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Kermit · 07-25-2008, 09:13 PM

Smart Terminology -

I was thinking about this earlier this afternoon - we don't have an actual dictionary set up with Smart Terminology. Sort of those "Bushisms" you hear about but this isn't the time or place for that thread.

So, over the last couple months I've been here I've noticed a few and this is what I can think of off the top of my head right at this moment:

Beepers - Those who honk their horns at you. You think you must have done something wrong, but all they wanted to do was get your attention and then wave.

Bobblehead - a new smart owner just before getting used to "D" mode. Often after the salesperson tells them to "lift & shift."

Bug-Eyed - People who just got passed by a smart car.

Captard - A new smart owner who fiddles with the gas cap at the fuel pump, trying to figure out how it mounts on the fuel-door while nervously aware that someone is probably watching. Admit it, you know you've been there!

Chicken Littles - those who think the smart is unsafe straight out of the factory and are determined to let the whole world know the sky is falling and the smart is failing as a car

Creepers - The ones who sneak around it looking at it as though they are actually doing something wrong when it's only curiosity.

Drive-thru - An truck jacked-up enough to allow the smart to drive under it.

Farckles - the dirt which accumulates around the rear of the smart from the engine.

Fools - People who buy smarts without researching them first. Alternately, people who buy smarts, when they really wanted Lincolns.

Greeps - 'Gremlin' beeps when the car beeps for no reason after shutting it off.

Klingons - drivers who shadow you while you're driving down the road? Matching your speed, sometimes taking cellphone pictures, and making you nervous as hell

Lawlers - People who laugh and giggle around your smart.

LeadZeppelins - Heavy, oversized behemoths which rapidly disappear in your rear view mirror when you're leaving a traffic light. Having the horsepower to leave your smart eating dust, they are forced by economy of fuel to barely touch their gas peddles.

LeadZeppelins tend to interfere with the smooth flow of traffic in several ways. First, the fact that they accelerate maddeningly slowly. And then, once moving (5-10 miles under the speed limit) their sheer bulk obscures the view of the road for anyone unfortunate enough to be behind or beside them. They are often piloted by people who mistakenly feel their land ships make them invulnerable. This leads them to partake in many activities not related to piloting their ships, such as texting. Beware, LeadZeppelins often exhibit erratic, unpredictable behavior! Be alert, always prepared to take evasive manoeuvers and have your air horn at the ready!

Neonites - people that desperately want a smart but haven't been able to get one for one reason or another. These people will also defend the smart's honor no matter how insane they look in the general public's eyes.

NotsoSmarts - people who keep asking if your car is electric.

Numbfoots - smart owners without a cruise control.

Ostriches - Smart owners that insist their car couldn't be better.

Pad Thigh - an Asian noodle dish favored by those who unknowingly kill their smart engine during a hard turn
Peekers - those people who peek in your windows whether you are actually sitting in the car or not.

Prairie doggin' - When a smart owner is scrunching down and then sitting up high repeatedly trying to see the stoplight through the windshield or the panaromic roof. Editorial Note: Ground Hoggin' It is something COMPLETELY different!

Safety Police - People who feel it is their mission to inform you of how unsafe your car is in person or by leaving notes or printed chain e-mails of a certain Ford Escape accident in New Orleans. A particular nasty version of the Safety Police (the Safety Nazis) feel the need to inform the on-line world of their impending doom if they drive anything less than a full size SUV.

Screemer - someone at a red light yelling "ROLL DOWN YOUR WINDOW!"

Shiftless - those who prefer the auto mode.

Shifty - those who prefer the manual mode.

Slackjaw - a person in a large vehicle who is completely flabbergasted by the smart's size, and their jaw hits the ground as they think, "What is that THING?!"

Smarties - a group of Smart owners

Smatline - Killing your engine by shifting from reverse to forward too quickly.

Smellies - smart bullies

Swatching - trading (swapping /switching) smart body panels with another smartie.

Sweatbox - A smart car without functioning A/C or a Pure without A/C OR a Passion in a sunbelt state

Talker - People who want to talk about the smart and keep hanging on even when the conversation should end. Especially, when it's raining and you're standing outside and they are in their car. You want to be nice, but...

T-Booned -- broadsided by far-reaching plan to convert large percentage of U.S. energy production to non-petroleum sources.

T-Lo'd --- the Three Lines of Death, a sure sign your tranny is dead.

Tsunamis - smart drivers frantically waving at other smart drivers, only to be left frustrated, unseen or ignored

Waiters - The people who wait outside your car for you to come back from wherever you are just to ask questions (had one of these this evening)

What are the other terms exclusive to Smart ownership?

I'll update as you guys think them up to keep them central at the beginning of the thread for ease of reading.

NCC1701 · 07-25-2008, 09:48 PM

What do you call the drivers who shaddow you while you're driving down the road? Matching your speed, sometimes taking cellphone pictures, and making you nervous as hell? Ghosts? Klingons?

moonhilda · 07-25-2008, 09:52 PM

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Originally Posted by NCC1701

What do you call the drivers who shaddow you while you're driving down the road? Matching your speed, sometimes taking cellphone pictures, and making you nervous as hell? Ghosts? Klingons?

i call them hoverers, but "Klingons" is pretty good.

Suze · 07-25-2008, 09:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Bum-bling-B

Smart Terminology -

I was thinking about this earlier this afternoon - we don't have an actual dictionary set up with Smart Terminology. Sort of those "Bushisms" you hear about but this isn't the time or place for that thread.

So, over the last couple months I've been here I've noticed a few and this is what I can think of off the top of my head right at this moment:

Peekers - those people who peek in your windows whether you are actually sitting in the car or not.

Creepers - The ones who sneak around it looking at it as though they are actually doing something wrong when it's only curiosity.

Waiters - The people who wait outside your car for you to come back from wherever you are just to ask questions (had one of these this evening)

Smarties - a group of Smart owners

What are the other terms exclusive to Smart ownership?

Swatching - trading (swapping /switching) smart body panels with another smartie.

Smart Enuf · 07-25-2008, 11:12 PM

T-Lo'd -- the Three Lines of Death, a sure sign your tranny is dead.

BigWarpGuy · 07-26-2008, 05:56 AM

NotsoSmarts - people who keep asking if your car is electric.

krsmart · 07-26-2008, 06:40 AM

Beepers. Those who honk their horns at you. You think you must have done something wrong, but all they wanted to do was get your attention and then wave.

SuperGeek · 07-26-2008, 08:18 AM

I have a few suggestions:

Bobblehead - a new smart owner just before getting used to "D" mode. Often after the salesperson tells them to "lift & shift."

Slackjaw - a person in a large vehicle who is completely flabbergasted by the smart's size, and their jaw hits the ground as they think, "What is that THING?!"

Drive-thru - An truck jacked-up enough to allow the smart to drive under it.