Yes, they do sound similar. 'My' Gerald is the Thing that causes a friend's migraines. She has termed him Gerald to make it/him easier to deal with (I think).
My sister and I used to 'play' Sockmuncher. (Sockmuncher is the Thing that eats socks, obv). This involves sticking an arm in front of your face (like if you were being an elephant) and clenching and unclenching your hands while making gobbling snuffling noises. I used to be able to scare my younger sister quite badly by doing this and claiming that the Sockmuncher was tired of eating socks and decided little girls were much yummier. Bizarrely, a friend who is now my housemate played the same game, so now we have thoroughly bemused our third housemate by wandering about with our arms hanging in front of our faces, claiming to have eaten all the socks.
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Date: 2008-07-14 04:28 pm (UTC)'My' Gerald is the Thing that causes a friend's migraines. She has termed him Gerald to make it/him easier to deal with (I think).
My sister and I used to 'play' Sockmuncher. (Sockmuncher is the Thing that eats socks, obv). This involves sticking an arm in front of your face (like if you were being an elephant) and clenching and unclenching your hands while making gobbling snuffling noises. I used to be able to scare my younger sister quite badly by doing this and claiming that the Sockmuncher was tired of eating socks and decided little girls were much yummier. Bizarrely, a friend who is now my housemate played the same game, so now we have thoroughly bemused our third housemate by wandering about with our arms hanging in front of our faces, claiming to have eaten all the socks.