Now that we've started several "useless winteresk" threads, why not start another. In the "What do you call it?" thread, someone posted about "namebrand associated products" (i.e. Coke, Kleenex, etc.)

Here are a few that I thought of:

-Crescent Wrench (technically known as an adjustable wrench)

-Skil Saw (circular saw)

-Sawzall (Milwaukee tool reciprocating saw)

-Xerox machine (I've mentioned to my middle school students about "xeroxing" something several times and they have no idea that I want to copy something)

Can you think of others?

Kleenex

Nabs

I was working on one the mowers the other day and I asked one of my helpers to give me a metric adjustable wrench, he went all through the tool box and told me he couldn't find one. So I told him just give me a regular one and I would make that work. ;D

Does anyone know what a Sharp Shooter is?

Does anyone know what a Sharp Shooter is?

Like a marksman, or am I completely off base?

What do I call #2?  Well, I call it poop. :-/

What do I call #2? Well, I call it poop. :-/

I prefer "dropping a deuce". 8-)

around here we call it a sweeper but everyone i know that isnt from here jsut calls it a vacum cleaner

around here we call it a sweeper but everyone i know that isnt from here jsut calls it a vacum cleaner

My roommates were just making fun of me and my brother for calling the act of using a vacuum "sweeping." I didn't realize it was a regional difference until just this week.

Some RI terms... There are a ton of them

Grinder= Sub/Sandwich

Cabnet/Awful Awful= Milkshake

Some RI terms... There are a ton of them

Grinder= Sub/Sandwich

Cabnet/Awful Awful= Milkshake

What?  :-?

But seriously...

What???  

Bubbla=Drinkin fountain

Saugy= A hot dog

http://www.quahog.org/factsfolklore/index.php?id=43

Band-Aid (Adhesive Bandage)

Most of these would be considered slang rather than actual objects.

gumbans - rubber bands

pop  -  soft drink

yaint - you are not

stillers--steelers

redd up - very light cleaning

yinz - you ones / all of you

dahntahn  - downtown

hoagie - submarine sandwich

Kennywood's Open! - Your fly is unzipped

(Kennywood is a local amusement park)

Pensivania - Pennsylvania

slippy - slippery

nebby - overly curious...nosey

worsh - wash

worsh Rag - wash rag

-Crescent Wrench (technically known as an fit all wrench)

-Skil Saw (aint but one circular saw)

How about  

-Fender skirts

-Curb feelers

-Baby moons

BROOKLYNEESE

Grinder/sub= HERO

Fire Hydrant=Johnny Pump

Front Porch=Stoop

Refrigator= The Fride, or the Ice Box

Water=Watah

1,2,3=1,2,tree

Idiot=Mombaluke

Child Care= A Smack to the Back of the Head

Female Secret Lover=Gomada

No Chance=Fugetaboutit

most women: facial Italian Grandmother:Shave

WallStreet Executive=WAITER! (new to the list)

Politician=theif

ask a question=Axe a question

sandwich=sangwich

window sills=windel sills

oil=earl

good morning=

BassResource.com Member=MOOK

I Does anyone know what a Sharp Shooter is?

A type of shove or spade that is long and narrow used primarily for digging a trench.

Fixing to--About to do something

Ole--Oil

Bear--Beer (as in:  Give me a bear!)

Other than that, where I come from the first syllable of every word just gets way overstressed, for example:

Seegar--cigar

Mackdonalds--McDonalds

etc...

And finally, this is the one most important to me:

In the south you will likely never hear the word frat.  Around here, we call them fraternities.  Frat is the word that newspapers use to connote a negative image in articles about how evil fraternities are

I don't know where you get that from. In the late 70's I was in a big 7 piece Horn band, that played R and B. Me, the bass, guitar and keyboard fellas had a 4 piece Blues band and we made a good living on the side playing FRAT Parties, That is what the fraterinites at Tulne,LSU< Ol Miss and Loyola put on their own flyers

SAT NITE:: FRAT PARTIES

no negativity there.

In West Virginia we have tons of them:

cousin- Wife

sister- Wife

sheep- Wife

You get the point

;D

I don't know where you get that from. In the late 70's I was in a big 7 piece Horn band, that played R and B. Me, the bass, guitar and keyboard fellas had a 4 piece Blues band and we made a good living on the side playing FRAT Parties, That is what the fraterinites at Tulne,LSU< Ol Miss and Loyola put on their own flyers

SAT NITE:: FRAT PARTIES

no negativity there.

Well I can't say this for sure, because I haven't done all the research I should, but the nationwide anti-fraternity PR wars hadn't been launched yet.  Animal House hadn't come out yet and moms in the flyover states didn't think there was anything wrong with fraternities.  Now though, there is a lot of negative PR because of a few bad apples, and the word frat has an immature, negative connotation.  Here is an example:

In my fraternity, we had an annual See-Saw-a-Thon that raised anywhere from $3k-5k for a local charity.  The paper wrote an article, buried in the style section, about it, with the headline "Fraternity men See-Saw for Cause".  The article praised our work.  Two months later, one of my brothers commited suicide.  This story ran front page the next day, under the banner headline "Frat Member Dead in Shooting".  Maybe I'm just taking it personnally, but I can see quite a bias in those two headlines.

Q-TIP

#2 pencil is what was always required on all school supply lists.

Nintendo-Any video game console

Sofa, couch or devan?

8-)

#2 pencil is what was always required on all school supply lists.

I've always wondered if it's the most common pencil, why is it called #2?. . . and I've never personally seen a #1 pencil.

RW- Devan or couch? (or sofa)

It's couch in my house, although my wife's grandmother still calls it a devan.

Speed,

I didn't think about "q-tip".  Keep'em coming guys.  I didn't expect the "dialectual" terminology, but that's very interesting.  Having never traveled very far north, I never quite realized there were so many differences.