Another Dumb Question: Vert?
Oct 1, 2012 | 04:36 PM
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Burning Brakes
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Another Dumb Question: Vert?
OK, I'll bite: Too many entries here by people using the term "Vert" for it to be a misspelling of ""Vet". So, give me a clue; What is "Vert"?
Oct 1, 2012 | 04:43 PM
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"Vert" is the one syllable replacement term for Convertable! I use that term often to describe a nice looking convertable "Check out that nice 'Vert!
Oct 1, 2012 | 05:11 PM
Drifting
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Here's my Vette Vert. Con
vert ible
Oct 1, 2012 | 05:13 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by
ckwhite
OK, I'll bite: Too many entries here by people using the term "Vert" for it to be a misspelling of ""Vet". So, give me a clue; What is "Vert"?
Oct 1, 2012 | 06:25 PM
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It's a really obnoxious way to say "convertible".
Oct 1, 2012 | 06:29 PM
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Got it! Thanks, guys! ...and nice-looking vert, Gunny!
Oct 1, 2012 | 06:37 PM
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VERT:
VETTE:
Oct 1, 2012 | 07:31 PM
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VET
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Oct 1, 2012 | 09:31 PM
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Oct 1, 2012 | 10:12 PM
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About the dumbest way to say convertible.............
Oct 1, 2012 | 11:46 PM
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...and some people say "roadster", but that term is incorrect. Roadsters don't have windows.
Oct 2, 2012 | 01:09 AM
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...and some people say "roadster", but that term is incorrect. Roadsters don't have windows.
That term has become a paradigm.
Oct 2, 2012 | 09:44 AM
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That term has become a paradigm
Trying to sneak big words into a Kentuckian's vocabulary........Pffft! I know what that word means and can use it in a sentence.
"I want me a new
paradigm shoes". And you all thunk us hillbillies is dumm. Ha.....showed you.
Oct 2, 2012 | 10:04 AM
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