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17 years ago
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SoshimoJunai
Age: 43
Where did you grow up: Los Angeles
WHAT DO YOU CALL:
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks.
a stream
2. What is the thing you push around the grocery store is called.
a shopping cart
3. A metal container to carry a meal in.
a lunchbox
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in.
a frying pan
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 rain gutter
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening.
the patio
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages.
soda
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup.
pancakes
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself.
a submarine sandwich
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach.
a bathing suit
12. Shoes worn for sports.
tennis shoes
13. Putting a room in order.
cleaning your room
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.
<they don't exist where I've lived>
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball.
a sow bug is what I called them; others called them pill bugs or rolly-polly bugs
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?
one slice at a time using my hand
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
a yard sale
19. What's the evening meal?
dinner
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
a basement
21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?
a drinking fountain
22. The part of a car that's in the back that has a lid with a lock and you can store things in it out of sight (like suitcases or dead bodies)?
the trunk
23. The balls of hair/lint that collect on a wooden floor under your bed or in other out-of-the-way places?
dust bunnies
24. A multi-laned, limited access road where cars can drive quite fast?
a freeway
SoshimoJunaiAge: 43
Where did you grow up: Los Angeles
WHAT DO YOU CALL:
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks.
a stream
2. What is the thing you push around the grocery store is called.
a shopping cart
3. A metal container to carry a meal in.
a lunchbox
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in.
a frying pan
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 rain gutter
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening.
the patio
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages.
soda
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup.
pancakes
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself.
a submarine sandwich
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach.
a bathing suit
12. Shoes worn for sports.
tennis shoes
13. Putting a room in order.
cleaning your room
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.
<they don't exist where I've lived>
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball.
a sow bug is what I called them; others called them pill bugs or rolly-polly bugs
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?
one slice at a time using my hand
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
a yard sale
19. What's the evening meal?
dinner
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
a basement
21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?
a drinking fountain
22. The part of a car that's in the back that has a lid with a lock and you can store things in it out of sight (like suitcases or dead bodies)?
the trunk
23. The balls of hair/lint that collect on a wooden floor under your bed or in other out-of-the-way places?
dust bunnies
24. A multi-laned, limited access road where cars can drive quite fast?
a freeway
Kev
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22. The Boot
23. Don't get em, have a carpet floor
24. Motorway...or dragstrip depending on what vehicle I'm in
Kev
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I find it interesting which different words are used in which part of the US...
Kev
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Kev
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