Best Conversation Ever? Or BEST CONVERSATION EVER?

[shadydave]

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

Creek? Stream?

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. Sometimes sofa.

6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof.

Gutter.

7. The covered area outside the house where people sit in the evening.

Porch.

8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages.

Soda.

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

Pancake.

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

Hoagie! Unless it's a cheesesteak. Mmmm, cheesesteak.

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

Bathing suit.

12. Shoes worn for sports.

Sneakers.

13. Putting a room in order.

Picking up.

14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.

Lightning bug.

15. The little insect that curls up into a ball.

WTF?

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.

See-saw.

17. How do you eat your pizza?

With my mouth? But with no silverware.

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

Yard sale.

19. What's the evening meal?

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?

Water fountain.

Quote o' the Day:

Overheard in the Marketplace...

Girl 1: ...pyrotechnic pirates.
Girl 2: Yes, in an outer space environment.

Comments

[perivates.livejournal.com]

#15 = pillbugs/roly-polies. Haven't you seen those before? If you poke at them, they curl up and try to roll away.

It's all beginning to sound vaguely familiar...

[shadydave.livejournal.com]

I think this is one of those cases where I've seen these creatures (and, you know, poked them) and heard of pillbugs BUT NEVER IN THE SAME CONTEXT. This is related to why I pronounce many complicated vocabulary words phonetically, because I read them before anyone would ever say them to me.

[liberalnun.livejournal.com]

Wow, we speak the same!

[shadydave.livejournal.com]

It's because we are awesome.

[monadhrionnag.livejournal.com]

Alas, I have a few differences. Although it is confusing now that I've lived in the Midwest, the East Coast, and the UK. Sometimes I use the words interchangeably.
Examples:
4. I use frying pans or skillets
5. pop OR soda
11. swimming trunks
12. sneakers or tennis shoes
13. to clean a room or "tidy" a room
15. rolly-poly. It took me years to figure out that rolly-polies and pillbugs were the same thing
16. teeter-totter OR see-saw
19. I always used "supper" until I came to the East Coast.

My moving around is confusing what words I use!

[shadydave.livejournal.com]

13. I say "to clean a room'' too, but picking up is more specific to the situation. The rest of them I've heard and don't sound odd, but I don't use them personally.

[failing-light.livejournal.com]

Curiously enough, I speak exactly the same way you do! Isn't that odd?

(Actually, I knew about the pillbug/rolly-polly thing. But only because -- and get this -- I read about them in a dialect survey!)

[shadydave.livejournal.com]

Wow! What are the odds of that happening? Also, I'm glad I was not the only one who was not exposed to pillbugs as a child.