“The original 19th century Coca-Cola formula had some residual amount of ■■■■■■■ precursor in it, but that amount was drastically reduced to mere traces by the early 1900s and entirely eliminated by 1930.”
I doubt that there was enough of the original coca leaf extract to get anyone high. Still, that’s where the nickname came from. It’s not at all unusual for a nickname based in the past to stick around for a decade or two after the ingredient disappeared. The blocked out word is c.o.ca.i.n.e.
Oh good grief, it redacted the words hard core with only one space, but as one word it’s OK, and as separated words OK, but only put one space in there and ■■■■ it’s blocked out.. WOW po-of is redacted also…
Who ever wrote this redacting algorithm is a freaking idiot… lol
And idiot is OK, but stu-pid is not?? Wow, just wow!!!
When I lived in Santa Monica the city mistakenly installed speed bumps on a road; they had to take them out to replace them with speed humps. It was big news in Santa Monica.
Albuquerque has added a lot of speed humps when they renovated roads, along with roundabouts.
Thomas Wolfe used the word dope for coke in ‘Look Homeward, Angel’. He also used an old regionalism for brazil nuts I won’t even spell - you’ll have to look it up for yourselves.
No different then saying hand me that Skill saw instead of circular saw, or Bobcat instead of Skid Steer etc etc…
And no, coke is not a daily topic, but it does come up whenever you get someone new to the south that says soda or whatever… or hear someone call a skid steer a Bobcat, or or or…
Here’s another one: “Sawzall”. It’s a reciprocating saw. But nobody calls them that. Sawzall was invented by Milwaukee Tool in the 50’s and many different makers make them now. But everyone calls them “Sawzall”.
But Bobcat is a manufacture brand name, as well as Skill etc, they make more than one item, Sawzall was single tool made by a manufacture (Milwaukee Tool) and not a manufacture of items brand name right??
“Sawzall” is a trademarked name for Milwaukee’s line of reciprocating saws. However, due to its popularity, many people use it to refer to any brand of reciprocating saw, similar to how “Kleenex” is used for tissues. All Sawzalls are reciprocating saws, but not all reciprocating saws are Sawzalls.
I had to use the roundabout yesterday, merging traffic must yield. Fifteen plus seconds before I and the car to my left could enter, not even “rush” hour.
HAH! On my way to the grocery store there is an intersection where the traffic signal lasts for 5 minutes. Longer at rush hour. This will be soon replaced with roundabouts, and I will welcome the change.
Bayer invented aspirin but didn’t defend its trademark, so now everyone gets to call their acetylsalicylic acid aspirin. I think Milwaukee and Kleenex have defended their trademarks.
Me neither, have only done a few carburetors and some drum brakes. “Helped” my dad replace the head gasket on a Flathead six, I was using a wire brush on the carbon deposits on the head while he scraped off the old gasket.
When you have a life changing neurological disorder that causes your hands to tremble (tremors) you tend to hit a single key multiple times, now when you do that many times a post you don’t ALWAYS catch every word that is not correct, especially when spellcheck says it’s OK…
BTW, I also can no longer pronounce certain words, and or I have a VERY hard time pronouncing them, like “ready” and my wife’s name, would you like to comment on that as well??..
This is a Car Talk forum, NOT an English Spelling Society Forum…
