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I think I may have done this in years past, but possibly only in a community and, hey, a good meme's worth doing at least twice:
I grew up in a small southern city--childhood was 40's-50's. My parents were from very small towns in the northeastern part of the state.
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks.
A creek.
2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called.
Grocery cart or shopping cart.
3. A metal container to carry a meal in.
A lunchbox.
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in.
Frying pan.
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people.
Couch.
6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof.
Gutter. As a child, I'm not sure I knew they existed.
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening.
The porch.
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages.
A coke.
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup.
Pancakes.
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself.
Sub--but didn't call them anything until about 20 years ago.
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach.
Bathing suit.
12. Shoes worn for sports.
Tennis shoes. (Tennie pumps when I was in college)
13. Putting a room in order.
Cleaning up.
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.
A lightning bug.
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball.
A roly-poly.
But another interesting bug I liked as a child was the doodle-bug, also known as an ant lion. We'd sit in the sand under the porch and try to get them to come out of their holes--a great way to keep cool in days before AC.
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.
17. How do you eat your pizza?
With my hands. But when I discovered Chicago deep-dish pizza (much, much deeper than you may think), I also discovered why pizza is sometimes eaten with knife and fork. And when pizza first appeared in our part of the world in the '50's, we called it "pizza pie" which I guess means "pie pie."
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
Garage sale.
19. What's the evening meal?
Supper.
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
The basement. Though most houses I knew as a child had something that was much more like what you'd call a crawl space, if they even had that. Often the furnace, if there was one, was just in a deeper hole in the dirt of the crawl space.
21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?
Water fountain.
I grew up in a small southern city--childhood was 40's-50's. My parents were from very small towns in the northeastern part of the state.
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks.
A creek.
2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called.
Grocery cart or shopping cart.
3. A metal container to carry a meal in.
A lunchbox.
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in.
Frying pan.
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people.
Couch.
6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof.
Gutter. As a child, I'm not sure I knew they existed.
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening.
The porch.
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages.
A coke.
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup.
Pancakes.
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself.
Sub--but didn't call them anything until about 20 years ago.
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach.
Bathing suit.
12. Shoes worn for sports.
Tennis shoes. (Tennie pumps when I was in college)
13. Putting a room in order.
Cleaning up.
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.
A lightning bug.
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball.
A roly-poly.
But another interesting bug I liked as a child was the doodle-bug, also known as an ant lion. We'd sit in the sand under the porch and try to get them to come out of their holes--a great way to keep cool in days before AC.
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.
17. How do you eat your pizza?
With my hands. But when I discovered Chicago deep-dish pizza (much, much deeper than you may think), I also discovered why pizza is sometimes eaten with knife and fork. And when pizza first appeared in our part of the world in the '50's, we called it "pizza pie" which I guess means "pie pie."
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
Garage sale.
19. What's the evening meal?
Supper.
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
The basement. Though most houses I knew as a child had something that was much more like what you'd call a crawl space, if they even had that. Often the furnace, if there was one, was just in a deeper hole in the dirt of the crawl space.
21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?
Water fountain.
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"Sofa" is a bit more common locally, although it's only slightly more so than couch.
Water fountain was the official name, but when I was little I often heard the term "bubbler" used around myself and other children.