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Trying to keep another thread from going completely off topic...
I found this online and found it fasinating. The one that really gets me is calling all soft drinks "coke". That just doesn't even make any sense at all.
Being from Northern New England myself we're one of the tiny little niches that call it "tonic". Though these days I usually call drinks by name or use "soda".
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I've always either called them by their trade names, or collectively as soft drinks or drinks.
Now THIS is my thread... I drink between 2L and 4L of Pepsi a day (switched from Coke about 2 years ago after learning of the Sintrainal assassinations)... ahh, yes, there's still some blood in my caffeine stream.
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spiff, can't forget new england? "you can drive to the packie, get some tonic and hooch and have a wicked pissa night" sounds so much more distinguished than "have a good night". don'tcha think?
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What about "wickeh' smaht"?
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Excellent work, gentlemen! You've hijacked the thread 2 posts in!
Keep up the good work.
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Don't forget Cokakarma
Oh, and thanks for the compliment k.
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OK, from a bonafide TEXAN.. its COKE, all the way.. can, bottle, plastic, or fountain.. doesn't matter..
when ordering.. its COKE.. then, waitress asks, "what flavor"? then you answer.. "mountain dew, dr pepper, etc".. its that easy.. dont ask me who invented the system, i just use it.. i usually get iced tea anyway, i hate coke with food.. most places in TEXAS, all tea is un-sweet.. it always throws me off in my travels, when the waitress asks me, "sweet or un-sweet".. i always have that blank pause................ oh, sweet.. and i like it SWEET.. like southern baptist church revival kinda sweet..
and us TEXANS hate the way you yankees sound, just about as much as you hate the way we sound.. so i guess it all works out.. luckily, our posts dont speak!!!
TEXAS VOCABULARY LESSON..
1- MOMEN NEMS, momen nems gone down to the super wal-mart to get sum beer..
2- DERSAGO, dersago on the right or the left??
3- SOPINERE, looks like they have some good deals, sopinere and lets see what they got..
i know, kinda weak.. eh??
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EXCUSE ME, ARE YOU THE SINGING BUSH??
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"and us TEXANS hate the way you yankees sound, just about as much as you hate the way we sound.. so i guess it all works out.. luckily, our posts dont speak!!!"
Is that a chip I see on your shoulder?
;-) jr
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NO, not at all.. we cant all be TEXANS.. if we were, then we wouldnt have anyone to make fun of..
TEXAS, its a whole other country..
YES, i love my home..
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It's "wickid smaht"...if yer going to make fun of New Englanders...get it right.
btw...I don't now, nor have I ever spoken like a Northern New Englander. When I hear my mom speak on the phone it give me shudders some times. How I turned out speaking "normal", I don't know.
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10 points to the first person who can pronounce " geoduck" correctly.
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In Maine we'd call a giant clam like that a "Cohog".
But...aparently, like everything else, we're odd. Here's what I found.
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I knew that.
Anybody care to take a stab at my current residence of Puyallup?
Craig, obviously, that ain't no cohog. I guess it shouldn't surprise me that there are freakish shellfish in Maine, too.
It's pew-ALL-up, btw.
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I was thinking it was "pull-ya-up", you know, the thing your drinking buddy does after you pass out on the floor soon after starting your fifth glass of barleywine.
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In reply to:
when ordering.. its COKE.. then, waitress asks, "what flavor"? then you answer.. "mountain dew, dr pepper, etc".. its that easy..
Now that's funny. Here if the waitress says what would you like to drink and I said Coke, the response would be "is Pepsi ok??" hehe
It is funny how different areas have a dominant "cola" factor. Here Pepsi is the biggest. They have the most shelf space in the supermarkets. If I go to Pennsylnavia it seems Coke does. And when I have gone to places in Virginia and West Virginia RC Cola is the biggest. Personally I like RC, but it is really hard to find around here.
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Dr Pepper anyone? it's my choice at wendy's.
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Spiffnme
so is that where the town name Quahog came from in Family Guy? The trophy they won for their parade float was a giant clam so that would make sense.
"Chickens don't clap."
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I bet it is. Yep...big nasty clam. Bleck...
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I live in MA for a while Spiffnme. The accent comes out sometimes when I drink so the poke with wicked smart was self-mocking... Oh, and can anyone properly pronounce peabody or worchester?
Lookout... here come the ma$$holes! ;-)
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Hehe. I should have excluded you Mr New Hampshah! :-)
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And Wooster.
Like Barbra Walters saying Rooster.
Home of the Worchester IceCats (AHL).
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How about Leominister?
Mark
P.S. How come Worcester is pronounced "Wooster", but Dorchester is pronounced "Door-chest-er"?
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Because Door-chest-ah is more fun to say!
jr
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pee-ba-deee, woostah
haven't heard massholes since i lived in nh..they were also called flatlanders.
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I lived right nextdoor to the Kittery Outlet Malls. Every weekend...massholes are far as the eye could see. They weren't appreciated. Mostly due to their horrible driving. The state of Massachusetts is world renowned for producing some of the worst drivers ever to hit the road.
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we prefer aggressive. why have a boring drive? years ago in the on blocks bmw, i installed some non-sealed 75 watt z-beam headlights. i used to love it when a slow poke would not pull to the right when i flashed him the brights. i would just put them on and be able to read the newspaper in his car from mine:)
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Thank you very much for proving my point.
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bubbler or drinking fountain?
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bubbler? wow -- never heard that one.
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I think my mom or even grandmother used to call it a bubbler. I've always used 'drinking fountain'.
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But have you booby trapped them by stuffing paper in the nozzle so the next person gets a jet in the face? Ah, the memories of grade school....
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I am a great fan of trapped boobies.
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Not me. I would rather see boobies set free!
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permanently, or just while you're present?
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Pet peive for me is ppl calling POP anything but POP.
I'll compromise on soft drinks however.
Last time I checked, soda had an arm and hammer on the box and coke is trademarked
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I've got to disagree with you there. The English language has adjectives for a reason! The soda with the arm and hammer is most definately "baking soda." Otherwise we can't call anything "powder" because of "baking powder." If we start ignoring adjectives entirely we'll get into a whole heap of trouble pretty fast. As for calling everything "Coke" though, I'm with you 100%.
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