"My sister forwarded a copy of your recent "Your from Bawlmer if" articles, where you were not quite sure where to place the credit (or blame) for said Bawlmerisms.  I confess.  It all started last year with a 'You might be from Maryland' e-mail.  It got expanded over the next few weeks to the point where the original e-mail became barely recognizable.  The outcome is pretty much, word for word, the series you presented.  I recieved a lot of interesting responses to the original e-mail, and got a lot of fodder for 'Take 2.'  Your coverage produced some great comments.  . .  . Thanks so much for the attention it got.  

"The source of most the information is my fading memory, with a lot of help from family and friends.  I grew up in the Govans area, went to Curley, and was a city police officer for 10 years ('73 to '83). My cop days in the Southeastern District and Traffic Division (motorcycles, then horse) are the major source of information. I'm on the road quite often with business travel, so I catch the news on-line almost daily from wherever I am. And now you know the rest of the story....."