I KNOW I'm the only person who uses the term......

[Patiod]

"elevenses" to refer to the wet food snack just before midnight that the cat starts demanding at about 10:45. As in "Would you give that damned thing its elevenses already? It's driving me crazy"

Any terms you KNOW you're the only one who uses?

[DarkTirade]

1. That's actually a fairly common term...

for hobbits. :P

[raccoon]

2. Isn't that term used in the UK? I saw it in a mystery I'm reading, set in Wales. nt

[Patiod]

3. I read a LOT of UK murder mysteries, so I might have picked it up

there. Don't know what else we could call it.....

[Flaxbee]

6. yup - I've seen it used in Martha Grimes' mysteries a lot,

with Melrose's Aunt Agatha coming over for tea and cakes (her "elevenses") before lunch. In this case, we're talking about 11 a.m....

[Patiod]

29. Well, she's not demanding wet cat food, either

:-)

[tjwmason]

38. Yes - it's used over here

Mostly a cup of tea/coffee and small snack at about eleven in the morning.

I've never heard it used in reference to an evening snack.

[Patiod]

43. You don't have something haunting you for wet food at 10:45

To paraphrase Woody Allen, "the cat wants what the cat wants"

I probably picked up the phrase from too many British mysteries, and transposed it to the pm when we were seeking a word to describe what the cat eats before we go to bed!

[zabet]

4. My family refers to

Salisbury (or cubed) steak as 'fake steak'.
It is so 'normal' for me to call it that, it
actually surprises me when people ask me what
the hell I am talking about.
:D

[bif]

5. Thirty-ten

the number after thirty-nine

[Gonzo Gardener]

7. I'm stealing it.

I'll turn 39 next week and I just can't quite get my head around being 40 next year. :scared:

[Greyskye]

8. "catted"

This is what happens to you when a cat climbs into your lap - you've been 'catted'. A catted person is relieved of all obligations other then to provide a soft resting place and kitty scritches. "Sorry dear, you'll have to get that yourself. I've been catted."

[quip]

21. lol we have the same idea in our household, only we call it "the kitty rule"

:hi:

[Patiod]

23. I assume you've seen this, then,

http://www.jimmcneill.com/dance.html

[quip]

27. lol only in real life (except my kittehs are not that mean-spirited)

Thanks for the link! :hi:

[Digit]

47. That was cute n/t

[raccoon]

41. I like that one! nt

[Left Brain]

9. Yes-huh

as in,
"Nuh-uh"
"Yes-huh"

[TCJ70]

10. I'm one of the few who uses the term "Dang up!"...

...It can be used in many different contexts.

To express suprise - "Dang up! That guy scared me!"

To express happiness - *after receiving a present* "Dang up!"

To express frustration or weariness also works...

It's a versatile phrase.

[tonkatoy57]

11. Oddly Enough...

...I came across a reference to "elevenses" in a book I'm reading. The author traces the word back to 1820's America. It appears to be the original term for what we would now call a coffee break, a mid-morning snack and something to drink.

Even stranger is that "elevenses" was instituted, in part, because of a surplus of corn in the 1820's, a period know to historians as "The Great Drunk". Farmer's on the western plains couldn't ship corn east beacuse of the price of corn and the price of transporting the corn. So, they created a value added product from the corn....corn liquor. Employers were expected to provide mid-morning libations to their employees. A great solution to the corn glut of the time.

In the 1820's it was estimated that the per capita consumption of hard liquor in the U.S. was around 5 gallons.

Is there a reason the Great Awakening followed the Great Drunk?

[Patiod]

14. Our cat is not involved in any corn surpluses

She just decided that she should be fed before we go to bed, and let us know that she was not going to take "no" for an answer. Around 10:45 she starts knocking stuff off tables, approaching my S.O. and placing a paw on his face, and standing in the kitchen yelling.

Maybe corn liquor would be a good solution....

[Rabrrrrrr]

12. Isn't it elevensies, and in the morning?

The snack time between second breakfast and lunch?

[unpossibles]

13. hmm. a few years back, I turned

eleventy-two (with a nod to Tolkein there as well). Now I am Twenty-seventeen, but don't look a day over double-fifteen.

[WannaBeGrumpy]

15. Boogle...

It means cat or occasionly some other cute thing. I don't know where or why I came up with it...used in a sentence: "Oh you are such a silly little boogle yes you are"

*sigh* I am soooo weird!

[Patiod]

44. Cats (and doggies) bring out the weird in all of us

My mother, who doesn't have a whimsical bone in her strict Catholic body, dressed the dachshund up in a little hat and cape every year for Halloween. Who would have thunk it?

[flvegan]

16. I refer to all my animals as "my chickens"

I have no idea when or why I started doing that.

[Patiod]

19. All cute things in my house are "bunnies"

babies, toddlers, cats, even my 6' 250-pound weightlifter S.O.

[DeepBlueC]

35. me too

or mouses. I can't believe the stuff that comes out of my mouth when I am talking to my cats!

[GalleryGod]

17. Hey there!

Obama Supporter

2 More !

[Patiod]

20. I just got word that I need to travel to Tampa for work

about 2 weeks too early!!!!!! ARRRGGH!!

S.O. just got an unexpected residual check which may go to season tickets, though.....

[Tikki]

18. Aahh....'shootypoot'...

Tikki ;-)

[quip]

22. When I get really upset, I use the term

"FUCK!"

[FloridaJudy]

24. "Oh, Boo-Hiss"

Said in a completely dead-pan tone of voice to indicate that things are not comme il faut - as in when the car engine explodes, or when the cat pukes up a dismembered squirrel on your knitting project. Circumstances in which normal people would yell "FUCK!"

My sister and I are the only people I know who do this. It must be genetic.

[ET Awful]

25. Quat and Quitten

Feline by the name of Quinn :P

[quip]

37. When you want to see you kitteh, you call it a cumquat?

:shrug: :rofl:

[SteppingRazor]

26. My wife and I coined the word "vomilicious."

It's a portmanteau of "vomit" and "delicious," and describes the nauseous feeling you get after you have a spectacularly good but really rich meal, often involving heavy cream sauces and the like.

[Patiod]

28. Ooo! That's a good one.

Like after you eat a baggie of bacon that you've saving for a recipe, but it accidentally becomes a snack!

[SteppingRazor]

30. I usually use it with things like thick alfredo sauces, but...

yeah, that works too. ;)

[Lydia Leftcoast]

31. Let's see now

"boxen" as the plural of "box"
When I was a kid, we used some words that we didn't know were German, such as "schnipsels," which is little scraps of paper or cloth left after cutting.

[bertha katzenengel]

32. Aw, for shit's sake. n/t

[Patiod]

33. ???!!!!!

Yikes! Bertha!

[bertha katzenengel]

34. LOL

it's new. it just came out one day. Mrs. V. had a hard time of it to stop laughing.

[FloridaJudy]

36. "Undisirregardless"

I came up with this to get back at people who use "irregardless", which annoys the snot out of me.

I'm afraid I'm one of those hopeless grammar snobs.

[SKKY]

39. "Craptacular"...

[Patiod]

45. Sounds like a perfectly cromulent word to me

:rofl:

[krispos42]

40. "afore"

I've started catching myself using this word in place of "before". I notice doing in particularly around my son.

I have no damn clue how long I've been doing it, or where I got it from! I don't think it's evena Minnesota thing!

It is even a proper word???

[Tracer]

42. Boof.

As in when the cat wants to enter a room with an almost closed door, she will head-butt the door --- or "boof" it open.

[Patiod]

46. Really? You're allowed to close doors in your house?

If we do, there is no end of hell to pay. Head-butting, scratching, yelling - we're in for it if things aren't at least left so that they can be opened with a slight push of the paw....