The Colbert Report: "soda water"

David Bowie db.list at PMPKN.NET
Fri May 15 13:26:53 UTC 2009


From:    Victor <aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM>

> Eight years after first hearing it, I still can't recover from what I
> heard in a Waffle House somewhere in the South: "What kind of Coke would
> you like?" And, no, this was not a distinction between regular and
> diet--it was Coke coke, white coke, root beer coke, etc...

And how else are you going to ask that question?

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David, who hails from the very northern tip of generic-coke-land

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