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Connonym (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-13-08 04:25 AM Original message |
Does anyone call them rubbers these days? |
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Fox Mulder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-13-08 04:25 AM Response to Original message |
1. Yes. |
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Connonym (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-13-08 04:28 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Someone laughed at me the other day for calling 'em that |
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sniffa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-13-08 04:29 AM Response to Original message |
3. True story |
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Connonym (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-13-08 04:31 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. LOL!! |
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Heidi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-13-08 04:31 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Har! |
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zanne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-13-08 08:40 AM Response to Reply #3 |
17. HAH! Maybe that's why the word was discontinued. nt |
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ghostsofgiants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-13-08 11:07 AM Response to Reply #3 |
23. Haha, yeah, "rubbers" up here are galoshes or erasers, depending on who you ask. |
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elshiva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-13-08 04:34 AM Response to Original message |
6. No, nowadays we call them |
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Connonym (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-13-08 04:35 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. oooh good one! |
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elshiva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-13-08 04:45 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. The college I went to |
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Wapsie B (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-13-08 08:55 AM Response to Reply #9 |
19. Did you know anyone who went to |
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Guava Jelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-13-08 04:40 AM Response to Original message |
8. The first time I purchased a rubber (Early 1980's) |
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elshiva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-13-08 04:54 AM Response to Reply #8 |
10. How about that joke: |
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Guava Jelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-13-08 04:59 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Never heard that one |
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elshiva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-13-08 05:03 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. I heard it on "Tracy Takes On" |
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mikeytherat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-13-08 06:48 AM Response to Original message |
13. Never. I've always called them waterproof boots. |
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meegbear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-13-08 06:49 AM Response to Original message |
14. I call 'em galoshes |
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EstimatedProphet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-13-08 07:38 AM Response to Original message |
15. They're called wellies now |
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mcctatas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-13-08 08:38 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Kevin Kelley's Wellies.... |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-13-08 08:50 AM Response to Original message |
18. I believe that in the UK this is what they look like... |
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qb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-13-08 10:04 AM Response to Original message |
20. My dad always kept his rubbers by the back door. nt |
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JustABozoOnThisBus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-13-08 10:37 AM Response to Original message |
21. A game to break a tie |
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NJmaverick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-13-08 10:55 AM Response to Original message |
22. What else would you call them? |
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Connonym (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-13-08 11:15 AM Response to Reply #22 |
24. shoe prophylactics? nt |
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Left Is Write (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-13-08 11:23 AM Response to Original message |
25. Yes. |
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MsTryska (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-13-08 12:21 PM Response to Original message |
26. are we talking about erasers? |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-13-08 12:22 PM Response to Original message |
27. do you mean boot or condoms? |
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Connonym (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-13-08 12:57 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. the latter |
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MAGICBULLET (606 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-13-08 01:07 PM Response to Original message |
29. I've always called them |
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