Subject:
|
Re: Recreational vehicles and more questions about the US
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.off-topic.geek
|
Date:
|
Thu, 20 Apr 2000 15:45:23 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
225 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Richard Franks writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Eric Joslin writes:
> > It's just the same as a big truck with a trailer. Nothing turns the wheels
> > on
> > the thing being towed, it just follows the thing pulling it.
>
> Straying dangerously off-topic... this is something you can try at home kids!
> Assuming you have at least 4 sets of wheels, a few longer bricks and a hinge
> :)
S'funny, I was thinking exactly the same thing as I typed. :D
> > It's a perfect example of what some people call "Generica", a term for how
> > you can find the same things in all parts of the US.
>
> Great term - thanks! :)
You're welcome.
Actually, I was shocked by the spread of Generica to Europe as a whole. Last
April I was in two seperate Gap stores in Paris (not my idea...).
> I have to say that I've never shopped in the Gap, for a variety of reasons:
>
> i) 'Khaki Pants' means something entirely different in toilet-humour drenched
> UK. The Gap have mercilessly invaded UK culture with an annoying advertising
> campaign, forever making the phrase "He wears khaki pants" not as amusing as
> it once was.
Eh? Explain. I'm unfamiliar with this slang.
Personally, I drop into the Gap every one in a while for a) jeans (blue or
black, I just like Gap jeans) and b) to have a look at the sales rack.
Anything that the Gap-loving hordes didn't snatch up deserves a second look at
a bargain price.
eric
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
Message is in Reply To:
27 Messages in This Thread:
   
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
