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I think I'm screwed because when I was a young lass, I read much more than I talked to people, if that makes sense.

Also, I tend to be pretty specific about what word I use to describe something. So, for instance, "dating" connotes something different than "seeing each other". It has come to my attention that I may be a semantic freak.

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

2. What the thing you push around the grocery store/supermarket?
cart

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

4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in?
frying pan, skillet

5. The piece of furniture that seats three people?
couch, futon, sofa, bed

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

7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening?
veranda, porch

8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages?
soda

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

10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself?
depends on what's in it. hoagy, sub, po' boy, philly.


11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach?
trunks or speedo, depending on the cut

12. Shoes worn for sports?
seriously, which sport?

13. Putting a room in order?
picking or tidying up.

14. A flying insect that glows in the dark?
lightening bug

15. The little insect arthropod that curls up into a ball?
huh?

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?
normally hands, unless it's NY style. then's it's too big for anything but a fork & knife.

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

19. What's the evening meal?
on the fly. or, dinner.

20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?

basement.

Added question, specifically for Midwesterners -

21. The children's game where everyone sits in a circle, one child goes around patting everyone's head saying, "duck, duck...", and then another child gets up and chases the first child, and the first child has to get to the vacated spot before the chaser catches them?
duck, duck, GOOSE.

Smart vs. intelligent.

There's a discussion going on on one of my boards that makes me want to bawl my eyes out, so instead of posting there and being all incoherent and shit, I'm trying to corral my thoughts here:

.....

Never mind. I don't have the emotional or intellectual energy right now, and anything I type sounds like a pathetic whine for strokes. Screw that. Suffice to say that I know damn well I'm not as smart as my parents thought I was, and it's something I get to learn to live with, much like this right knee.


Anyway. The other point of this post was to clarify the question that I added to the meme I just posted:

21. The children's game where everyone sits in a circle, one child goes around patting everyone's head saying, "duck, duck...", and then another child gets up and chases the first child, and the first child has to get to the vacated spot before the chaser catches them?

duck, duck, GOOSE

You see, here in Minnesota, children apparently play a game called "duck duck grAy duck". So instead of a simple "duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, GOOSE" (run like hell), they play "[color] duck, [color] duck, [color] duck, [color] duck, [color] duck, GRAY DUCK" (run like hell). This is a major bone of contention in every freshman dorm in Minnesota come the month of September. It's very strange, and apparently limited to MN-only. Since I'm an instigator, I like teasing my gray duck-playing friends every once in a while.