What's the difference between a purse and a European carry-all?

[coloradodem2005]

[Dirk39]

1. Hello from Europe:

a purse is what the french call "Portemonnaie", it's just for money and maybe an ID-Card or credit-cards.
A carry-all is a travelling bag. Usually it contains more underwear and shirts and less money.

Dirk

[TaleWgnDg]

2. A purse is what TinkyWinky carries. Ask Jerry Falwell; he said so.

[imenja]

7. Tinky Winky has great fashion sense

purple and red, now that's daring.

[last_texas_dem]

23. That's not a purse!

That's his magic bag, dammit! :-)

[Runcible Spoon]

3. I dunno....

the man carrying the purse is emasculated and the man carrying the european article can wear a speedo to the beach and still be considered hetero? :shrug:

[TaleWgnDg]

4. Who makes these rules anyway? . . . n/t

[Runcible Spoon]

5. dunno....Roger Moore as 007 in the 70's?

perhaps Joan Rivers?

[TaleWgnDg]

6. Egads! Which is worse?! LOL

[Runcible Spoon]

12. I couldn't find any satisfactory Roger Moore Pics

below is Sean Connery :evilgrin:

[Dirk39]

8. Oops...

No, no, no. A purse is simply a wallet! You should leave the european article in your hotel, when you go to the beach!



Dirk

[Runcible Spoon]

11. so you take your cash and stuff it down your speedo...

against your hairy, slightly-soft-but-still-for-some-reason considered-the-sexiest-Bond-manflesh?

[DS1]

20. That's so the Italian/French/Spanish secret service can spot any Yank

spies, by their complete lack of speedo tans ;-)

[Dirk39]

9. O.K. you did ask:

This is a European carry-all:


This is a purse:



Hmmmm,
Dirk

[imenja]

10. sorry, but 2 is a wallet

don't look nuthin like no purse I ever carried.

[vpigrad]

13. That's a pocketbook, not a purse

For some strange reason people now call that a wallet. I have no idea why that changed.

[imenja]

14. no, a pocketbook is a kind of purse

a small purse.

at least that's how I think of it. Women refer to pocketbooks. When have you ever heard a man say he had a pocketbook?

[vpigrad]

17. You must be young.

Until I was 30 or so, I had never heard a man refer to a pocketbook as a wallet. The word pocketbook was always used to describe what's in the picture.

> Women refer to pocketbooks.

Pocketbooks were small purses that were later called pocketbooks to compare their convenience to a man's pocketbook.

> When have you ever heard a man say he had a pocketbook?

You haven't heard your older male relatives say that? That's surprising.

[imenja]

18. not young

43. And I've only heard purses referred to as pocketbooks.

[DemBones DemBones]

16. Hmmm, indeed! That's a wallet, to our American eyes.

What do German women call the thing they use to carry their wallet, their lipstick, hairbrush, etc., in?

American women call such a thing a purse, or maybe a pocketbook or handbag. It's usually too small to carry shirts in, though a pair of women's underwear would fit in many purses.

[Dirk39]

21. Handtasche...

We call it Handtasche (handbag).

[CubsFan1982]

15. Well, the first one is what you carry in the US.

The second is what you would carry in Poland. Don't ever forget Poland.

[Ellen Forradalom]

19. You can't fit a European into a purse.

I tried. Too big.

[Dirk39]

22. You're too late...

I did prove that it works