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HUGE pet peeve of mine. It is not NOS!

M

Mill

Lifer
Why do people always say NOS when they mean nitrous? NOS is Nitrous Oxide Systems, which is owned by Holley. Yes they make tons of nitrous kits, but geeze. It is nitrous not NOS!
 
actually, remember that A-team episode where mr. T INSISTED that the van needed "nitrous oxide" in order to keep up????

HE didn't call it NOS!

btw...they ended up stealing a tank of it from a dentist after Murdock played a crazed patient....
 
well, well do peopel say "im gonna xerox this page" isntead of "im going to photocopy it". Since NOS is probably the biggest NITROUS OXIDE systems/equipment manufactuer, whats wrong with called it NOS?
 
Considering the fact that people say NOS because they neglect to even begin to research anything about it.
 
Nobody I know says 'NOS'....it's 'nitrous', 'squeeze', 'juice', etc.

BTW 'Kleenex' .....'crescent wrench'...

JC
 
Welcome to the official ATOT Department of Redundency Department. From now on, all will have to say the following redundencies:

ATM Machine
PIN Number
NOS System
NIC Card <added>

Feel free to add as you see fit 🙂

 


<< 99% of the people that say NOS didn't know about it until The Fast and the Furious >>



yup, The local rice crowd knows (kNOSe?) the difference. In this neck o da woods, its refered to as "nitrous" or "spray" or "bottle" But not NOS.

Only those who don't have a clue call is NOS. They are the Lame and the Fakes.
 
People call it NOS the same reason they call photocopying Xeroxing and tissues kleenex and cotton sqabs q-tips

the established brand jsut becomes the name people associate w/ it.
 
like other people said... Kleenex, Xeroxing, q-tips.. and also Frisbee, Coke
it's all about brand recognition
 
NIC card is by far my favorite

The idiots I work with (including my idiot boss) always say that.
 


<< People call it NOS the same reason they call photocopying Xeroxing and tissues kleenex and cotton sqabs q-tips

the established brand jsut becomes the name people associate w/ it. >>



Car parts are a little different when it comes to the brand recognition thing. When someone is talkinga about parts, they don't say "I just put a Borla on" when they actually got a Bassani cat-back or whatever. People will either refer to a generic term "I just installed an exhaust" or they'll say the specific brand, "Just put a Bassani H-Pipe on".

You start getting into "rice" when you start calling stuff by the wrong name. Local ricer puts a GReddy sticker on his car because he got a new exhaust, but all he actually did was go to Midas and have em weld on some 4" chrome pipe on the back of his rusted out muffler.

 
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