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Thread: Whatchamacallit?
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Galloping Granny
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Many, many years ago a friend's small daughter, having sewn a frock for her doll, took her pocket money to the haberdashery to buy fasteners, and I believe she burst into tears when the nice lady there didn't know what 'clickies' were – what other people called press studs or dome fasteners.
Or snap fasteners – haven't used any for decades, but that's what the ones at the bottom of my sewing drawer are called.
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Lothlorien
Ship's Grandma
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Or snap fasteners – haven't used any for decades, but that's what the ones at the bottom of my sewing drawer are called.
I was thinking about those only a couple of days ago and wondered if they were still around.
My sons loved salty annas when they were young. Sultanas, and don't forget the flutterby.
My dad insisted he would be called grandfather (in full always) by his grandchildren.
Somewhere along the line, it morphed into "grand duffer." Quite applicable at times.
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L'organist
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My late mother always called a mobile 'phone a hello, yes. I think it was picked up from a soap about a Liverpudlian family (Bread?)
Our downstairs loo was a small-bore Saniflo so was known by children and all their friends as the Growler.
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mrs whibley
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My generic mp3 player is known as the 'ear-player'. Onions are 'fagnolles' from a time when my stepchildren didn't eat onions, but mr whibley persuaded them that the onion-like things they found in their food were actually fagnolles and they would like them!
Lighting the candles on the dinner table is referred to as 'making things romantic'.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
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Originally posted by Rev per Minute:
When ITV ran films under the 'Murder, Mystery and Suspense' label, a family Spoonerism was born when the films were called Mister Murderies!
Oh, you've brought back a memory.
Many years ago there was a TV series based on the Ellery Queen murder mysteries. My roommate at the time, surfing channels one night, thought he had hit upon it, but after about five minutes or so of listening to the ramblings of a rather "obvious" old "poof", my roommate remarked, "I think this is Elderly Queen, not Ellery Queen!"
Henceforth we referred to the murder mystery series as Elderly Queen.
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Jengie jon
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We have "liquid patience" for milk. When we complained of our drinks being too hot Mum would say:
"Put some patience in it"
As we got more restless we would start asking if we might put "liquid patience in it".
We have Granny's sheep after my Grandmother tried to quell a back seat of car argument by saying "Look at those black and white sheep over there." I do not recall if it was used often but it was there.
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Offeiriad
Ship's Arboriculturalist
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An unknown animal in our family is a 'dangeroo', after a childhood visit to a zoo, where every cage was labelled 'These animals are dangerous'.
From 'adult' life and in memory of a departed friend we have 'paracetyl' (paracetamol) and 'robots' (portable traffic lights at roadworks).
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Dogwalker
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I thought of one when I was cooking for Thanksgiving -- "pies' children".
Pies' children are the leftover pieces of piecrust rolled out, sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar and baked for 10 minutes or so with the pies.
My mother's story was that a friend's mother made them, and when they were ready, she'd call "Here are your pies, children!"
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Eutychus
From the edge
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Originally posted by Oferyas:
'robots' (portable traffic lights at roadworks).
In South Africa that's what traffic lights in general are called.
Which is an excuse for a slight tangent. When in SA I went into a general store to buy a map, and when I couldn't find one, asked. This resulted in the following conversation:
Shop assistant: a mop?
Me: no, a map.
Shop asssistant: oh, a mep!
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Jengie jon
Semper Reformanda
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Ok family story. Dad was looking for somewhere to buy something like plasters only this was South Africa. Dis-chuffed Englishman mode
Dad: "What you guys need is Boots!"
Grandpa: "We have veldtschoens!"
But we have never called a chemist Veldtschoens so technically a tangent.
Jengie
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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My friend is an avid flower photographer. Many times she will throw out the names of flowers that we see, so I figure she is something of an expert. We were walking by a road in Wyoming, and I asked about the beautiful blooms that were growing there. Her answer was "Roadsidea". After that, I heard her describe some as "Waysidea". Works for me.
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nickel
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I was reminded today about the "Wrong Way" lanes. Everyone else calls them car pool or HOV (high occupancy vehicle) lanes ... two extra lanes that go into the city in the morning, and are reversed to leave the city in the afternoon. No matter when we travel up that way, they always seem to be going the wrong way for us to use.
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Angel Wrestler
Ship's Hipster
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The pacifiers that babies and very young children use, in our house, are called "bobs."
It started when I was a very little girl (around 4) and my friend's brother referred to his as his bob. I got a sister around that time and she, also, liked her pacifier, but by then the term, "bob," had been established forever in my mind.
My daughters' pacifiers were also called bobs, and it led to a cute little time of sweet-talk between Mr. Wrestler and the then-non-verbal Little Angel #2. He said she could have her bob, and that his real name was Robert. So - that particular bob was then known as Robert. I actually saved it for a couple years, remembering that exchange and LA 2's infancy, but then decided to throw Robert away.
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Angel Wrestler
Ship's Hipster
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Originally posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe:
My younger brother, when he was little, used to call a tape measure a "measurmer" and the word stuck over the years.
After my parents sold the family house in New York and were cleaning it out in preparation for moving out here to Arizona, we discovered the original tape measure that had given rise to the coinage -- humble as it may be, the Measurmer is now a family heirloom.
awww. ![[Axe murder]](graemlins/lovedrops.gif)
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