Confessions of a Fugitive Mind
April 6, 2008
What do you call...?
- Age:
- 28
- Where I grew up:
- Michigan
- 1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks.
- creek
- 2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called.
- shopping cart
- 3. A metal container to carry a meal in.
- lunchbox
- 4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in.
- frying pan
- 5. The piece of furniture that seats three people.
- couch
- 6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof.
- eaves trough, sometimes a gutter
- 7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening.
- porch
- 8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages.
- pop -- although I have been New Englandized and have started calling it soda
- 9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup.
- pancake
- 10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself.
- sub
- 11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach.
- swimsuit or swim trunks
- 12. Shoes worn for sports.
- tennis shoes
- 13. Putting a room in order.
- impossible... or cleaning.
- 14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.
- firefly
- 15. The little insect that curls up into a ball.
- rolly polly
- 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?
- in hand, from the inside, until there's as much pizza as crust. that's when I fold it on itself and start eating from side to side, taking equal amounts of crust and pizza. weird, i know.
- 18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
- garage sale or rummage sale
- 19. What's the evening meal called?
- dinner
- 20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
- basement
- 21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?
- drinking fountain or water fountain
Well, what do YOU say?
Posted by criminal at April 6, 2008 12:37 AM