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General Categories => Non Gun Stuff => Topic started by: unfy on December 12, 2011, 04:11:23 PM
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I'm not from NE, nor Omaha area, etc. Am a Navy brat and moved around a lot as a kid.
The other day here at work, a conversation was going... and one of my coworkers mentioned "cutting cookies". Naturally I was confused as all holy hell.
After taking a poll of everyone in the building, there are 3 people who say 'donuts' (one from eastern IA, and two wanderers including myself), 1 said 'brodies' (he's older though, and i may be the only person who recognizes the phrase here heh), and ALL THE REST said 'cookies'.
I've expanded my polling to out of state friends and family as well. No one else has ever heard of 'cookies' and always laughs at it.
Sooooo.... NFOA .....
Cookies or Donuts ?
Also, any chance of getting where you're from as a comment ?
So far, from Omaha / Council Bluffs and more northward is 'cookies'. Some people from Idaho have mentioned cookies, as well as South Dakota (although if you go towards the Quad Cities area, its 'donuts'). Chicago, TN, UT, CA, FL have all said 'donuts' so far.
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Well, down in Kansas we called it "whippin cat's A$$es".
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Well, down in Kansas we called it "whippin cat's A$$es".
uhm... no **** ?
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And 'Lazy Js' were my fav, with posi I could sign my initials.
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And 'Lazy Js' were my fav, with posi I could sign my initials.
just makes it easier for the local fuzz to talk to you about it:)
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i had to google this. (is that sad?)
i say cookies, but not cutting cookies. i call them spinning cookies.
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I can't imagine any one abusing a motor vehicle in that manner 8)
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Spinning cookies in the snow after swim practice was a time-honored tradition when I was in HS. It warmed the car up nicely before the trip home, and in all seriousness, it taught me a lot about how to handle my car in the snow. I could make that boat (a 1980 Bonneville) dance like...well, a boat, spinning around on the snow/ice. But, yeah, spinning cookies!
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Mom didn't buy my tires and insurance. I had to pay for it myself. Guess I was abused.
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I grew up in Northeast Nebraska and it was usually cookies, although people would occasionally spin a donut.
And a J turn was often referred to as a "cop turn" since that was how they would quickly turn around to chase you after catching you spinning a cookie.
Not that I ever did such a reckless thing.....
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Spinning cookies in the snow after swim practice was a time-honored tradition when I was in HS. It warmed the car up nicely before the trip home, and in all seriousness, it taught me a lot about how to handle my car in the snow. I could make that boat (a 1980 Bonneville) dance like...well, a boat, spinning around on the snow/ice. But, yeah, spinning cookies!
I learned more about driving by being an idiot with a car than most kids did by taking driver's ed. Of course I also started driving on the farm before my legs were long enough to push in the clutch. If my daughter ever drives the way I did she'll never see the driver's seat again :P
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Looks like some of the Boys were..........
Driving Dad's Car.
sfg
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Never had a reason to do doughnuts....... but we practiced 180's (180 degree slide/turns on straight gravel roads ...... essentially reversing the direction of travel without losing engine speed ...... involved a front wheel drive car and using the parking brake to lock the rear wheels...... ...
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Really confused what was going on when I started reading this, thought this was originally a slang term for farts... after seeing someone say "spinning" cookies I understood. So that is my vote. I have replaced 6 wheel bearings on my car in 4 years while rarely spinning cookies so I try to avoid doing them despite how fun it is in an empty parking lot with ice. At least when I had to replace the most recent 2 bearings it was easy since they didn't even have time to rust on...
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I grew up in northeast Nebraska, bought my own cars, tires, fuel, etc. ... and did both donuts and cookies. There was no distinction between the two.
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Cookies is winning! :(
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OK, just to clear my vote up, I am sitting at work eating some xmas cookies someone brought in, so naturally the answer was cookies. And I like cookies more than donuts anyway.
After reading half the way down the thread I was hedging strongly towards "WTF", I really don’t get what the heck this one is about.
At the end someone cleared it up for me. I am originally from California (Escaped at the age of 19, thanks to the USAF), and it was donuts everywhere there. Cookies? Really? Dam you Midwest folks have some peculiar sayings. There are times when I’m not sure who is weirder, Californian’s or Nebraskan’s.
But Alabama beats them all, no contest.
Ron
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I call it a waste of good rubber!
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but, see A&H, I never had GOOD rubber on my pick-up ;D
always take offs from dad's truck.
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NE Bull:
So, you made slicks out of them? :)
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LOL Dad's genaration called them "May-Pops".
As they may pop at any time! I HAD to test the theory...
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My brother just had to have some wide racing slicks for what he called his "Buford" (Ford body with a Buick engine, Hurst transmission, etc.) that he created himself. He couldn't afford good new ones, so he got some retreads. Coming home from Omaha one night, the tread (if you can call it that) separated from the rest of the tire and caused the most God awful racket you could imagine before it finally came clear off and came to rest somewhere along Interstate 80. Believe it or not, and luckily for him, the tire didn't even go flat, but it was the funniest looking tire I ever saw.