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Can you help a sister with a word?
I need a little help. What did you call the smokers in high school? The kids that worked on their cars and dressed like future night shift employees at the local lumber mill? My brothers called 'em Grits. At Jim's school they were Slippies. Did yours have a name?
posted by Mignon at 8:25 PM
They usually exuded an air of also being fond of drugs. We called 'em burnouts.
Skids.
Stoners. This may have been unfair, as they may not have been stoned, but that's what we called them.
I'm with Orange. Burnouts. Yes indeed.
In Wisconsin they were stoners, in Arizona they were burnouts...
Stoners, or Buttheads.
Burnouts, in Iowa. What did you call the people in marching bands? We were always not-so-affectionately known as "band fags."
In Vermont we called them Future Misguided Republicans.
Scrubs. we called them scrubs.
Hoods. And the people who hung out under the piano were the Sticky People.
We called the druggies "freaks" and the smokers/leather jacket crowd, "Bikers." We had different buildings named A Unit, B Unit, etc. There was a group of cool women that hung with the bikers and they were known as the "DUCs" D Unit Chicks.
In the south, they were the Rednecks, but my Yankee brother called them the Cretins.
When we lived in NY, they were Greasers.
But Mignon, your brother calling them Grits is just too perfect.
Wow. Those were two different groups in my school. The people that smoked were burnouts or hoods. The people that worked on their cars were always the Puerto Ricans and they never dressed like you said, but they were called gearheads or bondos.
Freaks.
Metalheads. Makes no sense, I know.
So... how come I never hear from you anymore? Is it me?
Burners - a take on Burnouts, I guess.
In Virginia Beach we called them Grits too. How weird is that?
"friends"
Just kidding. I don't think we had a special name for them.
In High School (Belgium) we called smokers (myself included at the time), the 'laissez faire' gang. Let them do...
In the late 80's, you have to remember, smoking was still cool. ;-)
Heads.
Nothing to do with suckin' a dick, though.
Hoods, I guess. I don't think there were a lot of those in my high school.