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Re: The Who Mailing List Digest V3 #504



> From: "." <microdot@algonet.se>
> Date: Thu, 01 Aug 96 22:34:09 -0500
> Subject: Re:  Talkin' bout my pepsi generation
> 
> >DON'T go after Pepsi, too!  I will not tolerate my beverage of choice being
> badmouthed!  You may trash >religion, but not my POP (soda, cola, whatever
> it's called in anybody's neck of the woods)!
> 
> I agree! The best pop is Pepsi Max! International travellers to the US:
> refer to soft drinks as "pop" and long sandwiches as "subs", otherwise, you
> won't be understood!

Around this neck-o-the-woods, "coke" is the generic term for soft
drinks (Coke, Pepsi, 7-up, etc. etc.), as in,

"Anybody want any cokes?"
"Sure."
"OK, what would you like?"
"7-up."

Apparently it is a Southernism or Southwesternism.  I have learned to
say "sodas" when I need to speak standard English, but it still sounds
odd to me.  Asking someone if they'd like a "pop" around here would
most likely be completely misunderstood (hopefully with entertaining
results -- hey, let's go to Texas and confuse the natives!! :-)

ObWho: Thus, "Coke after coke after coke after Coca-Cola" remains
ambiguous until the end bit :-).



> From: mleaman@sccoast.net (Mark Leaman)
> 
> >Actually, I think you're right about the Dancehall/Music Hall element. The
> Kinks are indeed a fine example, as perhaps is  Steve Marriott with the
> Small Faces. There's a lot of cockney "knees-up" in both  of these acts'
> work.

I don't know what that means ("knees-up").  I like it already, I just
don't know what it means.  Help?

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From: Joe Giorgianni <giorgian@capital.net>