Ganked from debg

[richardf8]

1. a flowing body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks: stream, brook, or creek

2. the thing you push around the grocery store: shopping cart

3. a metal container to carry a meal in: lunchbox

4. the thing that you cook bacon and eggs in: frying pan

5. the piece of furniture that seats three people: couch or sofa

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: covered? a porch

8. carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages: soda, pop

9. a flat, round breakfast food served with syrup: pancake or flapjack

10. a long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself: sub or hero

11. the piece of clothing worn by men at the beach: Bathing Suit/Trunks

12. shoes worn for sports: Sneakers/Running Shoes

13. putting a room in order: straightening up

14. a flying insect that glows in the dark: firefly

15. the little insect that curls up into a ball: 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: seesaw, teeter totter

17. How do you eat your pizza?: by slice, in hand

18. when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff: either a garage sale, or yard sale

19. the evening meal: dinner or supper

20. the thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are: basement

21. the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places: drinking fountain

22. the end of the bread that you tend to cut off: Heel or K'nerchdebg

Comments

[debg.livejournal.com]

"22. the end of the bread that you tend to cut off: Heel or K'nerchdebg"

Quois? What does that mean, sir, please?

And, TRUNKS! Of course, that's the other term I've heard for a man's swimsuit: trunks. Not sure why they're called that.

[hilleviw.livejournal.com]

...and my answer to 12 is plimsolls...shows where I grew up, doesn't it?

[debg.livejournal.com]

I've called those shoes everything from sneakers to deck shoes to plimsolls to wayfarers to tennie-runners to crosstrainers.

[hilleviw.livejournal.com]

Heh. This would be another sign that you are an IWoM (International Woman of Mystery).

[debg.livejournal.com]

With IMAGINARY SHOES! (rolling eyes forever)

[hilleviw.livejournal.com]

Really cute imaginary shoes!

[debg.livejournal.com]

I never even shook HANDS with those Jimmy Choos!

Sorry. Long week already. I'm a little manic.

The variety in regional answers is really something, isn't it? Lightning bugs versus fireflies - the thing is, you have to have spent time somewhere they actually have the damned things, because they don't exist out here.

[richardf8]

K'nerch -

I'm not really sure of it's origin, whether it was a yiddish word or a family word. It's just what they were called. And your LJName got concatenated to it because the RT editor inserted your username in the wrong field - I'll fix it later.

It should also be noted that factory bread has heels, and bakery bread that was not made in a pan (like Rye or Pumpernickel) has k'nerches.

[debg.livejournal.com]

I wonder if that designation works for classic boules? Round bread, specifically, whether made in a pan or not?

[richardf8]

Once you begin to slice it, it does. If you serve it in wedges, that's another matter.

[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

For some of these (3, 4, 6, 7), I can't think of any alternate names. I also never gave any thought to the different ways to express 13 or 17.

[richardf8]

3. Lunchpail, Cooler.
4. Skillet
6. Downspout
7. Sunroom.

13. Cleaning, Puttering
17. Off a plate, with knife and fork.