Swat Dude

Okay, things are warming up here in Phoenix and I have been using the AC more. One thing I've noticed is the metal accent next to my right leg gets pretty cool, so much so I can feel it freezing through my pants since my leg rests against it while driving. So I deduce this is because the air for the rear vents mounted on the console is probably traveling inside the console next to this trim cooling it down from the inside.

So then I had an idea for Acura. Instead of cooling the metal trim, why not pass the air in the console around the cup holder? It would make for cool drinks in the summer when you are running the AC and warm coffee in the winter when you're running the heat. What do you guys think???

creamy-nuts

neat idea, but what if you have coffee in the summer, or pop in the winter. I know I do :p .

moreace

you said pop, LOL

yes, I am like 3

¿GotJazz?

moreace - creamy's from Oregon and probably just following his local idiom:

Check this out.

That website is scary for two reasons:

(1) That it even exists.
(2) That I knew about it.

TorontoTL

Canadians call it pop too.

bradjs

so do midwesterners... pissed me off went i went to school in michigan

nym31mp

i like the idea maybe if acura had something where u had a choice like installed 2 buttons where u had a choice of a cool or warm cup holder that may help acura stand out a lil bit....and i side note.....i have a good friend from Jerzey who goes to school in the New Enland Boss Mass area and told me that the call water fountains Bubblers......but w the accent it comes out to sound like Bubbla ......ha ha i though it was funny

RM44341

Here in New England we call it tonic or soda. Around here if you hear "Want to go out for a pop" it usually means going to a bar.

moreace

Grew up in Boston, live in Boston, and went to college in Boston. Sorry to dissapoint, but a water fountain is called a water fountain. Your friend musta been hanging out at school with some wierdos from Ohio or something. kidding.

tonyg24

speaking of that metal strip there i scratched it one day rushing plugging in my seatbelt..so the buckle scrapped that part and now i have a scratch..anything that i can get that will remove or make it look better..i know they have to sell something out there

Fencesitter

The Saab 9-5 does something similar; they run the AC into the glovebox so you can stick a can of tonic (thought I'd introduce the New England word for soda or pop into this discussion) in there and it will chill down to 45 degrees (so they claim).

MyJohnson

Yep, we call it 'POP' in Ohio. Grew up there, went to college there but don't live there now. Everyone in the south calls is soda or they call it 'coke' whether its Orange pop or any other flavor. I find that odd.

moreace

It is soda, New England calls it soda
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
I am steaming mad

WE had this entire thing freshman year of college with my NY roommates

It is a PIZZA not a PIE!
Ask for a pie and they are liable to ask if you want cherry or apple

It is a SUB not a HOAGIE!
What in the blue hell is a hoagie. I would throw you out of my shop for just asking for one (I don't have a shop)

It is called FISHBOWLING not a HOT BOX! or I forget the others

It is SODA and nothing else!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

k, done venting

fla-tls

What the heck is a fishbowling or hotbox?????

moreace

he he
it's when you are in a small room or a car and people smoke to teh extent that the entire room or car is a fog of smoke.

nym31mp

moreace....i dont know i can only go by wut im told...........

iceman2cuol4u

Up in Canada its called a pop, eh. But we also call it soda. It must be american television influencing our lives. Damn american culture invasion.

moreace

USA all the way

kfh

Your are right in the South it is a "Coke". If you ask someone if they want a coke and they say yes, you then ask what kind.

I prefer Pepsi, Dr. Pepper or RC...but you say you want a coke. It is used like a generic term like kleenex or band-aid.

Soft Drink would be the second most used term in the South and Soda probably third. Only "fereners - foreigners" say Pop.

aero2424

Moreace- on the west coast, smoking out a car is a Hotbox.

MyJohnson

How about a Gyro or a Hero instead of a Hoagie or Sub? Gyro can be pronounced multiple ways "GEERO" or "JEERO" or "JIRO" with a long "i". Well, which one is correct?

Its Pizza, not pie.

Never heard of a Hotbox or fishbowling, but I've suffered through some bars and restaurants like them.

Never heard pop called "a tonic" but maybe I don't get out enough!

All I know is its sunny and 76F here today with no snow (unlike my hometown of Cleveland, OH), even if it is UCLA (the Ugly Corner of Lower Alabama)!

rynpamn21

i think pop here in LA is short for popping a pill ...hehehe

mobilezen

I just call each drink by its respective name so there is no confusion.

jbridge

Gyro is greek. It's pronounced h-YUR-o (sounds kind of like the money Euro, except with an HY to start).

I first had one in Greek Town in Detroit many years ago, where they pronounced it correctly.

After that, I heard people saying GYRO (prouncing it phonetically as j-I-ro) and didn't even realize what they were talking about.

westonc

Not everywhere in Canada is it called pop. I still can't get used to saying pop even though most people out here in Alberta say pop. I call it a 'soft drink'. Pop sounds like something a little kid says.

Cheers!

fasTLane

Can I get a moonpie with that coke? Make mine a RC. Thats it, I am fixin' to go to the store and get me a moonpie and a RC. And can I get some peanuts to go in that RC? HA

MyJohnson

Had a moonpie just the other day. A patient brings them to the Ortho clinic and I, as the Radiologist, am offered one on occasion.

Ted Johnson

Hoagie is a term that came from Philadelphia. Much of the work that was done on Hog Island was done by Italian immigrants who carried sandwiches made on long rolls. The sandwiches came to be known as Hogies which somehow got translated to Hoagies over time...

There are some (very few) advantages to being old <G>!

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