Re: Coca Cola (was: lexicographic capitalization)

From: Paul J Kriha (paul.nospam.kriha_at_paradise.net.nz)
Date: 03/29/05 

Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:43:05 +1200

Peter T. Daniels <grammatim@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
news:42480ECA.103C@worldnet.att.net...
> Jacques Guy wrote:
> >
> > Forgive me for altering the subject line. I had this
> > nagging feeling that it needed altering.
> >
> > Raymond S. Wise wrote:
> >
> > > If you think all colas taste alike, I have to think that there is
> > > something wrong with your palate.
> >
> > I'll drink (something else) to that! When I was a student I used
> > to drink lots of Coca Cola (with tobacco snuff added in--try it!).
> > Pepsi was something else. Very much sweeter. Sickeningly so to
> > my taste. The other day we had teetotallers for dinner (no, we didn't
> > eat them... you know what I mean) and my wife had bought some
> > Coca Cola and some Diet Cola (Coles supermarket brand). They didn't
> > touch the stuff. So (curiosity will kill me) I tasted both. As
> > similar as night and day. And since the PC scumbags here in Australia
> > have succeeded in banning tobacco snuff, I couldn't make it
> > drinkable.
>
> Did you chill it, or
>
> do Ozzies have the British attitude toward ice?

Oh God, NO!

Even the glasses come out of a freezer.

pjk

> > Anyway, Coles Diet Cola tasted like Coca Cola like... let me think...
> > Marsanne tastes like Shiraz. No... better make that: like Marsanne
> > tastes like sparkling Burgundy. Or kangaroo like pork.
>
> Shiraz is popular here. But I don't know what Marsanne, Shiraz, and
> kangaroo taste like to you, so it's not possible to interpret your
> remarks.
> --
> Peter T. Daniels grammatim@att.net