Where did your herps name come from!!??

Tiger, yep -- any excuse is a good excuse to watch Princess Bride! :) I think a snake named Wesley might get beat up by other snakes, though.

Freak, nope. I'll have been divorced ten years next month. :)

oh yeah, and I was wondering... but what is C 1/11 FA?

It was his unit at Ft. Lewis. C 1/11 Field Artillery.

Prawns? Jojos? I'm not sure what these are but I'm from Chicago if that explains anything.. I'm living in Nashville for school right now (senior in college) so this may be helpful... it took me a while to get my mind around "what kind of coke do you want?" answer: "ummm... classic?" haha. also calling grocery bags "sacks" always seemed a bit tongue in cheek to me. I just ask for a pop.

oh! Names.. Icculus is a name taken from a song by my favourite musical ensemble... the band Phish.. Icculus is the character who wrote the book containing all knowledge in Trey (the lead singer/guitarist) Anastasio's senior thesis (Treys senior thesis was a collection of original songs with a unifying theme and story often called Gamehenge). I originally was going to name him Socrates but I leaned so much from posting and surfing the internet that Icculus seemed more appropriate given all of the knowledge I gained.

Prawns are what they call shrimp in the northwest, or maybe just in the west, I don't know. Jojos are delicious battered pressure-cooked potato wedges and as far as I know are only available in WA. I don't understand what's tongue-in-cheek about putting your groceries in sacks or how that's particularly different from bags? Also, I don't understand why some people get hopped up about grocery carts vs. buggies? If you ask the wrong southerner for a pop, though, they might actually oblige you and give you a smack on the butt. ;)

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Marla

If you ask the wrong southerner for a pop, though, they might actually oblige you and give you a smack on the butt. ;)

---

LOL! That is SO true!

i am from michigan, and it will always be POP in my eyes. Even though being here in the south I tend to call it soda more often than wantes, so maybe i will just start with soda pop... A mixture of both

Freak, no big deal about pop, etc., but if you grow up in an area where something is called by a certain name and don't learn what others' names for it are, you don't have any way of knowing what people want when they as you for a "pop" or what have you, just like Jonah wouldn't have known what it was if some Seattleite asked him for prawns. When I first heard of "crayfish" I thought they were some kind of fish and didn't know people were referring to mudbugs, or crawdads. It's just a matter of learning local terminology in order to be able to communicate most effectively. Another example would be the English girl who asked me for a "***" when I was 16 -- she had to explain she wanted a cigarette. :)

When I was in Bible school, we had a lot of International students. One friend of mine from Zimbabwe went into our book store (mind you...this is a Bible school book store!) and asked where the rubbers were! :shock:

(That's what they call erasers in Zimbabwe.)

Well, I named my bp Pete bacause I thought it was a boy. But then I had reason to believe that it is a girl, so I named him Bernice cause it goes with "Bernice the Ball Python". One day when I get her probed and it turns out she is a boy, then I'm going to call her Barney - cause she ties herself in Don Knotts (if you've never seen the Andy Griffif show then you'll never know what I'm talking about). Get it? ties itself in knots! :lol:

i know them as crawfish not cray fish or crawdads

mudbugs, hehe

Gotta love colloquialisms. When I first moved here a girl knocked on my door wanting "to borrow my sweeper" - so when I handed her my broom she just stared slack-jawed at me like I was an idiot (ok so can't fault her there). Know what she was looking for?

Others that took me a while to figure out

buggy (which you'll find in some stores)

poke (not the verb k thx)

i know people in the south call shopping carts Buggies, I found that out the other day.

Ding - score one for you.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Smulkin

mudbugs, hehe

Gotta love colloquialisms. When I first moved here a girl knocked on my door wanting "to borrow my sweeper" - so when I handed her my broom she just stared slack-jawed at me like I was an idiot (ok so can't fault her there). Know what she was looking for?

Others that took me a while to figure out

buggy (which you'll find in some stores)

poke (not the verb k thx)

---

Yup, mudbugs were what we called 'em, though some people I knew called them crawdads as well. I don't have any idea what the girl wanted from you if it wasn't your broom or a carpet sweeper -- what did she mean? Buggy I certainly know, and I'll guess by poke you mean poke salad, the huge annoying weed that some poor folk have been known to eat. Another thing that I think may be peculiar to the south is making business names posessive, as in "I'm going to Eckerd's, do ya need anything?" (Eckerd is a drug store chain) or "My grandmother was in the Grady's for a week" (meaning Grady Memorial Hospital).

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by freakoverdose1

i know them as crawfish not cray fish or crawdads

---

Yet another version of the same thing. :) Those may have more names than just about anything else that's not a portion of the anatomy. LOL

Yeah - sweeper turned out to be vacuum cleaner. Poke is a paper bag (or sack if you prefer).

Huh. I hadn't heard sweeper used to refer to a vacuum, just to the non-electrical thingies you run over the carpet to pick up little paper scraps or what have you. I got one for my office so I wouldn't have to haul out the vacuum every time. And that meaning of poke is like "a pig in a poke", but I wouldn't have guessed it off the top of my head -- that's probably a remnant of the Old English that's still found in Appalachia, like "holpen."

one of my friends from Germany once asked the teacher for a "rubber" in front of the whole class.... in european english that means eraser.... bit of a misunderstanding..

Right now my snakes name is Cutie, Sweetie, Ballsy Walsy and many along that line :lol: I will pick a proper name once I take him/her to the vet and find out what sex the little darling is :P

We named ours Pauliocho because we thought he was a girl at first, at least that is what we were told. And my daughter wanted to name her Polly the python. Then my bf thought of Ocho cuz he has alot of figue 8's on his back. So we combined Polly and Ocho into Pollyocho, then we found out it was a he, so it got changed to Pauliocho.

i was gonna guess vacuum cleaner too.