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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Marge: Now, I know you haven't liked some of my past suggestions, like switching to the metric system --
Abe: The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it.
- The Simpsons episode "A Star is Burns"<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by MrSchizoid:
Really? I'm an AZ native (Chandler) too, and all I’ve ever heard is soda, even when I go out. This is all very strange.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Boy, the people at work are going to think it's weird when I go around with a can of... ah... carbonated beverage and ask them what it is. http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/shock.gif

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Thank you geoschmo

Could not remember what esp. that quote was from
http://www.snpp.com/ for all you simpsons fans.

Speaking of pop/soda. What is your favourite one.

I personally like Ginger ale. Esp. Vernors and PC Ginger Ale ( Loblaws brand pop ) and Grace's line of ginger beer.

But after a Pizza it has to be a cola. Pespi.

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by capt_spoogy:
Some of you Americans know nothing of Canada...<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

[sarcasm]
"All I Need to Know About Canada I Learned From 'Strange Brew'": Candians are beer-swilling hockey goons who tell each other to "Take off, Hoser!"
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No, that is not my belief! I know better than that. 'Sides, I can't bash a nation that spawned perhaps the greatest rock band in history, Rush!

Convert to metric? Yeah, that's gonna happen! My brain thinks in Imperial (like it thinks in English)-- I see metric and I have to convert in my head to make sense of it! (Although metric is a much more comprehensible system than Imperial, I only ever used metric in the chemistry lab.)

Quikngruvn

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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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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. http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/ima...ons/icon12.gif

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The "soda water" Puke describes sounds like "seltzer" to me, used in mixed drinks and by Vaudeville comedians. http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif 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". http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/ima...ons/icon10.gif

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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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"


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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>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. http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/ima...ons/icon12.gif

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It's both, but not coke.

Simple enough?

How many fried eggs (AZ people http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif) 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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