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April 10th, 2008 (10:11 am)
WHERE I COME FROM:
Brisbane, Queensland - (with British parents.)
WHAT DO YOU CALL:
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks?
A canal
2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called?
Shopping trolley.
3. A metal container to carry a meal in?
Takeaway.
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in?
Fry pan.
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people?
A lounge chair
6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof?
Gutters
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening?
Veranda or porch
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages?
Soft drinks
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup?
Pancakes
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself?
Subway (maybe?)
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach?
Swimming togs
12. Shoes worn for sports?
Runners
13. Putting a room in order?
Cleaning up.
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark?
Don't have them here - but I know from TV they're fireflys.
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball?
??
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?
Pick it up with my hands
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
Garage Sale
19. What's the evening meal?
Dinner.
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
Don't have basements in Australia. At least not in Qld
21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?
Water fountain.
And these are a few I've added that I've run into over the years writing fanfic:
The back part of a car that opens up and you put stuff in?
The boot
The little box that you step into and it takes you to the next floor?
An elavator or a lift
Concrete path that you walk on?
Pavement
Handheld light that takes batteries that you use to see at night?
A torch
Knitted garment for all ages that warms you from the waist up?
A jumper.
Cloth wrapped around a baby?
Nappies
Babies sleep in?
A cot
Babies pushed around in?
A pram
Brisbane, Queensland - (with British parents.)
WHAT DO YOU CALL:
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks?
A canal
2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called?
Shopping trolley.
3. A metal container to carry a meal in?
Takeaway.
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in?
Fry pan.
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people?
A lounge chair
6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof?
Gutters
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening?
Veranda or porch
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages?
Soft drinks
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup?
Pancakes
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself?
Subway (maybe?)
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach?
Swimming togs
12. Shoes worn for sports?
Runners
13. Putting a room in order?
Cleaning up.
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark?
Don't have them here - but I know from TV they're fireflys.
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball?
??
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?
Pick it up with my hands
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
Garage Sale
19. What's the evening meal?
Dinner.
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
Don't have basements in Australia. At least not in Qld
21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?
Water fountain.
And these are a few I've added that I've run into over the years writing fanfic:
The back part of a car that opens up and you put stuff in?
The boot
The little box that you step into and it takes you to the next floor?
An elavator or a lift
Concrete path that you walk on?
Pavement
Handheld light that takes batteries that you use to see at night?
A torch
Knitted garment for all ages that warms you from the waist up?
A jumper.
Cloth wrapped around a baby?
Nappies
Babies sleep in?
A cot
Babies pushed around in?
A pram
#15 would be a "pill bug" (at least, that's how I've always seen/heard them referred to as), or a roly-poly. If you poke it, it curls up into a tiny little ball, and looks like a round pill :)
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