Ah...but the original brand is called Cobber....and it means "close friend"
or pal...(different than 'mate'?)
http://www.bodycool.tv/english.html

But there are other makers also...obviously.

At 08:28 AM 9/9/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>They aren't called "cobbers" here, to my knowledge, but we have them in
>the States. I even own and
>use one. Just didn't have a name for it, except "that roll thing you put
>in water with the
>expandable cystals inside that keeps your neck cool."
>
>Must be a sight, Dennis. Maybe it's the tartan, because most of my
>colleagues wearing one look
>sweaty and grimy.
>
>Gwyn Alcock
>Statistical Research, Inc.
>Redlands
>
>--- Denis Gojak <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > In Australia we all wear these.  I've often admired Iain Stuart sauntering
> > around in his tartan Cobber, looking like a male model.
> >