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Kaili
Member

08-31-2000

Friday, January 14, 2005 - 2:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My grandma's couch is a davenport too. I've never even heard "setee" before!

Vacanick
Member

07-12-2004

Friday, January 14, 2005 - 2:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My mom was English so our couches were always "settees".

Jeep
Member

10-17-2001

Friday, January 14, 2005 - 2:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh yes, I forgot about davenport. My mom always calls it that. Wonder where that word came from?

Gidget
Member

07-28-2002

Friday, January 14, 2005 - 2:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. sneakers
2. gym
3. soda
4. spaghetti sauce
5. sub



1. knee socks... hard to tell c/b knee highs - the difference is knee socks have the weight of socks and knee highs have the weight of stockings.

2. front porch
3. rubber bands
4. couch
5. trunk


Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Friday, January 14, 2005 - 2:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
hmmm, here's an article, but I don't remember my grandmother's being a sleeper sofa.

BY LAURA POTTS
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
Even the davenport is making a comeback. A creation of the 1950s, the seat and back of a davenport can be flattened into a sleeper, yet there won't be the gaping hole between the mattress and the back of the couch that usually forms in a sleeper sofa.

Absent are the metal or wooden slats used on futons, and the davenport's padding is built onto the frame. Some even have built-in storage under the base, where blankets, sheets and pillows can be stored for optimum efficiency.

"Davenports are the pre-futon," said Michael Wright, manager of Birmingham's UpCountry, a store that showcases its davenport near the entrance. "It looks better, it works easier and it doesn't have everything hanging out below," like a traditional sleeper sofa, he said.



Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Friday, January 14, 2005 - 2:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Nope, HP, I don't call rubber bands "rubbers." That's an entirely different subject, isn't it?

All of my responses have been spoken for with the exception of #1. I am still hoping that it is a "Maine" thing and that Mak will check in!

(I am completely intrigued by those making distinctions in the fabric of #1.)

Vacanick
Member

07-12-2004

Friday, January 14, 2005 - 2:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Vee you are so funny .

I, for one, can't wait to find out what you call "socks" that hasn't already been stated.
How fun!

Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Friday, January 14, 2005 - 3:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Vee, can you describe number one in more detail. Is the material nylon (Like nylons/panyhose-hey what's the dif between nylons and pantyhose anyways?) or is something else?

(Is "hose" what you are looking for?)

Jbean
Member

01-05-2002

Friday, January 14, 2005 - 3:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. knee socks or knee highs (depending on if they are cotton or nylon)

2. front porch

3. rubber bands

4. couch

5. trunk


Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Friday, January 14, 2005 - 3:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Julieboo, this isn't a quiz, Hon! There is no prize for calling them what I call them! I am really just interested in knowing what you call them.

In my orbit, it doesn't matter what the fabric is made from—nylon, wool, it's all the same to me! LOL!

Oh, Maaaakkkkkk!

Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Friday, January 14, 2005 - 3:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I know that Vee! :-) I was wondering if that was the Maine term you were thinking of...

Meli456
Member

05-01-2003

Friday, January 14, 2005 - 3:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. tennis shoes
2. PE
3. Coke
4. pasta sauce
5. submarine sandwich (I just like how it flows)

1. knee highs
2. porch
3. rubber bands
4. couch
5. trunk

Herckleperckle
Member

11-20-2003

Friday, January 14, 2005 - 3:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Vee: Bobbysocks?

Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Friday, January 14, 2005 - 3:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
nope


Vacanick
Member

07-12-2004

Friday, January 14, 2005 - 3:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Good try HP, I hadn't seen Bobbysocks yet! I can't imagine what it is!

Kitt
Member

09-06-2000

Friday, January 14, 2005 - 3:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
HP, you're thinking of what you call pencil erasers - we call them rubbers. Rubber bands are either rubber bands or elastic bands.

Mak1
Member

08-12-2002

Friday, January 14, 2005 - 3:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Sorry, Vee, I was out for a while!

1. knee lengths (unless they're made of nylon, then knee highs)
2. front porch
3. elastics or rubber bands
4. couch (My mother would call it a divan.)
5. trunk

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Friday, January 14, 2005 - 3:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Is she right Vee???????? LOL
I was going to play too, and my guess was argylles, leggings or nylons.

Herckleperckle
Member

11-20-2003

Friday, January 14, 2005 - 3:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks, Vacanick!

And thanks, Kitt. We had some English golfers in Delaware when I lived there (McDonald's Women's something or other--always at the Hercules Country Club) and I was trying to remember the terms the gal who hosted them at her place shared with us. You are absolutely right! The differences were funny. If I remember correctly, the word for tampons (or something in that category) was very different.

Whoami
Member

08-03-2001

Friday, January 14, 2005 - 3:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Set#2:

Socks
Porch
Rubber Bands
Couch
Trunk

Kitt
Member

09-06-2000

Friday, January 14, 2005 - 4:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
(I'm not sure what you're thinking of there HP, tampons are the same, I guess we say sanitary towels instead of sanitary napkins. And baby diapers are nappies. A lot of people call such things by their favourite brand names though.)

Zachsmom
Moderator

07-13-2000

Friday, January 14, 2005 - 4:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
when we were teenagers, my cousin and i would call them pea-shooters. no one knew (especially the boys) what we were talking about...we'd say "hey, ya have a pea-shooter on ya? I need one".

Herckleperckle
Member

11-20-2003

Friday, January 14, 2005 - 4:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ha! Zmom, that was very clever of you two! (How you came up with the name is another thing . . . LOL)

Kitt, I dunno. I'm definitely not remembering things well, but I will say sanitary 'towels', though logical when you think of it, is a strange term to me!

Vacanick
Member

07-12-2004

Friday, January 14, 2005 - 5:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Vee ... we're waiting .

Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Friday, January 14, 2005 - 5:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ohhhhh, yes! That's what I call'em; although, I do not make the distinction between nylon and wool. If it comes to the knee, it's a knee-length! My grandmother and mother also say "divan" for the sofa. I use sofa and couch interchangeably.

So this is what I call them
1. knee lengths
2. verandah (Not a porch...too fancy)
3. elastics
4. sofa or couch
5. trunk or boot(less seldom)

I have more if anyone's interested...