Request for advice about GM terminology

[AG31]

I've written a story about two tops who get together for a night of sex. I have a couple of questions about terminology.

1 - Is there an adjectival equivalent for "top?" As in "a <blank> man?"

2 - Is "hook up" still a term in good standing? I was thinking of "Two tops <or the alternative> hook up for the night."

tia
ag

 

[AchtungNight]

“Hook up” is still in good standing far as I know. I can’t speak to the other query.

 

[KeithD]

I've written a story about two tops who get together for a night of sex. I have a couple of questions about terminology.

1 - Is there an adjectival equivalent for "top?" As in "a <blank> man?"

2 - Is "hook up" still a term in good standing? I was thinking of "Two tops <or the alternative> hook up for the night."

tia
ag

1. "dominant" should work.
2. "hook up" is still used.

 

[gunhilltrain]

For a second I though you meant "General Motors." I think "hook-up" is still used, at least among Generation X You-tubers. I don't know what is current among Zoomers. Since I am a "Boomer," i grew up with term "causal sex." "One-night stand" never went out of style. I never heard "friend with benefits" until maybe the 1990's.

 

[TimDEnchanter]

For a second I though you meant "General Motors..."

Me too. Haven't heard Old-slow-mobile in a while though.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Me too. Haven't heard Old-slow-mobile in a while though.

Oldsmobile ended production in 2004. I actually owned a couple of used ones in the 1980's. Then in the purge of 2010, Pontiac, Saturn (the "savior" of the company twenty-years earlier), and the civilian version of the Hummer went. Now, like all the American companies, it's a shell of what it used to be. They probably make their most money on pick-ups. I haven't actually seen these yet, but they are relatively short. Thread drift, of course, but I think the OP has gotten his answers.

 

[TimDEnchanter]

Many, many years ago I had a '76 Delta-88 land yacht, 350, 4-barrel, three-person front bench seat... Even bigger back seat.

So much better than an El Camino with Astroturf.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Many, many years ago I had a '76 Delta-88 land yacht, 350, 4-barrel, three-person front bench seat... Even bigger back seat.

So much better than an El Camino with Astroturf.

Now I feel obligated to describe the Oldsmobiles I knew. I had a 1974 Delta 88 I bought from my brother-in-law, and then a huge 1975 Olds 98 that my now ex-wife found for sale. You just can't get cars with red velour seats now. Or three-person front bench seats.

Nothing beats the 1958 Super 88 my grandfather bought new. Cool interior, but no seat belts, so be careful not to hit anything.

https://carsofdreams.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/6interior.jpg

 

[ElectricBlue]

Now I feel obligated to describe the Oldsmobiles I knew. I had a 1974 Delta 88 I bought from my brother-in-law, and then a huge 1975 Olds 98 that my now ex-wife found for sale. You just can't get cars with red velour seats now. Or three-person front bench seats.

Nothing beats the 1958 Super 88 my grandfather bought new. Cool interior, but no seat belts, so be careful not to hit anything.

https://carsofdreams.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/6interior.jpg

So, the New Yorker's answer to the OP's question is "mechanic"?

@AG31, you okay with that?

Normally, forum convention is to get a few useful answers before hi-jacking, but Gunhill's subverted that, this time.

 

[TimDEnchanter]

....You just can't get cars with red velour seats now. Or three-person front bench seats...

No, you cant.

My '76 was a red exterior with tan vinyl seats. Easy to clean up after an evening at the Olympic or Airway Drive-in Theater. (The Airway was nicer and showed better films, but nobody cared what you did at the Olympic, and we didn't go on double dates there in order to watch the movies anyhow.)

 

[AG31]

@AG31, you okay with that?

Normally, forum convention is to get a few useful answers before hi-jacking, but Gunhill's subverted that, this time.

Totally fine. I love the loose attention to norms here in the forums.

 

[gunhilltrain]

So, the New Yorker's answer to the OP's question is "mechanic"?

@AG31, you okay with that?

Normally, forum convention is to get a few useful answers before hi-jacking, but Gunhill's subverted that, this time.

Guilty as charged, although AG31 just said he was okay with it. This is my problem I know, but I've been trying to cut back on AH recently because after five years I feel like I've seen it all before. Thus I wander into other unrelated but interesting (to me, anyway) topics. No hard feelings electricblue, but it is the job of the OP or the moderator to police the boards, not you or me. By the way, there are plenty of nonsensical replies on many of the other threads here. It's the bane of social media, I suppose. Peace, be well, and have a beer when reading these threads.

P.S.: Probably I should do these things on the Playground section of the personals board. (Actually, I have at times.) A lot of people there have made answering threads into a part-time hobby. I should probably put my comment on the late Phyllis Coates there, not on AH.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Totally fine. I love the loose attention to norms here in the forums.

Thanks, AG31, but I tried to answer your question in my first post as best I could. That's all I have to offer (until General Motors!). Maybe someone else here will come up with more useful details.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Guilty as charged, although AG31 just said he was okay with it. This is my problem I know, but I've been trying to cut back on AH recently because after five years I feel like I've seen it all before. Thus I wander into other unrelated but interesting (to me, anyway) topics. No hard feelings electricblue, but it is the job of the OP or the moderator to police the boards, not you or me. By the way, there are plenty of nonsensical replies on many of the other threads here. It's the bane of social media, I suppose. Peace, be well, and have a beer when reading these threads.

P.S.: Probably I should do these things on the Playground section of the personals board. (Actually, I have at times.) A lot of people there have made answering threads into a part-time hobby. I should probably put my comment on the late Phyllis Coates there, not on AH.

It was tongue in cheek, Gunhill.

Surely I've taught you enough Oz nuance by now? Perhaps not .

 

[gunhilltrain]

It was tongue in cheek, Gunhill.

Surely I've taught you enough Oz nuance by now? Perhaps not .

It's not just Oz, I'm rather literal-minded about everything. Including Oldsmobiles.

 

[MillieDynamite]

I got me a car, it's as big as a whale
And we're headin' on down to the love shack
I got me a Chrysler, it seats about twenty

 

[ElectricBlue]

It's not just Oz, I'm rather literal-minded about everything. Including Oldsmobiles.

Indeed, you are!

 

[CyranoJ]

I've been avoiding this thread b/c I thought it meant "Genital Mutilation" terminology. Imagine my relief.

I kinda like "a top man" as an adjective for a top, cf. "Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark." ("We have top men working on it now." "Who?" "Top. Men.") But I think the colloquial expression for what you have in mind wouldn't be [blank] anything. It would just be "top," "domme" or "daddy."

"Hook up" (and "hookup") are both still commonplace, and I think have outlived "Netflix and chill" on the whole. I would just use "hook up" for propositioning someone ("Let's hook up") and "hookup" for the accomplished act of fucking ("We had a fabulous hookup.").

 

[gunhilltrain]

I got me a car, it's as big as a whale
And we're headin' on down to the love shack
I got me a Chrysler, it seats about twenty

Please, I'm already in enough trouble with Oldsmobile. Don't get me started on Chrysler too.

 

[lilshymynx]

I got me a car, it's as big as a whale
And we're headin' on down to the love shack
I got me a Chrysler, it seats about twenty

So hurry up! And bring your juke box money!

 

[gunhilltrain]

So hurry up! And bring your juke box money!

Somebody else is tempting me to thread drift. So, many songs are not actually about cars. As Aretha Franklin sang:

Oh, we got some places to see.
I brought all the maps with me.
So jump in, it ain't no sin.
Take a ride in my machine.

Interesting video with upbeat scenes mixed with shots of American industrialism starting to go to ruin (the junked cars, the unemployment lines). James Brown shows even more ambivalence in the Living in America video.

 

[MillieDynamite]

True, but wasn't Drive by the Cars a song about cars preformed by a group of Cars?

Somebody else is tempting me to thread drift. So, many songs are not actually about cars. As Aretha Franklin sang:

Oh, we got some places to see.
I brought all the maps with me.
So jump in, it ain't no sin.
Take a ride in my machine.

Interesting video with upbeat scenes mixed with shots of American industrialism starting to go to ruin (the junked cars, the unemployment lines). James Brown shows even more ambivalence in the Living in America video.

 

[gunhilltrain]

True, but wasn't Drive by the Cars a song about cars preformed by a group of Cars?

Some songs are truly about cars, that is true. Not too many about trains any more since "City of New Orleans" (written by Steve Goodman but made famous by Arlo Guthrie) a long time ago.

However. "Little Red Corvette" doesn't seem to be about a Chevrolet.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

As Dinah Shore used to proclaim, "See the U.S.A. in your Chevrolet, America's favorite family car!"

 

[MillieDynamite]

Country music is often about pickup trucks, drinking with your friends, your cheating wife, or buying your horses a beer.

Some songs are truly about cars, that is true. Not too many about trains any more since "City of New Orleans" (written by Steve Goodman but made famous by Arlo Guthrie) a long time ago.

However. "Little Red Corvette" doesn't seem to be about a Chevrolet.