Dialect meme

May 01, 2010 11:38

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txvoodoo May 1 2010, 16:52:40 UTC
Age: 47.

Where you grew up: Philly burbs

1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks: Creek or stream

2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called: A cart

3. A metal container to carry a meal in: A lunchbox.

4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in: A pan

5. The piece of furniture that seats three people: A couch. Or sofa. I think I use both. - ditto

6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof: A gutter. yup

7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening: A porch.

8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages: A SODA

9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup: A pancake.

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

11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach: Swimming trunks.

12. Shoes worn for sports: sneakers

13. Putting a room in order: straightening up

14. A flying insect that glows in the dark: Lightning bug.

15. The little insect that curls up into a ball: "that bug that curls up"

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 see-saw.

(what else would this be called?) Some people call it teeter-totter

17. How do you eat your pizza: Folded

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. (But we don't have them in Dallas)

21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places: A spigot

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yanks_02 May 1 2010, 16:54:43 UTC
The spigot thing freaked me out for quite some time when I moved up there. My roommate said it like 25 times before I finally went "what the fuck is a spigot?!?"

Ooooh okay. We had a teeter totter in our backyard, or something we called a teeter totter. It was this... swing type thing that had 2 seats and swang back and forth. Not a see-saw.

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txvoodoo May 1 2010, 16:55:38 UTC
That wasn't a teeter totter! :D

Spigot is a VERY regional-to-PA thing.

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yanks_02 May 1 2010, 16:56:17 UTC
LOL what was it? That's what my parents called it and so that's what we called it!

Damn Pennsylvanians.

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yanks_02 May 1 2010, 16:58:49 UTC
OOOOOH FROM WIKIPEDIA: A "teeter-totter" may also refer to a two-person swing on a swing set, on which two children sit facing each other and the teeter-totter swings back and forth in a pendulum motion.

MOOOOO HAHAHAHAHAHA

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yanks_02 May 1 2010, 17:26:09 UTC
No this was a swing that just sat one person on each side facing each other. I can't find a picture of it to save my life! Oh, google, you have failed me!

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yanks_02 May 1 2010, 19:16:57 UTC
Yes!




The little thing at the very end on the right side. With the red seats. That's what we called a teeter totter.

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txvoodoo May 1 2010, 17:34:08 UTC
PFFT. Not a teeter-totter :D

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yanks_02 May 1 2010, 17:35:37 UTC
Wikipedia says it is so, therefore it is!!!

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txvoodoo May 1 2010, 17:36:10 UTC
I could log in and make wiki NOT say so! :D

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yanks_02 May 1 2010, 17:46:01 UTC
That.... is totally true. BUT STILL, I AM RIGHT!

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sideshowkat May 1 2010, 19:41:09 UTC
I've never heard any PA people call it a spigot. LOL. Always a water fountain!

LMAO, that reminds me of the time when college friends from Massachusetts kept saying they liked jimmies on their ice cream, I was like "what the hell are jimmies??"

They're sprinkles.

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