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007Sean said:
Bruce, in Texas, we call ponds... 'stock tanks' or sometimes just plain 'tanks'.
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Okay .... What do they call those metal things people fill with water for stock?

And is Texas one of those southern areas where "I'll be home directly" means "within a few hours after I do a bunch of things" as opposed to "I'm coming home now"??
This happened to be a topic on "A Way With Words" this past week. Seems to me "directly" means "close to now" as is the case with the caller's wife up in Michigan (IIRC) and he was from somewhere in the south. Serious miscommunication happens with such disparate meaning. I'd be calling the cops if someone said they would be here "directly" and hadn't shown up 2 hours later.
 
bruceha2000 said:
Okay .... What do they call those metal things people fill with water for stock?

And is Texas one of those southern areas where "I'll be home directly" means "within a few hours after I do a bunch of things" as opposed to "I'm coming home now"??
This happened to be a topic on "A Way With Words" this past week. Seems to me "directly" means "close to now" as is the case with the caller's wife up in Michigan (IIRC) and he was from somewhere in the south. Serious miscommunication happens with such disparate meaning. I'd be calling the cops if someone said they would be here "directly" and hadn't shown up 2 hours later.
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:gig:gig yep, the metal ones we usually call 'metal tanks'....some folks call them stock tanks, too! :D And your right, 'directly' is exactly that....southerners have a way of dilly-dallying around and to them that's directly. :lau when they 'get round to it', now if they give you a certain time, say 8:00 am, then they will be there on-time...at least the old timers will be on-time. ;)
Most everyone down south understands what 'directly' means...when I hear some say it, I can figure in a few minutes to a few hours. :lol:
 
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007Sean said:
:gig:gig yep, the metal ones we usually call 'metal tanks'....some folks call them stock tanks, too! :D And your right, 'directly' is exactly that....southerners have a way of dilly-dallying around and to them that's directly. :lau when they 'get round to it', now if they give you a certain time, say 8:00 am, then they will be there on-time...at least the old timers will be on-time. ;)
Most everyone down south understands what 'directly' means...when I hear some say it, I can figure in a few minutes to a few hours. :lol:
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Here it depends on who's saying it and for what purpose... Someone coming to do a Job such as paint the house or work on plumbing, etc (non-critical stuff), it could mean a couple days to a couple weeks. When the heat and air guy says it, it generally means within 4 hours.
 
rjohns39 said:
Here it depends on who's saying it and for what purpose... Someone coming to do a Job such as paint the house or work on plumbing, etc (non-critical stuff), it could mean a couple days to a couple weeks. When the heat and air guy says it, it generally means within 4 hours.
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When I call my heat or air guy, I'm usually the last call he has for the day, he lives just down the road from me so I'm the last one on his way home. He is always there before 5:00pm.
 
5 degrees right now but I am glad I am not in Worcester, -1 and apparently there was also 20-30MPH winds either yesterday or today, making it feel like -24 to -34. Also apparently it was a record (low) high of 8 degrees but only got to -1. And they got way more snow than us. TOO COLD.

Also, in somewhat unrelated news, apparently someone (in a different town) put combustible liquid in a wood stove and caused a big fire at some apartment building or townhome complex or whatever.
 

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