# The Daily Feud: Regional Colloquialisms by MsWhatsit \[Game Over\]

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [December 20, 2008, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-regional-colloquialisms-by-mswhatsit-game-over/478009 "2008-12-20T01:04:25Z")\
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What do you call it in your neck of the woods?  
**DO NOT READ THIS THREAD BEFORE YOU POST YOUR ANSWERS**

**Object of the game: Try to think of the most popular answer,** to get the most people matching you. Google or other research is allowed, if you desire. Only answers that are “serious” will be scored. Joke answers will not be considered, as it is not fair to other players.

Scoring - Any answer duplicated by anyone else is worth 100 points divided by the number of entrants. For example: 50 entrant game = 2 pts per answer. If 4 people match that means they each get 8 pts for that answer. No matches = 0 points.

If any of you have ideas for Feuds -_and would like me to score them_- PM me and I’ll get you on [The List.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=10488145#post10488145)

_ **FORMATTING OF ANSWERS IS IMPORTANT!** _

**Write your answers like this** ; Do not repeat the questions, no periods at the end of answers, no spaces between lines, no comments, no fancy list coding. If you need to comment or clarify your answers, do it AFTER the list of answers. Thanks.  
JUST LIKE THIS:

**1. answer \<\<—There is a space after the period!  
2. response  
3. rejoinder**

The game will end either when we have 50 entrants, or at **4:00 PM Central** on Saturday, 12/20/08 whichever comes first.

Good luck!

1. It’s a carbonated beverage that comes in a can. What’s it called?
2. It’s a rectangular maple donut. What’s it called?
3. It’s a meat and cheese sandwich that comes on a long baguette or roll. What’s it called?
4. What’s another way to say “He’s snoring?”
5. What’s another way to say “He threw up?”
6. You secretly stay home from school without permission. What do you say you did?
7. Someone’s taking too long or dawdling. You say, “Quit \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ing around!”
8. What’s another way to say that something is located diagonally from something else? (Spelling counts on this one!)
9. What do you call a gone-to-seed dandelion?
10. What’s the thing you drink from in a school hallway?

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**Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-regional-colloquialisms-by-mswhatsit-game-over/478009/2 "2008-12-20T01:09:49Z")

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1. Soda
2. Maple bar
3. Submarine sandwich (sub)
4. Sawing logs
5. He puked
6. Skipped school
7. Screwing
8. Catty-corner
9. Puffball
10. Water fountain

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**Author:** ![This\_ll\_Do](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/this_ll_do/32/3023_2.png) [@This\_ll\_Do](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/This_ll_Do)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-regional-colloquialisms-by-mswhatsit-game-over/478009/3 "2008-12-20T01:18:18Z")

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1. Coke
2. Donut
3. Sub
4. He’s sawing logs
5. He barfed
6. Played hooky
7. Lollygagging
8. Catty-cornered
9. Dandelion
10. Water fountain

\*2. I don’t know what this is, so if I saw one I’d likely call it a maple donut

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**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-regional-colloquialisms-by-mswhatsit-game-over/478009/4 "2008-12-20T01:25:12Z")

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1. Soda

2. Long John

3. Sub

4. He’s sleeping noisily

5. He ralphed

6. Skipped (class)

7. Screwing

8. Kitty-corner

9. Puffball

10. Fountain

11. I had to google this one.

12. There are other ways to say he’s snoring? 😕

13. Actually, I, and everyone I know, just calls it a dandelion, but I had to guess something. 😛

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**Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-regional-colloquialisms-by-mswhatsit-game-over/478009/5 "2008-12-20T01:26:40Z")

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1. Soda
2. Maple bar
3. Hoagie
4. He’s sawing logs
5. He hurled
6. Skipped school
7. horsing
8. Cattycorner
9. Puffball
10. Fountain

(1. Really, ‘pop’ back where I come from, but I’m not from there anymore.)  
(2. Actually, I don’t call it anything since I never nheard of it and had to look it up.)  
(3. ‘Sub’ is universal where I used to be from, but I’m going for the popular answer. I hope.)

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**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-regional-colloquialisms-by-mswhatsit-game-over/478009/6 "2008-12-20T01:26:56Z")

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1. Soda
2. Maple twist (?)
3. A sub
4. He’s sawing logs.
5. He puked.
6. Skipped (school)
7. Monkeying
8. Catty-corner
9. Nothing, because I don’t know any words or phrases for this
10. Water fountain

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**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-regional-colloquialisms-by-mswhatsit-game-over/478009/7 "2008-12-20T01:31:46Z")

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1. Soda

2. Long john

3. Sub sandwich

4. He’s sawing wood

5. He puked

6. Played hooky

7. Fuck

8. Kitty-corner

9. Puffball

10. Bubbler

11. I have no idea what you’re going for here.

12. I had a vague recollection that this thing has a name, but after that I was toast. Answer shamelessly Googled.

13. Why yes, I’m from Wisconsin, why do you ask? And no, I don’t care if it doesn’t actually bubble, it’s still a bubbler, not your hoity-toity water fountain. 😃

ETA: You people do know that all of your answers for 7 come out to “monkeyinging,” “lollygagginging,” and so on, according to the format of the question, right? Heh, you “water fountain” snobs ain’t so smart. :D:D:D

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**Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-regional-colloquialisms-by-mswhatsit-game-over/478009/8 "2008-12-20T01:33:42Z")

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1. Soda
2. Maple bar
3. Hoagie
4. He’s sawing logs
5. He ralphed
6. I ditched
7. fucking
8. oblique
9. Dandelion clock
10. water fountain

EDIT : well, I learned a new expression today. Catty-corner huh ?

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**Author:** ![This\_ll\_Do](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/this_ll_do/32/3023_2.png) [@This\_ll\_Do](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/This_ll_Do)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-regional-colloquialisms-by-mswhatsit-game-over/478009/9 "2008-12-20T01:39:26Z")

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> [@Scarlett67](#):
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> ETA: You people do know that all of your answers for 7 come out to “monkeyinging,” “lollygagginging,” and so on, according to the format of the question, right? Heh, you “water fountain” snobs ain’t so smart. :D:D:D

Aw hell, you’re right! :smack: How embarrassinging.

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**Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-regional-colloquialisms-by-mswhatsit-game-over/478009/10 "2008-12-20T01:42:19Z")

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1. Soda

2. Treat

3. Sub

4. Cutting wood

5. Puked

6. Skipped

7. Farting around

8. Kitty-cornered

9. Puffer

10. Bubbler

11. I have no idea what this is. Maple sugar?

12. Actually, it’s a scuttlebutt. But very few people here would agree with me on that.

ETA: If I were going with what I grew up with -

1. Tonic

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**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-regional-colloquialisms-by-mswhatsit-game-over/478009/11 "2008-12-20T01:42:48Z")

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1. pop
2. long john
3. sub
4. he’s stacking z’s
5. he barfed
6. played hooky
7. fool
8. catty-corner
9. wishie
10. drinking fountain

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1. Soda
2. maple bar
3. sub
4. he’s snoozing
5. He barfed
6. I ditched school
7. screwing
8. kitty-corner
9. puffball
10. water fountain

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**Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-regional-colloquialisms-by-mswhatsit-game-over/478009/13 "2008-12-20T01:43:56Z")

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1. Soda
2. Beignet
3. Sub
4. He’s sawing logs
5. He upchucked
6. Played hooky
7. Screwing
8. Catty corner
9. I never called it anything but a dandelion
10. Water fountain

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**Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-regional-colloquialisms-by-mswhatsit-game-over/478009/14 "2008-12-20T01:45:40Z")

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1. Soda
2. cruller
3. sub
4. sawing wood
5. blew chunks
6. played hooky
7. screwing
8. caddy corner
9. dandelion
10. fountain

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**Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-regional-colloquialisms-by-mswhatsit-game-over/478009/15 "2008-12-20T01:49:05Z")

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1. A can of soda
2. A flapjack
3. A sub
4. He’s got a case of the zeds
5. He puked
6. I bunked off
7. Messing
8. It’s across from it
9. A dandelion clock
10. Water fountain

#2 - I know a flapjack isn’t a donut. WTF is a rectangular donut?  
#8 - I didn’t know there was a specific term for that!

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1. Pop
2. Longjohn
3. Sub sandwich
4. Sawing logs
5. Puked
6. Skipped school
7. Messing
8. Catty cornered
9. Dandelion
10. Water fountain

Crap. I forgot that we’re supposed to pick the most popular answer. These are just what I use.

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**Author:** ![bluecanary](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bluecanary/32/3614_2.png) [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-regional-colloquialisms-by-mswhatsit-game-over/478009/17 "2008-12-20T01:52:02Z")

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Catty-corner?!?

That one certainly hasn’t made it across the Atlantic (though it sounds useful). Learn something new…

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**Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-regional-colloquialisms-by-mswhatsit-game-over/478009/18 "2008-12-20T01:53:35Z")

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Also, **Dolores** , is the answer “dandelion” for Q9 going to be accepted? Doesn’t seem to be in the spirit of the question to me.

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**Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-regional-colloquialisms-by-mswhatsit-game-over/478009/19 "2008-12-20T01:53:41Z")

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> [@](#):
>
> 1. It’s a carbonated beverage that comes in a can. What’s it called?
> 2. It’s a rectangular maple donut. What’s it called?
> 3. It’s a meat and cheese sandwich that comes on a long baguette or roll. What’s it called?
> 4. What’s another way to say “He’s snoring?”
> 5. What’s another way to say “He threw up?”
> 6. You secretly stay home from school without permission. What do you say you did?
> 7. Someone’s taking too long or dawdling. You say, “Quit \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ing around!”
> 8. What’s another way to say that something is located diagonally from something else? (Spelling counts on this one!)
> 9. What do you call a gone-to-seed dandelion?
> 10. What’s the thing you drink from in a school hallway?

1. Coke

2. Maple bars

3. Sub

4. Cutting some Z’s

5. Barfed

6. Played Hooky

7. Dilly Dally

8. Kitty-corner

9. puffball

10. water fountain

11. Had to google, I had no idea what you were talking about

12. I think an R-rated word would be most popular, but it is not what I would say. Actually I wold say “hurry up” but that didn’t fit.

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1. soda
2. maple bar
3. sub
4. sawing logs
5. upchucked
6. play hooky
7. Quit screwing around!
8. catty-cornered
9. puffball
10. water fountain

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