What Do You Call These: - Democratic Underground

bertha katzenengel

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Sat Oct-07-06 07:30 PM
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Poll question: What Do You Call These:

I don't mean brand names like "Chucks" or "Nikes" etc. I just mean generically, what do you call this kind of shoe?

I can only think of two names myself - so add more using "other."

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LeftyMom

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Sat Oct-07-06 07:32 PM
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1. "my shoes"

As in "kid, go get my shoes so we can get in the car!" I have the pink pair and the black pair. :D

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wildhorses

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Sat Oct-07-06 07:34 PM
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2. canvas tenny shoes as opposed to leather tenny shoes

:shrug:

lazy elocution I have:P

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Generic Brad

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Sun Oct-08-06 12:05 AM
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13. Me too

I used to have a pair of yellow ones when they were definitely out of style.

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femmocrat

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Sat Oct-07-06 07:34 PM
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3. "High tops" or basketball shoes.

As opposed to running or tennis shoes.

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greatauntoftriplets

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Sat Oct-07-06 07:39 PM
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4. Gym shoes.

:shrug:

The bottom image looks like cow shoes.

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marzipanni

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Sat Oct-07-06 11:03 PM
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7. The last time I saw cow shoes they were on a pig

"moo shoe pork"

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Bucky

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Sat Oct-07-06 07:45 PM
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5. I usually call them gifs or jpegs.

Everyone I know calls 'em tennis shoes--even the basketball players at my school who think tennis is a sissy sport.

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bertha katzenengel

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Sat Oct-07-06 10:10 PM
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6. kick

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ghostsofgiants

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Sat Oct-07-06 11:13 PM
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9. I usually call them kicks, haha.

But I'm weird.

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Kali

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Sat Oct-07-06 11:12 PM
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8. High tops for the ...high tops, tennies otherwise

Athletic shoes for those often velcro'd plastic monstrosities that started appearing in the late 70's.

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Floogeldy

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Sat Oct-07-06 11:14 PM
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10. Basketball shoes.

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Omphaloskepsis

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Sat Oct-07-06 11:25 PM
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11. I call them shoes..

Ones like you posted.. I would call those chucks.. Probably the only kind of shoe that I wouldn't just call a shoe.

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Gidney N Cloyd

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Sat Oct-07-06 11:59 PM
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12. Looks like Red Ball Jets to me nt

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Broken_Hero

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Mon Oct-09-06 12:48 AM
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14. sneakers....nt

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mykpart

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Mon Oct-09-06 02:04 AM
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15. Usually tennis shoes, although

occasionally "tennie-sneaks."

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Random_Australian

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Mon Oct-09-06 02:43 AM
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16. Big Bertha's Shoe and Railgun emporium.

:7

I call them shoes, in all honesty.

And I WAS going to call them "Bertha's shoes", but then I realised that if I added "Big" to the front I would refer to a cannon from the world wars, and make myself look like a complete nerd. :)

(Railgun because it was mounted and moved on train-tracks)

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gfindu

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Mon Oct-09-06 08:20 AM
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17. Tennis shoes

of course

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tjwmason

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Mon Oct-09-06 08:25 AM
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18. Trainers.

Which generally encompasses all sporty type shoes.

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Placebo

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Mon Oct-09-06 08:27 AM
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19. Gym Shoes!

"Trainers" = Get back to the UK, ya limey!

"Tennis Shoes" = They are not.

"Sneakers" = This ain't 1950.

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bif

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Mon Oct-09-06 08:52 AM
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20. Tennypumps

Edited on Mon Oct-09-06 09:22 AM by bif

Just for fun. But they're really sneakers.

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