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Subject: RE: BS: What do you call woodlice? From: Dave the Gnome Date: 28 Jul 05 - 05:47 PM I think I can beat any other localisation - To just our house! When me and Mrs G were first wed we saw loads of the little buggers in our toilet which was originaly outside but, due to development, became off the kitchen extension. They were unknown to us before so they became 'wurgies' and because they were in the toilet, or 'loo', they were loo wurgies. They are still the same some 30 odd years later:-) Cheers DtG |
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you call woodlice? From: Fibula Mattock Date: 28 Jul 05 - 06:00 PM Slaters in Norn Iron too. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you call woodlice? From: Stephen L. Rich Date: 29 Jul 05 - 01:09 AM I call this one Ralph. I call that on Alemida. I call the one on your arm... |
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you call woodlice? From: JohnInKansas Date: 29 Jul 05 - 02:12 AM Although ways to kill silverfish and why one should seem a lot more interesting, I suppose that in deference to the original subject of the thread I should confirm that in my area of the US (Kansas): Children universally called them "rolypolies" - when I was a child. Virtually all of the adults of older generations that I've known called them "sowbugs." I can recall a couple of kids that I knew in gradeschool days that called them "pillbugs" but most of us kids figured "they wuz furriners, sort of" and hadn't learned the local linguistic subtleties. I think they were Adventists or somethin' like that, and came from "back east." Maybe Kansas City or somethin'. That's about as far as East went in those days. I can't really say that the "old-timers" had all that much knowledge of these bugs' placement in the ecological function of things, but I do remember one day when granddad caught me teasin' some with a stick to make them roll in a ball up so I could flip them like marbles, and objected that I ought to "leave them alone and let 'em work." I think that was the time that he told me that when a horse hair falls in the water trough and soaks long enough it turns into a water snake, so I think I spent the rest of the week watching the hair I pulled out of old Fannie's mane float around in the stock tank. Never did get a snake out of it, but grandpa said I just didn't wait long enough. Grandpas are strange sometimes. John |
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you call woodlice? From: GUEST,Alix graa parot Date: 29 Jul 05 - 02:14 AM mmmmm good in me |
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you call woodlice? From: Splott Man Date: 01 Aug 05 - 04:44 AM We called them Cheesebugs at home in Surrey. My friend from Berkshire calls them Cheeselogs. Here in South Wales they call them Slateys. I'm surprised Cheesbugs hasn't come up before, shows how local it may be. Hope that's helpful. Splott man |
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you call woodlice? From: Splott Man Date: 01 Aug 05 - 04:46 AM To the tune of I Can Sing A Rainbow... Grey and grey and grey and grey, Grey and grey and grey. I can sing a woodlouse, sing a woodlouse, sing a woodlouse... Collected from Bill Bailey (British comedian and musician) |
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you call woodlice? From: Torctgyd Date: 01 Aug 05 - 06:36 AM You can call them anything you like 'cos they ain't got ears (haahaahaahaahaahhaa) I read somewhere that the Dutch call them piss bugs (in Dutch obviously) due to the smell they can emit (as mentioned above) |
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you call woodlice? From: GUEST,Cluin Date: 01 Aug 05 - 06:22 PM Used to be sowbugs or pillbugs, but now it's slaters, thanks to my friends in Barrhead (not Alberta). |
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you call woodlice? From: Les B Date: 01 Aug 05 - 09:44 PM cootie decoys ?? |
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you call woodlice? From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 02 Aug 05 - 12:50 AM
I was trained to eat them raw - sort of nature's MRE's
Sincerely, |
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you call woodlice? From: GUEST Date: 02 Aug 05 - 01:42 AM You are what you eat. Aptly true in some cases. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you call woodlice? From: GUEST,Tom Morgan Date: 17 Jul 06 - 03:19 PM We used to call them...infact still do...granchy groovers! LOL THIS HAS TO BE THE BEST SO FAR!! anyone else heard of this? Just my GF wont believe me.. (pah what a wally!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you call woodlice? From: Amos Date: 17 Jul 06 - 03:27 PM I call them by their last names, as I am not interested in a close relationship. If I don't know their last names, I refuse to call them at all. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you call woodlice? From: Peace Date: 17 Jul 06 - 03:30 PM Posted without comment. 1 egg 1 carrot 1 cup of rice 3/4 cup of water seaweed sheet 2 table spoons of vinegar 2 table spoons of sugar 1 teaspoon of salt 2 tables spoons of killed woodlice |
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you call woodlice? From: Peace Date: 17 Jul 06 - 03:33 PM A feast for the eyes, the palate and the stomach. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you call woodlice? From: bobad Date: 17 Jul 06 - 03:39 PM Terrestrial isopods |
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you call woodlice? From: Peace Date: 17 Jul 06 - 03:42 PM Extraterrestrial Isopod |
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you call woodlice? From: GUEST Date: 17 Jul 06 - 04:01 PM My son aged 3 ,upon seeing woodlice for the first time, called them "Busy-boys ". |
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you call woodlice? From: bobad Date: 17 Jul 06 - 04:03 PM That ain't no ET Isopod, Peace, that's a double exposure of the front grill of a 1953 Buick Skylark |
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you call woodlice? From: Divis Sweeney Date: 17 Jul 06 - 04:06 PM Slaters, here in Ireland. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you call woodlice? From: Amos Date: 17 Jul 06 - 04:59 PM It seems that many of them should be called by the euphonius family name Armadillidium, which sounds like prime material for a wandering minstrel's ditty. An arma-dilli-idiom of a derry, derry, down sort of ditty. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you call woodlice? From: Sorcha Date: 17 Jul 06 - 05:34 PM Uh...woodlice??? |
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you call woodlice? From: The PA Date: 17 Jul 06 - 05:53 PM Worcestershire - granny pegs. Worcestershire is the place and granny pegs the name, that is. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you call woodlice? From: Joybell Date: 17 Jul 06 - 09:40 PM My daughter always called them Teddy Bear Bugs. I never knew why and by the time she was old enough to explain it she'd forgotton. I know them as slaters but pill bugs was a name I heard in Melbourne when I was a child. They can't all curl up though - have you noticed?Cheers, Joy |
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you call woodlice? From: Peace Date: 17 Jul 06 - 10:15 PM Houston, we HAVE A problem. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you call woodlice? From: GUEST,Jacqui Date: 18 Jul 06 - 04:11 AM 'We used to call them...infact still do...granchy groovers!' When I moved to Frome (Somerset) all the kids at nursery called them 'gramphy gravies'... can't get any explanation why, but it does seem to be a very local variant. An elderly friend of mine always called them 'belly buttons', she was from Devon and reckoned they always called them that there. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you call woodlice? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 18 Jul 06 - 04:54 AM Since they don't bite, sting or attempt to eat my house, I seldom call them anything. If they did bite, sting or attempt to eat my house I would call them names of which my mother would not approve. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you call woodlice? From: Amos Date: 18 Jul 06 - 09:12 AM PEace, What the hell IS that? A |
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you call woodlice? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 18 Jul 06 - 09:53 AM It looks like a super-sized relative of the mantis shrimp. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you call woodlice? From: *Laura* Date: 18 Jul 06 - 10:03 AM Thats interesting Jacqui - I'm from Somerset and i've never heard either of them. Must be very local. I reckon my Billy Bakers is pretty local too as no-one else seems to have heard of it! Pill bugs and Slaters seem to come up a lot. Haha I really don't know why this topic interests me so much! I like words I guess... xLx |
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you call woodlice? From: bobad Date: 18 Jul 06 - 10:05 AM "What the hell IS that?" Cousin to the woodlouse |
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you call woodlice? From: GUEST Date: 18 Jul 06 - 06:00 PM Growing up in Surrey they were always 'Cheesy Bugs' although I've no idea why!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you call woodlice? From: Georgiansilver Date: 18 Jul 06 - 06:04 PM Guest Shambles says chiggi pigs in Dorset..in Devon when I were a kid we called them chuggi pigs. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you call woodlice? From: Peace Date: 18 Jul 06 - 06:10 PM "What the hell IS that?" Amos, you recall that I had a case of crabs back in the 1960s . . . . |
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you call woodlice? From: Georgiansilver Date: 18 Jul 06 - 06:11 PM Having Lobsters on your piano is much better than having crabs on your organ they say. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you call woodlice? From: Dave4Guild Date: 18 Jul 06 - 06:23 PM Strictly speaking, Armadillidium is a genus of woodlouse which can roll itself into a ball , hence "pillbug", but there is also a millipede which can do the same thing, and is also called a "pillbug" There are many different species of woodlouse, e.g., Oniscus sp. in fact, but they are isopod crustaceans (ie all the legs are similar)and there are more marine ones, as you might expect 'cos they are more related to the crabs and prawns and things than they are to insects, which the silverfish is, by the way, since the silverfish is one of a group of primitive insects which are wingless, i.e., they have never had them, as opposed to those insects which may not have wings for some of their life-cycle, but nevertheless have them for at least mating and/or dispersal! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you call woodlice? From: Georgiansilver Date: 18 Jul 06 - 06:25 PM On the subject of millipedes..there were two male millipedes standing on a corner when a female millipede passed and one male said to the other.."That's a nice pair of legs, pair of legs, pair of legs, pair of............... |
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you call woodlice? From: Bert Date: 18 Jul 06 - 06:45 PM Hey Garg, I was just thinking that it should have a folklore prefix. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you call woodlice? From: GUEST,Bee Date: 18 Jul 06 - 10:03 PM Called them cellar bugs in Cape Breton, many houses there used to have cellars with earth floors - one area for food storade, another for the coal, lotsa cellar bugs. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you call woodlice? From: Alba Date: 18 Jul 06 - 10:19 PM I call them Slaters. I think you can call them anything you like though because....... 1. They won't answer back. 2. Your bigger than they are so even if they could answer back they wouldn't argue with you. heehee Jude |
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you call woodlice? From: Mr Red Date: 19 Jul 06 - 08:12 AM Woodlice but individully I called them woodlouse Wednesbury - Staffs. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you call woodlice? From: Sorcha Date: 19 Jul 06 - 10:27 AM Ahhh...a pillbug would be a rolly poly or a sow bug |
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you call woodlice? From: Dave Hanson Date: 19 Jul 06 - 10:41 AM Martin Gibsons eric |
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you call woodlice? From: MBSGeorge Date: 19 Jul 06 - 10:47 AM We allways just called them woodlice - my sister used to collect them and put them in a tub with grass and leaves and they would all die. (I have heard them called Chuckypigs) Silver fish are horrible - we used to have loads in Germany, not so many in Britain I drown them instantly. George |
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you call woodlice? From: Sorcha Date: 19 Jul 06 - 11:35 AM Ugh...I remember silverfish.....not any where I live now. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you call woodlice? From: Pwitz Date: 19 Jul 06 - 12:43 PM Like the reply by 'Guest' yesterday, I too was brought up in Surrey, but we called them the slightly different name of 'Cheesy Bobs'. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you call woodlice? From: woodsie Date: 19 Jul 06 - 01:13 PM We've always known them as Charunglepherricksteinerhauseners here in South London. Charunglepherricksteinerhauseners is a fairly easy name to remember Charunglepherricksteinerhauseners is not hard to forget Charunglepherricksteinerhauseners is actually a shortened form of Charunglepherricksteinerhausenerhergisaniforbateshamgoolywinkles whether you use the long or the short it is pronounced "Littlebastards" |
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you call woodlice? From: GUEST,Rusty Dobro Date: 19 Jul 06 - 02:05 PM Cheesy-bugs in 1950's Kent. Not sure I want to know the answer to this, but how/why did Donuel discover they are microwave-resistant? Did he start with ants, work up through woodlice en route to voles, gibbons, okapis? Is this interest culinary, or the product of a sick mind? Just remember jeff Goldblum and the fly. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What do you call woodlice? From: GUEST,Theoretically G. Finland Date: 19 Jul 06 - 08:11 PM Don't know but it sure is worth hitting the '100' for |
