[thipfan73]

So, I've known this word for like forever because it's used back in my hometown 30 mins from the Canadian border in upstate NY. My boyfriend is from downstate, about 2 hours north of NYC. He came home with a touque all of the firemen were given at the firehouse. I told him it was very cool. He proudly announced "That's called a touque". I had to keep myself from laughing and told him "Yes, dear, I know they are, my dad always wore a touque".

I was thinking about this and I noticed that on TV when there's a bankrobbery they say "knit cap" or "ski cap" or "winter hat" even back home, it's never "touque"

Touque, I used to be annoyed by it but now it's almost a funny word.

I don't know why I'm posting this, I'm just enjoying the word touque tonight lol

:lol: :jump

[The Horrible Esthete]

Growing up in northern Ohio, we always referred to them as either “sock caps” or “stocking caps”. Most references were non-specific (e.g. “hat”) but some just called them “winter hats”.

In college, I knew a guy from Buffalo who always referred to them as “toboggans”. In Ohio, the only thing we called a “toboggan” was the large, wooden snow sled with a curved front:

[tragicallymike]

that guy must have been an idiot becuase ive lived in buffalo all my life and like you ive only called the big ass wooden sleds tobaggans.

[LoftyPines]

Growing up in northern Ohio, we always referred to them as either “sock caps” or “stocking caps”. Most references were non-specific (e.g. “hat”) but some just called them “winter hats”.

In college, I knew a guy from Buffalo who always referred to them as “toboggans”. In Ohio, the only thing we called a “toboggan” was the large, wooden snow sled with a curved front:

I was just about to post the same thing. I was visiting relatives in NC and I heard that reference on the news. "...The robbers were wearing toboggans..." I was more than a little confused.

[thipfan73]

"...The robbers were wearing toboggans..." I was more than a little confused.

Yeah because if they were wearing big wooden sleds they'd be easy to find! :lol: :lol:

[j-monster]

So, I've known this word for like forever because it's used back in my hometown 30 mins from the Canadian border in upstate NY. My boyfriend is from downstate, about 2 hours north of NYC. He came home with a touque all of the firemen were given at the firehouse. I told him it was very cool. He proudly announced "That's called a touque". I had to keep myself from laughing and told him "Yes, dear, I know they are, my dad always wore a touque".

I was thinking about this and I noticed that on TV when there's a bankrobbery they say "knit cap" or "ski cap" or "winter hat" even back home, it's never "touque"

Touque, I used to be annoyed by it but now it's almost a funny word.

I don't know why I'm posting this, I'm just enjoying the word touque tonight lol

:lol: :jump

It's a great word, isn't it? Toque. TOOOOOOOOOOQUE!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

[thipfan73]

It's a great word, isn't it? Toque. TOOOOOOOOOOQUE!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

It really cracks me up when I'm playing the sims and one of them gets crabby and says it. lol :lol: :lol:

[Chris Tanz]

I was roommates with a guy from North Carolina when I lived in Scotland and he called it a "fuzzy cap" or a "wooly cap". We had another guy from Vermot who was the same way.

I couldn't convince them that we Canadians had a much more efficient actual *word* for it: toque.

Toques rule. Except when you're eight and you're too cool to wear one.

ct

[thipfan73]

Toques rule. Except when you're eight and you're too cool to wear one.

:lol: :lol:

I used to HATE to wear a winter hat and now that I'm an adult I can't WAIT to wear my winter hat because I've got like the coolest polar fleece winter hat EVER!

:wink:

[The Darkest Canuck]

nobody is too cool for a toque...


BUT...

there are toques that happen to be way too cool for some people...

example:

[thipfan73]

Here's me with my totally cool hat. Funny thing is the guy with me in the pic IS WEARING A TOUQUE! :lol:

BTW, that was me at my highest weight back on New Year's eve 2001 or 2002, it's amazing how much I've changed. I have a first night button on my hat

[Chris Tanz]

nobody is too cool for a toque...


BUT...

there are toques that happen to be way too cool for some people...

example:

what a shame they marred that stylish bleu blanc et rouge toque with that unsightly logo from a now defunct NHL team.

ct

[Coneycat]

Toques rule. Except when you're eight and you're too cool to wear one.

Or fifteen. I ran into the best line in a novel I read recently. The character remarked, "I live in Alberta, where the winters are so cold that teenagers wear hats." Hee.

[thipfan73]

what a shame they marred that stylish bleu blanc et rouge toque with that unsightly logo from a now defunct NHL team.

ct

The Canadiens are defunct?!

[The Darkest Canuck]

the NHL is defunct...THE HABS WILL ALWAYS OWN HOCKEY THOUGH! HONH HONH HONH HONH HONH HONH HONH! VIVE LE CANADIENS!