Comments on: What do you call…

By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:52:40 +0000

My only excuse for the missing 17 is that I compiled this from two different surveys and… yeah, I suck.

It would make my day to see you out and about in leg warmers, Brad. Seriously.

By: Illustrious Potentat

Illustrious Potentat — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:17:06 +0000

I just found this.
Why have I just now found this? Odd.

Ready for my inane list? Filled with mystery, intrigue and just straight up belligerence!

1:) crick (Hamiltonian,) creek (correct Hamiltonian,) brook (my aunts on my father side,) rill and rivulet (my mother trying to teach me correct language skills.) I use creek and rivulet the most. But I usually mispronounce rivulet: REE-VUE-LAY. Lazily over a slothful tongue, kinda like Pepe Le Piu. It was mostly in jest of my mother when I was a bastard fucking teenager.

2:) kids, children, ankle-bitters

3:) flask

4:) If I was cooking them IN anything, it would probably be a dutch-oven or a microwave. ON is a different story. Yeah I’m an asshole.

5:) a very small roman bath house.

6:) Magical midgets? Sprites, gnomes, fairies? It must be hard to carry rain. My gutters transport water from off the roof to the ground as to not let it soak into the awning and rot my house.

7:) porch, patio

8:) urine of Satan

9:) eggs, pancakes, sausage patties.

10:) hero, hoagie (preferred,) sub, grinder.

11:) god awful Hawaiian shirts.

12:) cleats, spikes, shit-kickers, tennis shoes…ect. Too many to just pick one.

13:) picking up the bottles and glasses

14:) lightning bugs, target practice.

15:) armadillo bugs (me), wood louse or Armadillidium vulgare (my mother once again.) She always tried to teach me culture, I just thought she was fucking nuts.

16:) fucking stupid. Unless if you had the fat kid sit on the down end and see how many small children you can round up to balance it out. Yeah I was a cruel child. Still am!

17:) I usually call that a numbered incorrectly or missing.

18:) littering

19:) booze of some sort or some part of the female anatomy if I’m lucky.

20:) dead baby storage or the dungeon.

21:) The Gateway fountain

22:) leg warmers

There you go. I love lists. Especially ones that I readmit I’m just an awful human being. By that I mean, normal.

Have a nice day!

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:18:57 +0000

When I was growing up I hated both names, because “seesaw” had “saw” in it, which sounded dangerous and painful, and “teeter-totter” made it sound like the stupid plank wasn’t securely fixed and was going to fall right the hell off the fulcrum with me on it, which, well, also sounded dangerous and painful.

I was quite the wuss as a kid, if you hadn’t figured that out by now.

By: Amy

Amy — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:00:36 +0000

Awww yay for survey goodness! I’ve never heard teeter-totter before, that’s cool.

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:59:42 +0000

Shaun, when I was filling out the survey I actually considered some of these (except for #8), but when I thought about it I realized that while I understood those terms, and knew people who used them, and could imagine myself saying them, I didn’t actually use them in normal speech. It was weird to have to step outside my head and actually listen to myself for a change, especially since I live in (and have more or less always lived in) an area where people talk a lot differently than I do. I mean, I’m not a Utahn, and I don’t talk like one—but I’m not a Californian, either, and I don’t talk like a Californian. Or like a Texan, evidently. :D

By: Shaun

Shaun — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:25:02 +0000

I agree with all of yours and would just add some alternatives that I sometimes use.

#1 Brook
#5 Sofa (but only if it has really thick, soft cushions with a floral print)
#8 In Texas we call that coke. “What kind of coke do you want?” “I’ll take a sprite”
#10 Hoagie
#13 Tidy up a room
#15 rolly-poly

By: Craig

Craig — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 04:28:50 +0000

For some reason my last comment didn’t post.

I just posted my own list.

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:57:26 +0000

Derek, remind me never to go to the beach with you…

I’m very suspicious of this newfangled plastic-and-resin playground equipment they’re installing these days. If you can’t crack your head open on it or break your femur falling from it, where’s the fun???

By: Derek Staffanson

Derek Staffanson — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:47:42 +0000

Isn’t the answer to #11 a thong?
;)

BTW, there is no answer to #16. It seems that items of that description have sadly been removed from playgrounds (at least in Utah), along with merry-go-rounds. I miss them.