Pickles by Brian Crane for July 06, 2010

You might be on to something, Nelson………..

English sure is one weird language.

It was the “withdrawing room”, where ladies would withdraw from the others to put their feet up and take care of other private business involving chamber pots behind screens or curtains.

Nelson just ask the $64,000 question> LOL

And gentlemen put on “smoking jackets” and went to another room to smoke after dinner.

When it was called the parlor it was used as a viewing room for the deceased.

I’ll bet they don’t billiard in the billiard room or conserve in the conservatory……let’s see here, now- - what other rooms do they have on this old Clue gameboard?

It was Colonel Mustard in the living room with the lead pipe…

nighthawks, why wouldn’t you play billiards in a billiard room?

Clue: Dining room, Billiard room, Kitchen, Conservatory, Lounge, Hall, Library, Ball room and Study.

Mr. Green (Michael McKean) killed Mr. Boddy (Tim Curry) in the hall with the revolver.

But they do bath in the bathroom!!!

We always called it the front room. The kitchen is more of a “living” room in many homes.

We did too CRL29P. It was in the front of the house, but other than that, it never seemed like a very descriptive name.

We also used the word “davenport” rather than “couch” or “sofa”. I don’t hear that used very often today. (I’m not sure which one Earl is lying on.)

auf deutsch, ist “gute Stube (“good” room - very formal)

We could throw family room into the mix also?

It was actually the funeral home industry that came up with the term “living room.” For the hundreds of years before funeral homes existed, the deceased was usually laid out in the parlor for a few days before burial, mostly to give people a chance to pay their last respects, and partly to make sure the person wasn’t just in a coma. The funeral homes took the term parlor for their use, and invented “living room” for private residences, as if to say that it’s no longer appropriate to wake people at home anymore. Penn & Teller mention it on their Showtime series.

We were never allowed to play kitsch in the house for fear we’d break something.

Point to you, ElDO!

No, but their ignorant children are.

These days the main living are is often called the great room. For me it’s my media/couch potato room

Does anyone actually study in the study?

Yeah, they pretty much did “billiard” in the Billiard room– they played Billiards there.

In the house where I grew up, the front was in the back and the back was in the front.

Did they lie in the library?

^”I really enjoyed War and Peace” Yup, they did!