04-18-2008, 10:42 PM
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#41 | | Firearm Zealot
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: 16th state.
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Originally Posted by billy | 55% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category.
when i was a kid pillbugs were called roly poly's |
I still call them that...never heard of them as "pillbug".
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04-18-2008, 11:01 PM
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#42 | | Firearm Zealot
Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: a secret lab on the shores of lake titicaca
Posts: 23,063
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Originally Posted by MrsS | I still call them that...never heard of them as "pillbug". | thats ok my dear,
it's a "grown up"thing......
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04-18-2008, 11:25 PM
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#43 | | Firearm Zealot
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: 16th state.
Posts: 2,419
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Originally Posted by billy thats ok my dear,
it's a "grown up"thing......  | AHAHAHAAA...but that is the only name I knew them as, now my little one calls them roly-polys.
Betcha someone else here still refers them to roly polys!
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04-19-2008, 04:06 PM
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#44 | | Firearm Enthusiast
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Oklahoma
Posts: 409
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100% (Dixie). Is General Lee your father?
weird, I though for sure given some of the scoring comments I was gonna get lower than that. Here is what I punched in.
I put an @ in front of my selections. 1. How do you pronounce Aunt?
Like the word want
@Like the word ant
Like the word caught
I pronounce them all the same RESULT: 2. How do you pronounce caramel?
Two syllables ("car-ml")
@Three syllables ("car-a-mel")
Either
Don't know RESULT: 3. How do you pronounce creek?
@Rhymes with meek
Rhymes with kick
Either
Don't know RESULT: 4. How do you pronounce the second syllable in pajamas?
Rhymes with jam
@Rhymes with father
Either
Don't know RESULT: 5. How do you pronounce route?
@Rhymes with clout
Rhymes with toot
Either
Don't know RESULT: 6. Do you pronounce "cot" and "caught" the same way?
@Yes
No
No answer
Don't know RESULT: 7. How do you address a group of people?
You all
Youse
You'uns, yins
@Y'all RESULT: 8. What kind of sale is it on the front lawn?
Rummage sale
Tag sale
@Yard sale
Garage sale RESULT: 9. What's that long sandwich with lots of cold cuts and toppings?
@Sub
Hoagie
Grinder
Hero RESULT: 10. What's the tiny lobster that crawls around in creek bottoms?
Crawfish
Crayfish
@Crawdad
I don't know RESULT: 11. What do you call gym shoes?
Sneakers
Tennis shoes
Gymshoes
@Runnning shoes RESULT: 12. What is spread onto the tops of cakes?
Frosting
@Icing
Don't know
No answer RESULT: 13. What's that road along an Interstate highway?
Frontage road
@Service road
Access road
Feeder RESULT: 14. What do you put groceries in?
Bag
@Sack
Poke
No answer RESULT: 15. Where might you get water in a public building?
Water fountain
@Drinking fountain
Bubbler
No answer RESULT: 16. What is that bubbly carbonated drink called?
Soda
@Coke
Pop
Soft drink RESULT: 17. What's it called when you throw toilet paper over a house?
TP'ing
Toilet papering
@Rolling
Papering RESULT: 18. What's the night before Halloween called?
@I don't use any word for this
Devil's night
Mischief night
Cabbage night RESULT: 19. What's a drive through liquor store called?
I haven't heard of any such thing, or none of the below
Brew thru
Beverage barn
@Party barn RESULT: 20. What's that bug that rolls into a ball when you touch it? (NOTE: This is not a doodle bug (ant lion), which is the larvae of Myrmeleontidae spp.)
@Roly poly
Pillbug
Potato bug
Sow bug RESULT:
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04-20-2008, 03:16 AM
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#45 | | Firearm Aficionado
Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: lakewood CO
Posts: 953
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66% dixie, lol I have lived my life of equal parts in south and north, but most in the middle Colorado.
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04-20-2008, 10:27 AM
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#46 | | Firearm Aficionado
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Tennessee
Posts: 668
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I was born and raised in New England,and still live here but it said I am only 43% Yankee...barely in the Yankee catagory...huh?
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04-20-2008, 03:15 PM
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#47 | | Firearm Enthusiast
Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: SW Arkansas
Posts: 82
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99% DIXIE!! Ya'll!
For those of you who scored mostly YANKEE, "Bless Ya'lls hearts!"
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04-20-2008, 03:31 PM
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#48 | | Firearm Enthusiast
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Tacoma, Washington
Posts: 21
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63% (Dixie). About where I figured
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04-20-2008, 06:18 PM
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#49 | | Firearm Zealot
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Southern New Mexico
Posts: 3,985
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76% Dixie? I would have probably fought for the yanks though, thats odd. this test is just on knowledge of words though. My mom was a "GRITS" so I guess that is where I got if from. I do love my second amendment though! and they are called rolly polys.
Last edited by cremley; 04-21-2008 at 03:30 PM.
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04-20-2008, 06:46 PM
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#50 | | Firearm Enthusiast
Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Dinwiddie, VA
Posts: 121
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72% percent Dixie, dam Yankee mother
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