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>>Amie, I thought they called them "Soda Pops" up their in the Great White North. Actually, its only "pop" up North. Its you crazy americans that call it soda...and the odd time there is some numpty that combines the 2 to make "Soda Pop".
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Here in northern Il. we refere to it as pop also, or we just call it by it's brand name. crazy americans ?? Seems to me you are an american too
Rick
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I like how some people refer to trucks as pickup trucks, it is either a pickup or a truck, not a pickup truck, ha ha. Many people refer to water fountains as bubblers, another one that cracks me up from up north.
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I usually call them by their brand name or type (root beer). Of course, that's how I refer to most things, not by a generic category.
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Now there's one I've never heard! A bubbler around here is something you stick in the lake to keep the ice around your dock open. This helps to protect your dock when the ice is going out. It also helps to get rid of pesky snowmobilers who are too close to your property! Actually, every one I've seen is marked with a big Danger-Open Water sign. We all have our 'pickup truck' pet peeves, I think. I can't stand it when people say they're going to unthaw something - why not just say freeze, if that's what you mean? A close second is PIN Number.
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NIC Card. Dinosaur and human jokes in comic strips. Jokes about the tags on bedding. I can keep going...
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Bubblers also help keep aquirium fish alive. In college, one of my friends was from Wisconsin. On the way to class one day I said "I need a drink of water from this drinking fountain". He called it a bubbler, but then he was always strange since he liked the Packers.
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I usually call them by their brand name or type (root beer). Of course, that's how I refer to most things, not by a generic category.
As do I... in bottles/cans, they're Pepsi, Barq's, Nestea, etc... generally speaking, they're soft drinks or just drinks... fountain drinks are refered to as those... any ludicrous sized beverage container I refer to as a pail, after my ex-boss who used to joke about me dragging a 64oz fountain Pepsi into work every morning.
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You drink two litres of pop a day?!?
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With the kids we just say Coke for all carbonated soft drinks, then they choose the flavor or color.
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