Oscar: discussion.

[Magmar]

Amid all the spam, I'm posting something equally useless but this is driving my nonna and I up the WALL and I really need to know!!

Does anyone else here do this, or EVER hear, of someone calling a recycling bin an Oscar?? Because everyone in my family calls it an Oscar, but I can find no record online of them ever being referred to as Oscars! I have no idea where this came from; I'm guessing Sesame Street. But it's driving me crazy!

So it's not really a poll; more like, does anyone have any idea where this nomenclature for a recycling bin has come from??

Edit: I FINALLY figured it out... after much indepth research. The Ocean State Cleanup and Recycling (OSCAR) program was big in the late '80s and early '90s and took off in specific areas of Rhode Island, particularly Smithfield where I live, and Johnston. Only our recycling bins were imprinted with the OSCAR emblem. So this is why only very select people from specific areas would ever get the idea of calling a recycling bin an Oscar!

But really, did anyone else here ever grow up calling the recycling bins Oscars? I guess the thread is kinda useless now. Mods, do as you will, since I figured it out ^_^;