Comments on: Red, Blue, Whatever http://blog.archenemy.org/2004/12/20/red-blue-whatever/ rum, bloggery & the lash Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:50:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: dff http://blog.archenemy.org/2004/12/20/red-blue-whatever/#comment-96 dff Tue, 21 Dec 2004 19:27:42 +0000 http://blog.archenemy.org/?p=225#comment-96 There're actually a lot of really funny comments in the collected "other terms" data. WRT tonic, I think it's both a generational thing and a geographic thing. I think you can still hear it in some really insular urban (read "Irish") spots in Boston. But I'm a suburban kid - I've never found much to motivate me to cross the Charles - and both my parents are New Yorkers (I'm a mutt - English, Scottish, Irish). There’re actually a lot of really funny comments in the collected “other terms” data. WRT tonic, I think it’s both a generational thing and a geographic thing. I think you can still hear it in some really insular urban (read “Irish”) spots in Boston. But I’m a suburban kid - I’ve never found much to motivate me to cross the Charles - and both my parents are New Yorkers (I’m a mutt - English, Scottish, Irish).

]]> By: the ungoverned http://blog.archenemy.org/2004/12/20/red-blue-whatever/#comment-97 the ungoverned Tue, 21 Dec 2004 17:46:37 +0000 http://blog.archenemy.org/?p=225#comment-97 I point out w/o comment that 2 Tubgirl Juice is one of the "responses" for other from Massachusetts. And, no, it wasn't me. I point out w/o comment that
2 Tubgirl Juice
is one of the “responses” for other from Massachusetts.

And, no, it wasn’t me.

]]> By: rlc http://blog.archenemy.org/2004/12/20/red-blue-whatever/#comment-98 rlc Tue, 21 Dec 2004 15:29:48 +0000 http://blog.archenemy.org/?p=225#comment-98 Come on man -- you live in (what used to be, anyways) the strongholds of one of the "other" -- TAWNic. Come on man — you live in (what used to be, anyways) the strongholds of one of the “other” — TAWNic.

]]> By: dff http://blog.archenemy.org/2004/12/20/red-blue-whatever/#comment-99 dff Tue, 21 Dec 2004 15:11:04 +0000 http://blog.archenemy.org/?p=225#comment-99 Never mind - <a href="http://www.popvssoda.com/stats/ALL.html">found it</a>. Never mind - found it.

]]> By: dff http://blog.archenemy.org/2004/12/20/red-blue-whatever/#comment-100 dff Tue, 21 Dec 2004 15:08:58 +0000 http://blog.archenemy.org/?p=225#comment-100 I dunno, it looks like the liberal coasts say "soda," and conservatives say something else. Wonder what some exmaples of "other" are? I dunno, it looks like the liberal coasts say “soda,” and conservatives say something else. Wonder what some exmaples of “other” are?

]]> By: TJIC from TJICistan http://blog.archenemy.org/2004/12/20/red-blue-whatever/#comment-101 TJIC from TJICistan Tue, 21 Dec 2004 12:55:24 +0000 http://blog.archenemy.org/?p=225#comment-101 What I find most interesting is that one region ("soda") is seperated into two continguous lobes. What I find most interesting is that one region (”soda”) is seperated into two continguous lobes.

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