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#11598
 Do you call them Fins or Flippers?
badintexas - 2/26/2013 10:37 AM
Category: Survey
Replies: 34
When you refer to those long things on your feet that help push you through the water, do you call them fins, flippers or something else?
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Diving_Granpa - 2/27/2018 4:33 AM
[Choose #1] Really a question? Flipper is a bloody dolphin!
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USACMASDiver - 7/31/2014 9:25 AM
[Choose #1] Yet when I was a kid, definately "flippers."
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Pixel - 4/20/2013 4:40 AM
[Choose #3] both. usually fins, but depends on who I’m talking to.
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landed - 3/21/2013 10:22 AM
[Choose #2] I call them flippers to annoy people :)
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SCUBAFOX - 3/03/2013 2:41 PM
[Choose #1] Isnt flipper a dolphin. :) Because you know hes faster than lightning.
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MonkeyDiver - 2/27/2013 8:16 PM
[Choose #3] Footie thingies.
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Eric_R - 2/26/2013 6:14 PM
[Choose #3] Water Spatchulas
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lerpy - 2/26/2013 4:20 PM
[Choose #1] I might start going with flippers just to see the type of reaction I get. "hey Greg, hand me my flippers"LOL
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UWnewbee - 2/26/2013 2:25 PM
[Choose #1] fish have fins, flipper was a dolphin
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Greg - 2/26/2013 10:52 AM
[Choose #1] If someone says flippers around me, I just might shut your tank off ( ok I wouldn’t do that, but just don’t call them flippers around me :)