Southgate 2 So many things have become called by a brand name that became a generic term... Crescent wrench, Channel Locks, Comet, Jello, Skilsaw, to name a few more. I got chewed once when my boss asked me to go get a couple cokes. I came back with Cokes. What's this! We only drink Pepsi around here! Well? I got laughed at in school when the shop teacher asked the class what this tool is called. I said water pump pliers, what my late father called em. Guess who got the last laugh? Channel Lock is a brand, children. Dan
So many things have become called by a brand name that became a generic term...
Crescent wrench, Channel Locks, Comet, Jello, Skilsaw, to name a few more.
I got chewed once when my boss asked me to go get a couple cokes. I came back with Cokes. What's this! We only drink Pepsi around here! Well?
I got laughed at in school when the shop teacher asked the class what this tool is called. I said water pump pliers, what my late father called em. Guess who got the last laugh? Channel Lock is a brand, children.
Dan
Agreed, but I work in construction and we never call a circular saw a skilsaw..... because that is the one brand of circular saw we would never own......
Sheldon
I operated that streetcar in the lower right corner this past summer.
It was harder than I'd expected!
maxmanAnd Worchester is not pronounced War-Chester. It's more like Woos-ter, or Woos-tah toward the east.
Any time the family would head back east to visit my dad's family, near Palmer (pronounced Paama) we would get "treated" to a bottle or two of Moxie.
Now I hear it has been bought out by the Coca-Cola conglomerate, god forbid.
Moxie-Day-1024x1024 by Edmund, on Flickr
Regards, Ed
MisterBeasley ATLANTIC CENTRAL And the editors printed that? Around here people say "Coke" and mean most any soda. But in the upper Midest "pop" is till the common term for soda. And I experianced the use of "pop" for soda in some areas of the south - but its been a while since I traveled in that direction. Sheldon In Massachusetts, it's all called "tonic." A water fountain is a bubbler, and a police car is a cruiser. Actually, bublah and cruisah to get the accent right.
ATLANTIC CENTRAL And the editors printed that? Around here people say "Coke" and mean most any soda. But in the upper Midest "pop" is till the common term for soda. And I experianced the use of "pop" for soda in some areas of the south - but its been a while since I traveled in that direction. Sheldon
And the editors printed that?
Around here people say "Coke" and mean most any soda. But in the upper Midest "pop" is till the common term for soda.
And I experianced the use of "pop" for soda in some areas of the south - but its been a while since I traveled in that direction.
In Massachusetts, it's all called "tonic." A water fountain is a bubbler, and a police car is a cruiser. Actually, bublah and cruisah to get the accent right.
Around here in Philadelphia coke can be found vended on the street corners.
My Boston cousins call soda Pop.
As far as bublah and cruisah go, that's only from Worchester east. And Worchester is not pronounced War-Chester. It's more like Woos-ter, or Woos-tah toward the east.
I do have to confess that I was in college when I found out that there was not an "r" at the end of the word "idea".
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
I loved the feature about the West Palm Beach Terminal Company layout. It was so nice to see something a bit different. The ferry port to Cuba was a very interesting subject.
I spotted something interesting in the artical about the N scale Great Northern layout. It seems that Fine Scale Miniatures has become a generic term for Craftsman Kits.
Fine Scale Miniatures never made a kit in N scale. Looking at the pictures of the beautiful layout, I think most of the kits in rural areas were made by Bar-Mills of Maine.
Interesting how the language is evolving.
After seeing that, I made a copy on my Xerox, drank a Coke, and sneezed into a Kleenex.
-Kevin
Living the dream.