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honorh
Age: 40
Where you grew up (Ages 0-18): Washington state, USA
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks: Creek, pronounced the way it's spelled and not "crick".
2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called: Grocery cart.
3. A metal container to carry a meal in: Lunch box.
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in: skillet or micro (short for microwave).
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people: Couch, sofa for casual, davenport, daveneaux if they're fancy.
6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof: Guttering and drainpipe.
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening: Porch or deck depending on size.
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages: Pop, sometimes soda or soda pop.
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup: Pancakes.
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself: Hoagie or sub sandwich.
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach: Swim trunks, Speedos.
12. Shoes worn for sports: depends on the sport, cleats for soccer, baseball, or American football, basketball shoes (high-tops) track shoes for track, running shoes, walking shoes, cross trainers, or your general tennis shoes or tenny runners.
13. Putting a room in order: Tidy up, Clean up.
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark: Firefly.
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball: pill bug, potato bug
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: Teeter Totter.
17. How do you eat your pizza: Pointy end first.
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff: Garage sale, yard sales, rummage sale, moving sale .
19. What's the evening meal?: Dinner or supper, used interchangeably.
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are: Basement if it's finished, cellar if it's not.
21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places: drinking fountain.
honorhAge: 40
Where you grew up (Ages 0-18): Washington state, USA
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks: Creek, pronounced the way it's spelled and not "crick".
2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called: Grocery cart.
3. A metal container to carry a meal in: Lunch box.
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in: skillet or micro (short for microwave).
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people: Couch, sofa for casual, davenport, daveneaux if they're fancy.
6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof: Guttering and drainpipe.
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening: Porch or deck depending on size.
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages: Pop, sometimes soda or soda pop.
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup: Pancakes.
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself: Hoagie or sub sandwich.
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach: Swim trunks, Speedos.
12. Shoes worn for sports: depends on the sport, cleats for soccer, baseball, or American football, basketball shoes (high-tops) track shoes for track, running shoes, walking shoes, cross trainers, or your general tennis shoes or tenny runners.
13. Putting a room in order: Tidy up, Clean up.
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark: Firefly.
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball: pill bug, potato bug
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: Teeter Totter.
17. How do you eat your pizza: Pointy end first.
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff: Garage sale, yard sales, rummage sale, moving sale .
19. What's the evening meal?: Dinner or supper, used interchangeably.
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are: Basement if it's finished, cellar if it's not.
21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places: drinking fountain.
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Date: 2010-05-01 12:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-01 03:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-01 09:57 am (UTC)Grocery Cart = Shopping basket / Trolly
Skillit = Frying pan
Hoagie = ...a really big sandwhich?
Dinner = Tea (Dinner only if we're being posh!)