Talk:garbage pail
Latest comment: 5 years ago by DTLHS in topic RFC discussion: June 2018
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I think I have heard of the term, but it needs a regular format. DonnanZ (talk) 23:28, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
- As a kid in the late 80s early 90s I collected Garbage Pail Kids stickers (GPK): British English speakers are quite unlikely to call waste "garbage" or "trash" (it might be rubbish or junk). Yet I've never heard the phrase "garbage pail" outside of GPK stickers; definitely "garbage can" (doesn't make sense in British English because a can is a tin, a small metal cylinder with food inside)... oh well, ramble ramble, let's just say it's definitely not BrE. -- Oh, should have mentioned, "garbage pail kids" (for the 80s stickers) was a pun on the phrase "Cabbage Patch Kids" (a series of popular toys at the time): whether anyone called their actual rubbish dump a "garbage pail" is arguable. Equinox ◑ 23:34, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
Deleted by DTLHS. Oh well. DonnanZ (talk) 08:24, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
- It's gone forever, don't even try to put in the slightest effort to recreate it with actual content. DTLHS (talk) 16:26, 21 June 2018 (UTC)