Okay growing up not only was it called a sliding board but also...wait for it....sliding pond.
Anyone from Northern NJ/ NY/ especially Long Island has to know what a sliding pond is.
the weird thing is, I think that it's not only a regional term but a dated one. Because now I'd just call it a slide. But as a kid it was a sliding pond.
I was born in 71 and from what I've read, the words were mostly used by older generations and people my age were kind of the last people to use board or pond after slide. Kids in the northeast these days just say slide.
A slide. Western PA. I'll give you, it's safer looking than the metal slides that baked in the sun, burning your bum and legs off that I remember. lol.
Okay growing up not only was it called a sliding board but also...wait for it....sliding pond.
Anyone from Northern NJ/ NY/ especially Long Island has to know what a sliding pond is.
the weird thing is, I think that it's not only a regional term but a dated one. Because now I'd just call it a slide. But as a kid it was a sliding pond.
I was born in 71 and from what I've read, the words were mostly used by older generations and people my age were kind of the last people to use board or pond after slide. Kids in the northeast these days just say slide.
I call it both. I am from MD and grew up hearing it called a sliding board. I use slide as the shorten slang. When I was in a classroom teaching, I definitely used sliding board as most did as well. Kids, one at a time down the sliding board. Feet first when going down the sliding board, etc...
Okay growing up not only was it called a sliding board but also...wait for it....sliding pond.
Anyone from Northern NJ/ NY/ especially Long Island has to know what a sliding pond is.
the weird thing is, I think that it's not only a regional term but a dated one. Because now I'd just call it a slide. But as a kid it was a sliding pond.
I was born in 71 and from what I've read, the words were mostly used by older generations and people my age were kind of the last people to use board or pond after slide. Kids in the northeast these days just say slide.
ARE YOU CALLING ME OLD???
(It's okay. I am old.)
lol sad but true! I tried some googling on sliding pond recently and from what I read it's a term that died out over time. And it made sense because I remember teachers calling it a sliding pond/board and as kids we did too. But at some point it became just a slide.
At least sliding board makes some sense but sliding pond? WTF? Who thought of that one?
I said slide but have heard and used sliding board before. I don't recall if I was shamed into calling it a slide by DH. He dislikes my use of terms like drinking fountain and shopping cart. I correct DS when he says he used the bubbler.
Noooooo! Bubbler is correct: the water bubbles up for you to drink it.
A fountain is what's in front of office buildings or Versailles.
You guys are going to flip at this one. I also grew up referring to an ATM as a money mover.
People laughed at me when I move to FL, so I stopped.
I grew up calling it a MAC machine!
I grew up calling it a TyME (Take Your Money something-that-starts-with -an -e )machine.
Do you know know how much of a dumb ass I felt like asking a friend in Philly if we could stop at the TyME machine?!?!? I had no clue it was a regional thing. #youth
This is weird. I grew up in Philly, lived in Boston for two years moved back to Philly burbs but when you posted the picture I said 'slide' but I also use 'sliding board' at times. Slide is short for 'sliding board' and no one from Philly will exhaust anymore letters than necessary. But, people haven't ever heard a slide being called a sliding board? Where are my Philly peeps? Right? Or does my card need to be revoked.
I said slide but have heard and used sliding board before. I don't recall if I was shamed into calling it a slide by DH. He dislikes my use of terms like drinking fountain and shopping cart. I correct DS when he says he used the bubbler.
Noooooo! Bubbler is correct: the water bubbles up for you to drink it.
A fountain is what's in front of office buildings or Versailles.
This is incorrect.
A "bubbler" is what you call your child when he or she farts in the tub.
I said slide but have heard and used sliding board before. I don't recall if I was shamed into calling it a slide by DH. He dislikes my use of terms like drinking fountain and shopping cart. I correct DS when he says he used the bubbler.
Noooooo! Bubbler is correct: the water bubbles up for you to drink it.
A fountain is what's in front of office buildings or Versailles.
It is a water fountain! The water sprays up LIKE A FOUNTAIN! If it's only bubbling, find a better fountain. Lol
Where are you from? One of our regs on H&F calls it a bubbler. Compete nonsense.
I just asked H and he said sliding board too. But he said what underwaterrhymes said. He uses "slide" as a shortened version. "Het (kid's name), go down the slide!"
BTW we are Philly burbs
haha, I just responded, but was like, whaaa??? Slide, sliding board, interchangeable where one is just a shortened version. I truly am shocked that people have never heard of it also being called a sliding board.
I grew up calling it a TyME (Take Your Money something-that-starts-with -an -e )machine. Â
Do you know know how much of a dumb ass I felt like asking a friend in Philly if we could stop at the TyME machine?!?!? I had no clue it was a regional thing. Â #youth
We have no room to talk. MAC even had a song. "You can even tap the MAC for cash to fuel your Cadillac. Tap tap tap the MAC!" I have no idea how I remember that
Post by EloiseWeenie on Mar 26, 2015 22:11:52 GMT -5
I grew up on the eastern shore of MD, and called it a sliding board.
I don't know if it's regional, or if it's just my family and their friends, but they called these pine shats
I have no idea why; like the pine tree shat needles all over the place? When I went to college in NC, people thought I was crazy when I referred to them as pine shats. Pine needles or pine straw is now in my lexicon, LOL.
I grew up calling it a TyME (Take Your Money something-that-starts-with -an -e )machine.
Do you know know how much of a dumb ass I felt like asking a friend in Philly if we could stop at the TyME machine?!?!? I had no clue it was a regional thing. #youth
We have no room to talk. MAC even had a song. "You can even tap the MAC for cash to fuel your Cadillac. Tap tap tap the MAC!" I have no idea how I remember that
Holy shit, I haven't heard that in a lonnnnggg while. I cannot stop laughing. This is sooo Philly. : whispers: I guess we shouldn't tell 'them' how we pronounce Oregon Avenue when sliding board is causing such a controversy
I'm willing to bet a lot of the older sliding board people also know who Mr. Yuk is.
It was similarly shocking to me when I learned not everyone had him on their medicine cabinet growing up.
I know Mr Yuk!
Does anyone else know Patch the Pony? "Neigh, neigh, from strangers stay away?" My h was convinced I'd dreamt that, until I found internet proof of Patch.