guy apparently escaped this very same prison from this very same spot using this very same technique. It’s right around 21 seconds into the video. If you watch closely, you can actually see him dropping down on the other side of the structure he just scaled. And, of course, I added some music, that music being “Escape” a.k.a. I took the liberty of zooming in on his superhuman feat. And now that we have video footage of the prison escape, wow, just wow. ![]() ![]() We’ve all heard about the convicted murderer who escaped from the Chester County prison. ICYMI: The Chester County Prison Escape Video, Enhanced (Separate individuals or entities can trademark a term multiple times for different uses, i.e., the coffee jawn doesn’t infringe upon the clothing jawn.) Other trademarks exist for jawn combined with other terms and for other uses: There’s South Street Jawn, Da Smoothie Jawn, Them Press On Jawns. There’s also a “jawn” trademark belonging to a coffee company. So who owns the term “jawn”? According to a quick search of the federal trademark database, an Ardmore resident secured the federal trademark rights for “jawn” as a stand-alone term to use on clothing way back in 2015. It became overwhelming, and we finally had to include it.” This, from an interview the editor of did with the Inquirer: “It was sitting two years in our database, waiting, having been heard on TV, and in movies, books, songs, and blog posts. Senate campaigns of 2022 co-opted the term, to replace the name “John”?Ī “Jawn Morgan” bus ad for the lawyer John Morgan in 2022 (Photo courtesy of Robin Parry) Was it the fact that one of the most talked-about U.S. Was it all those Eagles posters the editors inevitably saw in the last season? That definition was, quite simply, “slang for a person, place, or thing.” The examples cited: “I cant find that jawn anywhere.” “Yeah, I got the same jawn from Macy’s.” “That new jawn that moved it down the block is HOT!” And “Gimme that jawn!” The far less unofficial Urban Dictionary (it’s crowdsourced) has had a jawn definition online since 2012. Its ultimate origin is uncertain, but it may be a local Philadelphia variant of joint, which is used in a similar way in the New York City metropolitan area. Its addition reflects an increasing awareness of the term outside the region. Philadelphians know that their favorite regional catchall term isn’t new - the first records of its use come from the early 2000s, when it started to be popularized in the Black community. something or someone for which the speaker does not know or does not need a specific name.Įxample: Can you hand me that jawn right there? And at the very top of that announcement? A jawn definition. On Tuesday, released its annual list of newly-added words. In this case, the dictionary that has seen fit to give the world a jawn definition is none other than, the dictionary website that reportedly gets several billion searches each year, if not more. But the jawn definition in that case is for an archaic variation on the also-archaic verb chawn, which apparently means, “to gape open.” Who knew? (Imagine if you started reintroducing that jawn in your daily vocabulary. And no, the dictionary of all dictionary nerds, the Oxford English Dictionary, isn’t providing the world with a jawn definition.
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