Most recently from Eowyn315, here's a list of questions that's supposed to reflect regional differences. Please answer if you haven't already, and post to your blog?? (pretty please? I love this sort of stuff) :
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks.
Creek
2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called.
Shopping trolley. Also, husband.
3. A metal container to carry a meal in.
Thermos (for soup). Esky - although these are more usually plastic nowadays.
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in.
Frypan
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people.
Sofa.
6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof.
Gutter, drain pipe, tank, stormwater pipe.
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening.
Verandah
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages.
Fizzy drinks
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup.
Pikelets, usually served with butter, or lemon-and-sugar
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself.
A roll.
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach.
Speedos. Or trunks. Or boardies.
12. Shoes worn for sports.
Trainers, runners, sneakers, joggers.
13. Putting a room in order.
Tidying. Usually involves shouting, shoving, and despair in equal parts.
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.
No idea. The buzzing kind are mosquitoes. The frogs that eat the dratted things? Heroes.
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball.
Slaters. That's easy.
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.
See-saw. Of course, we don't have them any more, due to the rotten habit of public liability claiming. The councils have taken the see-saws away and left us with climbing frames. There are hardly any swings, either. Sigh.
17. How do you eat your pizza?
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
The market economy.
19. What's the evening meal?
Tea. Or dinner, if we sit at the table.
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
The under-the-house. Family room is off the kitchen, on the same level as the rest of the house. Really don't have basements in Australia.
21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?
Bubbler
guilty
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But this lovely pic was posted to nekid Spike a couple of weeks ago and I grabbed it in such a rush I didn't catch the poster's name - if you recognise it, will you please tell me and I'll re-tag and credit like mad.
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