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!”)
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!”)