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. ;)

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

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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: