swamp
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Post by swamp on Jul 15, 2013 11:00:36 GMT -5
Garage sale.
Yard sale is when you wipe out when skiing and scatter your equipment all over the mountain.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2013 11:01:24 GMT -5
On a parking lot, do you pull into a parking space or a park? My ex-husband grew up in Illinois and they called it a park. You don't park your car in a park! You run and play in the grass at a park.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2013 11:04:38 GMT -5
A Yard Sale is when you put all of your crap that you want to sell out on the front lawn, a Garage Sale is when you put all of your crap that you want to sell in your garage (you can have overflow into the driveway, if need be) and a Rummage Sale is when you give all of your crap that you want to sell to your Church and you let them sell it.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2013 11:23:51 GMT -5
Hey, now! I am a Yankee who LOVES grits. So there are some of us out there. I agree! No to sweet tea-yes to cheese grits!!!
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midwestlily
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Post by midwestlily on Jul 15, 2013 12:31:33 GMT -5
"Non-fat" (where I grew up) versus "skim" (where I live now).
"Needs fixed" instead of "needs to be fixed."
And I remember when I was on a university campus in Michigan and asked someone where I could park my car. She kept pointing and talking about the ramp. I went outside and told my friends that we were supposed to park at a place called "The Ramp." Both of them were Michigan natives, so they laughed at me for not knowing that a ramp was a parking structure.
More Michigan: I lived there for a couple of years before someone explained to me that a Coney Island was the local name for a diner and had nothing to do with hot dogs.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2013 12:34:31 GMT -5
A Yard Sale is when you put all of your crap that you want to sell out on the front lawn, a Garage Sale is when you put all of your crap that you want to sell in your garage (you can have overflow into the driveway, if need be) and a Rummage Sale is when you give all of your crap that you want to sell to your Church and you let them sell it. Estate sales is when you sell all of your dead relatives stuff for 3 times as much as if it were being sold at a yard sale.
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chiver78
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Post by chiver78 on Jul 15, 2013 15:18:20 GMT -5
Garage sale. Yard sale is when you wipe out when skiing and scatter your equipment all over the mountain. or hockey equipment after a particular good check.
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Cookies Galore
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Post by Cookies Galore on Jul 15, 2013 15:30:52 GMT -5
Never heard of euchre or bunco until this thread. My Mom makes cabbage rolls, meat and rice wrapped in cabbage. Even worse than "fixin' to", is "finna". My Mom HATED that and broke me out of that habit after I'd picked it up from my friends. My Mom is a Southerner but she will nag you to death about saying words properly and using proper grammar! If I ask her today "Where's my glass at?" just to see what she says, I guarantee the only answer I'll get is "Behind the preposition at". Grits have no taste unless you load 'em up with butter and sugar. I don't eat them. Okra is disgusting. My mom does that! I sent her the perfect birthday card one year: Person A: "where's your birthday party at?" Person B: "don't end your sentence with a preposition " Person A: "where's your birthday party at, bitch?"
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Post by MN-Investor on Jul 15, 2013 15:55:06 GMT -5
I moved from Wisconsin to Iowa when I was 13. (I now live in Minnesota.) Two things drove me nuts. 1) At least in my town in Iowa, any sloppy joe was called a Maid Rite. Maid Rite was a regional restaurant which sold sloppy joes, naturally, under their own name. 2) Growing up in Wisconsin, Physical Education was abbreviated PhyEd and pronounced fie ed. In Iowa, it was pronounced fizz ed. Gee, that just sounded so wrong to me! Of course, coming from my part of Wisconsin, I grew up calling the water fountains at school bubblers. Until I moved, it never dawned on me that anyone would call it anything different. Oh well. Two web pages which show regional differences: Pop vs. Soda pageTen maps showing linguistic differences
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Post by MN-Investor on Jul 15, 2013 16:05:39 GMT -5
Or conversely, when they arbitrarily make things that should be plural singular instead. It's not 12-foot long, it's 12 feet. That baby is also not 8 "month" old, those are months. Blargh. The basic rule is that you have a five-foot rope, or you say the rope is five feet long. You have a six-month-old baby, or you say the baby is six months old.
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Post by wvugurl26 on Jul 15, 2013 16:29:28 GMT -5
Why on earth would you boil okra? It must be fried if you expect me to eat it. Grits are tasteless even with cheese and butter.
If I'm drinking it the tea better be sweet!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2013 17:01:08 GMT -5
Yard sale, rummage sale, or garage sale? Tag sale.
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