What's a bootstrap?

[otherlander]

I don't know if I've ever seen one. Have you? Do you know anyone who has them on their boots? Is it like a shoelace? Or like a jockstrap?

[karlrschneider]

1. Take a look at cowboy boots.

:D

[xchrom]

you said jockstrap.

:evilgrin:

[ThomWV]

17. No, those hold your balls, the one he's talking about hold your feet.

[TomInTib]

2. They are loops at the top of boots.

You put your fingers thru the loops and pull your boots up.

[madeline_con]

3. They're a little tab looking thing on the top of a boot shaft

to pull them on with. :eyes:

[bahrbearian]

4. Really ? never seen a boot strap

[rocknrush]

5. You don't own...

a pair of boots, do you?



It's what you pull your boots on with.

[karlrschneider]

7. Are dose agilater booties?

:D

[rocknrush]

10. Not sure...

could be ostrich.

[karlrschneider]

11. I tink you right bout dat. Lookie like ostrich!

:D

[polichick]

6. Okay, now that you know...

Go ahead and "pull yourself up by the bootstraps!"

[jody]

8. I have boot straps on five pair. n/t

[porphyrian]

9. A manly shoelace. -n/t

[fed-up]

12. all I know is that if your's breaks, you're f*cked nt

[Wiley50]

13. I pulled the term, "Bootstrap Levitation on my ex today.

Took her a few seconds to get it. Had to explain it.

[Aristus]

14. As an ex-tanker, this is what bootstraps mean to me:

[BrotherBuzz]

15. Curious, why do tankers need the straps?

Why don't regular laces work inside a tank? Do you guys operate the tank with just the lower cinch tightened to allow freedom like a low-top shoe? :shrug:

[Aristus]

16. You know, no one has ever explained it to me. I just liked the way they looked.

Also, they are a proud symbol of being a tanker. Jump boots were once forbidden to be worn by anyone who wasn't a paratrooper; now many different kinds of soldiers wear them. Tanker boots have remained the almost exclusive preserve of the tanker.