Re: ******re: coke, pop, soda*******

[Amy Watson <alwatson at kent_edu>]

At 06:22 AM 10/9/98 PDT, jg900 wrote:
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>(i was forgetting those warning- asterisks for a while,  sorry Layne (??)).
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>o.k.  you have a house.   your house has a front yard.  it extends to the
sidewalk, and you own it.  between the sidewalk and the street is another,
smaller peice of real estate.  you maintain it, but your city owns it.
what do you call that smaller, city owned thing?

Is this a serious question?  I think it's called the tree lawn.  Is the
part of the driveway from th sidewalk to the street called the apron?

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>                 and in the soda-jerk wars:
>the soda-side seems to be winning.  c'mon Amy!  you're a Clevelander,
ring in on the "pop"- side.


Yes, it's true, that fizzy stuff is called pop.  No doubt.  We had friends
come up from Atlanta and it's also true that everybody calls the fizzy
stuff coke - the whole kit and kaboodle.  
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Hey! Pretty cool!
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