Here's a radio show featuring discussion of suicides (the soda mix): [link]
Come on. You drop by for a cup of coffee, and the world's not ending? Please.
Connor ,'Not Fade Away'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Feb 03, 2009 8:28:56 am PST #4830 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Kathy A - Feb 03, 2009 8:29:06 am PST #4831 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Emmett has always called it a Suicide Soda (and so, I presume, have all his friends).
Yay, someone else has heard of this term! I thought it was maybe just a Chicago area thing.
everyone at his school also calls rock-paper-scissors "roshambo," which none of the second or third-generation CA natives I know had ever, ever heard of until a couple of years ago
That's a word I've only started hearing a few years ago, too. I think I first heard it while watching the World Series of Poker a few summers ago--they had a "Roshambo" mini-tournament in the middle of the poker playing. We always called it "rock-paper-scissors."
megan walker - Feb 03, 2009 8:31:19 am PST #4832 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I certainly hope that's Rochambeau.
I have never heard of the soda thing.
In related regional beverage news, I refuse to call a half & half an Arnold Palmer.
Jessica - Feb 03, 2009 8:33:50 am PST #4833 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I'm pretty sure the only place I've seen roshambo used for rock-paper-scissors is on this board.
Today is the first time I had ever heard of a Suicide.
Steph L. - Feb 03, 2009 8:34:00 am PST #4834 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I refuse to call a half & half an Arnold Palmer.
Guinness and Harp is called an Arnold Palmer? What weird-ass, golf-obessed part of the world does THAT?
Jesse - Feb 03, 2009 8:34:10 am PST #4835 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I love calling it Arnold Palmer! Not sure why.
Jessica - Feb 03, 2009 8:35:09 am PST #4836 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Ok, and Urban Dictionary says roshambo is when two guys kick each other in the balls until one of them falls over. Which doesn't sound like any version of rock-paper-scissors I've ever played.
Jesse - Feb 03, 2009 8:35:23 am PST #4837 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Guinness and Harp is called an Arnold Palmer? What weird-ass, golf-obessed part of the world does THAT?
See, this is part of why! Arnold Palmer is iced tea and lemonade. I've never called that a half and half, actually. And is Guiness and Harp not a black and tan?
Jessica - Feb 03, 2009 8:35:44 am PST #4838 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Guinness and Harp is called an Arnold Palmer? What weird-ass, golf-obessed part of the world does THAT?
Ha!
Steph L. - Feb 03, 2009 8:40:16 am PST #4839 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
And is Guiness and Harp not a black and tan?
"Black and tan" has unfortunate historical issues -- for some people -- with the British forces sent into Ireland in the (IIRC) 1920s to bust some Irish ass (the forces were nicknamed "Black and Tans").
To avoid that, the drink is often called a half and half.
Perhaps only by (1) drink snobs or (2) people who are Irish or are snobs about Irish matters.