what do you drink?

[Dennis R. Preston]

You claim to be from Louisville but don't mention 'soft drink'; I am
suspicious. Then you say you "get down here to morehead" which is not
"down" from Louisville, and I am even more suspicious.

I understand why people would like to claim to be from Louisville; we
talk really good, but such deceit is surely improper on an academic
discussion list.

dInIs

>  IT IS NOT "POP."  I am from louisville ky and i do not say pop.  in
>fact i can't stand the word.  if you are going to say pop, please
>use it in the phrase i would like a soda pop or would you give me
>some of that bubba cola's DR. POP.  but i get down here to morehead
>and everyone says pop.  why can't they at least say soda?  since
>people think that when i say coke, it means coke, but it just means,
>can i have a soda.
>
>and for all ya'll out there who drink "POP," please have the
>courtesy to say soda along with it.
>
>but to tell you some things as to why it is said, COKE was the
>original, and that is why everyone uses the term to talk about a
>carbonated beverage when they are actually called soda pop's and
>people along the lines got lazy and decided to sound like idiots and
>say pop.
>
>
>
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Dennis R. Preston
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