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Re[2]: what's in a name

To: Marcus Tooze <tooze@vinny.cecer.army.mil>, british-cars@autox.team.net,
Subject: Re[2]: what's in a name
From: LESNYD@ccmail.monsanto.com
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 94 14:59:08 cst
Sure, things are different within the US, particularly in my family's
old stomping grounds, the Ozarks:

> 
> US                              UK                        Ozarks
> 
> Kleenex                         Tissue                    Snotrag
> 
> Frigidaire                      Fridge                    Icebox
> 
> Band Aid                        Elastoplast               Snotrag
> 
> Vacuum                          Hoover                    What?
> 
>?                                Swarfega                  Clean?
>
>?                                Copaslip                  Leave it loose
> 
> Bondo                           P-38, Plastic Padding     Pickup Truck Bodies
> 
> Weber                           SU                     Whatever is in junkyard
> 
> Linoleum                        Formica                   Packed dirt
> 
> ?                               T-Cut                     Polish?
> 
> Paul.
> 

Hillbilly at heart,

Larry




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