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10 Things I Love About the United States of America

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  1. Takao

    Takao Ace

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    A mixer.

    Jack and Coke, Captain and Coke, Seven and Seven, Gin and tonic, etc.
     
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  2. USMCPrice

    USMCPrice Idiot at Large

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    Carbonated beverage-a Coke.

    Getting ready to do something-I'm fixin' to do it.
     
    USMCPrice, Sep 30, 2014
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  3. Poppy

    Poppy grasshopper

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    Soda.

    Ima.
     
    Poppy, Sep 30, 2014
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    LRusso216 Graybeard Staff Member

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    A carbonated beverage is a soda. If I want something in particular, I ask for it by name, e.g. a Coke, a Pespi, etc.

    As for the second, I don't use any wording. I just tell people what I plan to do. I might say "I'm going to..."

    Yes, I'm a Yankee. Both of my parents were raised in Philadelphia (not the one in Mississippi) and so was I.
     
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  5. Biak

    Biak Boy from Illinois Staff Member

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    When I was a youngster and be'in from the Mid West we'd call soda - sodie? I've been schooled on that! And I also learnt that a carbonated beverage has a whole nutther aspect when it comes to "Mixers". If you ask "Where's the soda", here they send you to the baking soda aisle.

    Since moving up to the North Woods I've caught myself saying "I'm aboot to get to that". Been saying that a lot to the wife lately too.
     
    Biak, Sep 30, 2014
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  6. Slipdigit

    Slipdigit Good Ol' Boy Staff Member WW2|ORG Editor

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    We have a winner.

    "Want a coke?"

    "Sure."

    "What kind?"

    "How 'bout a Sebmup?"

    I was just testing his Southernness.
     
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  7. Poppy

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    Aboot.com. They're on it already. I claim copywrite. Sep 30/ 14.

    Canada has a lot to offer, intellectually. eh. Just ask us. Any question. Someone will reply.
     
    Poppy, Sep 30, 2014
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  8. toki2

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    In my youth in Glasgow UK a carbonated drink was known as 'ginger'. It did not matter whether there was ginger in it or not!
     
    toki2, Oct 1, 2014
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  9. Dave55

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    IN NYC and environs it was soda but when I went 300 miles NW to college in upstate NY it was called pop.

    It was often called coke in Atlanta 25 years ago but that's fading now.
     
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  10. mcoffee

    mcoffee Son-of-a-Gun(ner)

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    Only because of all you Yankee transplants... :sunglasses-peek:
     
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  11. Dave55

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    "Damn" Yankees :)
     
    Dave55, Oct 1, 2014
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  12. Slipdigit

    Slipdigit Good Ol' Boy Staff Member WW2|ORG Editor

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    Glad you know your place in the scheme of things.
     
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  13. Dave55

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    Well, as I tell my friends, "We won the war, so we can live where we please." ;)


    Uhoh ............. :)
     
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    It's "pop" and that will be the end of this!
     
    KodiakBeer, Oct 1, 2014
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  15. mcoffee

    mcoffee Son-of-a-Gun(ner)

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    I thought "pop" was that Michael Jackson crap

    When drinking a carbonated beverage, do you wear one glove for no apparent reason?
     
    mcoffee, Oct 2, 2014
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  16. Fred Wilson

    Fred Wilson "The" Rogue of Rogues

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    The ten reasons sound pretty good to me! Off to Urecht on Sunday so will report back on my findings. Have had some amusing discussions with the Dutch - very funny people.
     
    toki2, Oct 3, 2014
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  18. Tamino

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    Recently, I have upgraded my Hackintosh to version 10.10 - Yosemite.
    Enjoy the beauty!
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  19. Fred Wilson

    Fred Wilson "The" Rogue of Rogues

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    Doctors, Medical Specialists, Nurses and support staff volunteering to be front line troops in the attack on Ebola.

    Hero's. Every last one of them.

    Every living person on planet earth thinks of them every day, thanks them and wishes them well and all the best.
     
    Fred Wilson, Nov 17, 2014
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  20. belasar

    belasar Court Jester

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    Urgh was a lot more fun when he was only interested in his Sheep!
     
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