OT - Mindless Rant

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What have I started... lol


I have consumed just the syrup of mountain dew once. I'm not sure what happened after I cleaned out that 32 ounce cup, but I know it involved building 3 condos and a time share..... All in 20 minutes......

What ever happened to my Pepsi Clear! Where are you!

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HADRIAN AVENTINE
pacea@solar-outpost.com
http://www.hyperionbase.com

[Alpha Kodiak]

I can now officially post the results of my highly scientific poll concerning carbonated beverages.

Soda: 4
Pop: 3
Coke: 2
Canadian that wouldn't give me a straight answer: 1

Arizona is a highly confused place.

[capnq]

The "soda water" Puke describes sounds like "seltzer" to me, used in mixed drinks and by Vaudeville comedians. There's also the extremely nasty "tonic water", with quinine as the main flavoring, IIRC, but I don't remember that being carbonated.

Celine Dion is a French-Canadian singer who has been a huge success in the US recording industry. BTW, her musical genre is "pop".

My favorite carbonated beverage is birch beer, which is similar to root beer, but nearly impossible to find around here. (Despite the names, neither of these contain alcohol.)

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Cap'n Q

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"


[This message has been edited by capnq (edited 27 July 2001).]

[geoschmo]

quote:

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Originally posted by Hadrian Aventine:
What have I started... lol


I have consumed just the syrup of mountain dew once. I'm not sure what happened after I cleaned out that 32 ounce cup, but I know it involved building 3 condos and a time share..... All in 20 minutes......

What ever happened to my Pepsi Clear! Where are you!

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Yes Hadrian, we kind of comandeered your thread here. Hope you don't mind too much.

[Phoenix-D]

It's both, but not coke.

Simple enough?

How many fried eggs (AZ people ) do we have here, anyway?

Phoenix-D

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the thread is okay, but where is my Pepsi Clear gawddamite

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HADRIAN AVENTINE
pacea@solar-outpost.com
http://www.hyperionbase.com

[Baron Munchausen]

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Originally posted by geoschmo:
Yes, let's resurect the great "Soda vs Pop vs Cola" debate.

I, living in Ohio call it pop as well. I have friends from various parts of the country who call it one or the other. After much research I have placed the dividing line, running roughly in a north-south direction, somewhere slightly west of Indianapolis Indiana.

Anybody care to chime in so we can narrow it down more specifically.

Geo

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Actually, the 'dividing line' is a north-south more than an east-west line. The Great Lakes area has a distinct culture/language identity. So, people in Chicago would also call it 'pop' and people in Iowa would too. (Chicago seems to be the 'capital' of the Great Lakes culture, btw.) But people in Southern Illinois and Missouri would tend to say 'soda'. The line does move north somewhat as it goes west so you might get the impression that it 'ends' west of Indiana. There is a similar difference over things like 'grocery bag' vs. 'grocery sack' and 'foil' vs. 'silver paper' (yeah, weird one, huh?) and several other regionalisms. Anyway, the Great Lakes/Midwest cultural region is roughly the northern tier of states: Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, the western end of Pennsylvania, and the northern half of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. Roughly the northern 'half' that is. It's not like you can cross a marked border anywhere. But people from northern Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois can tell the difference with people from the southern half of these states. I think people from Southern Ohio have a noticable "Southern accent" myself.

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