Hey,
Out in Californy the thingy plopped atop the pick-up bed was called a "camper shell." The goody that is usually level with the top of the cab and typically has a rear window that lifts upwards allowing access to the innards.
Variations on the above theme but the "camper shell" label is not applied to a full-size slide-in camper that weighs much more and extends above the cab roof and ofen extends across the top of the cab.
Here in the cultural backwater the locals use the term "topper" vice "camper shell."
Curious what you hayseeds call the dern' thing.
Also, any regional differences in terminology you have noted/noticed.
As an aside, just out of cootish curiosity, out west most folks called the refreshing carbonated beverage "soda." Here in Nebraska, the ultimate cultural backwater, the locals call the stuff "pop" and I was often ridiculed when I referred to the stuff as soda. Narrow-minded local idiots have trouble understanding that others outside this bizarre area may do anything differently and, if they DO, well... then they are WRONG so all right-minded folk will do and think as the brain-dead masses in this locale do.
Another variance is the ground/earth term viz USA/Britain as well as tire/tyre, hood/bonnet, etc. Those are interesting but i am most curious about regional differences within the USA though all inputs are welcomed. Well, welcomed by me. It's likely that 99.8 percent of Nebraskans would consider anything outside their perceived norm as the debils work and to be ridiculed until the outsider agrees to become assimilated into the hive mind-set so prevalent here in over-yonder-cross-the-holler country.
Yep.
Out in Californy the thingy plopped atop the pick-up bed was called a "camper shell." The goody that is usually level with the top of the cab and typically has a rear window that lifts upwards allowing access to the innards.
Variations on the above theme but the "camper shell" label is not applied to a full-size slide-in camper that weighs much more and extends above the cab roof and ofen extends across the top of the cab.
Here in the cultural backwater the locals use the term "topper" vice "camper shell."
Curious what you hayseeds call the dern' thing.
Also, any regional differences in terminology you have noted/noticed.
As an aside, just out of cootish curiosity, out west most folks called the refreshing carbonated beverage "soda." Here in Nebraska, the ultimate cultural backwater, the locals call the stuff "pop" and I was often ridiculed when I referred to the stuff as soda. Narrow-minded local idiots have trouble understanding that others outside this bizarre area may do anything differently and, if they DO, well... then they are WRONG so all right-minded folk will do and think as the brain-dead masses in this locale do.
Another variance is the ground/earth term viz USA/Britain as well as tire/tyre, hood/bonnet, etc. Those are interesting but i am most curious about regional differences within the USA though all inputs are welcomed. Well, welcomed by me. It's likely that 99.8 percent of Nebraskans would consider anything outside their perceived norm as the debils work and to be ridiculed until the outsider agrees to become assimilated into the hive mind-set so prevalent here in over-yonder-cross-the-holler country.
Yep.
