Crescent wrenches (was: Nomenclature (was: NEXT Color Printer find

From: Bryan Pope <bpope_at_wordstock.com>
Date: Fri Jan 4 09:54:56 2002

>
> 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.

HA... And they are *just* learning about the phenomenon known as "black ice".
:-D

Bryan


>
> 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
> find
>
>
> > 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

Yes, as a fellow Canuck, I know what a snowmobile is... In the town of 9,500
where I grew up, as soon as there was 3 to 6 cm of snow, everyone would be
on their skidoo's.


> > > 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
Received on Fri Jan 04 2002 - 09:54:56 GMT