No, all of those are gigs. When my dad lived in Georgia, my friends and I used to go out in the swamp at night with a bright light and go frog giggin'. A frog gig is a pole about a man's height long with four or five tines on the end, like a multi-pronged Neptune's trident. You shine a bright light into the swamp and when you see the eyes reflected (which blinds the frog temporarily) you spear ("gig") the frog on the end and flip it into the boat... then you pull off the legs, take off the skin, and cook 'em on the shore. Works for flatfish like flounder too if you use a bigger gig.
My brothers used to go frog gigging. Maybe it's a southern US thing. Fried frog legs were as close as we got to gourmet food back then. (Just remember to clip the nerve in the legs or they would hop out of the frying pan while cooking.)
That is correct, even though it never made sense to me. It seems as though Christmas Eve should be the evening of Christmas day, not the night before. That has now led to the paradoxes of "Christmas Eve morning or Christmas Day night". I did some research and one explanation is that in medieval times the new day did not start at midnight, but rather at sundown. Therefore, Christmas and New Year's Day actually began at sundown on the previous evening.
It's mostly because All Hallow's eve just became Halloween, I get that traditions are different but I mean Christmas wasn't exactly about fir trees originally, yet people buy them every year.
yes but my point is that it's celebrated the night before the day considered to be all hallows day, not knowing what Ander said about it you would expect it to be celebrated on the actual day of the holiday. Simply noting that it makes sense now that I know that.
Also what do Christmas trees have to do with this? that's just another tradition that was stolen from the pagans by the christians, really has nothing to do with the whole 'eve' thing
Exactly! Kept running through options: Sita? Hanuman? Lakshman? But the quiz seemed pretty America-centric -- it assumed people would know "pop" and who the heck Dale Earnhardt is -- so I finally realized it wouldn't be asking something that "obscure" within the context. Got it quickly then.
Where do you live? It's the most common term for it in the American Midwest and northwest. Even if soda or coke are more common in other parts of the country, most people in the US would at least know what someone is referring to when they say pop. Not sure about the rest of the world, but someone else mentioned above that "fizzy pop" is common where they live.
I live in Australia we just call the soft drink by its brand name (ie. Coke) or common name (ie. Lemonade Aid) otherwise just 'soft drink'. Pop isn't used to all, at least I haven't heard it before in that context besides American TV/Movies.
I have heard pop and soda my entire life, but NEVER have heard someone refer to soft drinks in general as "coke." I mean, I know people apparently do this in some regions, but I can't imagine someone having a 7-Up and saying "This coke is refreshing!"
You are confusing the word "my" with the word "our." Getting a degree in gender studies at Evergreen State doesn't give you the authority to start changing the definitions of words and then insisting everyone else is wrong to keep using them in the same way they always have.
A level doesn't measure flatness. It checks objects to see if they are level. An optical flat or autocollimator would measure the flatness.
Just because an object is level does not mean it is flat and just because an object is flat does not mean its level.
Something being level is relative to the entire objects orientation to the earth.
Something that is flat is saying the surface of that object doesn't vary by more than a certain degree.
I think that the plural ones should be denoted with an asterisk. As it currently stands they are a bit trickier than the others because ou might not realize the impact that a trailing s would have on the word.
Here's one