Self-Service Tavern

From : john z kerry

Q: because everybody wants to be a lexicographer & wordsmith & punner & time-waster everybody would thus be vastly uninterested in thrashing this note. when i hear em/yall talking about the birdhouse or whatever ya call the large console latched thing in my 86 250 ram van covering the carb & air filter i am thus wondering about other silly names for various things that ive never heard for instance perhaps a steering wheel is playfully called ...helm or rudder or wheel or turning device or the place to temporarily enplace saw-off the semi-clever lock thing or the muffler might be called the silencer or the hollywood or the cut-outs or just a real dumb thing to annoy the neigbors with or the darkened window or sun-defender or the glove compartment is you dont get my exact idea but exact is not exactly the wide-open inquiry the glass area of a vehicle is called the greenhouse the slope of the windows on the side of a vehicle is called tumble-home the rear glass is called a back-lite the brits call the trunk the boot the brits call the hood the bonnet the stamped lines in a vehicles sheet metal are called character lines on antique fords its a reveal line. the neutral safety switch is called a prindle switch. the shift indicator on an automatic vehicle is called a prindle indicator for those wondering where it came from prindle comes from the common p-r-n-d-l automatic gear selector pattern. the upper front engine support on a fwd gm v-6 is called a dog bone thats all that come to mind at the moment but ill think of more chryco service manager member sae -- budd pres. bush john kerry has changed his position on the iraq war so many times he could debate himself. b.c. and lose. oh yeah ^.... on the old vee-dubs as in beetles the choke knob was der warmercougher the wipers were das drizzleflippen and the ashtray was der schmokegedunken ^ i got a million of em....... god speed rodney dangerfield mike now yall got me curious what you call the heated seat switch denny .