# On what I said, and what I would have said if I didn't have issues to work through. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 1, 2002, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-what-i-said-and-what-i-would-have-said-if-i-didnt-have-issues-to-work-through/101203 "2002-04-01T14:55:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![rundogrun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5daacb/32.png) [@rundogrun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rundogrun)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2002, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-what-i-said-and-what-i-would-have-said-if-i-didnt-have-issues-to-work-through/101203/121 "2002-04-04T22:48:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Polycarp \* > \*\*Yeah, but you realize that you’re focusing on two big cola manufacturers who spend inordinate amounts of money advertising to fight over market share, and totally ignore the fact that there are generics and minor third-party colas dying on the vine, as it were. The last guy I ever heard saying, “I want a Royal Crown” was this blond kid named Wills. 🙂 \*\* I love RC…the only problem is you can’t find it anywhere. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-what-i-said-and-what-i-would-have-said-if-i-didnt-have-issues-to-work-through/101203/122 "2002-04-05T05:44:27Z")
The only truly decent-tasting cola is JOLT, which also incidentally contains a lot more kick per ounce of sugar water 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kirkland1244](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kirkland1244](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kirkland1244)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-what-i-said-and-what-i-would-have-said-if-i-didnt-have-issues-to-work-through/101203/123 "2002-04-05T08:35:42Z")
Read the shocking truth about RC Cola [here.](http://www.theonion.com/onion3118/rccola.html) Kirk ---
**Author:** ![Beastal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Beastal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastal)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-what-i-said-and-what-i-would-have-said-if-i-didnt-have-issues-to-work-through/101203/124 "2002-04-05T14:48:44Z")
Has manhattan put you guys on his payroll or something? I just have a question: Seeing as there are some New Yorkers who try to cover up acts of child abuse, and seeing as manhattan is a New Yorker himself, does that make manhattan a willing member of a child sex cult? And guys, come on: Coca-Cola, you can’t beat the feeling. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-what-i-said-and-what-i-would-have-said-if-i-didnt-have-issues-to-work-through/101203/125 "2002-04-05T15:01:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AHunter3 \* > **The only truly decent-tasting cola is JOLT** Word. It tastes more like REAL Coke than “the real thing” does, thanks to it containing no corn syrup. However, that same corn syrup is what makes Coke Classic better for cooking. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-what-i-said-and-what-i-would-have-said-if-i-didnt-have-issues-to-work-through/101203/126 "2002-04-05T17:01:18Z")
> [@](#): > > Has manhattan put you guys on his payroll or something? No. Many of us don’t require money in order to be civil and non-judgmental towards another human being who has devoted a lot of his time towards our online enjoyment and who has confessed having unresolved issues. Sorry that you don’t fall into that category. Now go know thyself, as Socrates advises, but in the Biblical sense. :wally ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-what-i-said-and-what-i-would-have-said-if-i-didnt-have-issues-to-work-through/101203/127 "2002-04-05T17:05:40Z")
Jolt’s for wimps. Now, if you’re into that caffeine thing, drink XXtra Cola. Stuff even has a warning label on it advising you how it may cause irritability due to so much caffeine. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-what-i-said-and-what-i-would-have-said-if-i-didnt-have-issues-to-work-through/101203/128 "2002-04-05T17:07:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Beastal \* > \*\*Has manhattan put you guys on his payroll or something? > \*\* Yes. Tens of thousands of dollars, in small, unmarked bills have been funneled to my numbered Swiss bank account by **Manhattan**. I’m using the money to fund by bid to either [replace Cecil or become his spokesperson](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=106495). Now with all that money and power, I shall rule the world! Fenris ---
**Author:** ![king\_of\_spain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7cd45c/32.png) [@king\_of\_spain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/king_of_spain)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-what-i-said-and-what-i-would-have-said-if-i-didnt-have-issues-to-work-through/101203/129 "2002-04-05T19:37:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Polycarp \* > \*\*Yeah, but you realize that you’re focusing on two big cola manufacturers who spend inordinate amounts of money advertising to fight over market share, and totally ignore the fact that there are generics and minor third-party colas dying on the vine, as it were. The last guy I ever heard saying, “I want a Royal Crown” was this blond kid named Wills. 🙂 \*\* Yeah! The Coca-Cola and Pepsi companies are just inferior soda CULTS, I say, and those of you who drink Coke and Pepsi are mem… …oh, wait. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-what-i-said-and-what-i-would-have-said-if-i-didnt-have-issues-to-work-through/101203/130 "2002-04-05T19:55:33Z")
A day and a half since this thread was hijacked. i would have thought the mods would have killed it by now. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-what-i-said-and-what-i-would-have-said-if-i-didnt-have-issues-to-work-through/101203/131 "2002-04-05T20:05:37Z")
You weren’t here for “Look out – this thread is headed for Cuba,” were you? (Unfortunately it got scrambled in the UBB-vBB transition.) 250 posts, each and every single one taking off from the previous one in a completely unexpected direction. ---
**Author:** ![Newton\_meter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/57b2e6/32.png) [@Newton\_meter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Newton_meter)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-what-i-said-and-what-i-would-have-said-if-i-didnt-have-issues-to-work-through/101203/132 "2002-04-05T20:17:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Polycarp \* > \*\*You weren’t here for “Look out – this thread is headed for Cuba,” were you? (Unfortunately it got scrambled in the UBB-vBB transition.) 250 posts, each and every single one taking off from the previous one in a completely unexpected direction. \*\* How do one know if a direction is “completely unexpected”? Has anyone else noticed that they use different words for “pop” in different regions of the US? I had a roommate once that called it “soda”. That’s pretty wierd. ---
**Author:** ![Kirkland1244](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kirkland1244](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kirkland1244)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-what-i-said-and-what-i-would-have-said-if-i-didnt-have-issues-to-work-through/101203/133 "2002-04-05T23:07:23Z")
I can’t stand the words “pop” or “soda.” In Texas, and to my knowledge most of the South, we call it Coke. Its all Coke, whether its Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola, Dr Pepper or 7 Up. Kinda like Kleenex. Which mean syou have to be careful. In Texas, you can order a coke, and have Pepsi brought to you. “But I ordered a coke!” “Yeah, that’s what that is, Pepsi.” 😃 Kirk ---
**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2002, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-what-i-said-and-what-i-would-have-said-if-i-didnt-have-issues-to-work-through/101203/134 "2002-04-06T00:03:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DocCathode \* > Goes well with chocolate milk and cartoons from the 1980’s I’d be a bit nervous about drinking milk from the 1980s. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2002, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-what-i-said-and-what-i-would-have-said-if-i-didnt-have-issues-to-work-through/101203/135 "2002-04-06T17:24:09Z")
> [@](#): > > I can’t stand the words “pop” or “soda.” And just what do you have against bicarb or fatherhood? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2002, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-what-i-said-and-what-i-would-have-said-if-i-didnt-have-issues-to-work-through/101203/136 "2002-04-08T03:45:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by king of spain \* > \*\* > > Yeah! The Coca-Cola and Pepsi companies are just inferior soda CULTS, I say, and those of you who drink Coke and Pepsi are mem… > > …oh, wait. 😉 \*\* Soda cult you say? (Cue Music) Come Along, Sing A Song! Feel The Fizz Of Coo-Coo Cola! We’ve Got The Taste That Makes You Merry! We’ve Got The Flavors…Orange, Grape And Cherry! You Belong With Coo-Coo Cola! Which leads me to ask-Why didn’t Dr Nimnull ever realise that the Rescue Rangers were actually sentient beings who deliberately foiled his plans? ---
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2002, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-what-i-said-and-what-i-would-have-said-if-i-didnt-have-issues-to-work-through/101203/137 "2002-04-08T03:49:50Z")
This is bizarre. I thought the point of a hijack was showing everyone and their brother that you were sick of the subject and wanted it to go away. But instead of letting it die, you keep coming back to bump it with more pop shit? For the life of me, I’ll never figure out some of the nonsense I see around here. ---
**Author:** ![Newton\_meter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/57b2e6/32.png) [@Newton\_meter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Newton_meter)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2002, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-what-i-said-and-what-i-would-have-said-if-i-didnt-have-issues-to-work-through/101203/138 "2002-04-08T15:34:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CnoteChris \* > **This is bizarre. I thought the point of a hijack was showing everyone and their brother that you were sick of the subject and wanted it to go away. But instead of letting it die, you keep coming back to bump it with more pop shit?** Ooh, beautiful. One cannot fail to be impressed by the anti-hijack hijack. It’s not so easy, Chris, we’re not even halfway to Cuba. Back to pop, I remember a jingle from the early 80’s that went: “I want a PAAHH PAHH PAAHH, I want a \!”. I can’t remember, for the life of me, if it was “Fresca” or “Shasta” or something else. And what was the “paaah paah pah” crap? Were they singing “pop”? Will inflation every cause you to become **DnoteChris**? Then you lose the alliteration. Maybe **DnoteDhris**? Naah, I don’t like it. ---
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2002, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-what-i-said-and-what-i-would-have-said-if-i-didnt-have-issues-to-work-through/101203/139 "2002-04-08T18:19:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Newton meter \* > \*\*oh, beautiful. One cannot fail to be impressed by the anti-hijack hijack. > > It’s not so easy, Chris, we’re not even halfway to Cuba.\*\* Ahhhh, so _that’s_ the point. A true hijack needs to go on for a specified amount of time before it’s allowed to die so that… that… what’s being accomplished by a hijack of this type again? It’s not even remotely interesting, or even a bit funny, so it can’t be that. But people swarm all over it like it’s the funniest, wittiest, coolest thing they’ve ever seen. When I argued about this before, to no avail incidentally, people posted even _more_ mundane bullshit in an attempt to accomplish something that still eludes me to this day, I assumed the point was to stop the thread. That is, they were sick of the conversation and did what it took to stop it. As much as I find that childish as hell, I’ve let it go till this point without nary a comment from me on it. But I have to admit, it got to the point of ‘What the fuck?’. You want a conversation to stop so you hijack the hell out of it. You’re sick of a conversation so a nonsensical hijack essentially brings it to a halt. Great. You accomplished what you wanted- it’s dead. But instead of letting it die, you bump it every afternoon with a single post adding to the hijack? What’s more, when I mention, or query the people on _why_ this seems to go against what they once argued, you accuse me of trying to outdo you using your own tactics, and that it’s now somehow wrong? I think “bizarre” about sums it up. It also sums up your comments on my username too. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2002, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-what-i-said-and-what-i-would-have-said-if-i-didnt-have-issues-to-work-through/101203/140 "2002-04-08T19:20:59Z")
Obviously, it’s been hijacked into a thread on the quality of “pop” singers! 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-what-i-said-and-what-i-would-have-said-if-i-didnt-have-issues-to-work-through/101203.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-what-i-said-and-what-i-would-have-said-if-i-didnt-have-issues-to-work-through/101203.md?page=8)