Just for Fun

Jere · Post by **Jere** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 7:07 pm

50% General American English
20% Yankee
15% Dixie
10% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

We border states people are just slightly confused.

Sleepless on LI · Post by **Sleepless on LI** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 7:08 pm

neversleeps wrote:Oops! Forgot to login.....

Wait, on second thought.... Oh look. What an incredibly wise and wonderful 'guest'!!!!!!!

LOL!!!!!!! Okay. After that one, I'll stop. That was too hysterical.

Oh, one last thought before I go, SODA!!!

cvansant · Post by **cvansant** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 7:18 pm

Fun but ?

55% General American
20% Dixie
15% Yankee
5% Midwestern

My life:
1st 17yrs= Heart of Dixie (Birmingham AL)
Next 15= Hawaii (No pidgin?)
Following 30= California (We all KNOW about ...)
Last 2= Back in Hawaii

Go figgah.

Clif

Sleepless on LI · Post by **Sleepless on LI** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 7:25 pm

Clif,

I'm taking your Avatar and using it in the next update, no matter what you say!!! Great photo. Nice to see the real you, even though the baby butt was adorable...

elliejose · Post by **elliejose** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 7:34 pm

Y'all really don't know nothing about cocola do you?

And I am 60 years young and as far back as I can remember we all knew that if the sun is shining while it is raining, the devil is beating his wife. And if you take a silver fork and dig a small hole in the ground and put your ear
to the ground you can hear her hollerin'.

WAFlowers · Post by **WAFlowers** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 7:44 pm

neversleeps wrote:And what's the deal with Coke/soda/pop? If you ask for a Coke, you're asking for a particular brand of cola; if you ask for soda, you're asking for that bubbly water that goes great with scotch; if you ask for pop, then the response is, "Do you want, Coke, Sprite, Mountain Dew or Dr. Pepper?" So, OF COURSE, 'pop' is the correct answer.

There are parts of the country (admittedly strange parts IMHO) that generically refer to carbonated beverages as "Cokes".

Where I'm from "soda" is an icky carbonated water and not much else. Generically it was "pop".

Sleepless on LI · Post by **Sleepless on LI** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 7:44 pm

Josie,

Well, you've only proven what I believe, that you learn something new every day, no matter how old you get. That is the first time I've ever heard of that expression, and now I have the explanation. What imagery...kind of creepy, no???

Sleepless on LI · Post by **Sleepless on LI** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 7:46 pm

WAFlowers wrote:Where I'm from "soda" is an icky carbonated water and not much else. Generically it was "pop".

Okay, Bill, cozy up to Neversleeps and let's see how that photo you sent me today REALLY looks in the updated online yearbook. Still say "Pop," do you???

tater pie · Post by **tater pie** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 7:47 pm

55% General American English
25% Dixie
10% Upper Midwestern
5% Midwestern
5% Yankee

I've lived Northeast Texas (I grew up on a farm in Canton, Texas and have lived almost all of my adult life in and around Dallas, Texas) all of my 54 years except for 2 years in Houston, Texas. What I wonder is where did the 5% Yankee come from?

WAFlowers · Post by **WAFlowers** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 7:48 pm

Sleepless on LI wrote:Okay, Bill, cozy up to Neversleeps and let's see how that photo you sent me today REALLY looks in the updated online yearbook. Still say "Pop," do you???

Oh, no! Say it ain't so!

Besides, you can't hold what I call it against me; I'm a crazy Canuck! (Not too crazy to escape to someplace with lower taxes and no snow!)

Sleepless on LI · Post by **Sleepless on LI** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 7:59 pm

So what do you say they call it in Canada? Soda? Did I hear you correctly? Just checking one last time...(ahem)

Severeena · Post by **Severeena** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 9:06 pm

Ohio Raised:

50% General English
20% Yankee
20% Dixie
10% Upper Midwestern
0% Mid Western

neversleeps · Post by **neversleeps** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 9:27 pm

SLEEPYCD wrote:NEVERSLEEPS,

OK IF YOU ARE FROM THE MIDWEST, LIKE US, IT'S POP!!!!! HEY, I WANT TO SEE SOME MORE PICTURES FROM MINNESOTA. WHERE YOU BEEN???

I must apologize as I have been preoccupied and thus remiss in updating my Minnesota pictorial essay.

As you can see from this shot, now that fall is upon us and it's in the 40's, we've packed away our shorts and are now wearing long pants. When it dips below freezing, we'll break out the long-sleeved shirts.

unclebob · Post by **unclebob** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 9:38 pm

Is that guy in the white shirt carrying a case of pop?

Bob F

Colorado Jan · Post by **Colorado Jan** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 9:45 pm

65 General American
20% Dixie
10% uppper Midwest
5% Yankee
0% Midwest.

Where the heck is the Midwest? Hardly anybody speaks "Midwest"! Anyway, spent the first 28 years in Oklahoma, the next 25 years in Colorado. And any upper Midwest or Yankee would probably have come from my great-grandfathers.....who came from New York and Ohio.

And carbonated beverages of all types are called "COKE". No weirder than asking for a Kleenex instead of specifying a generic tissue.

Jan in Colo. (who apparently forgot to sign in)

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