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[wickedflea]

When I say the word "yardstick," do you know what I mean? Since I've moved to Tuscaloosa, I've asked two store employees if they could tell me where to find yardsticks, and they've both acted like I meant some kind of sticks that you put out in the yard. Tonight at Target, I had to explain to the kid what a yardstick looks like: "Well, it's three feet long, and it's wood . . ." What's that about? Are yardsticks new to Alabama?

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[scottcrawford.livejournal.com]

They must have moved on to the metric system down there.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

No way. I think they're still on hands and stone and all that.

[ssaiscps.livejournal.com]

Maybe you've spent too much time in New England. Did you pronounce it like "yahdstick"?

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

No way! I even said "y'all!" "Can you tell me if y'all have yardsticks?"

[alicdeni83.livejournal.com]

What you doing with a yardstick?

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Measuring the wangdoodle.

[seeds-of-peace.livejournal.com]

It's Alabama, 'nuff said.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

LOL, no shit. =)

[laurel714.livejournal.com]

I had a difficult time finding shoeleaces in North Dakota. Everyone I asked got a stupefied look and mumbled, "Shoe-LACES?!?!?"

Perhaps you just ask for the really long rulers.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

When the kid tonight finally figured out what I was talking about, he said, "OH! Like a measuring device?"

?!?

[laurel714.livejournal.com]

Yeah, a measuring device about a YARD long - on a STICK. Or 3 rulers taped together to make a super-ruler. Good luck. I got the shoe-laces at a hardware store. They were right next to the yardsticks.

:-)

[queenginseng.livejournal.com]

I have used the word before...

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Whew. I thought I was making up werds again for a minute. ;)

[rufus.livejournal.com]

perhaps they are accustomed to tape-measueres, and have no concept of yardsticks?

I don't know a thing about the evolution of measuring technology, but perhaps yardsticks are the equivalent of vinyl records?

anyway, yeah, I have heard of a yardstick before.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Apparently they are--I had to go to three stores to find one!

[designdiva.livejournal.com]

i've always called them yardsticks.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Werd up, mama. =)

[buscemi.livejournal.com]

Why do you even need a yardstick?

Btw, I heard Oh, What a Night in Whole Foods tonight. I blame you! :P

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Measuring stuff 'round the house, yanno. I have some posters I need to get framed, and I have some empty spots that I want to get furniture for, but only if it fits. :)

[buscemi.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see. So you're just gonna pretend this Oh, What a Night shit never happened? Hee.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

LATE DECEMBER BACK IN SIXTY-THREE . . .

P.S. -- I want a Whole Foods here. :*(

[deadflowers.livejournal.com]

why not measuring tape? it makes such a satisfying sound when you snap it back into place.

my grandmother had a yardstick. a thick one with a leather strap on the end. my cousins and i used to ball up some masking tape and play yardstickball in the cul-de-sac.

[universalhum.livejournal.com]

Come to think of it, I haven't seen one except at my granddaddy's house in years.

[cierrablue.livejournal.com]

Wat else would you call a yardstick? Leave it to Alabama to be behind in the Imperial System of measurement. Forget metrics!