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Old 09-10-2012, 07:27 AM   #1
glatt
 
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Originally Posted by Trilby View Post
My BIL thinks it was just the Maine accent and the word was 'sharpie' like, "Oh, he's a sharpie" which is a throwback insult from, like, the fifties? I dunno.

Shoppie meant he took shop in high school instead of college path courses.

In Lewiston we used "wrench" for that. The guy in a leather jacket was a wrench there.
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