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Topic: All in all it's just a 'nuther...
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Bombadil
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posted April 26, 2001 07:57 AM
  
...can in the wall.So I've noticed the tendency of computer professionals to beging to stack soda cans on somewhere on their desks. I recycled Monday, so my wall is down to four bitten wax tadpoles. Prior to Monday it was 8 Cokes and 4 Dr. Peppers. (True Fact: the home of Dr. Pepper is Waco, Texas. They even have a museum. Dr. Pepper is HUGE in Texas.) So what's your wall made of? How big is it? ------------------
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RedTwo
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posted April 26, 2001 08:19 AM
The coolest thing about Mr. Bombadil is his regular habit of referring to the cola from Atlanta by it's chinese mistranslation. I love that.------------------
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Five Tons of Flax
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posted April 26, 2001 08:38 AM
Canwalls were a popular decoration at my university, because there were absolutely useless frosted windows next to the doors which were about a foot and a half wide and went all the way from floor to ceiling.I've never been much for saving empty cans. They go to the recycle or trash right when I'm done. And yes, Dr. Pepper is HUGE in Texas. May or may not be bigger than Coke, but a "coke" is still the proper term for a non-alcoholic carbonated beverage.  IP: Logged |
ThePet
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posted April 26, 2001 08:46 AM
That'd be so weird..."Hey you want a coke?" "Sure." "What kind? We got Dr. Pepper, Sprite, Root Beer, Pepsi..." Weird weird weird... even more weird than calling pop soda. IP: Logged |
Knifey-Spooney
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posted April 26, 2001 09:27 AM
Now wait just a minute. Pop is soda. But Coke is a brand, not a term which means soda. So there. My way is the right way.------------------
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Insane Hungry Joe
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posted April 26, 2001 09:34 AM
I got into this arguement last night. SOmeone was going to the store and I shouted out "get some soda" and everyone else, who was from the north, is like "what the hell are you talking about?" I honestly don't know why I said soda instead of coke, which is what I wanted, but I defended my choice of words to the death.Well, not really to the death, because I'm still alive, but close. See, the way I see it, soda is every carbonated beverage under the sun. Cola is every brown carbonated beverage. Coke is a substitute for cola, but not soda. If I ask for coke, and someone gives me something bright red, they are wrong. That's soda. I don't know what the hell pop is because it sounds like something my grandfather would say. No I take that back, my grandfather was even too cool to say somet stupid shit like pop. My great aunts probably call it pop. ------------------
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Roy G Bivins
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posted April 26, 2001 09:39 AM
I thought I'd left this little war behind after leaving the U of MN and all it's little Wisconsin refugee exchange students.Pop. That is the correct word. Soda keeps your fridge from stinking. Coke is a brand name. That is all. IP: Logged |
daybreaker
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posted April 26, 2001 10:08 AM
All I know is that where I'm from (New Orleans) it works exactly the way ThePet says it would be weird to have. So I guess we're weird.We even call vending machines 'Coke Machines'... even if theyre full of powerade, bottled water, fruitopia, etc. Coke is the term for everything. It just makes life easier. IP: Logged |
ThePet
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posted April 26, 2001 10:44 AM
soda makes me think of baking soda.
coke makes me think of coca-cola.*thumbs nose* IP: Logged |
Sandrylene
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posted April 26, 2001 10:50 AM
if it's pop, then you're stuck with "A&W Cream Pop"? and back in the old days you were served by "pop jerks"? care for a "club pop"? i think not.
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Skatie
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posted April 26, 2001 11:00 AM
Growing up in Michigan the word was "pop". Living in Milwaukee we drink "soda".Does anybody else have bubblers? Because I think that's an exclusively Wisconsin, perhaps even SE WI, term for water fountains. Y'know, the kind you get a drink from, not the ones you throw pennies into. ------------------
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Michigan Troll
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posted April 26, 2001 11:38 AM
Based on my stint at the U of MN, I'd say "bubbler" is limited to eastern portions of Wisconsin. please let's not discuss what follows the words "duck" and "duck."Pop? Soda? What's all this about? I'll just be over here in the corner, sipping my lemon phosphate. ------------------
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Toon
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posted April 26, 2001 11:45 AM
My dad tells me that when he was growing up in New Orleans, a "pop" was a frozen sweet on a stick.
They could never figure out what Archie and his friends in the comic books were talking about when they asked for a "soda pop."------------------
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Bombadil
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posted April 26, 2001 11:48 AM
Sheee! Keeeeee-riminy folks, a drink is a drink is a drink. Learn to communicate with the natives, that's what I say. If nothing else they'll think your accent is cute when you use their words.IP: Logged |
Raven
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posted April 26, 2001 11:49 AM
It works the same way here Daybreaker. Coke is everything carbonated. Then they ask which one. It's a double selection sometimes. Dr. Pepper is where it's at here. Unless all they have is Mr. Pibb and that's almost as good or so I hear. I don't drink coke. I drink tea, water or Snapple Rain. Oh and in case you don't know I am in Texas. IP: Logged |
Earl Junior
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posted April 26, 2001 12:05 PM
So-dee pop. Emphasis on the "dee", but even more so on the pop.Welcome to Wonderland, Alice. ------------------
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Medieval Cow
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posted April 26, 2001 12:28 PM
*cough*And by the way, soda is all the carbonated beverages, a pop is a frozen treat on a stick unless you're a hick, Cola is a brown soda, such as Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola, or (Generic food store name)-Cola, and Coke is Coca-Cola specifically. Sorry, anything else is just wrong. ------------------
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Bombadil
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posted April 26, 2001 12:36 PM
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nebulous menace
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posted April 26, 2001 12:50 PM
Let's argue about the important stuff, people. Like how Canadians can live with non-caffeinated Mountain Dew. IP: Logged |
ThePet
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posted April 26, 2001 12:55 PM
is it really mountain dew without the caffeine?IP: Logged |
Erratic Assassin
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posted April 26, 2001 12:58 PM
I've got 716 orange juice cans (5.5 fl. oz.) in a triangular pyramid on a desk in my office. The pyramid is now 15 cans high, going on 16.I need to snap a pic of it and post it somewhere. ------------------
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Kailet
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posted April 26, 2001 12:58 PM
We call 'em fizzy drinks. Not soda, or pop, or Coke (unless referring to the drink itself). Just fizzy drink. Or by the brand name, as in "get me a can of Fanta."
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Killian's Red
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posted April 26, 2001 01:00 PM
Let's look at this from the drunk's point of view:any brown carbonated beverage is Coke.
You don't order a Rum & Pepsi. If you do, you're an idiot, because no one can taste the difference with sweet, sweet rum added to it. and if you happen to order a rum & diet, than I mix your drink, then turn around and laugh. any lemon-lime carbonated beverage is Seven-up. Period. Ordering a 7 & Slice is just silly. all other carbonated beverages are either tonic or soda. pop is either a frozen treat, or a hard candy with bubble gum or tootsie roll in the middle.
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Medieval Cow
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posted April 26, 2001 01:02 PM
Owwww.Jerk. ------------------
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Cheatara
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posted April 26, 2001 01:49 PM
Anything that comes exclusively in a glass bottle is soda, everything else carbonated is pop, or spakling water. Coke is Coke...IP: Logged |
Wraith
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posted April 26, 2001 01:58 PM
FANTA!!!alright. Why not just call them carbonated water with LOTS of sugar, and occasionally caffine drinks. It saves the whole pop, soda, cola problem from occurring. For instance we have two carbonated water with LOTS of sugar, and occasionally caffine drink machines carrying Coca-Cola brand CWWLOSAOC drinks. -Wraith, amused. IP: Logged |
Hallam
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posted April 26, 2001 02:14 PM
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Earl Junior
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posted April 26, 2001 02:29 PM
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Jesse Dangerously
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posted April 26, 2001 02:30 PM
What confused ME in Archie was malted milk. What the heck!? I like Whoppers, but that doesn't sound right.In Garfield they had Cherry Phosphate. But then in Garfield, a pie was a "splut". I drink pop. I'm the only person in the world who specifies "cola" instead of a brand name when I'm ordering, though. Having Pepsi coke seems weird. It's like having an Electrolux Hoover, or a Cottonelle Kleenex. Weird weirdos! IP: Logged |
Anti Em
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posted April 26, 2001 02:44 PM
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Having Pepsi coke seems weird. --Jesse
That's because Pepsi tastes like sugar-infused crap.  BTW, I'm from Texas originally, and although I don't say it myself anymore, it's cool to hear folks refer to any and all SODAs as "cokes." Brings me back a few years, it does! "Pop" doesn't belong in the discussion at all, IMHO. IP: Logged |
Medieval Cow
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posted April 26, 2001 02:46 PM
Pepsi. Rules.Ya know what? You may eat me. ------------------
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Tolen Grath
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posted April 26, 2001 02:48 PM
There is but one term:BEVERAGE. That is all. IP: Logged |
genuine artificial
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posted April 26, 2001 03:18 PM
I grew up in Cincinnati saying "pop". Then we moved to Vermont, where I got funny looks of incomprehension if I said "pop," and I switched to "soda." Now I say either depending on my mood.I'm sure this has enlightened you all. IP: Logged |
RedTwo
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posted April 26, 2001 03:23 PM
People, people, people... Much of this is easily settled."pop" for a carbonated drink is a north-US term. I say 'soda' just to mess with people. When I say 'coke' I mean a Coca-Cola. Hey, MedCow. You & Snopes can keep your bubble-bursting little story. :P Bom, call 'em wax tadpoles all you want. The truly important issue here is the concept of CAFFIENE-FREE MOUNTAIN DEW?!?!?!? How could they? If they took the caffiene out of Mt Dew I'd be forced to drink Surge, or, as I call it, Serje (a' la Beverly Hills Cop). And that would be bad. Bright yellow drinks I can handle. Green? unh-uh. [This message has been edited by RedTwo (edited April 26, 2001).] IP: Logged |
Roup
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posted April 26, 2001 03:26 PM
Complete aside: Interesting, re: the coke = all carbonated beverages in some parts. I've always taken notice of items that are generally referred to by what is, indeed a brand name: Kleenex, Saran Wrap, Jello, Band-Aid, Tabasco (not as much at least by smart people), Kool Aid, Frisbee, etc. Guess I can add Coke to the mix, at least in some parts.[/aside]IP: Logged |
Michigan Troll
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posted April 26, 2001 03:46 PM
Roup> If it's not already there, I think you can add Dumpster to your list, though that one has to be on the brink of genericide.[Edited because sometimes lists aren't as exclusive as you think they are.] [This message has been edited by Michigan Troll (edited April 26, 2001).] IP: Logged |
TheMadDefenestrator
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posted April 26, 2001 03:48 PM
*totally agrees with R2*decaf Mountain Dew is a stain on the honor of all humanity right up there with ethnic cleansing, IMHO I thought Canadians were weird for some reason, someone needs to call the UN in on this one.
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Spritelord
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posted April 26, 2001 04:05 PM
I've got to agree with redtwo...take the caffiene out of Dew, and you may as well just start drinking Purge.
As for the wall...well, one of my roommates decided to come downstairs and clean (her perogative...I'm not gonna complain too much) so all the Dew cans her fiance (my other roommate) and I have built up are gone. But, as we go through 36 to 48 cans a week, it shouldn't take long to replace them all.------------------
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Sandrylene
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posted April 26, 2001 04:07 PM
1)decaf mountain dew,
2)decaf coffee, and
3)non-alcoholic beer.
all of these make no sense to me.
how about cigarettes without nicotine? that would be the same kind of concept. (no, cloves don't qualify, they're different from cigarettes somehow or other, i think.)IP: Logged |
ThePet
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posted April 26, 2001 05:56 PM
Cloves have about twice as much nicotine and tar than a normal cigarette.IP: Logged |
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