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Nan
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since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA 
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I drink soda.... Who drinks pop? I like a frappe.... Who likes milkshakes? I eat submarine sandwiches.... Who eats hoagies? ... Any More ...??  Waft every crest upon your destined sea. Embrace the Wave of Serendipity, Lest its elusive arcane ecstasy Refurl with sail for all eternity. |
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Severn Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-17
Posts 7704 |
Soda pop is really Fizzy or Soft Drink in disguise and crisps truly are chips JELLY IS ACTUALLY JAM HEH Cookies are really biscuits and seriously...candy goes by the name of lollies  K |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
I live in New Orleans...they are all "cokes" here...unless it's a "Big Shot"... |
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BSC
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Member Elite
since 2000-02-04
Posts 2919New York, USA |
I drink pop & milkshakes, eat submarines and the original buffalo wings...along with beef on kimmelweck (w/o the horseradish), and enjoy a cold genesee cream ale every now and then...... |
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Elizabeth Cor Senior Member
since 2000-10-13
Posts 879Over the river and through the woods |
Nan, frappe??? What the? ...and while we're at it...anybody know what Skippy means? Kamla, *gahck* Brings new meaning to the dish "biscuits and gravy" so what do you call... uhm, biscuits? And what do you mean candy is lollies? Like ALL candy, or just candy on sticks? Which are lollies here... And what are jumpers and jimmies there?  *snort* Karen, you're not talking about "soda" are you? heh heh BSC! You know what Weck is! Does New York have BW3s??? OOooohhhh I miss the weck! I miss the Teriyaki! Sweet, reddish Teriyaki on legs…ahkdsndfsnasnjdsansll…*Beth relents to a food-fantasy coma* Why, yes, Russell, I would love aother wing... okay, okay, you can feed it to me... but you have to lick off the sauce you spill this time... [This message has been edited by Elizabeth Cor (edited 02-07-2001).] |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
I don't know any chickens with wings that look like buffalo wings... As a matter of fact, a buffalo doesn't have wings.... What imbecile dubbed them with that name anyway? Jimmies are little chocolate thingies that go on your ice cream.... yummy..  |
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doreen peri Member Elite
since 1999-05-25
Posts 3812Virginia |
i thought they were called "grinders" up there, nan.... er, i mean "grindahs"... hehe  there subs down here they're all sodas, no matter which brand and definitely milkshakes here |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Reuben in CA is known as "Old Chicago"... really confused me when I finally got to Chicago and couldn't find THAT sandwich anywhere... and why is it in CA you go right or left... but most everywhere else you get four directions? |
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Acies
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Member Rara Avis
since 2000-06-07
Posts 7665Twilight Zone |
Buffalo wings cause the style of cooking and serving it with ranch was first started in Buffalo, New York I love Hooter's wings -- yummy Severn is right...I visited family in Asia and they called cookies, biscuits.... lol@EC want some "chips ahoy n gravy" i assume the "buscuits" here in the US are actually called bread there I see no changes, wake up in the morning I ask myself, "Is life worth living or should I blast myself" TUPAC SHAKUR |
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wayoutwalt Member Elite
since 1999-06-22
Posts 4870TEXAS (it's all big) |
tamales tacos burritos gorditos chalupas enchiladas nachos etc. You know the "Never Ending Story"? They're still telling it! |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
Like serenity, coke was the generic term for all soft drinks where I was growing up... I can still remember ordering an orange coke when on a trip and wondering why people were laughing at me. LOL And those sammich thinggies? *G* They're PO-BOY's... N'awlins style trip to gastronomic delight. *G* |
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Dopey Dope
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Member Patricius
since 2000-08-30
Posts 11132San Juan, Puerto Rico |
I'm with walt on anything he says.....  I was born myself, raised myself, and will continue to be myself. The world will just have to adjust. I'm in love with my shadow I admire it daily |
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Gene Senior Member
since 2000-01-23
Posts 935Colorado, USA |
A rose by any other name would still a flower make, But could you drink a green milkshake? Gene (formerly, u_gene) |
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Poet deVine
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-26
Posts 22612Hurricane Alley |
Or put green ketchup/catsup on your burger? |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
Grinders are subs... same difference.. yep.. ...and a frappe is better than a milkshake because it's got more ice cream in it.. Milkshakes are milkier... Green milkshakes are a MacDonald's specialty on and about St Patricks Day.. |
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wayoutwalt Member Elite
since 1999-06-22
Posts 4870TEXAS (it's all big) |
Menudo? Dopey? |
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Elizabeth
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Member Ascendant
since 1999-06-07
Posts 6871Minnesota |
I have never heard the term 'frappe' before! All we have where I live are 'milkshakes.' Of course I prefer malts....especially made with Hershey's syrup. Never make them with Quik powder because they get too watery.   |
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Acies
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Member Rara Avis
since 2000-06-07
Posts 7665Twilight Zone |
Isn't a frappe cold and shaken coffee? I see no changes, wake up in the morning I ask myself, "Is life worth living or should I blast myself" TUPAC SHAKUR |
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Elizabeth
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Member Ascendant
since 1999-06-07
Posts 6871Minnesota |
Yeah like Starbuck's Frappucino. That's what I first thought of when I read the term frappe. |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
Starbucks is "borrowing" the name then.. The entire northeast should know what a frappe is... It's the ultimate in an ice cream shake... Really thick and ice creamy... Oh - We also drive around rotaries here.. They aren't traffic circles. A rotary is probably the ultimate driving challenge for visitors... You don't stop before entering - You just schmooze your way into the already moving traffic - weave in or out, depending where you're exiting - then schmooze your way out to your off ramp - Never, ever slow down or stop - Those already in the rotary have the right of way... Just DIVE in... Some people find themselves driving in circles for literally hours..... [This message has been edited by Nan (edited 02-08-2001).] |
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Severn Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-17
Posts 7704 |
Beth...biscuits and gravy? What the hell are YOU thinking of? You know cookies...yummy things you eat that are generally supposed to be bad for you? Those are biscuits... So when you ask - what do we call biscuits...I have to say we likely call them biscuits heh oh and I found out that utes in america are what we call jeeps, and jeeps in NZ are what you call utes... Biscuitly bizarre... K |
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BSC
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Member Elite
since 2000-02-04
Posts 2919New York, USA |
My brother lives in Chelmsford Nan, and I'm one of those who have been "trapped" in a "rotary"....I got to the point where I wouldn't drive unless I could get someone to drive right ahead of me and run interference.... oh yeah, and my neices all call "pop" ~ tonic..... Bonnie |
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Acies
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Member Rara Avis
since 2000-06-07
Posts 7665Twilight Zone |
ok let me change the subject a bit cause i have a question. What is a grit? They talk about it in the movies a lot. What kind of food is that? Someone told me it's potatoes.....Aren't those called "hash"? I see no changes, wake up in the morning I ask myself, "Is life worth living or should I blast myself" TUPAC SHAKUR |
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Gene Senior Member
since 2000-01-23
Posts 935Colorado, USA |
Sack / Bag My first culture shock came when I moved to Colorado. I went into a store and bought a few packs of gum. The lady behind the counter asked if I wanted a sack. I said, "No, just a small bag will be fine." She just gave me a puzzled look. To me a sack is like a potato sack. Where I grew up, we had the best milkshake in the world. It was called an Awful Awful, then they changed the name to Frible--never tasted the same. I think a frappe is more like a Slurpee--yuch! A pop is a lolly pop, not Soda, which is not to be confused with Soda Water. Coke means Coke--not Pepsi, If I want a Pepsi, I'll ask for it. "We don't have Coke. Is Pepsi o.k.?" Oh, my God, no not that. But when I ask for Pepsi, sometimes they give me a Coke and never ask if that was o.k. instead. Yet, sometimes when I ask for a Coke, they think it means anything that's soda pop. Gene (formerly, u_gene) [This message has been edited by Gene (edited 02-08-2001).] |
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Munda Member Elite
since 1999-10-08
Posts 3544The Hague, The Netherlands |
Got a cowcoctail over there?  |
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Gene Senior Member
since 2000-01-23
Posts 935Colorado, USA |
No, it sounds terrible. |
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Acies
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Member Rara Avis
since 2000-06-07
Posts 7665Twilight Zone |
ha  that was funnyI see no changes, wake up in the morning I ask myself, "Is life worth living or should I blast myself" TUPAC SHAKUR |
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Yu Lan Senior Member
since 2000-04-13
Posts 1462New Zealand |
Yeah you guys in USA have some really weird names for things It's be a lot more simple if ppl would call things by their proper names  |
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Jamie Member Elite
since 2000-06-26
Posts 3168Blue Heaven |
lightning bug- firefly- or other? Nearly 80 percent of those interviewed for the Dictionary of American Regional English volunteered lightning bug, while not quite 30 percent said firefly (including those who said both). Only in the northernmost states, especially New England, and along the Pacific coast, does firefly hold its own with lightning bug. Bug itself is nowadays an American term; since the 18th century, the British have preferred insect. Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. There is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar. |
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Yu Lan Senior Member
since 2000-04-13
Posts 1462New Zealand |
Actually, I don't think we have those here.. I did write a poem about them once, in which I called them fireflies, but I've never seen one.. |
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Acies
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Member Rara Avis
since 2000-06-07
Posts 7665Twilight Zone |
Are you serious Yu Lan? You haven't seen a lightning bug? hi Sweets, Lizzy, Kris, Ina, Erin, Erica, Minna, Kit, Kamie, Javi, Jenn, Sharon, Nan, Cawlee, Cherish, Ashley, Sara, Justine, Leah, Jess, Kimmie, Mare |
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Severn Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-17
Posts 7704 |
Acies - we don't have them here... at all. Zip. Nada. No lightning bugs. k? heh K |
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Ron
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-05-19
Posts 8669Michigan, US |
In my rural little wonderland, there are a lot more animals than there are people, and road kill is a sad fact of life. Even if I didn't feel bad about killing animals, self-preservation demands I try to avoid them - because it doesn't take a very large animal to be TOO large when driving a Miata. So, when I moved here four years ago I learned very quickly that the eyes of all nocturnal animals glow in the dark (okay, they actually reflect, but let's not quibble). I learned to watch closely for that tell-tale glow at the edge of the road and would immediately slow the car when I saw it. Late July arrives, in fact just about this time of the year. I leave the house late, going to the store for something, and almost immediately see glowing eyes. I slow down, but see nothing. A few score feet later, more glowing eyes. I slow down. Nothing. Then more glowing eyes, and more glowing eyes, and by the time I drive eight miles to the store I'm a nervous wreck. Yep. Fireflies are seasonal. And in a moving car, they look a LOT like glowing eyes. |
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Acies
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Member Rara Avis
since 2000-06-07
Posts 7665Twilight Zone |
LMAO  hi Sweets, Lizzy, Kris, Ina, Erin, Erica, Minna, Kit, Kamie, Javi, Jenn, Sharon, Nan, Cawlee, Cherish, Ashley, Sara, Justine, Leah, Jess, Kimmie, Mare |
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anonymousfemale Member Elite
since 2000-02-02
Posts 2797Limbo |
LMAO!! At least they didn't follow you down the road. Then you would have ended up in the psych ward shaking and repeating, "They're coming after me...all after me..." whilst rocking back and forth. "Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs." -- Robin Williams |
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Jamie Member Elite
since 2000-06-26
Posts 3168Blue Heaven |
Nothing like a balmy summer eve watching as fireflies descend down from the trees.... There is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar. |
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JBaker515
since 2001-02-28
Posts 458Dartmouth College |
LOL ~Jeff~ |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
I hear there are LOTS of wild animals in the great outdoors of that rural wonderland - bunnies... groundhogs... little mice with tattoos ..(aka - chipmunks)..I hear tell... |
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JBaker515
since 2001-02-28
Posts 458Dartmouth College |
NAN...where are u from in the CAPE?? Brewster, Falmouth?? where... i am from Boston, or just north of it.. BEVERLY mass ~Jeff~ |
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Yu Lan Senior Member
since 2000-04-13
Posts 1462New Zealand |
Well, I am so glad you slow down for all those little critters.. even the fireflies.. ^_^ lol.. Mm, I'll have to go some place that has fireflies one day, I'd love to see them.. “One word can be magical. Imagine then, the effect of several words, together..” |
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Ron
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-05-19
Posts 8669Michigan, US |
Yep, rabbits, groundhogs, chipmunks. Squirrels, of course. Snakes and turtles. Lots and lots of possum and raccoon, either of which can grow nearly as big as the Miata. Plenty of deer. Wild turkeys and quail, as well as some kind of black bird about the size of a small airplane (something has to clean up all that road kill). And once a year, in late fall, the roads are literally covered with frogs for a few days as they move to their winter cottages. That's just the wild life, though. Your heart hasn't beat until you come around a curve doing eighty and find a thousand pounds of live beef blocking your path. It gives a whole new meaning to "drive through hamburger." |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
...and sometimes you go around the corner and the remnants of former passers-by greet you... Piles of horse manure bigger than the miata right in the middle of the road... slip slidin' away...   Jeff, I'm from Falmouth - but I grew up in Upton - next to Westboro/Framingham, et al... |
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Acies
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Member Rara Avis
since 2000-06-07
Posts 7665Twilight Zone |
haha lol@Ron me and my friend used to go back and forth with the car crushing the frogs hi Sweets, Lizzy, Kris, Ina, Erin, Erica, Minna, Kit, Kamie, Javi, Jenn, Sharon, Nan, Cawlee, Cherish, Ashley, Sara, Justine, Leah, Jess, Kimmie, Mare |
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catalinamoon
since 2000-06-03
Posts 9543The Shores of Alone |
Nan, I hate these rotaries in NH, they scare me half to death, in make no sense to leap into a circle of people going six different directions at 60 MPH, ackkk! I knew the difference between frappes and milkshakes, my grandpa used to run a little ice cream store in NH, the frappe has the ice cream, and the milkshake does not.And in NH or CA its still soda to me. I never paid mutch attention to the other, but I think they are subs. Its funny but some people in NH call soda "tonic". Go figure. I never could understand it.. |
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Yu Lan Senior Member
since 2000-04-13
Posts 1462New Zealand |
SHAME ON YOU ACIRE! Shame on you...  Gosh I don't even kill flies! And you go around squashing poor little defenseless frogs.. yuk. You make me sick. Heh.. “One word can be magical. Imagine then, the effect of several words, together..” |
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knightlyshadows Senior Member
since 2001-04-14
Posts 791obscured vision |
COke=EVERYTHING here. we have submarine sandwiches and milkshakes. when i was a kid we used to catch the lighteningbugs or fireflies (called by either/or) and take the lights off the abdomen when it was lite and wear them where the finger connects to the hand. it made lil glowing rings. of course the firefly would die.. but hell i was a kid and didnt think about it. THEY WERE PRETTY! acire.. grits? we have grits here in the south. i guess you could say they're sort of like cream of wheat or oats. and most ppl put butter and sugar in them or butter and salt/pepper. they're usually eaten at breakfast. tiff  Allan Riverwood is a sexay man! |
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Allan Riverwood
since 2001-01-04
Posts 3502Winnipeg |
Anyone need a napkin? Or maybe a serviette for our Canadian friends? You eat the brains of an old, wise man. |
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Yu Lan Senior Member
since 2000-04-13
Posts 1462New Zealand |
I call them serviettes, but here, I guess it just depends on which University your parents went to, lol, 'coz ppl say either. |
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Spice Senior Member
since 2001-04-13
Posts 1266Resting in my cardboard box. |
Oh Tiff! HeHeHe- I used to rip the tummy off the fireflies too!(Yep, I call them fireflies- and all my Alabama-born friends make fun of me and tell me they are "Lightning bugs!") HeHe, my brother finally explained to me I was killing them...I cried and cried after that. But man- Before that- I was stylin'. I had my firefly earings, firefly rings...LOL...I couldn't get my hands on enough of those lil bugs. You wouldn't worry about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did. |
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BloomingRose Member Elite
since 2000-08-09
Posts 3092Florida |
I saaaaaaaay... eat more grits! Oh, and pass me a can of diet drink. Deb |
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cherish Senior Member
since 2001-03-25
Posts 1639swimming in fairy floss........... |
deb..you crack me up!!!! napkins?...they're TISSUES!! lol... Piece you life together and you WILL find holes. |
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Acies
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Member Rara Avis
since 2000-06-07
Posts 7665Twilight Zone |
Tissues is totally different Cherish Tissues is for blowing your nose hi Sweets, Lizzy, Kris, Ina, Allysa, Erica, Minna, Kit, Kamie, Javi, Jenn, Sharon, Nan, Cawlee, Cherish, Ashley, Sara, Justine, Leah, Jess, Kimmie, Ma |
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cherish Senior Member
since 2001-03-25
Posts 1639swimming in fairy floss........... |
i call them all tissues...they're paper and you throw them away after you use em... Daffodils |
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cherish Senior Member
since 2001-03-25
Posts 1639swimming in fairy floss........... |
oh and i call my shoes "feet" too...so if ive lost one of a pair of shoes id be hopping around saying "mum ive lost my foot!..i cant find my foot!"... freaky-weird-as i know Daffodils |
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Yu Lan Senior Member
since 2000-04-13
Posts 1462New Zealand |
I do that too cherish!! Well, only sometimes.. and I say mum I've lost my hand again.. (gloves) mm, but not that often, 'coz if I've lost them then I'd rather she didn't know.. =Phee hee.. |
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