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9:34 pm
February 10, 2010
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Dave Reynolds
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I'm good with all three. I mean I grew up with it being called all three, so I'm well verse enough to know when someone asks for a Coke to make sure they mean a "coke" as in a soda pop or "Coca Cola."
It's a good question. Keep goin'
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9:43 pm
February 10, 2010
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DanialArin
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My dad once told me an interesting story about the variable terms used for carbonated beverages. He grew up in Ohio, and his folks on one occasion took him with them to New York. Somehow he ended up in what I'm going to refer to as a "malt shop", but in some places might have been called a "soda shop"; kind of a cross between an ice cream parlor and a bar or diner, kind of like Friendly's but smaller. (It was the 50's, they were still fairly common.)
So, where he's from, "soda" refers a glass with scoop or two of ice cream, and the rest of the glass filled with a fizzy drink, which by itself is referred to as "pop". The price of a glass of "pop" at the time was, IIRC, 10 cents, and of a "soda" was 25 cents.
So he's in this malt shop in New York and he looks up at the menu, and it says "soda", 10 cents. Huge savings, he's thrilled, he orders, and is disappointed and confused when they give him a glass of "pop". He expresses this confusion to the guy behind the counter (the formal term in most places was "soda jerk"), who then explains to him that what he thought he was ordering was called a "float", and that it was indeed 25 cents…
On a related note, what in NY we call a "water fountain" is in some parts of the country called either a "drinking fountain" (a term which we'd associate correctly here if we heard it), or a "bubbler"…
So, question to next poster… What's the local term for a machine or emplacement of some kind which dispenses an airborne stream of water, intended for drinking?
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1:59 am
February 11, 2010
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adamas
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Alabama, I've always called is a water fountain.
Same Q but also, where you from/at?
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10:11 am
February 11, 2010
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Kaden
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Ohio, also a water fountain.
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12:07 pm
February 11, 2010
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Forsythe
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I've lived in CA and AZ, and it's likewise called a water fountain there. Unless you run into one while looking the other way while chatting with someone, in which it's called something that would get me banned. 
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12:38 pm
February 11, 2010
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Inara
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Drinking fountain in Kansas. A water fountain is one of those big things in the park with a statue of a boy that pees real water. Classy stuff like that. 
How do you measure distance where you live? In miles, or in time? Around here, distance is measured by how long it takes to get there. e.g. Wichita and KC are 3 hours apart.
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12:51 pm
February 11, 2010
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DanialArin
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Both, but when specifying travel time there's caveats for time-of-day. Rush hour will double travel time; going up I-95 on the Monday evening of a holiday weekend will give it a multiplier of 5x or more. Alternatively, it may be specified in number-of-exits or difference-of-exit-numbers for some highway or another. And also note that in NY and NJ, the difference-of-exit-numbers does not necessarily correspond to the distance in miles like it does in some parts of the country. Some friends of mine from St. Louis were driving in NJ, passed exit 1 on the Palisades Parkway and figured they had 2 miles to go for exit 3. But it's not 2 miles; it's more like 10-15.
Also relevant is the minor little detail that street numbers on main roads on Long Island will reset when you cross municipal boundaries… and sometimes when you cross other main roads that run roughly through the center of said municipality. Otherwise we'd have some roads with house numbers in the hundreds of thousands. The same two guys got turned around a few times in Selden looking for a gaming store in Middle Island, because they kept thinking they must have passed it. In reality, they needed to go all the way through Selden, and Coram, and then finally get into Middle Island, before starting to look for the address.
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12:53 pm
February 11, 2010
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DanialArin
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Uh, both the travel measurement and fountain questions to the next poster.
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6:52 pm
February 11, 2010
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Pujardov
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Post edited 9:37 pm – February 11, 2010 by Pujardov
I'm from the old country of world domination and decay – Engerlond!
We tend to say things are x number of miles away, and the water fountain will remain a water fountain forever (unless it's in an office, then it's a water cooler).
And because I'm a dummy that forgets to put a question in…
Playing any good video games at the moment?
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2:46 am
February 12, 2010
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Bounty
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Fantastic Contraptions. Physics is fun!
fantasticcontraption.com/
Once I finish all 21 levels, I'll likly go back for some more Incredibots.com
Being from CA, I measure all distance in "who knows, check Google Maps." here at least it's 95% accurate, with street view for everything. If you want to see the other 5% btw, try
614 E Magnolia St, Stockton, San Joaquin, California 95202
The Satalite still shows the 2007 view, before they leveled the campus, but street view is like last month.
So for question NEXT: Playing any good video games at the moment?
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It's time for another good idea, bad idea:
Good Idea – Getting your Insider character into the comic
Bad Idea – Joining the EOD to do so. Gratz to Jacobus for the New Avatar!
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2:51 am
February 12, 2010
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Dave Reynolds
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Post edited 2:52 am – February 12, 2010 by Dave Reynolds
Robot Unicorn Attack.
It's… It's interesting and addicting. It's… Just play it.
Same question.
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6:33 am
February 12, 2010
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Tink
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Huje Tower. It's a lot of fun, but worth buying the iPod app so you can save your progress.
Next?
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8:08 am
February 12, 2010
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Well, on my console I've been playing Avatar: The Last Airbender: Into the Inferno, an interactive summery of season 3.
So, no, nothing "good" right now. *rimshot*
It's not a great game, and I figured that when I got it from Best Buy's bargain bin for $10. The fighting is a tad repetitive and I don't think they could've done all they could have with the bending abilities. However, some of the puzzles are quite interesting.
Next…
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Do not allow yourself to ever give in to despair or self-pity…that's my job and it's copyrighted, bucko!
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8:17 am
February 12, 2010
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Kaden
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I've been enjoying Dragon Age: Origins quite a lot although I don't play it as much as I'd like.
Same question.
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9:42 am
February 12, 2010
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Pujardov
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Kaden said:
I've been enjoying Dragon Age: Origins quite a lot although I don't play it as much as I'd like.
Same question.
Just to interject (question will continue after my rude interruption) I've played Dragon Age through, and I did quiet enjoy it… fine fantasy RPG with a lot of humour, action and celebrity voices, though Claudia Black's voice will no longer make me feel all wibbly – it just acts like ice water down my back. Bloody Morrigan…
If you enjoyed that, I'd recommend Mass Effect 2 – about the best game I've played in years. The Dirty Dozen, in space, fighting unmentionable alien nasties with a twist of Lovecraft mindbending sauce.
Question will now continue in 3, 2, 1…
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9:43 am
February 13, 2010
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I'm not playing any video games at the moment.
What books/ebooks are you reading?
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I'm a grouchy old lady with a fancy phone and a knitting habit.
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10:25 am
February 13, 2010
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Pujardov
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I just finished the fourth book of Gerorge RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series. I was thrilled, shocked, horrified and giggled like a lunatic in turn…
Even though Feist's Magician series holds a special place in my heart, Ice & Fire's bleaker, grimy world of murder, rape, incest and insanity is a damn sight less twee and more real to me.
Plus it has no bloody elves. Win/Win in my book
What's anyone else reading?
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11:23 am
February 13, 2010
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Inara
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Terry Pratchett's latest: "Unseen Academicals". It's hysterical!
Next!
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1:35 pm
February 13, 2010
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Dave Reynolds
| | North… Just north. | |
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I'm a slow reader, so I don't read as much as I wish I could. But I did just finish Devil in the City from Erik Larson. ANd it was… Pretty freakin' cool.
Next?
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3:07 pm
February 13, 2010
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Bounty
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Post edited 3:08 pm – February 13, 2010 by Bounty
I'm wallowing in Urban Fantasy at the moment.
I've got Bitten by Kelley Armstrong and The Green Rider by Kristen Briton in process at the moment.
The first is Urban Fantasy, First book in a "series" but apparently you don't need to go in strict order. The second is more traditional Fantasy, they just released the third book, and my wife wants me to catch up.
The library just informed me that Wanderlust by Ann Aguirre and Blood lite : an anthology of humorous horror stories are ready for Pick-up.
The first is the second book, Grimspace being the first, and it's a kind of cyber-punkish space setting. Fair warning though, apparently she's a romance writer, so everything else she's written is "interesting". The latter has a few stories by all of my favorite writers: Kelley Armstrong, Charlaine Harris, Nancy Holder, Jim Butcher and a dozen others. One of the reasons I love these anthologies is that it's a great place to find new authors.
I've still got a few books by Patricia Briggs in the queue, and First Lord's Fury, the ultimate book in Jim Butcher's Calderon series.
Same Q…
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It's time for another good idea, bad idea:
Good Idea – Getting your Insider character into the comic
Bad Idea – Joining the EOD to do so. Gratz to Jacobus for the New Avatar!
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