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deliriumcrow) wrote2003-12-04 09:41 pm
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1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks?
Stream when very small, creek (not crick) when medium sized
2. What the thing you push around the grocery store/supermarket?
Basket
3. A metal container to carry a meal in?
lunchbox.
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in?
Frying pan
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people?
couch
6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof?
Gutter
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening?
Porch, unless it goes all or most of the way around, and then it's a verandah. Because it feels good to say it.
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages?
pop
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup?
Pancake
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself?
Sub
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach?
trunks
12. Shoes worn for sports?
Sneakers
13. Putting a room in order?
straightening
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark?
Firefly
15. The little insect arthropod that curls up into a ball?
Rolly poly! **shudder**
16. 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?
See-saw
17. How do you eat your pizza?
point to crust, flat, to the last few inches, then it goes sideways. (how is this dialect? custom maybe, but not dialect. It isn't linguistic.)
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
Yard sale, garage sale, rummage sale, depending on location in the yard.
19. What's the evening meal?
Dinner
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
Basement, cellar if it's unfinished and uninhabitable except by the spiders.
21. That plant that kids throw at each other because it sticks to clothing?
burr--the seed. Burrdock--the plant
I hate Hotmail. I hate what they've done with the new layout, and the difficulties I had in finding teh place to write a message to someone not in your contacts list. And the fact that when they started to change it I couldn't get rid of the mail I didn't want except by opening each piece individually and deleting it there. And the fact that I can no longer open the mail in the box, and that if I manage to catch one of the new mail messages and get into the mail that way, I can't reply. So yeah. It sucks.
And then I opened a new account, it may or may not end up being connected to this account. I'm goign to try not to advertise its identity too much, though, as I dont' really want to get all manner of penis enlargement spam.
And I think my speaker might have deceded to fix itself. I dont know how. I jogged a few wires, disconnected them, reconnected, and now it works. It didnt' work the last time I tried this though, so I don't know.
22. Those little balls of froth on plants in spring, which contain some moth or other's eggs?
spitbugs
23. Girls' lower-half underwear?
which kind? pnataloons, pantalettes, drawers, panties, bloomers, bikinis, V-strings, thongs, underwear, you want more?
24. Boys' lower-half underwear?
shorts, drawers, underwear
24. The cloth you had when you were little and always slept with, and perhaps sucked your tongue with?
blankie
25. Warm knitted top typically made of wool?
sweater
26. Baked in an oven, made of flour, butter, an egg, milk: raised with a chemical baking powder (cream of tartar/bicarbonate of soda) rather than with a yeasty leaven: what do you call it?
scones. my biscuits have no eggs in them.
27. A single thistledown seed flying free.
fluff. sometimes classified by plant.
I like being specific. Because it's more fun that way? I don't know. But it has to be done.
Stream when very small, creek (not crick) when medium sized
2. What the thing you push around the grocery store/supermarket?
Basket
3. A metal container to carry a meal in?
lunchbox.
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in?
Frying pan
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people?
couch
6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof?
Gutter
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening?
Porch, unless it goes all or most of the way around, and then it's a verandah. Because it feels good to say it.
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages?
pop
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup?
Pancake
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself?
Sub
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach?
trunks
12. Shoes worn for sports?
Sneakers
13. Putting a room in order?
straightening
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark?
Firefly
15. The little insect arthropod that curls up into a ball?
Rolly poly! **shudder**
16. 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?
See-saw
17. How do you eat your pizza?
point to crust, flat, to the last few inches, then it goes sideways. (how is this dialect? custom maybe, but not dialect. It isn't linguistic.)
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
Yard sale, garage sale, rummage sale, depending on location in the yard.
19. What's the evening meal?
Dinner
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
Basement, cellar if it's unfinished and uninhabitable except by the spiders.
21. That plant that kids throw at each other because it sticks to clothing?
burr--the seed. Burrdock--the plant
I hate Hotmail. I hate what they've done with the new layout, and the difficulties I had in finding teh place to write a message to someone not in your contacts list. And the fact that when they started to change it I couldn't get rid of the mail I didn't want except by opening each piece individually and deleting it there. And the fact that I can no longer open the mail in the box, and that if I manage to catch one of the new mail messages and get into the mail that way, I can't reply. So yeah. It sucks.
And then I opened a new account, it may or may not end up being connected to this account. I'm goign to try not to advertise its identity too much, though, as I dont' really want to get all manner of penis enlargement spam.
And I think my speaker might have deceded to fix itself. I dont know how. I jogged a few wires, disconnected them, reconnected, and now it works. It didnt' work the last time I tried this though, so I don't know.
22. Those little balls of froth on plants in spring, which contain some moth or other's eggs?
spitbugs
23. Girls' lower-half underwear?
which kind? pnataloons, pantalettes, drawers, panties, bloomers, bikinis, V-strings, thongs, underwear, you want more?
24. Boys' lower-half underwear?
shorts, drawers, underwear
24. The cloth you had when you were little and always slept with, and perhaps sucked your tongue with?
blankie
25. Warm knitted top typically made of wool?
sweater
26. Baked in an oven, made of flour, butter, an egg, milk: raised with a chemical baking powder (cream of tartar/bicarbonate of soda) rather than with a yeasty leaven: what do you call it?
scones. my biscuits have no eggs in them.
27. A single thistledown seed flying free.
fluff. sometimes classified by plant.
I like being specific. Because it's more fun that way? I don't know. But it has to be done.
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