True story: I once went on an informal outing with a female friend. she kept sniffing me, and asked,” WHAT are you wearing? It smells so NICE!” After thinking a few seconds, I realized she was smelling the Break-Free I had been using a few hours earlier. But yeah, Hoppe’s #9 beats Chanel #5, for me, anyway 🙂
@ Weer’d: I pronounce it, “Hop’s” too, but I had a fiend in school who insisted on calling it, “Hope’s”. (“Barry don’t clean guns!”)
Uncle Pays the Bills Again
We say more dumb shit before noon than most people say all day.
August 6th, 2010 at 11:03 am
Now the big question is how to properly pronounce it.
I personally pronounce it the same way you pronounce the flower that flavors beer.
Seems a lot of older fellers I know say “Hop-eez”
August 6th, 2010 at 12:04 pm
I’ll wait for the Ed’s Red scent…
August 6th, 2010 at 5:07 pm
While Hoppes conjures many a fond memory, I do not consider it a pleasant smell. Would you hang used bore patches in your car?
August 6th, 2010 at 6:22 pm
“Would you hang used bore patches in your car?”
That smell rates with the smells of Thanksgiving in terms of comfort for me.. but no. I guess I wouldn’t.
I don’t mind walking into my garage and smelling it though. That means the kids are cleaning their rifles.
August 6th, 2010 at 8:35 pm
“Would you hang used bore patches in your car?”
here In Mass I bet that could be used for probable cause to search my car….
August 7th, 2010 at 1:05 am
True story: I once went on an informal outing with a female friend. she kept sniffing me, and asked,” WHAT are you wearing? It smells so NICE!” After thinking a few seconds, I realized she was smelling the Break-Free I had been using a few hours earlier. But yeah, Hoppe’s #9 beats Chanel #5, for me, anyway 🙂
@ Weer’d: I pronounce it, “Hop’s” too, but I had a fiend in school who insisted on calling it, “Hope’s”. (“Barry don’t clean guns!”)