In the WooWoo Wonderland™

The Fifty Books Challenge, year five! (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013) This was a library request.



( Meet Kit Kitteridge, a clever, resourceful girl facing the Great Depression with spirit and determination... )

Jonathan Winters
1925- 2013

Genius comic, gifted visual artist, and activist against the stigma of mental illness. I remember him best from the Disney Halloween special he did, which I watched so much as a kid I almost wore the VHS completely out. I miss him already.

Survey of a Colloquial Nature



Your Age: 24

Place Where You Grew Up: Glen Burnie, MD (it's sandwiched between Baltimore and DC, you can't miss it) but my parents were raised in a tiny town in the Allegheny mountains, Bradford PA.

WHAT DO YOU CALL....

1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks:

Stream or a creek, depending on the color.

2. The thing you push around the grocery store:

Shopping cart.

3. A metal container to carry a meal in:

Metal? Lunch pail. A lunch box is plastic.

4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in:

Either a skillet (when it's cooking) or a frying pan (when it's not).

5. The piece of furniture that seats three people:

Sectional? Maybe a sofa or a couch, too.

6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof:

Rain gutters/drain pipe.

7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening:

Porch if it's got a platform, patio if it does not.

8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages:

Soda, of course.

9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup:

Pancakes!

10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself:

Sub!

11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach:

Swim-suit, duh.

12. Shoes worn for sports:

Sneakers or athletic shoes.

13. Putting a room in order:

Clean-up or straighten, but for some reason, not straighten-up (although "clean" sans the "up" is acceptable).

14. A flying insect that glows in the dark:

Lightening bug!

15. The little insect that curls up into a ball:

Caterpillar.

16. The children's playground equipment where one kid sits on one side and goes up while the other sits on the other side and goes down:

Teeter-totter, but generally when around other families, it was also a see-saw.

17. How you eat your pizza:

With my hands, on a ceramic plate.

18. What it's called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff:

Within a community: flea market (FLEA MARKETS FTW!!!!), solo, it's a yard sale.

19. The evening meal is called:

Dinner, although my father always called it supper.

20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are:

"Downstairs" if finished, "basement" if not. However, "downstairs" is the more common.

21. The thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places:

The water fountain.