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skydark ([personal profile] skydark) wrote2003-12-04 08:16 pm

That Meme

Gacked from [livejournal.com profile] tygerseye

Age: 38
Where did you grow up? USA, South, Doraville/Atlanta Georgia




1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks?

Creek or Crik

2. What's the thing you push around the grocery store?

Shoppin' cart

3. A metal container to carry a meal in?

Well metal would be called a lunch bucket

4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in?

Skillet

5. The piece of furniture that seats three people?

Sofa

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?

Well it's a porch on most houses, unless your house is fancy then it's a wrap around or a veranda

8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages?

Coke

9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup?

Pancake

10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself?

Sub or po' boy

11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach?

Swim trunks

12. Shoes worn for sports?

Tennis shoes or sneakers

13. Putting a room in order?

Cleaning up

14. A flying insect that glows in the dark?

Lightening bug

15. The little insect (arthropod) that curls up into a ball?

Roly-poly

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?

Seesaw

17. How do you eat your pizza?

Personally with a knife and fork, but if I'm on the run just with my hands, going tip first

18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?

Garage or yard sale

19. What's the evening meal?

Dinner (Supper is before dinner, but after lunch)

20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?

Basement or crawl space

21. That plant that kids throw at each other because it sticks to clothing?

Thistles stick to clothing, or that tall grass with the spiky head, you'd make a loop end of the stem and 'shoot' it


22. Those little balls of froth on plants in spring, which contain some moth or other's eggs?

You got me

23. Girls' lower-half underwear?

Panties

23b. Boys' lower-half underwear?

Briefs, my mom called the white fronts

24. The cloth you had when you were little and always slept with, and perhaps sucked your tongue with?

Never had one, my cousin had one, it was his blanket

25. Warm knitted top typically made of wool?

Sweater

26. Baked in an oven, made of flour, butter, an egg, milk?

With flour it was a cake


27. A single thistledown seed flying free.

Whirlygig

28. Place where you. Er. You know. Use the euphemism...

Potty in polite company, or Powder room or Bathroom