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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Sploops on July 21, 2008, 03:09:21 PM
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Coffee, grapefruit soda and unsweeted iced tea. That's it. Exceptions occasionally made for soy milk or other types of juice.
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Coffee, grapefruit soda and unsweeted iced tea. That's it.
All together? Good God, that sounds horrid.
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Water
Sugar free cherry kool-aid
Ocean Spray Grapefruit Juice
Vodka-Fresca
That's as good as it gets!
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Is this new? Because I would very much like to try it.
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Topo Chico carbonated mineral water with a 'twist' of lime!
soooo carbonated it hurts (in the best way)
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I haven't had this in ten years and most people found it yucky, I guess. I loved it.
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Summit Extra Pale Ale. I know there is some of these in my in-laws fridge which is about a mile from where I work.
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non-Alki: Dunkin Donuts Iced Coffee, Ramblin' Root Beer, Lemonade, tap water with ice
Alki: Newcastle Brown Ale, a Greyhound (vodka-grapefruit juice) with a couple fresh cranberries
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ice water with no ice
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Alki: Newcastle Brown Ale
I'm with you on this one.
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I'm with you on both of those KTB. Newcastle is the best beer and vodka/grapefruit (juice or Fresca or whatever) is the best mixed drink. Never tried it with cranberries though.
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ice water with no ice
This is what I mainly drink. I also have a glass of milk just about every day. For alcohol, lately I've been partial to gin bucks (i.e., gin and ginger ale) and mojitos. I agree that vodka and grapefruit juice is indeed nummy, but it's hell on the old stomach. These days, caffeine really messes me up so only when I'm feeling daring will I drink black coffee, a Coke, or a Lubecker (coffee brandy and milk on ice).
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I was thinking about putting mojitos in the worst thread!
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Hey, I like whiskey, too. In fact, when I was younger, I used to have a recurring dream about the most delicious drink in the world; then, when I was twenty-two, I first tasted single-malt whiskey and knew I had found it. I never had that dream again.
De gusti . . . etc.
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You can make your own schnapps by melting a jolly rancher or candy cane in the microwave* and adding it to vodka.
* They melt really well, right into a nice, thin fluid! It's freaky. I learned this during a phase of experimenting with putting lightbulbs, CDs, etc, in the microwave.
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Odwalla's Strawberry Lemonade.
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Anybody into Minute Maid Berry or Minute Maid Fruit Punch? I cant get enough of it.
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I'm with you on both of those KTB. Newcastle is the best beer and vodka/grapefruit (juice or Fresca or whatever) is the best mixed drink. Never tried it with cranberries though.
I used to like Newcastle, before I threw it up everywhere one wild night. Now I'm more partial to stouts and IPAs.
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Coffee, grapefruit soda and unsweeted iced tea. That's it.
All together? Good God, that sounds horrid.
I haven't tried it, but I'm sure at least the iced tea and grapefruit together would taste better than the things in the worst beverage thread.
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I'm with you on both of those KTB. Newcastle is the best beer and vodka/grapefruit (juice or Fresca or whatever) is the best mixed drink. Never tried it with cranberries though.
I used to like Newcastle, before I threw it up everywhere one wild night. Now I'm more partial to stouts and IPAs.
Oatmeal stouts are the best. I'm not a big IPA fan though. I used to try out all kinds of different beers and I have a brew pub just down the street which gets great ratings on online sites. But, I don't drink heavy beers that much anymore in an effort to lose some weight. But, I do miss them. I kind of gave up beer altogether, but did you all know that Guiness Draught is one of the best non-light beers our their when it comes to calories? I think it weighs in at around 130 calories- 40 more than a Bud Light.
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Anybody into Minute Maid Berry or Minute Maid Fruit Punch? I cant get enough of it.
I love Berry Punch. It gives me terrible heartburn though.
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Oh dear....
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Not the only thing I miss about North Carolina.
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I'm with you on both of those KTB. Newcastle is the best beer and vodka/grapefruit (juice or Fresca or whatever) is the best mixed drink. Never tried it with cranberries though.
I used to like Newcastle, before I threw it up everywhere one wild night. Now I'm more partial to stouts and IPAs.
Oatmeal stouts are the best.
Yes! Wolaver's, made by the Vermont brew company Otter Creek, is my favorite. Nummy!
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I like my liquor pricey (Citadelle & tonic) and my beer middlin' (Yuengling)
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I can't find any pretty pictures of it (nor can I really find the ACTUAL product around these parts), but Lacroix Pamplemousse is the best drink ever. I don't even like grapefruit (wish I did) but I love the grapefruit Lacroix.
I've only found it at the Whole Foods in Omaha so I don't get to drink it often. It takes 45 mins to get there.
I AM going there for Batman in IMAX next week so I'm totally stocking up.
Oh, and I find a well-made gin and tonic to be rather refreshing in the summer. Or winter.
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Perhaps the finest beverage known to man.
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ice water with no ice
I second that emotion.
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mornings - black coffee.
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designated driving time - reed's EXTRA ginger brew.
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adult beverage time - beck's CANS.
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It's refreshing!
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Erika, I'm more of a fan of the Bud Light. I don't really like either, but if I'm in a place where beer is flowing I'm going Bud rather than Miller. I like that rice beer taste and I've always been an apologist for Budweiser. It's my favorite cheap domestic after Grain Belt.
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Non-alcoholic: I drink lots of tea. I put the kettle on almost before getting out of bed. Also, after discovering Coke Zero I'm drinking more Coke than before, but not a lot. Milk. Tap water.
Alcoholic: I love red wine of almost all kinds. I'm a big fan of beer, especially the stouts and ales from Norfolk based St. Peter's brewery. I'm getting better at drinking whiskey, but only single malts, can't stand the blended stuff. Champagne. Chilled Martini Bianco on the rocks on a hot summer day. I like the odd vodka, gin or rum drink, but I usually stay away from them.
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'pimple' 'mousse'
pamplemousse
Grapefruit juice?
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When I'm really thirsty, real lemonade (not too sweet), or as yesno said before, ice water with no ice.
When I'm "thirsty," (a) vodka gimlet, (b) vodka martini (up with a twist).
Delicious and so refreshing.
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Hmmm but why ice water with no ice? I like the ice! Keeps it cold longer!
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Does indeed. But if you're impatient like I am, you're focused on downing that glass of cold water, and ice would only get in the way.
The best silly beverage I've ever heard of:
Fromagina, the world's only all-cheese beverage.*
*Courtesy of some radio deejays on the now-defunct WHFS, formerly in Washington/Baltimore
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When I see that all I can think of is mangina.
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Ice is nice, but I like to take long drafts of ice water, and I don't want ice cubes bumping into my teeth.
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'pimple' 'mousse'
pamplemousse
Grapefruit juice?
I want to pop that pimple sooooo bad. I can't look at it anymore, it's killing me.
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Beth... I'm with you. I wanna pop that sucker so badly.
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Pus is not a beverage.
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Pimple? That's a nipple! You don't get "Nipplenesse" where you live?
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Pimple? That's a nipple! You don't get "Nipplenesse" where you live?
Thanks for clearing that up Dave. I had no idea what Weineresse was.
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I thought you meant some fancy drink called Zit Finesse.
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(but only on plane rides)
and of course, WATER
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I used to like Newcastle, before I threw it up everywhere one wild night. Now I'm more partial to stouts and IPAs.
IPA fans are advised to check out Clipper City's (Bawlmer!) Loose Cannon:
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Yes, that is indeed a pile of crippler...
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Three Floyd's Alpha King Pale Ale
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Basically a well crafted full body Pale Ale that's aggressively hopped like a IPA... easily everything I enjoy about beer. This is my favorite FFF beer... including their Dark Lord Russian Imperial Stout.
Other Favorites:
Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA
Brewery Ommegang Abbey Ale
Long Trail Double Bag Stickebier
Smuttynose Robust Porter
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slurp
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Mango juice and cantalope juice.
Both are delicious and really hard to find. You can find Mango drink which is not mango-y enough lots of places, but not mango juice except at restaurants.
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I've never had cantaloupe juice. Where do you have to go to get it?
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Its pretty common in Bay Area tacquerias which is where I've always had it. Its so refreshing that I don't know why its not as popular, except that good fruit and juice are so expensive these days.
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i almost forgot
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Yes and yes.
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i would expect nothing less from knoxville
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Dave, today I discovered that I have two unopened bottles of Karo syrup in my cupboard and thought of you.
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Irony? I haven't had any, I don't think, in close to 35 years.
But I wake up every morning thinking about it.
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If anyone knows where to buy this stuff in or around NYC, give it up. As far as I know it's only available in Thailand and that's a darn crime.
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I can't even find a picture of it, but the Tazo Diet Mojito Green Iced Tea is really good. Frustratingly, I've never seen it anywhere but Borders.
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This reminds me that in the grocery store the other day I noticed a green-tea-flavored malt-liquor beverage (whether Smirnoff's, I don't know) that boasted of its antioxidant properties. That made me chuckle almost as much as the notion of fat-free half-and-half.
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I can't even find a picture of it, but the Tazo Diet Mojito Green Iced Tea is really good. Frustratingly, I've never seen it anywhere but Borders.
that sounds delicious. and youre right- ive scourged the internet for this "Tazo Diet Mojito Green Iced Tea" and it doesnt exist outside of this message board. and a couple blogs.
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Anybody here remember the soda from the early 90's called OK Soda from the Coca Cola Company? It had cans designed by Dan Clowes and Charles Burns. I guess it was supposed to capitalize on the whole grunge movement. It even had a slogan "Things are going to be OK", and a manifesto
What's the point of OK? Well, what's the point of anything?
OK Soda emphatically rejects anything that is not OK, and fully supports anything that is.
The better you understand something, the more OK it turns out to be.
OK Soda says, "Don't be fooled into thinking there has to be a reason for everything."
OK Soda reveals the surprising truth about people and situations.
OK Soda does not subscribe to any religion, or endorse any political party, or do anything other than feel OK.
There is no real secret to feeling OK.
OK Soda may be the preferred drink of other people such as yourself.
Never overestimate the remarkable abilities of "OK" brand soda.
Please wake up every morning knowing that things are going to be OK.
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Jckinnick, I love you. OK soda became something of a religion among my group in high school, to the point that we woud faithfully call the 1-800 number every day for new messages. Yes, we did drugs. Don't judge.
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It's pretty obvious now that you've said so but I didn't know that the cans were designed by Clowes. Learn something new every day...
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RE: OK Soda
I remember feeling sort of dirty for playing along with OK Soda. For liking it, and liking the lame marketing approach even more. I was 16 and grew up in a town of 1000. Anything with so much as a whiff of underground culture was appealing to me at the time. I was just getting into Eightball, discovering Clowes through Urge Overkill & Supersuckers album covers... Since he was involved, I drank it up. Oh to be young and easily amused.
RE: Best Beverage
There's a Boba Tea joint that opened up close to where I work. I decided to try the Taro Root Boba Tea one day... Good lord it's delicious. Lately that's it for me.
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non-Alki: Dunkin Donuts Iced Coffee, Ramblin' Root Beer, Lemonade, tap water with ice
Alki: Newcastle Brown Ale, a Greyhound (vodka-grapefruit juice) with a couple fresh cranberries
Ever had a salty dog, KTB (or anyone)? It's vodka-grapefruit with a salted rim. Delicious.
My vote:
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One of my favorite things about going to Austin, newly available in my neighborhood. It's awesome being able to get pretty much anything in NYC, but also kind of a bummer - one of my favorite things about traveling is being able to get things you can only get away from home.
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I see those a lot- they're always too sweet in my opinion. Though that's the point, isn't it.
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The mint is pretty great. It seems less sweet.
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One of my favorite things about going to Austin, newly available in my neighborhood. It's awesome being able to get pretty much anything in NYC, but also kind of a bummer - one of my favorite things about traveling is being able to get things you can only get away from home.
that's one of my favorite things about traveling as well. it's also why i refuse (as much as i can help) to go to chain restaurants/stores/etc.
Anybody here remember the soda from the early 90's called OK Soda from the Coca Cola Company? It had cans designed by Dan Clowes and Charles Burns. I guess it was supposed to capitalize on the whole grunge movement. It even had a slogan "Things are going to be OK", and a manifesto
What's the point of OK? Well, what's the point of anything?
OK Soda emphatically rejects anything that is not OK, and fully supports anything that is.
The better you understand something, the more OK it turns out to be.
OK Soda says, "Don't be fooled into thinking there has to be a reason for everything."
OK Soda reveals the surprising truth about people and situations.
OK Soda does not subscribe to any religion, or endorse any political party, or do anything other than feel OK.
There is no real secret to feeling OK.
OK Soda may be the preferred drink of other people such as yourself.
Never overestimate the remarkable abilities of "OK" brand soda.
Please wake up every morning knowing that things are going to be OK.
i love this marketing; it couldnt have come from anywhere else but the early 90s. granted, i was only a grade school/junior high twerp in the early years, but i wished so badly to be 10 years older during that time. everybody older seemed to know what was going on, when no one else my age did (except me), but i would have been able to experience those things the way i wanted to if i was older.
too bad.
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I was at university (or, as I like to call it, "uni") in the early 90s and I won't lie, all that Gen-X hype seemed pretty awesome and fun. But by 1994, which was my first year out of school, it was all revealed as a lot of lame bullshit, all of the vapid shopping-mall stuff I hated about the 80s, but in an oversized flannel shirt. This had just as much to do with my life circumstances as with anything going on with the culture (I know now that there was some pretty great music happening underneath the Porno for Pyros), but as ridiculous as it sounds now, it was pretty devastating to discover that it was all a sham.
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I'm still waiting for the second Beavis and Butt-Head movie.
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I'm still waiting for the second Beavis and Butt-Head movie.
I'm still waiting for Reality Bites: Back
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Cheap tequila on an average day and expensive scotch on an extraordinary day.
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Cheap tequila on an average day and expensive scotch on an extraordinary day.
Have an extraordinary day, Julie.
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Jckinnick, I love you. OK soda became something of a religion among my group in high school, to the point that we woud faithfully call the 1-800 number every day for new messages. Yes, we did drugs. Don't judge.
Wiki says that it tested in my area but I dont remember seeing it anywhere. So was it any good? I looked on Ebay to see if there were any of the cans up for bid and got a big fat zero.
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It tasted kind of like rainbow pop. You know, where you put all of the pop in the fountain into one glass and come up with a flavor that resembles the strongest one which was usually orange or Dr. Pepper/Mr. Pibb. I was in middle school when it came out and my friends and I always tried to recreate OK Soda at the McDonald's soda fountain but could never get it right.
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It tasted kind of like rainbow pop. You know, where you put all of the pop in the fountain into one glass and come up with a flavor that resembles the strongest one which was usually orange or Dr. Pepper/Mr. Pibb. I was in middle school when it came out and my friends and I always tried to recreate OK Soda at the McDonald's soda fountain but could never get it right.
We called that a suicide.
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It tasted kind of like rainbow pop. You know, where you put all of the pop in the fountain into one glass and come up with a flavor that resembles the strongest one which was usually orange or Dr. Pepper/Mr. Pibb. I was in middle school when it came out and my friends and I always tried to recreate OK Soda at the McDonald's soda fountain but could never get it right.
We called that a suicide.
The 'suicide' proved to be a pretty influential drink for me as a young kid. Hanging out at the baseball fields in the middle of the fairgrounds, all my friends would be kicking the dirt and waiting for the late game to end. We knew the older lady who ran concessions in the cement block at the nexus of the four fields. She was nice to us and gave us free suicides, each of which consisted of:
GINGER ALE
MOUNTAIN DEW
7-UP
PEPSI (UNLESS YOU PERSONALLY BEGGED FOR COKE BECAUSE THAT MATTERED TO YOU)
MR. PIBB
ORANGE FIZZ POP
That stuff rocked. I didn't get a lot of sugar at home, so this was a special treat. I always thought the term 'suicide" was more of a Midwest term.
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We also called it garbage. Never heard it called suicide.
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Never heard suicide either, we always called them Zombies, but I'm from the left coast. OK soda perfected this concoction in a way I could never recreate, though not for lack of trying. I think I liked this as a kid because it always seemed like you were getting one over on the drink machine.
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I'm in the midwest and it was indeed called a suicide here.
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http://ask.metafilter.com/61367/Mixed-Soda-Name
Swamp Water, etc., but my favorite is "Wrong Island Iced Tea."
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I'm still waiting for the second Beavis and Butt-Head movie.
I'm still waiting for Reality Bites: Back
Reality Chews?
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I'm still waiting for the second Beavis and Butt-Head movie.
I'm still waiting for Reality Bites: Back
Reality Chews?
Reality Swallows
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and by the way, i played the softball fields of norfolk/virginia beach during my suicide years. ive never heard it named anything else.
but Zombie would have been priceless for me at that age.
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It tasted kind of like rainbow pop. You know, where you put all of the pop in the fountain into one glass and come up with a flavor that resembles the strongest one which was usually orange or Dr. Pepper/Mr. Pibb. I was in middle school when it came out and my friends and I always tried to recreate OK Soda at the McDonald's soda fountain but could never get it right.
We called that a suicide.
How dare you! That's self-inflicted life stoppage!
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I know swamp water as an alcoholic mix. I think my friends and I must have named it ourselves since nobody seems to have called it rainbow pop or garbage!