About those tee shirts: you won’t be any happier than I when they finally become available. That could be as soon as Friday or Saturday, so watch this space. I had hoped to offer them yesterday; December 1 had a nice ring to it. However, we still had a few ducks breaking rank and wandering around aimlessly. I know we will be pressed to get shirts out in timely fashion at the height of the holiday season, but we’re going to do our best. My advice would be to order as quickly as you can when sales do open. Thanks for your patience!
An Ounce of Prevention
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37 responses to “An Ounce of Prevention”
Hope Jerry is OK.
“Toboggan”? Must be another southernism. Here in the our portion of the Northeast, we call then “knit caps” although a few people call them “tooks”.
We don’t call them toboggans in Alabama. Mostly we don’t get enough snow to use a toboggan sled, so not familiar enough with the term to use it for anything else. Only special name I have for it is “watch cap”, courtesy of my tour in the Navy.
Regarding toboggan. Always called them watch cap.
Debbe, being male I had to disregard your Urban Dictionary warning. Not only does it sound deadly it is clearly not fun.
Gal, I was thinking the same thing last night. Last news here was on the 29th, after he was back from the hospital. Hopefully there hasn’t been a return visit!
An online survey about aforementioned caps:
http://www.waywordradio.org/great-knitted-hat-survey.html
Hi.
Re: Dec. 3/15 cartoon.
We in Canada call a type of wooden elongated sled a “toboggan”.
A knitted cap is called a “toque”. (If you want me to tell you how to pronounce this – contact me). Arlo’s waering a toque not a toboggan.
Thanks
Here in Georgia we call them knit caps, not toboggans. Of course, we also call toboggans sleds.
Sandy, neither is a “toque” a hat or cap here. 😉
I suppose that wearing a “toboggan” on one’s head when riding a “toboggan” makes a certain amount of sense. Wearing a “bicycle” on one’s head when riding a “bicycle”, not so much.
Toboggan….. Large wooden sled that I used to ride down County Toboggan slides with my kids. We never made it to the bottom of the hill without someone falling off. Great fun! Unfortunately the lawsuits managed to kill the fun and the slides are gone.
And a knit hat is a watch cap even in the Army.
They are watch caps among sailors too. Never heard toboggan but then I have been climatically challenged most of my life. Or geographically.
Here in this portion of Ohio, we always called them toboggans.
Not sure what the kids call them now.