It's the Regional Dialogue MEME
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ladyoneill and thisficklemob both did this...but I have to do mine before I read theirs...so I don't cheat off their answers.I'm not telling you...but not like OLD...(JM's age if you know it...and I knew it before he came out...'cause people born the same year can just tell...there's a harmonic resonance)...I was born in the north, raised in the deep south, educated in the mid-west...go figure!
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks?
A Crick or Creek
2. What the thing you push around the grocery store?
A cart
3. A metal container to carry a meal in?
A lunchbox (and just when you thought I would answer something else starting with the letter "C"...this isn't Sesame Street People!)
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in?
A frying pan (yes...also called a Skillet)
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people?
A sofa
6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof?
A gutter
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening?
A porch
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages?
A coke (Another C word...and I almost went for COUCH above...but I use Sofa more).
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup?
Pancake (aka Griddlecakes)
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself?
A Sub
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach?
Trunks? Toupee? Thong? (this answer brought to you by the letter "T")
12. Shoes worn for sports?
Tennis Shoes
13. Putting a room in order?
Picking up or straightening up
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark?
Firefly
15. The little insect (arthropod) that curls up into a ball?
ICK! Who cares? Just get it away from me already!
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?
A Teeter-Totter
17. How do you eat your pizza?
By the Slice (giving a look because...what does that have to do with anything?)
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
A Garage Sale
19. What's the evening meal?
Dinner
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
The Cellar
21. An unusually heavy rain which does not last long.
A downpour
22. A window covering on rollers that pulls down.
Window Shade
23. A new, limited access, multi-lane road.
Toll Road
24. Heavy garments worn for work.
Overalls
25. The area in the house where people usually sit.
Living Room
26. paper thing you carry something home from the store in.
Sack
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Date: 2003-12-04 09:54 pm (UTC)And, yay, someone else who says 'coke' for everything!
Yeah...a bit red-faced over the COKE thing...
Date: 2003-12-04 09:58 pm (UTC)And now I have ALL the answers...for some reason when I went to check on yours you had MORE questions than me...so I stole the rest of yours.
Rae
Re: Yeah...a bit red-faced over the COKE thing...
Date: 2003-12-08 08:34 am (UTC)As for the numbers on the quiz, I've seen at least four different versions. It's like oral tradition--everything changes gradually from mouth to mouth. *g*
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Date: 2003-12-04 11:21 pm (UTC)And why did I skip right to four, skipping three? And furthermore, why is drinking fountain still not on that list?
caia, confuddled
This MEME is wierd
Date: 2003-12-05 11:55 am (UTC)Rae
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Date: 2003-12-05 06:38 am (UTC)