In my travels, there are only two types of people in the world.
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Mon Nov-24-08 12:57 PM
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| In my travels, there are only two types of people in the world. |
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Those that say 'mosquito' and those that say 'skeeters'. I currently live in skeeter country but I'm more of a mosquito person, myself.
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| Tuesday Afternoon
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Edited on Mon Nov-24-08 01:11 PM by Tuesday Afternoon
how big is your world? :D
I call them bloodsucking pests myself x(
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I adopted the Aussie term.
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| 4. What about places that don't have mosquitoes/skeeters? |
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What do the people there call them?
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| 6. Around here it seems to be most commonly pronounced "muh-skee-tuh" |
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I've only heard Skeeter used as a nickname.
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