Originally posted by muisejt since winter is coming pull your toque down
Funny story about toques.
I used to live in North Carolina. Before that I lived in Canada (I'm originally a Canadian). Someone there was telling me a story about how they visited Canada one time and everyone wore these hats. I asked him "what hats?" He said "Toki's" And I said (of course) "w.t.f. is a toki??" And he tried to describe. Finally he spelled it out for me. He said "it's spelled with a T and a Q."
So I started laughing and said "you mean TOQUE?" (Pronounced twok [where you say "two" with a K sound at the end] for non-French speakers)
And I said "what do you call toques down here?" And he said "we call them toboggans." And I said "what do you call those things you slide down hills on in the winter?" He said "Sleds." And I said "well what else do you call them?" And he replied "Toboggans."
So I started laughing again and said "so you're telling me that it's possible to go down a hill on a toboggan with a toboggan on your head?" "Yep." And I've been puzzled ever since how an archaic word like toboggan can ever possibly used for two different non-related items, both of which can be used at the same time.
Crazy southerners.
Anyhow, to stay on topic, why do you want to camouflage it?
-MrD
There is the theory of the moebius. A twist in the fabric of space where time becomes a loop.
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