What about shopping for food?

Do you:

go to the grocery store
get groceries or
make groceries?

either of the 1st two. make groceries?

and also - sub for a long sandwich.

and have never said the word ma'am in my life.

MAKE groceries? If I could do that I wouldn't have to go to the store to pay someone else.

Makin' groceries is a Southern Louisiana thing everytime I've heard it.

Billy & Claude is makin' groceries at Schwegmann's, brah. How's ya mominem?

my grandmother and my mother (sometimes) calls a couch a davenport

A chesterfield?

Just kidding. That's supposedly a very Canadian saying, but I've never heard it actually said.

It's always a couch.

They sit there and watch the Dumont.

Or a sofa?

yeah. 'swhy I tossed it in there. to see if it's said anywhere else.

Some people just call it a grocery, rather than a grocery store. Or supermarket.

It's gotta be an old leftover French thing. They have all those expressions that use the verb faire (to do; to make) so that a literal translation doesn't quite fit right into English.

faire le marché/les achats Means "to do the shopping", but could be to "make groceries" if translated literally.
faire du sport Means "to play sports" not "make sports"
faire une question Means "to ask a question" not "make a question".

Fucking French.

"it's two chimps on a davenport in a basement."

In VA, most people say soda, some say soft drink.

I will never forget going to some place in Ohio and a convenience clerk asking me if I "wanted my [your] pop in a sack". Folks here say paper bag, not sack, so I thought that sounded like a proposition.

making fuck

"Food store" or "grocery store."

It's not dumb, they usually stumble over it -- "...just take 212 to the beltway...or...you know what I mean...and then go South..." blahb lah blah

Just think of it as that part of the belt that sticks out when you loop it through the buckle, but you haven't tucked it in yet.

What about calling beers "coldbeer"?

as in, let's go have a few coldbeers...

Oh, and I still call Publix/Kroger The Commisary -- that's what it is on military bases

I really like to say ma'am and yessir. To anyone, of any age. But this has to do with my social demeanor when drunk, as well. I am going to thoroughly confuse the fuck out of my senior class when I go back to my reunion in Massachusetts having spent the past ten years in Tejas & Orygun.

when? where?

November '06, Framingham or Boston, and yes, I will have to have a pillow fight with you and Stacey. Now that the Bloor is otherwise engaged, you may be interviewing new cabana boys / heterosexual crushes, no?

Col'burr and Currs Lite

I suppose if you live in a part of the country where refrigeration is a modern marvel rather than an everyday convenience...

Laura, this week, we have first practice for this, mmkay?

Me and the boys, go have a few col-cols.