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| 11:00 p.m.-2003-12-16 Stole this from Gnomad WHAT DO YOU CALL: The basics: Born in Texas, adopted Pacific Northwester. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks: creek What the thing you push around the grocery store is called: buggy A metal container to carry a meal in: Lunchkit The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in: fryin pan The piece of furniture that seats three people: little couch The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof: gutter The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening: front porch, back porch (if it's covered), patio (if it's open air) Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages: coke (even if it's Pepsi) A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup: pancakes A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself: po boy The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach: swim trunks (if they're store bought) or cutoffs (if they're your old jeans) Shoes worn for sports: tennis shoes Putting a room in order: clean up A flying insect that glows in the dark: lightnin bug The little insect that curls up into a ball: doodlebug The children's playground equipment where one kid sits on one side and goes up while the other sits on the other side and goes down: seesaw How do you eat your pizza? lots of parmesan and peppers, folded in half, point first What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff? garage sale (even if its in your yard) What's the evening meal? supper The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are? cellar What word(s) do you use to address a group of two or more people? Hi ya'll. Would you say "Are you coming with?" as a full sentence, to mean "Are you coming with us?" Yeah. Or more likely, "You going?" Would you say "where are you at?" to mean "where are you?" Yeah again, but more likely, "Where ya at?" Modals are words like "can," "could," "might," "ought to," and so on. Can you use more than one modal at a time? (e.g., "I might could do that" to mean "I might be able to do that"; or "I used to could do that" to mean "I used to be able to do that") Well, I might shouldn't've, but here I've gone and done it away. Does that count? What do you call the area of grass between the sidewalk and the road? Um. The grass. What do you call the area of grass that occurs in the middle of some streets? The grass. What do you call the long narrow place in the middle of a divided highway? The grass. What do you call the drink made with milk and ice cream? Milkshake. You need coke for a float. What do you call the miniature lobster that one finds in lakes and streams for example (a crustacean of the family Astacidae)? Dinner! Or crawdad. What do you call the kind of spider (or spider-like creature) that has an oval-shaped body and extremely long legs? Daddylonglegs. What nicknames do/did you use for your maternal grandmother? Nanny. What about your paternal grandmother (is there a distinction?) Grandma (said 'gramma') What do/did you call your maternal grandfather? Pa-pa (said 'paw paw') Paternal grandfather? Grandpa (said 'grampa') What do you call the big clumps of dust that gather under furniture and in corners? The cats. Oh. Those. The dustbunnies. What term do you use to refer to something that is across both streets from you at an intersection (or diagonally across from you in general)? kittycorner. What do you call the activity of driving around in circles in a car? doin' donuts What do you call paper that has already been used for something or is otherwise imperfect? scrap or scratch What is your *general* term for a big road that you drive relatively fast on? highway What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining? devil beatin his wife When you are cold, and little points of skin begin to come on your arms and legs, you have: goosebumps What do you call the gooey or dry matter that collects in the corners of your eyes, especially while you are sleeping? eye boogers or sleep What do you call an easy course? piece of cake What do you call a traffic situation in which several roads meet in a circle and you have to get off at a certain point? what the fuck? whose idea was this anyway? What is the thing that women use to tie their hair? rubberband Do you use the word cruller? Ooh. I'll have two please. Do you use the term "bear claw" for a kind of pastry? And one of those, too! What do you call someone who is the opposite of pigeon-toed (i.e. when they walk their feet point outwards)? splay footed Can you call coleslaw "slaw"? Yup. What do you call the box you bury a dead person in? casket Do you say "vinegar and oil" or "oil and vinegar" for the type of salad dressing? oil and vinegar, but where's the ranch? What do you call it when a driver changes over one or more lanes way too quickly? When you stand outside with a long line of people waiting to get in somewhere, are you standing "in line" or "on line" (as in, "I stood ___ in the cold for two hours before they opened the doors")? In line. Do you say "frosting" or "icing" for the sweet spread one puts on a cake? I frost cakes, but I ice cookies. What is "the City"? Anything with more than 1 person per acre in the city limits. What is the distinction between dinner and supper? Dinner's what you have when you go visiting. Supper's what mom put on the table tonight. Do you cut or mow the lawn or grass? cut the grass if it's over a foot high...otherwise, I'm gonna go mow the lawn Do you pass in homework or hand in homework? you turn in homework, you pass back papers handed out in class What do you call the insect that looks like a large thin spider and skitters along the top of water? waterbug What do you call the thing from which you might drink water in a school? water fountain What do you call a public railway system (normally underground)? subway What do you call the act of covering a house or area in front of a house with toilet paper? rolling What do you call a traffic jam caused by drivers slowing down to look at an accident or other diversion on the side of the road? Damn inconsiderate. Rubbernecking. What vowel do you use in bag? short a What do you call the paper container in which you might bring home items you bought at the store? sacks if they're paper, bags if they're plastic What do you call the night before Halloween? Halloween eve? What do you call the end of a loaf of bread? The crust What do you call a point that is purely academic, or that cannot be settled and isn't worth discussing further? moot point How do you pronounce the -sp- sequence in "thespian" (the word meaning "actor")? thes-PIAN What do you call a drive-through liquor store? They have those? What do you call food that you buy at a restaurant but then eat at home? Take out What do you say when you want to lay claim to the front seat of a car? Dibbs! What word do you use for gawking at someone in a lustful way? oogling Do you say "expecially", or "especially"? usually just 'specially
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