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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Friday, January 14, 2005 - 2:22 pm
My grandma's couch is a davenport too. I've never even heard "setee" before!
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Friday, January 14, 2005 - 2:25 pm
My mom was English so our couches were always "settees".
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Jeep
Member
10-17-2001
| Friday, January 14, 2005 - 2:25 pm
Oh yes, I forgot about davenport. My mom always calls it that. Wonder where that word came from?
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Gidget
Member
07-28-2002
| Friday, January 14, 2005 - 2:28 pm
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
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Friday, January 14, 2005 - 2:45 pm
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.
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Friday, January 14, 2005 - 2:49 pm
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.)
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Friday, January 14, 2005 - 2:53 pm
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!
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Friday, January 14, 2005 - 3:00 pm
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?)
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Jbean
Member
01-05-2002
| Friday, January 14, 2005 - 3:06 pm
1. knee socks or knee highs (depending on if they are cotton or nylon) 2. front porch 3. rubber bands 4. couch 5. trunk
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Friday, January 14, 2005 - 3:09 pm
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!
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Friday, January 14, 2005 - 3:14 pm
I know that Vee! I was wondering if that was the Maine term you were thinking of...
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Meli456
Member
05-01-2003
| Friday, January 14, 2005 - 3:21 pm
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
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Friday, January 14, 2005 - 3:21 pm
Vee: Bobbysocks?
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Friday, January 14, 2005 - 3:23 pm
nope
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Friday, January 14, 2005 - 3:24 pm
Good try HP, I hadn't seen Bobbysocks yet! I can't imagine what it is!
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Friday, January 14, 2005 - 3:25 pm
HP, you're thinking of what you call pencil erasers - we call them rubbers. Rubber bands are either rubber bands or elastic bands.
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Friday, January 14, 2005 - 3:41 pm
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
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Friday, January 14, 2005 - 3:44 pm
Is she right Vee???????? LOL I was going to play too, and my guess was argylles, leggings or nylons.
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Friday, January 14, 2005 - 3:54 pm
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.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Friday, January 14, 2005 - 3:58 pm
Set#2: Socks Porch Rubber Bands Couch Trunk
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Friday, January 14, 2005 - 4:13 pm
(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.)
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Zachsmom
Moderator
07-13-2000
| Friday, January 14, 2005 - 4:15 pm
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".
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Friday, January 14, 2005 - 4:31 pm
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!
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Friday, January 14, 2005 - 5:06 pm
Vee ... we're waiting .
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Friday, January 14, 2005 - 5:10 pm
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...
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