The term gets used a lot in gaming circles. Usually to describe a break in the normal gaming routine, "Only 3 players showed up for this weeks game so we broke out a copy of Pandemic and had a one-off boardgame night."
Gary it's increasingly harder to pin down a regional saying these days in the age of the internet. We post, chat, twitter and text one another from all over the US and the world at large. People's colloquialisms get spread around rather rapidly.
My dad (Chicago native) would ask for a "pop" when referring to a soft drinks where as someone from Texas would ask for a "coke." Some other parts of the country would ask for a "soda."
How long do you think that regional dialect difference is going to last in this day and age?
--Iron Man Tangent--
Someone needs to step up their comic book reading game.
My dad (Chicago native) would ask for a "pop" when referring to a soft drinks
"Pop" as a generic catch-all for fizzy drinks was something I thought was a NW-England thing. Tin of pop, "Take these bottles back to the pop man", the pop wagon... The brand the pop-men sold was "Alpine", this was moulded into the glass bottles which were very robust and had a 10p refund value - but were highly-valued by home brewers, like say, my dad. Ring a bell for anyone else?
Never heard of pop being used in the USA before. Every day a school day on t3h Strut.
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I like going to the theater. Dickhead.
really.
NZ one-off useage: Check.
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Gary it's increasingly harder to pin down a regional saying these days in the age of the internet. We post, chat, twitter and text one another from all over the US and the world at large. People's colloquialisms get spread around rather rapidly.
My dad (Chicago native) would ask for a "pop" when referring to a soft drinks where as someone from Texas would ask for a "coke." Some other parts of the country would ask for a "soda."
How long do you think that regional dialect difference is going to last in this day and age?
--Iron Man Tangent--
Someone needs to step up their comic book reading game.
"Pop" as a generic catch-all for fizzy drinks was something I thought was a NW-England thing. Tin of pop, "Take these bottles back to the pop man", the pop wagon... The brand the pop-men sold was "Alpine", this was moulded into the glass bottles which were very robust and had a 10p refund value - but were highly-valued by home brewers, like say, my dad. Ring a bell for anyone else?
Never heard of pop being used in the USA before. Every day a school day on t3h Strut.
Then the assistant rips her own head off and there's a chimp. And then the chimp rips its head off and there's Patrick McGoohan.
A: Yes.