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11 Oct 2024 01:23:48 EDT (-0400)
  Re: XKCD solves my life  
From: Jim Henderson
Date: 5 Mar 2008 16:35:13
Message: <47cf1211$1@news.povray.org>
On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:28:09 -0500, Tim Cook wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:28:19 -0500, Kyle wrote:
>> 
>>> On 5 Mar 2008 09:41:18 -0500, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>>>> http://www.xkcd.com/392/
>>>>  I didn't really get it.
>>> Are you familiar with the punch buggy game?
>> 
>> aka "Slug Bug".
> 
> Similar to "pop" vs. "soda" vs. "coke", you can tell what region someone
> is from by what version of referring to VW Beetles they use.  XD

Yup. :-)

> bah, popvssoda.com is down...they had a distribution map of the US.

I'm an oddball, I grew up in Minnesota, but I call it "soda".  In 
Chicago, at least my uncle called it "RC".

Jim


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