Gun people again.

[redhen]

Wanna know what I want to know??
Yes, sure you do...

WHY are they even called Magazines...?? Isnt THIS a magazine??>>>>

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

I always call them magazines. I know many people don't care though, and will call their truck a car, or their Bronco a Blazer, etc.

If we want to be picky a "car" is a box that runs on rails. Its use as a slang term for a automobile has added it to the dictionary as a term that means automobile. A truck is a type of car. So is a SUV. But again, no one cares. None of these terms are misunderstood when used.


Like me calling it a coke. Everyone in the south knows coke covers all brands an cocacola is a brand..... But then, I only drink cocacola cokes.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

What was the question again red?

 

[Rvl Rookie]

Like me calling it a coke. Everyone in the south knows coke covers all brands an cocacola is a brand..... But then, I only drink cocacola cokes.

I've heard that one too. Someone orders a Coke, and they ask what kind.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

Had my cousins kid come in one day an ask for "some soda".... I gave him the arm & hammer box out of the fridge. Thats what soda is here. I knew what he wanted but could not resist. He just stood there lost till i took it back gave him a coke.



I've seen people ask for a pop though an get hit.

 

[33yardbirds]

Then there are those who call "carbonated beverages" a tonic or frap. Those yankees know who they are!

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

Never heard frap but I have heard tonic even down here. Most came out as magic cure alls back when you could claim anything about a product so I guess the name would have fit.

 

[Hodawg]

Yep, rebelcowboysnb. Folks who aren't from the South, especially rural South, just don't get our vernacular. When I was a young'un, we had chocolate cocolers (yahoo's), grape and "erenge" cocolers (Nehi grape and orange dranks) and regular cocolers (which was usually a Coca-Cola or a RC cola.)

Beers Hoss,
Ken

 

[theotherranch]

An RC Cola and Moonpie was considered a food group in my younger days!

 

[Nitrous]

If we want to be picky a "car" is a box that runs on rails. Its use as a slang term for a automobile has added it to the dictionary as a term that means automobile. A truck is a type of car. So is a SUV. But again, no one cares. None of these terms are misunderstood when used.


Like me calling it a coke. Everyone in the south knows coke covers all brands an cocacola is a brand..... But then, I only drink cocacola cokes.

It was so weird when I came out west to school. It's called "pop". And paper bags are "sacks". The ditch on the side of the road is the "borrow pit" which I had to look up. The glove compartment is the "jockey box". It was like I went to a different country to attend college. And every vehicle (regardless of size) is a "rig".