white guy can't jump/black guy can't swim
 

Hmm. I must be either part black or part jewish. Will investigate.

Maybe all the orange soda requesters were Mormon. Isn't there a bustling black Mormon population in California?* I have a Mormon friend (since we are getting into a rash of purely anecdotal personal experience stories, I will continue this sentence) who often asks for orange soda or root beer because he can't drink caffeine and I guess ordering those things breaks up the Sprite/water monotony. Living on the edge, I tell you.



*I don't really believe this.

TV Guide
 

Yeah! There's this family that we know from our town beach, and the mother is black (from Africa -- although I can't remember the country -- she's not American). She's a pediatrician and her husband (who is from Scotland, although with a very peculiar, non-Scottish accent, but I digress) is a trader (they're, I'm told (and this is a direct quote), a "real power couple" to use a really QUEER term from the 90s). Anyway, the point is, she is a total amazon -- SUPER tall and gorgeous. I overheard her say she was on her college track team, and has the figure to prove it -- and she swims beautifully -- very graceful. Their 3 daughters swim like fish (well, only 2 of them -- the third one is still too young, but I'm sure she WILL swim like a fish when the time is right.)

All by way of saying, I AGREE WITH GWNC**!



**Is this where I put the "Hi Thurgreed!" comment?

white guy can't jump/black guy can't swim
 

I love root beer, but I think this, too, may be a southern thing. Some of my southern family freak for orange sodas, though I think it tastes like pop-rocks in seltzer. I had a French friend who was wild for orange soda, too.

Odd, how many things that in the south are just "food" up here become "soul food" or something. I again state my belief that social, cultural and geographic racial integration between blacks & whites is in reality far more advanced in the south than in the rest of the country.

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Mellifluous names of NPR personnel, in reverse order of mellifluousness:

• Lakshmi Singh (swoon!)
• Renee Montagne
• Noah Adams
• Ketzel Levine
• Andrei Codrescu
• Daniel Pinkwater
• Korva Coleman
• Don Gonyea
• Mandalit del Barco
• Mara Liasson
• Margot Adler
• Daniel Zwerdling
• Bailey White

Regrettable names of NPR personnel (in no particular order):

• Bob Boilen
• Suzanne Bona
• BJ Leiderman
• Terry Gross
• Kevin Kling
• Pam Fessler
• Ira Flatow
• Corey Flintoff
• Brooke Gladstone
• Dick Gordon ('cause my brother's nickname for his penis is "Gordon")
• Snigdha Prakash (hot and cold on this one)
• Cokie Roberts
• Tavis Smiley

white guy can't jump/black guy can't float
 

Would it be better if he called it aioli? Since that's what they serve in many fine restaurants - which I still can't eat due to food allergy.
Once I asked what was in the aioli (it varies from place to place) but the main ingredient is always mayo.

Bored on a conference call; still thinking about public radio
 

I did not need to know that. Really.

Though it makes a good poll -- what do all y'all who have penises call them?

white guy can't jump/black guy can't float
 

No. That's still wrong.

-TL

white guy can't jump/black guy can't float
 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't aioli a fancy name for "garlic flavored mayo"?

white guy can't jump/black guy can't swim
 

It's because there's more sugar in orange pop and root beer than any other type of pop other than mountain dew. Southerners tend to drink the stuff with more sugar. Also diabetics are aware of the sugar content so that if there's an insulin reaction - always reach for the orange crush or mountain dew if you have a choice.

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I met one called "Zorro" once.

-T(time to go home, having used up my posting ration for the week already)L

white guy can't jump/black guy can't float
 

Yes, it's a fancy word for "flavored mayo" it's just that TexLex finds this combo wrong, but many restaurants serve aioli with fries. Also, have you never dipped fries into tartar sauce? Again, fancy mayo.

Bored on a conference call; still thinking about public radio
 

Other popular literary references I have heard include "John Thomas" and "Queequeg's Spear".

I, too, have exhausted my posting ration. Damn. (Anyone want to lend me a sock?)

Bored on a conference call; still thinking about public radio
 

You rang?
My favorite was He-Man, master of the universe.

Bored on a conference call; still thinking about public radio
 

Pick me! Pick me!

I think R.P. is sick of me anyways. I could rename myself Non-Fictitious Force!

Bored on a conference call; still thinking about public radio
 

You know, what's really scary, is that we're usually around at the same time.
I'd say it's like we're the same person, only I know that's wrong.