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

From: David Woyciesjes <DAW_at_yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu>
Date: Fri Jan 4 15:57:16 2002

        I can't wait to get up to the in-laws vacation house in central VT
to do some riding!!!

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! -----Original Message-----
! From: Lawrence Walker [mailto:lgwalker_at_mts.net]
! Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 4:36 PM
! To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
! Subject: Re: Crescent wrenches (was: Nomenclature (was: NEXT Color
! Printer find
!
!
! Well where I'm living now is prime snowmobile territory.
! They're as obligatory
! as pick-up trucks and more common than motorcycles. When I
! grew up out
! here in the 40's the multi-passenger ones were called
! "Bombadeers" from
! the name of the company who made them, Bombardier, and who later
! introduced "Ski-Doos" the motorcycle of snowmobiles. I was
! surprised to find
! when I returned that locals still call the larger models Bombadeers.
!
! Lawrence
!
! > 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!
! >
! > So there!
! >
! > :)
! >
! > -----------------Original Message------------------
! > From: Roger Merchberger <zmerch_at_30below.com>
! >
! > [snippage]
! >
! > [more snippage (pronounced snippahdge up here, not snippedge :)]
! >
! > And as it's winter, and we *finally* have snow here, talk
! to some Western
! > Ontario Canadians and ask them what a "snowmobile" or "snow
! sled" is -
! > they'll most likely look at you funny, at least for a few
! seconds until it sinks
! > in. They go "skidooing" in the wintertime.
! >
! >
!
!
!
! Reply to:
! lgwalker_at_mts.net
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Received on Fri Jan 04 2002 - 15:57:16 GMT