Swiffer is such a cutie!!
How old is (s)he?
He just turned 2 a couple of weeks ago.
Love the picture on the shuttle bus! It's always fun when you have outgoing strangers join in.
I was cracking up picturing you eating your cookie.
What a neat science experiment! I never would have thought of that. I'll have to try to remember for next time I fly with the boys.
Thanks Carissa. Yep, feel free to try out the experiment....one of the cheapest, easiest ever.
My family in Chicago call it POP, and my mother always called it POP. My kids grew up in MA where it's called it "Tonic" - how weird is that? I grew up mostly all over the South and any dark cola was simply referred to as "coke"; When ordering a real Coke, one would ask for Coke-a-Cola, otherwise we just asked for a coke - I still do. In most of the Southern states the waitress would not say "We have Pepsi", they will just bring whatever, no questions asked. In Boston, I'd ask for a "coke" and the waiter would have to tell me if it was Pepsi - still makes me giggle. People can be so picky!!
I like "tonic"....maybe I'll go with that!
So what do y'all call a milkshake? In Boston it is a Frappe (pronounced Frap)- if you ask for a milkshake you'll get milk and flavoring mixed together, no ice cream added. In RI it is a Cabinet with with ice cream, a milkshake without.
I've been living with the pop/soda thing for years, but I have never about this milkshake debate before! A milkshake has always been a, ah, milkshake...you know?
Your pup is darling!
Is s/he a Bichon?
Ready for the next installment, please.
Yep, he's a bichon.
I am reading. Really, I am! Sorry....
Just wish I could type all the responses I want to... Geesh, another case of "getting behinditis".
No problem. I'm having trouble keeping up myself.
I have a serious case of the same - with your PTR, Liesa. I'm so sorry I've gotten waay behind...but something tells me I'd better try to catch up right now. Are you okay...or perhaps there is a story to be read?
NO, unfortunately, there is a different story there altogether; one that digs into my posting more than anything else could right now.
Bad dog!
Don't bite the hand that midwife's you.
You can't handle the content!!!!
I laughed at this.
Yeah babee, that's when my excitement level ramps up to a fever pitch!
Yep. You know that hotel check-in isn't far away.
I'm thinking with all this self-promotion all over the DIS boards, Glenn is bucking for an appointment as US Ambassador in the next Administration!
Actually, I just don't want people saying, "hey, why didn't you tell me you started your TR?"
Yeppers! It's that "pioneering spirit" we are born with. I've blazed some pretty good new trails using that quality, and I always look at DW and say "You thought I was lost, didn't ya'?"
On one of my first-ever business trips, the guy who got the rental car said, "we are not averse to exploring". So, I always use that expression now.
DW went back to school and got her teacher certification and Master's to teach. She is now a 6th grade math teacher. If you had told me years ago that one day she would be doing that......
In our case, Judy got her certification way back when she was pregnant with Lauren, but only now using it. But like you, I wasn't sure that she would.
Yeah, kids these days don't know what it's like to reach down in a chest cooler (the ones with the sliding glass top), take out a COLD bottle of pepsi, pop the top with the opener on the side, and watch the drink instantly fill with slushy ice. When I was a boy, that used to be one of my favorite parts about stopping at the country store just up the road from my grandfather's farm.
And you drink it right there, and put the empty bottle into the wooden crate. They should have a website where these bottle vending machines are still available.
And for the pop/soda discussion...
Grew up in Maine and we called it soda (I think most northern states do), but I had family in Michigan and they called it pop, which sounded more like "pap" with their accent.
We used to tease them about it.
And I think when we lived in Australia, soda was called a fizzy drink, but I could be wrong about that.
What "pap" goes well with "lobstah"?
"Fizzy drink" is another good one. I love Australian expressions. I wrote down a whole page-worth back when I got to visit Sydney, oh 20 years ago.
I grew up outside of Philly where everyone calls water, "wudder." I came home from school one day and asked for a glass of wudder. My Mom wouldn't give it to me until I said water. Probably the best idea ever. Now that I'm not in the area, I can ask for a glass of water and actually get it.
Yep, I've heard wudder. Good job by your mom.
Not to keep harping on colloquialisms, but...the one that really bugs us about where we live now is that when people use the word "done" they don't use the word "with" after it. So they say, "are you done your homework?" rather than "are you done with your homework?". It is absolutely rampant here...everyone does it, including teachers, and they don't even notice.
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