Two Cent Thoughts, 11-28-05

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My muse sang to me today. She whispered the title of my research project to me. "Looking Back This Once."

I'm sure it'll take the form of "Looking Back This Once: Something Something Something" as those titles are more "sophisticated".

Anyways, thank you Clio.
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If you happen to turn to ESPN this Saturday around noon EST, you'll see Tulsa football. Root for the Golden Hurricane to beat the Golden Knights. Really, it's a hurricane against a bunch of knights...we should blow them away.

Bad pun intended.
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Ah, someone's crying sour grapes in our fantasy league. He has a pretty good team but he's on the cusp of being eliminated. That's because he needs to beat me next week (our last regular season week) to get into the playoffs. Palmer and Alexander say no. :)
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I told you I got Marcel back. He even volunteered for it, if you look around the pictures of him getting pied here in my new facebook album.
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See, I'm from the South, and I'm used to calling any kind of soda or pop a coke. Sprite's a coke. Pepsi's a coke. Sunkist's a coke. When I worked at a movie theater, I would ask people if they'd like a medium coke and I'd say seventy five percent of people proceeded to say something other than coke. They understood.

So, what do you call coke?

Comments

[themindseye.livejournal.com]

I may have southern roots but I was raised in Cali. I say soda. Coke means Coke to me. My roomie is from the midwest and says pop and for some reason this annoys me. But when I am in the South I understand the other lingo. I also have to remember when in the south if I order Iced Tea that it will come pre-sweetened so I have to specify if I want unsweetened tea.

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

You drink unsweetened Iced Tea?

:raises one eye brow:

[themindseye.livejournal.com]

No. I just don't like other people telling me how sweet my tea should be. I order it unsweetened and then I sweeten it myself. I also don't like lemon in my tea. Damn people keep putting lemons in it.

I also order my burgers and such plain all the time. If I want mustard or whatever on something I will put it on myself instead of letting them drown my burger in condiments. I want to taste my burger not the ketchup they drowned it in.

I'm like Sally. I like everything extra to be on the side. LOL I rarely ever order anything at a restaurant without making special requests.

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

Hehehe, that reminds me of the BSU intern last year. He ate everything plain. We had a Thanksgiving dinner and he ate the turkey and mashed potatoes without any gravy.

I'm going to guess you are referring to the Sally from When Harry met Sally. I sadly have not seen that movie (there are only like 300 movies on my queue).

[themindseye.livejournal.com]

I hate LJ. I am just now getting these comments. Bah!

I didn't say I like everything plain. I just think people put too much crap on things and cover the taste up with sauces. I still like sauces and such I just want to control the amount of extras myself. I have control issues. *laugh*

[thanoslug.livejournal.com]

Bah, tea must be brewed with the sugar in it so it may be properly dissolved. You can also super-saturate it that way. :p

[correspondguy.livejournal.com]

Southerners put WAY too much sugar in it, though. I worked at a restuarant, and they put in 2 cups per gallon. I do 1/2 cup per gallon.

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

Ya cain't put too much sugar in tea. It ain't pahssibuhl.

[correspondguy.livejournal.com]

Hee-yuck!

[thanoslug.livejournal.com]

Wait, wait, I see letters on the screen, words even that I know but they don't make sense together. "too much sugar in it" I'm sorry, I don't think that's possible. I knew a girl when I was in college who super-saturated her tea with sugar during the brewing. Best. Tea. Evah.

[correspondguy.livejournal.com]

When your teeth start to itch, it's too sweet for normal human beings.

There is vast debate on whether Southerners are "normal human beings." I reference Florence King's Southern Ladies and Gentlemen.

[themindseye.livejournal.com]

I agree. That is why I don't like my tea pre-sweetened. Not everyone likes the same amount of sugar in their tea. But Southerners in general like really sweet things. I don't think I have ever been in a Southern home that doesn't have either sweet tea, mountain dew or orange soda.

[i-aldarion.livejournal.com]

Soda.
To me, coke is Coca-Cola.

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

You've been in the North too long. :)

[i-aldarion.livejournal.com]

Dude, I was BORN in the North. I'm native. XD

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

Like I said, you've been in the North too long. :P

[i-aldarion.livejournal.com]

...:-P

[visgoth.livejournal.com]

+1

[i-aldarion.livejournal.com]

Damn straight.

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

Guess you ain't Southern enough. ;)

[visgoth.livejournal.com]

The fact that I live in Virginia is more than southern enough for me. :)

DOWN WITH SWEET TEA! :D

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

You live near DC. That's more East Coast than Southern, imho.

[thanoslug.livejournal.com]

There's tea and then there's leaves boiled in water. The only real tea is sweet tea.

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

I see ya're a good Southern fella. :)

[visgoth.livejournal.com]

There's tea and then there's soda without the fizz. Real tea doesn't involve suger.

;)

[thanoslug.livejournal.com]

Tea without sugar puts me in mind of poor Arthur Dent trying to get tea from the drink machine in "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"...

Tea without sugar is a beverage that is almost but not quite entirely unlike tea.

[visgoth.livejournal.com]

Or sugar, for that matter...

[stella-x3x3.livejournal.com]

its soda...

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

It's not soda, it's not pop, it's coke. ;)

[stella-x3x3.livejournal.com]

My english teacher is from alabama and he says coke all the time so how far south are you from? And no its a soda...

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

I'm from Arkansas. I'm not from the Deep South, but I know it's coke. Where are you from, you who call carbonated drinks soda?

[stella-x3x3.livejournal.com]

im a jersey girl. =D and its always soda.

[jeremyarc7.livejournal.com]

I'm in Alabama and its coke here. Coke and then you specify what you want. Even Pepsi is coke.

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

Amen, brotha! Pepsi is a coke. That's not hard to understand.

[themindseye.livejournal.com]

Pepsi and Coke are both cola but they are not both Coke. I refuse to ever agree with that. Just some advice. If you ever visit Cali and you say you want a Coke you will get a freaken Coke.

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

I have been to Cali before. Californians confuse me with their claims of "soda". I mean I want a coke, but not necessarily Coke, ya know?

By the way, I didn't touch a nerve, did I? ;)

[themindseye.livejournal.com]

No. I should have put a smiley face on it or something. Sometimes it is hard to judge a persons mood on the internet because you can't see their faces. If I was upset I would have put up my Henry icon. Hehe

[tu-nenay-08.livejournal.com]

Well, I've called it coke my whole life. Although, a little less than half my life I lived in southern Arkansas. That could have something to do with it.

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

Yeah, grasshopper, that's the way. :)

[kidsis.livejournal.com]

mostly, I just call it a "diet" when I order from a resturant. Otherwise it's a "drink" because it's not always a carbonated beverage. I also use decriptive terms such as "2 litre," "20 ounce," "12 Ounce" and "fountain." I guess though, it's mostly "drink" or "diet."

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

Alright, in this case, you're like that nail that stands up that's begging to be pegged back down.

You live in Oklahoma. It's a coke. Deal. :)

[thanoslug.livejournal.com]

Ordering in a not-Southern restaraunt..

Me: I'll have a coke please.
Waiter: Is Pepsi ok, sir?
Me: No. How about tea?
Waiter: Unsweetened
Me: I'll take water then, you've got that right?

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

LOL. You understand this simple principle. :)

[correspondguy.livejournal.com]

It's soda, and I cite the Rolling Stones: "We decided we would get a soda, my favorite flavor, cherry red."

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

Were the Rolling Stones Southern? I rest my case, your honor.