Fic question

[doyle]

Question: those round things in playgrounds. That you spin really fast and people sit on. I call them roundabouts. What would Gunn call them? Merry go rounds?

Comments

[blue-larkspur.livejournal.com]

Yes, a merry go round.

[sadbhyl.livejournal.com]

yeah, definitely merry go rounds. If you can find them. A lot of playgrounds don't have them anymore because they're too dangerous.

Takes all the joy out of life . . .

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Same in this country. I loved them too *sniff*

[harmonyfb.livejournal.com]

Merry-go-rounds. Or, as Bill Cosby calls them, the "round-and-round-and-round-and-then-puke." My husband says he refers to them as "spinning wheels of death".

[http://users.livejournal.com/_divya_/]

If you call those roundabouts, what do you call traffic circles? When I lived in New England we called them rotaries, and in the rest of the country they call them "Oh my God! What do I do? What's happening? What is this thing?!" Because there aren't many outside of New England.

Also? If I'm not mistaken, the things with the horses at amusement parks are also called merry go rounds. FYI.

[stumbelina.livejournal.com]

The traffic circle is also a roundabout. I hadn't ever realised this.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_divya_/]

I guess that makes us even, since I didn't realize before now that the things in playgrounds and the things in amusement parks with the horses were both called merry go rounds. How weird is that, huh?

:o)

[stumbelina.livejournal.com]

At least yours both have 'making children puke' as a main goal...

[http://users.livejournal.com/_divya_/]

Hee hee!! Good point! Though you should see an adult unused to rotaries try to negotiate one. They can get a little green around the edges. :o)

[stumbelina.livejournal.com]

There is a big (car) roundabout between my house and ... anywhere useful. Crossing the road is an extreme sport as drivers seem to think they don't need to indicate. Grrrrrrrrrr. I am trying to count and I there there are 5 routes off of it and 6 going on, as well as an expressway that flies over it. I have seen people go green!

[stumbelina.livejournal.com]

Um. Yes. I am this terminally boring in person.

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Bwah! :hugs you:

[http://users.livejournal.com/_divya_/]

Never fear, darling. So am I. Asamatteroffact, I missed your reply because I just spent an hour washing my kitchen floor. I'll spare you the details... ;o)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_divya_/]

My favorite extreme sport is watching my passenger go green while I'm deftly negotiating these roadways. It's good clean fun!

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Traffic circles are also roundabouts *g*

[http://users.livejournal.com/lady_alatariel_/]

I call the traffic circles roundabouts too.

One time my boyfriend and I were with some friends, only they were in the car behind us, and we went through the roundabout, only there was no one else around so we kept driving in the circle to see if they would follow us and they did...suckers!

Did I mention we were 16 at the time? Hey! It was funny then!

[aaronlisa.livejournal.com]

actually I could see Gunn calling it a spinning wheel of death...

but I think most people know them as merry go rounds. I always just calling them those spiny things...

[mlyn.livejournal.com]

Roundabouts are the things in the middle of the road to divert/slow down/mix traffic. At least, that's what they are here.

[mlyn.livejournal.com]

Way to read the rest of the comments, M'lyn. *Smacks head*