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Alas for clear-cut answers, I'm a writer, so more than one word comes to mind in many cases.

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

2. The thing you push around the grocery store.
Shopping cart

3. A metal container to carry a meal in.
Lunchbox

4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in.
One can do that in several things; I suspect Frying Pan is the expected answer.

5. The piece of furniture that seats three people.
Sofa or couch

6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof.
gutters and rainspout

7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening.
Covered area? Porch. If it's UNcovered it's a deck.

8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages.
Soda or soft drink

9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup.
Pancake or flapjack

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

11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach.
Wetsuit? :) Swimming trunks or bathing trunks

12. Shoes worn for sports.
running shoes or sometimes sneakers

13. Putting a room in order.
Depends on how much putting in order you need; tidying up implies very little work, cleaning implies a lot more.

14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.
Lightning bug

15. The little insect that curls up into a ball.
Sowbug or pillbug

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

17. How do you eat your pizza?
I generally cut it up and eat it -- knife and fork. If the pizza's of JUST the right consistency and temperature I may pick it up and eat it as a slice.

18. When private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff.
Garage sale.

19. The evening meal.
Supper or dinner

20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are.
Basement or cellar

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



I know these have alternate answers, so I'll be interested in seeing how common the different ones are.

Comments

[ross-teneyck.livejournal.com]

15. The little insect that curls up into a ball.
Sowbug or pillbug

Where I grew up, in Oregon, these names referred to similar but not identical critters (neither of which, for the record, was an insect.) Pillbugs could curl up completely into a ball; sowbugs were a bit flatter, a slightly lighter shade of grey, and could only curl most of the way into a ball.

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

You're the first person I've met outside my family who says "sowbug". "Pillbug" was the usual term in my neighborhood.

[jry.livejournal.com]

We used both interchangeably too. Also roly poly.

Also, not insects.

[nuranar.livejournal.com]

We always called them roly-polys. *cough* Still do.

[joshwerneck.livejournal.com]

  So why do we still do it. Why do we still continue to check out weather forecasts. Because most of them say something different anyway.

[brownkitty.livejournal.com]

It's not just a writer thing. It's also a nomad thing. I put the ones I use, but I could usually think of two alternatives and what I use doesn't necessarily match what's common where I live.

1. Creek, sometimes pronounced "crick" but not usually by me ;)
2. Cart.
3. Lunch box.
4. Frying pan or skillet. Though I was very tempted to say "microwave".
5. Couch.
6. Gutters.
7. Porch, though "under a tree" was more usual.
8. Soda.
9. Pancake.
10. Sub.
11. Swimsuit.
12. Tennis shoes or sneakers.
13. Cleaning.
14. Firefly. But not one that can kill you with its brain.
15. Roly-poly or pill bug.
16. See-saw or teeter-totter.
17. Pick it up, take bites of it starting with the point and working toward the crust. Sometimes folding it lengthwise, but still eating point to crust.
18. Yard sale.
19. The meal itself is dinner, but if it's part of a phrase it's either dinner or supper used interchangeably.
20. Basement if finished, cellar if unfinished (sometimes to the point of dirt floor.
21. Water fountain or drinking fountain.

[kgbooklog.livejournal.com]

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

Shingles. After it leaves the roof, it goes into gutters and downspouts.

Otherwise I mostly agree with your answers (though the fork and knife are only used for pizza more than an inch thick).

being goofy

[guy-jin.livejournal.com]

1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks.
An indoor fountain.*

2. The thing you push around the grocery store.
Employees.

3. A metal container to carry a meal in.
a can of pork and beans.

4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in.
the house.

5. The piece of furniture that seats three people.
the floor.

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

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

8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages.
sustenance.

9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup.
Sausages!

10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself.
MY DICK! (i got nuffin.)

11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach.
all of them, if you're lucky.

12. Shoes worn for sports.
Overpriced.

13. Putting a room in order.
Dreaming.

14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.
Any insect after the nuclear holocaust.

15. The little insect that curls up into a ball.
see above.

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.
the fatty-pult! :p

17. How do you eat your pizza?
with my mouth.

18. When private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff.
Ebay.

19. The evening meal.
going out to eat.

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

21. The thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places.
MY DICK! (nuffin again).

*: bank as in the financial institution. har har.

[ninjarat.livejournal.com]

1. Stream, sometimes brook
2. Shopping cart. A shopping basket is carried.
3. Lunch box
4. Frying pan, sometimes skillet
5. Couch
6. Gutters
7. Porch (decks are uncovered)
8. Soda, sometimes tonic (hey, I'm from New England :)
9. Pancakes
10. Sub
11. Trunks
12. Sneakers
13. Straigtening
14. Firefly
15. Sowbug
16. See-saw
17. Folded
18. Yard sale
19. Dinner
20. Basement if finished, cellar if not
21. Bubbler

[rephetibel.livejournal.com]

5. The piece of furniture that seats three people.
When I was growing up we called that a davenport. I've heard people say chesterfield. I had a friend who called it a divan.
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening.
Stoop.
13. Putting a room in order.
Readying the room.
20. The thing under the house where the furnance and perhaps a rec room are.
Undercroft.

[sub-musashi.livejournal.com]

I'm mostly the same as you. I am intrigued by your alternative methods of cooking bacon and eggs, however. Let's hear it!