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  • #61
    bubbles in water breaks the surface tension, so the landing appears softer if you are falling into a body of pop.


    and of course it's a contrast with hard liquor, but you knew that.
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    • #62
      Remind me not to invite you to my next standup routine
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      • #63
        You should indicate jokes by including some funny elements.
        Jon Miller: MikeH speaks the truth
        Jon Miller: MikeH is a shockingly revolting dolt and a masturbatory urine-reeking sideshow freak whose word is as valuable as an aging cow paddy.
        We've got both kinds

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        • #64
          Right, I should go with the Jerry Seinfeld technique: "Why do they call them soft drinks? They're not soft." Especially since waterbeds are pretty dated as well.
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          • #65
            Originally posted by MikeH View Post
            Pop is more common in the North of England.

            In Scotland they call it juice, but they appear to call any cold beverage that isn't water juice.
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            • #66
              Originally posted by Cort Haus View Post
              'Soda' here generally refers to soda water - just carbonated water.

              Like PH, I'd say 'soft drink' to describe the fizzy sugar solutions being referred to here.
              To me "soft drink" covers anything without alchohol - so includes orange, apple or other still fruit drink. I would say "fizzy drink", if I wanted something along the lines of coke/cola/soda/pop.

              Also. Lemonade is fizzy damned it!
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              • #67
                Originally posted by Tupac Shakur View Post
                You're not allowed to be bi on this topic. Please desist in using "soda" or I will be forced to report your treason to the Iowa State Pop Preservation Commission.
                NOOOOOO!
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                • #68
                  Originally posted by onodera View Post
                  What's that soda blob in IL/MO centered upon?
                  Saint Louis, which has a lot of easterners (As well as southerners, but I guess they just lost out). The other IL blob of Soda is around Peoria I suspect, which is a college town, and full of crazy people.
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                  • #69
                    I've always called it Coke.
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                    • #70
                      I call it Coken.

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                      • #71
                        I bet you're from Southern Sweden!
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                        • #72
                          But what do southerners call orange soda?
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                          • #73
                            Four years in the Saint Louis soda bubble have converted me -- I use soda all the time now. I don't particularly recall using a generic term for it beforehand; I guess I just said Dr. Pepper / Coke / whatever I actually wanted instead of using some silly generic term.

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                            • #74
                              Originally posted by Oerdin View Post
                              I bet you're from Southern Sweden!
                              You guess right! I'm Southron (Swedish) and proud. We even have our own flag:



                              I have a sticker just like it on my car, ya'll.

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                              • #75
                                Originally posted by ColdWizard View Post
                                But what do southerners call orange soda?
                                Judging by the graph... They call it "coke".
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