BS: It 'was' called Ski-Dooing!

Subject: BS: It 'was' called Ski-Dooing!
From: 3refs
Date: 16 Jan 10 - 08:10 AM

I'm sure it was called that, because at one time the Bombardier, was the only machine around. Now, with all the different types, it's called "Snowmobiling".
I call them "Snow-Devils" and, once again, it's turned out to be "self-abuse"!
Over the Christmas holidays we went down to Barrie, Ontario(1/2 hr away) to visit the daughter, son-in-law, grandson and the in-laws. The son-in-law has this freakin sceamin Formula 800 triple something or other, and says's "want to take it for a ride?" I own a Ski-Doo 440 TNT, so I say sure. All went well until I went to pass a big tree that had a cement crib laid at the base that I couldn't see because of the snow drifts. I kissed it with the front left ski. The rest, as they say, is history! I thought I broke both shoulders and I tore up my right knee again. I'm still waiting for the bill and I'll be lucky if it's under a Grand!
"Snow-Devils" I say! Freakin possessed!

Subject: RE: BS: It 'was' called Ski-Dooing!
From: gnu
Date: 16 Jan 10 - 08:19 AM

The worst part is knowing ya gotta go get the the ski. Hopefully it wasn't a long walk in deep snow.

Glad you are okay.

Subject: RE: BS: It 'was' called Ski-Dooing!
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 16 Jan 10 - 11:13 AM

Sorry to hear about the accident.

Bombardier did invent the snowmobile and built a large diversified company around it.
It is Bombardier's choice that it is now called snowmobiling. It is to protect their brand name from becoming the generic name for the product.

Subject: RE: BS: It 'was' called Ski-Dooing!
From: Ebbie
Date: 16 Jan 10 - 11:28 AM

In Alaska for some reason we call them snow machines. Where did that come from, I wonder?

Subject: RE: BS: It 'was' called Ski-Dooing!
From: gnu
Date: 16 Jan 10 - 11:37 AM

My uncle bought a 1968 18HP Olympic, which his two teenage daughters soon lost interest in for want of other persurers. Thye live in a swanky section of town and our yard bordered on on field from whence one could get to a power line and go for miles and miles.

He parked it in our yard and all I had to do was come up with money for gas and repairs. After two winters, I could take that machine completely apart and put it back together.

I looked at one of the new Ski-doos on display in a grocery store just the other day. Sweet gentle jeepers! The Bombardier engineers that design their jets must have been told by management to to build a Ski-doo suspension and drive system that only well trained aerospace mechanics could work on with custom turned tools!

Of course, I did notice that the carburetion system won't try to suck yer nuts into the engine. So, there are pluses to the advancement of the design.

Subject: RE: BS: It 'was' called Ski-Dooing!
From: gnu
Date: 16 Jan 10 - 11:56 AM

Ebbie.... we called em machines.

Subject: RE: BS: It 'was' called Ski-Dooing!
From: Ebbie
Date: 16 Jan 10 - 12:05 PM

Just "machines"?

Subject: RE: BS: It 'was' called Ski-Dooing!
From: gnu
Date: 16 Jan 10 - 12:14 PM

Yup... everyone knew what ya meant.

Subject: RE: BS: It 'was' called Ski-Dooing!
From: GUEST,999
Date: 16 Jan 10 - 01:45 PM

Bad news on the 'fall', 3refs. Hope you're better real soon.

Of course, I'm sure most of you will recall the old Sam Cooke song:


I know, I know, I know, you send me
I know you send me
Whoa oh oh oh, you you you you send me
On a skidoo, on a skidoo, on a skidoo,
Whaaaaaa, whaaaaaaaaaaaa.

Subject: RE: BS: It 'was' called Ski-Dooing!
From: SINSULL
Date: 16 Jan 10 - 01:51 PM

So Sorry. Do you have to pay to repair the "machine" too?
Mary

Subject: RE: BS: It 'was' called Ski-Dooing!
From: gnu
Date: 16 Jan 10 - 02:00 PM

I recall fondly the Skidoo of my teeange years. I remember the first time "she" got on back and wrapped her arms around me instead of holding the passenger bars.

I remember, a short time later, she moved her hands and oohhhed when she felt the bulge in my Skidoo suit. I stopped in a side trail in the woods and we necked.

I zipped down my Skidoo suit and she smiled broadly and said, "You must be fucking crazy if you think I am gonna do anything in this freezing weather."

Ah... youthful romance Canuck style.

Subject: RE: BS: It 'was' called Ski-Dooing!
From: GUEST,999
Date: 16 Jan 10 - 02:04 PM

The axe handle fools 'em all the time.

Subject: RE: BS: It 'was' called Ski-Dooing!
From: catspaw49
Date: 16 Jan 10 - 02:20 PM

Ski-Doo kinda' caught on here but snowmobile took over right away and was followed even more quickly by "Sled." Two reasons.........and you need to remember this is the States.

First, "Ski-Doo" sounds pretty wimpy and lacks the macho sound. Snowmobile ain't great but Skidoo is the pits. However, SLED can be spoken with the correct amount of machismo in the same manner that "BIKE" means a motorcycle.

Second, and this should not surprise anyone, most of us dumbasses down here said Bom-Buh-Deer (like the guy who dropped bombs from a plane) for Bombardier and when we all found out WE were wrong, a general agreement was reached that no one would use that friggin' fairy sounding pronunciation on a bet, even if you owned three of them. It was a good thing Bombardier built a killer sort of weapon in their Sleds because otherwise they'd have bellied up in the US market in a heartbeat.

Sorry you got racked up Man!


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: It 'was' called Ski-Dooing!
From: bobad
Date: 16 Jan 10 - 02:25 PM

AXE HANDLE!!!.....I guess that's why I never had any luck with a pack of LifeSavers.

Subject: RE: BS: It 'was' called Ski-Dooing!
From: gnu
Date: 16 Jan 10 - 02:40 PM

Bom-Buh-Deer was the correct pronounciation anywhere outside of La Belle Province until they started building jet skis and rail cars and jets and space age weapons. Then, they became Bom-bard-e-eh?

And... BTW... my Traxter was NOT a "girl's bike"... it was, is, the best 4 wheeler ever designed. In combo, it could outrun and out haul any other bike in it's engine class. It could crawl up a wall and go balls to the wall. Corner a gravel turn at 90 kph and run over a 4 inch poplar. All in comfort. And, easy to maintain with the removeable seat. Hell.. a removable seat! Bring the seat in the camp and not have a wet and cold ass in the morn... and so many other features.

But, they are no more because there is sommat about the redneck market that makes a "girl's bike" just not marketable.

'Course, when them rednecks get older and get stuck in the alders, they'll be wishin they had a "girl's bike".

Subject: RE: BS: It 'was' called Ski-Dooing!
From: gnu
Date: 16 Jan 10 - 02:44 PM

Life savers are for... ahhh... nevermind.

Subject: RE: BS: It 'was' called Ski-Dooing!
From: EBarnacle
Date: 16 Jan 10 - 02:55 PM

gnu, presumably those missing pursuers were male.

Subject: RE: BS: It 'was' called Ski-Dooing!
From: 3refs
Date: 17 Jan 10 - 08:32 AM

"I looked at one of the new Ski-doos on display in a grocery store just the other day. Sweet gentle jeepers! The Bombardier engineers that design their jets must have been told by management to to build a Ski-doo suspension and drive system that only well trained aerospace mechanics could work on with custom turned tools!"

And a pilots license!!!
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"So Sorry. Do you have to pay to repair the "machine" too?"

It's the right thing to do!
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and we used all the different names that have been mentioned and a few more that would not be polite to repeat!

Subject: RE: BS: It 'was' called Ski-Dooing!
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 18 Jan 10 - 07:39 AM

What's on the market in the UK? (and cheap).
I still had fout foot of snow across the lane on Friday afternoon, black ice at the bottom of the hill, and I had to park my Freelander nearly a mile from the house!

Subject: RE: BS: It 'was' called Ski-Dooing!
From: frogprince
Date: 18 Jan 10 - 12:35 PM

Doesn't the expression "twenty-three ski-doo" date back to the 1920's?

Subject: RE: BS: It 'was' called Ski-Dooing!
From: gnu
Date: 18 Jan 10 - 03:02 PM

No wonder it's known locally as a rich man's sport.

Subject: RE: BS: It 'was' called Ski-Dooing!
From: gnu
Date: 18 Jan 10 - 03:05 PM

1969 Olympic not quite the same.

Subject: RE: BS: It 'was' called Ski-Dooing!
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Jan 10 - 04:19 PM

Here's a picture of the one I smacked up, and then it smacked me back!!!!

http://www.bargainshopper.ca/used_snowmobiles/7.htm

Subject: RE: BS: It 'was' called Ski-Dooing!
From: gnu
Date: 18 Jan 10 - 04:29 PM

Me Newfy buddy Lewis put a "bumper" on his sled. I won't get detailed. Suffice it to say that it was filed to a knife point fer cuttin small trees at high speed.

Same lad I posted about on another thread that went through the ice on a river.

Subject: RE: BS: It 'was' called Ski-Dooing!
From: Naemanson
Date: 19 Jan 10 - 05:20 AM

Up in The County we used to just call them sleds and we would go sledding. Back then they were Ski-doo and later Polaris came in.

Not much sledding this close to the equator though.

Subject: RE: BS: It 'was' called Ski-Dooing!
From: 3refs
Date: 19 Jan 10 - 08:31 AM

Forgot to log in!

http://www.bargainshopper.ca/used_snowmobiles/7.htm

Subject: RE: BS: It 'was' called Ski-Dooing!
From: gnu
Date: 19 Jan 10 - 01:38 PM

Traxter

Shaft drive. Full time four wheel. Progressively locking in forward and reverse. Reverse in any gear. Step thru design (ergo, "girl's bike). Single with dual spark plugs... highest tow bar in it's class. Seat lifts off to expose all electrics and engine for ease of maintenance. Seat also goes in camp at night to be warm and frost free.... and more. What a machine!

Don't make em any more. Only "girly men" would buy them. Ya know, those with brains.

Subject: RE: BS: It 'was' called Ski-Dooing!
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 19 Jan 10 - 03:18 PM

Here in Minnesota, as far as I know, they were always called snowmobiles. Ski-Doo was just one of the brand names.

I know what you mean, though—the first brand of anything that appears in a given area is likely to have its name turned into a generic word in that area.

To this day, vacuum cleaners are called "Hoovers" in the UK.

In some parts of the US, mainly in the South, I think, refrigerators are called Frigidaires.

And some people in the south call all bottled soft drinks "co-cola"—from "Coca-Cola."

In Minnesota, ATMs are called cash machines. That's because the first company that introduced them here used the brand name Instant Cash. Over the years, "Instant Cash machine" evolved colloquially into "cash machine."

My father used to call all mechanical pencils "Eversharps."

Today Sharpie is turning into the generic term for what we used to call a "Magic Marker" and later a felt pen—but I suppose "felt pen" is no longer appropriate because the points are now made of plastic, not felt. So what is the correct generic term for them? Marker? That seems a bit TOO general.