Odd that you should mention this ...
As they've reccently had snow in the southern U.S, where that's a noteable
and rare event, youngsters interviewed DO refer to the thing as a "snow"
sled, apparently because snow is such a rarity.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt London" <classiccmp_at_knm.yi.org>
To: "'ClassicComputers'" <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 6:10 AM
Subject: Re: Crescent wrenches (was: Nomenclature (was: NEXT Color Printer
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> Hi,
>
> > Whoa, can't let that one by: we know what a snowmobile is up here
(c'mon,
> > fellow Canucks, back me up on this one!); mind you, if you asked ME what
> > a snowmobile is, I would indeed look at ya kind of funny (oops, funnily,
for
> > the language police), since apparently YOU don't know what it is or you
> > wouldn't be asking...
> >
> > But a snow sled??? Who calls it that? Sounds like the SkiDoo trailer.
> >
> > Anyway, one of us invented the thing, so we can call it what we like!
>
> Just a second! What's this I see...
> From: M H Stein <mhstein_at_usa.net>
> A Canuck wuth a usa.net email address? Something screwy there if you ask
> me, but then again I'm one of those dodgy brits :&)
>
> -- Matt
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