Where did your herps name come from!!??

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.

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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)

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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).

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Originally Posted by freakoverdose1

i know them as crawfish not cray fish or crawdads

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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