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I always thought this was funny. It makes me shake my head.


Who ever in the world created that stuff anyway? The Egyptians, maybe? It’s surely not good for our eyes.


My cats would not eat it. They insist on regular Purina dry cat food.


Roaches?


Oh, my gosh, James, that’s hilarious.


One wonders....


Edgar Rice Burroughs must have been a 'gentleman'. He is one of my favorite authors. I also like the John Carter of Mars series.


I love that, James.


And did you know that most people working in mental health have ‘issues’ of their own and that’s why they are drawn to the field? ...Ooops. I gave it away. Your mental health care-givers are crazy. (I hope everyone realizes I'm joking. I wouldn't want anyone to take offense, but when you work in the mental health care field, you have to have a sense of humor - and usually an odd one.)


Darn it, all, then, why is when you go to a different drive-through that the on-screen instructions are often different?


I liked the taste better when the diet drinks were made with saccharin. Now that they have aspartame, I can’t drink them because I get a migraine.


I remember Tab, too. I didn’t like it, but when it went off the market, I knew people that went to great lengths to get it before it ‘ran out’. I had one teacher in school that brought it with her to school long after it was no longer made. I also remember when diet Fresca came out which I think was around the same time. It wasn’t bad. Do you remember cyclomates? I think the drinks with that in it came around before Tab. As I remember, they were pretty good, but then cyclomate got pulled off the market.


Not only different countries, but also with different bottlers. The Coke I get in Kentucky isn’t the same as what I got when I lived in Columbus, Ohio. And has anyone noticed that fountain Coke is usually kind of yucky? I think it tastes like nutmeg.


Does anyone remember ‘New Coke’? Yuck. Coca-Cola quit making ‘The Real Thing’ - that was one of the biggest business faux pas ever.


Do they still use saccharin in Great Britain? Do you need crazy psych nurses there?


A sort-of sweet orangey-lemon flavor with a snappier carbonization.


Bottles are better. Glass bottles were the best. Those miniature glass bottles are just not the same.


Was that Mountain Dew? Or Yahoo? (I can still go to the store and find Yahoo, but I never thought much of it.)


And thanks for the thread, Mr. D8A. I had a good laugh. Hmm... NaNoWriMo???

There's not that much I like to drink. How about a smoothie? Eh, I prefer to eat my bananas rather than drink them. A milkshake, then? Uh, could I have some regular ice cream and eat it with a spoon? What about a carbonated drink? Coke? Diet Coke? Pepsi? Ummmm, could I have some tap water?

Ann

This is so funny and some of them in the case of the first, sad, James. I enjoyed reading this list.

As for the great soda debate, lol, I should say I no longer drink soda period. I only drink a ton of water and it has to be either Sparkletts or Aquafina, so I am picky that way, juice, CHOCOLATE milk, white milk= :p ,hot cocoa, and of course, milkshakes. Oh lol, are Frosty's a drink?

Back to the question at hand, way back when I was younger and especially in high school, I may have been addicted to Pepsi I drank so much of the stuff. No Coke for me, Pepsi all the way as it was sweeter and just tasted better. Can or Bottle? I generally got the cans and have no clue as to whether I prefered it in a bottle. I can say that when I drank Canada Dry Ginger Ale, it had to be in the bottle, the can just was not very appealing to me.

That's that,
Mona

You can't drink the tap water here in Hong Kong despite what people might say unless you want some rust or other nasties with it. We have to buy bottled water (with quality assurance checks). You realise how blessed you are to live in a city where you can just walk to your tap for water when you are forced to learn to live without that luxury. My home in New Zealand, the tap water was sourced from a local spring... nicer than anything you could buy! Oh for those good old days.

Mountain Dew is like a sweeter version of Lift/Mellow Yellow. I actually prefer it to Lift.

Here in Hong Kong they have coke light, diet coke, coke zero, plus 3 or 4 coke 'flavours' on top of the 'regular' variety (which depending on the supermarket you can pick up Hong Kong made, Australian Made, British Made, or US made)... and some things I am not brave enough to try called pineapple fanta and passionfruit fanta.
I'm not a huge fizzy drinker... but I would speculate that the general population here are given the variety (and number of 7-11 stores on almost every corner).

It probably has something to do with how they're programmed, and not much to do with the hardware itself.

I spent fifteen years living in San Diego. Ugh, talk about horrid tap water. It's fine to drink, health-wise, but it tastes awful. So does the water in Los Angeles. Practically everybody has a filter installed on their water system or buys a lot of bottled water. In San Diego, I could do as you say, walk to my tap for water, but I'd rather not.

Fortunately I moved to the great Northwest where the water is actually quite good-tasting. It's actually water, not the sludge that passes for water in southern California!

Have you tried Fiji? It's absolutely wonderful.


I guess that wasn't one of my better attempts at humor, huh?


For the short time I lived in Phoenix, AZ, it seemed that we couldn't drink the tap water there either. Of course, I have no idea if that's still true.

And I probably shouldn't be drinking tap water where I am since there are chemical plants nearby - we have warning sirens for dangerous leaks, have been evacuated (and the 115 pound dog went, too, and he wasn't used to being in a car...), have had to shelter in place, and one day, it took me twice as long to get to work because of a leak that caused nearly all the roads to close. (Oooh... maybe that's too scary to write down - then I have to think about it.)

As someone who lives in SoCal, I agree completely. I can't drink the nasty tasting stuff that comes out of our taps. The taste is the main reason I never drink enough water.

Tara

Why the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin?
(No, I know the answer. Sun and water combined produce a small amount of peroxide which bleaches hair. The skin produces melanin when it gets too much sun - thus the darkening.)

Why women can't put on mascara with their mouth closed? (Hey, I can. Never occurred to me to open my mouth while doing so.)

Why don't you ever see the headline 'Psychic Wins Lottery'? (They don't wanna share? They don't participate in lotteries out of ethical reasons? )

Why is 'abbreviated' such a long word? (Because it's derived from a Latin word that already has two components and got another one in English?)

Why is it that doctors call what they do 'practice'? (You don't ant to know...)

Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavor, and dishwashing liquid made with real lemons? (Because there is a reason you shouldn't drink too much real lemon juice... to sour.)

Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker? (Because, after he got all your money invested, you're likely to be broke?)

Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour? (Because everybody *tries* to rush home but it takes an hour longer than it should?)

Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food? (Because no human has ever tasted a mouse, so how could humans produce mouse-flavored cat food? Maybe *you* want to volunteer?)

Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes? (Maybe he took the eggs?)

Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections? (Out of (medical) habit?)

You know that indestructible black box that is used on airplanes? Why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?! (Too expensive?)

Why don't sheep shrink when it rains? (Why don't you? Besides, wool doesn't shrink when it rains, either.)

Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together? (Because the walls keep several apartments apart?)

If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress? (You got it! Ah, no, not really. It's contra, not con.)

If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal? (Uh...)

Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are almost dead? (Why do we speak louder to someone who doesn't understand our language all that well? Duh!)

Why do banks charge a fee on 'insufficient funds' when they already know there is not enough money? (LOL!)

Why does someone Believe you when you say there are four billion stars; but have to check when you say the paint is still wet? (Checking the paint is easier than counting four billion stars.)

Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard? (Maybe he's Asian?)

Why does Superman stop bullets with his chest, but ducks when you throw a revolver at him? (The revolver could discharge at impact?)

Why do Kamikaze pilots wear helmets? (Because they didn't intend to end up as kamikaze?)

If people evolved from apes, why are there still
apes? (Because only one branch of the apes evolved into humans.)

Why is it that no matter what color bubble bath you use the bubbles are always white? (Because there's hardly any liquid in bubbles - and air usually doesn't have a color.)

Is there ever a day that mattresses are not on sale? (Not likely in the near future.)

Why do people keep running over a string a dozen times with their vacuum cleaner, then reach down, pick it up, examine it, then put it down to give the vacuum one more chance? (Duh! Because it just got stuck before? Because the vacuum cleaner is nearer than the next bin?)

Why is it that no plastic bag will open from the end on your first try? (Because you don't know how to do it right. You have to blow on the edge. Hard. Then, suddenly, you can open the bag quite easily.)

How do those dead bugs get into those enclosed light fixtures? (The light fixtures are not completely enclosed, there are a few small entrances. The bug gets in, gets fried, end of story.)

When we are in the supermarket and someone rams our ankle with a shopping cart then apologizes for doing so, why do we say, 'It's all right?' Well, it isn't all right, so why don't we say, 'That really hurt, why don't you watch where you're going?' (Because it sounds impolite - and remember what your mother tried to teach you abot politeness.)

Why is it that whenever you attempt to catch something that's falling off the table you always manage to knock something else over? (I don't. Actually, I'm quite good at catching things I sent falling off the table... What can I say? Practice makes perfect.)

In winter why do we try to keep the house as warm as it was in summer when we complained about the heat? (I don't. Our place is rather cool in summer.)

And my FAVORITE......

The statistics on sanity is that one out of every four persons is suffering from some sort of mental illness. Think of your three best friends -
if they're okay, then it's you. (/me mutters about statistics... Only believe in statistics you manipulated yourself.)

Hey, after I read this, I tried putting on mascara without opening my mouth - I succeeded quite nicely. I guess that’s pretty good since historically I’ve been one of the mouth open mascara appliers.


Nope. He’s English and royalty at that. His name is John Clayton, and his title is Lord Greystoke. Edgar Rice Burroughs also called him a Viscount and non-canonical sources called him an Earl. Uhh... More than you wanted to know, right?


Oh, Lara Joelle, your answers were nearly as funny as what James wrote.

Ive wondered about this one for years

Diet Coke and diet Pepsi also taste different in different regions of the USA depending on the water source. Even the diet coke in LA tastes off. Anyone ever try diet Hansons? It's awesome. I love Pomegranate. Which is a clear liquid as they all are no matter the flavor.
This I know the answer to:
It would be too heavy and the plane couldn't fly.
See "tanks" as a reference. But you see, carbon fibers give you the strength without the weight, which is why they are starting to build planes out of it.

Artemis

On the progress/Congress one, does that make a professional the opposite of a confessional, or a profession the opposite of a confession? Maybe a protractor is the opposite of a contractor?

I think you have bananas, Woody.

Protractor vs. contractor: priceless.

Or how about proscribe vs. conscribe?
Or proscript vs. conscript?
And finally, what do you do with a pro con man?
Or is a priest a professional confessional man?