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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,159
    edited July 2020
    nonesuch00 said:
    Gordig said:
    vwrangler said:
    zombietaggerung said:
    Cybersox said:
    zombietaggerung said:

    Diet Mountain Dew is the best soda. But I would put A&W a close second, if I'm feeling like a cola.

    A&W isn't a cola, it's a root beer.  Cola's contain the essence of the Kola nut while root beer's distinctive flavor is originally based on a root extract from the sassafrass plant.*    Cola's are also natually caffeinated (unless they've been specifically decaffeinated) whereas Root Beers are naturally caffeine free... though a few brands, like Barq's, actually add caffeine.  A&W is caffeine free, btw.  

    *and then there is birch beer, which tastes almost identical,but is based on birch rather than sassafrass.

    I know. But I'm one of those weirdos who calls all brown sodas "cola". 

    US regionalisms on this are weirdly interesting. There's a big stretch across the southeast where all carbonated soft drinks are "coke" or "cola", no matter what they actually are. (Not unusual to hear "I'd like a 7up coke, thanks" or something like that.) Northeast is soda, I think; midwest is "pop" (or sometimes "soda pop", and the west pretty much does all of it. I don't remember the theories about why this is so.

    (Also, this thread is like the weirdest lite beer commercial ever. "Soda pop! new store software!" And the only actual disagreement of any type is in the "Soda pop!" section.)

    I grew up calling it "pop", and then at some point, for no reason I can discern, transitioned to "soda".

    nonesuch00 said:

    There used to have an independent root beer maker called Barq's when I worked in DFW and had the funniest radio commercials (I think it was the fellow(s?) from Greater Tuna). Anyway, the root beer was much better than the other brands too, until it was bought out and the formula changed to use cheaper raw materials.

    It's hard for me to imagine Barq's ever being anything but vile. If I ask for root beer and you give me Barq's, there might be violence.

    There are a few A&W restaurants near where I live, and the root beer there is brewed fresh and so delicious. My favorite root beer by far, though, is Thomas Kemper. There was a short-lived (no surprise) root beer store near me a while back, so I bought a whole bunch of craft root beers before the store vanished into the æther. Nothing could unseat Kemper, though.

    A&W was what I had originally growing up when I was real little. You may not remember as that drive-in culture was fading already, but there used to be these drive-in diners, picture a combination of DAZ 3D's Moonshine's Diner & Monnshine's Drive-In Theatre, where you'd park, order via an drive-in intercom, and a waitress would bring out the food and you'd pay, all while seated in your car. Some places the waitresses skated out. Also in those days you could order a gallon of A&W Rootbeer (there were at one time  A&W Drive-in Restaurants), brought to you in a gallon milk jug, and that was good rootbeer but the canned and bottled stuff in the store was junk when I was actually old enough to work and try buying some for myself. The A&W Rootbeer in those gallon jugs my parents ordered wasn't brewed fresh by any means, though but I do believe it was brewed normally elsewhere and kegged up and not one of those carbon water fused with 'root beer syrup' dispencers you usually get in modern restaurants.

    I've never lived in a place with artison handcrafted beers and rootbeers though. I've never even driven through Austin, Texas, so if I was handed a handcrafted artisan beer and a bill for $20 I wouldn't get violent but I might wet my pants laughing. laugh

    ....couldn't find an actual photo ofthe A&W stand we used to go to out on S. Lake Drive in Mileaukee but this is pretty much what it looked like.

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  • CybersoxCybersox Posts: 9,632
    McGyver said:
     

    Also... you may want to start keeping a Super Soaker full of holy water, or a flamethrower next to your computer at some point in the near future.

    Just in case.

    I'm sure it'll be just fine.

    Probably.

    A question that just occured to me - if you can convert gasoline into napalm by using a thickening agent like like frozen orange juice or styrofoam, can you make the vampire equivalent with Holy water and jello? 

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,159
    Fixmypcmike said:
    McGyver said:
    So, I suppose we should neither be worried or excited, but instead continue to go about discussing carbonated beverages and assorted meat products in sandwich format until that moment arrives and we see what fate awaits us.

    Sandwich?  SANDWICH!!  Pistols at 10 paces*, Blasphemer!

    *Or pustules at 6-foot social distance, if you want really scary.

    ...or pistils at 10", but that could get rather seedy. 

  • CybersoxCybersox Posts: 9,632
    Taoz said:
    NylonGirl said:

    I think the talk of soda and sandwiches is an indicator of how exciting the new store software is.

    We could start a coke-and-sandwich thread where we can discuss the new forum software.

    Kind of like the Russo Brothers wonderful new film theory/discussion/eating pizza series on YouTube, Pizza Film School...  I could totally get into that.

  • 3Diva3Diva Posts: 12,027
    AllenArt said:

    I think the subject of soda came up to take our minds off of the fact that there will be new store software in just 5 short months (or less). surprise

    You're probably right. Since we basically know nothing about the new store software and since it's a potentially scary change (with the world already going through so much scary change), I think many people would rather relieve the tension with talk of yummy sodas and the great burger vs sandwich debate. lol

  • SpottedKittySpottedKitty Posts: 7,232
    Cybersox said:
    A question that just occured to me - if you can convert gasoline into napalm by using a thickening agent like like frozen orange juice or styrofoam, can you make the vampire equivalent with Holy water and jello? 

    I'm reminded of a story I read where someone prepared for a fight against supernatural critters by filling one of those soda squirter bottles — the old type you can recharge — tossed in a handful of iron filings and got the whole thing blessed. His comment when someone asked about his unusual weapon?

    "Never <bleep> off an engineer!"

  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,710

    https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/423306/the-carbonated-beverage-and-things-named-after-earls-before-the-end-of-the-year-thread

     

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 26,662

    My husband heated up some chicken soup. He just called me to the table, telling me that my burger is getting cold. See, I told you.

  • TorquinoxTorquinox Posts: 4,560

    I think the new store software will be fine. I hope so, anyway. I recommend keeping a backup of all downloaded content on local storage and at least one backup drive. I keep that along with a copy of my whole, unzipped content directory.

     

    The sodas and burgers thing is something else. laugh

  • 3Diva3Diva Posts: 12,027
    barbult said:

    My husband heated up some chicken soup. He just called me to the table, telling me that my burger is getting cold. See, I told you.

    Is he going senile or just being quirky? 

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 26,662
    edited July 2020
    Divamakeup said:
    barbult said:

    My husband heated up some chicken soup. He just called me to the table, telling me that my burger is getting cold. See, I told you.

    Is he going senile or just being quirky? 

    Quirky, and proud of it.

    Edit: He says there is a third option. He is correct and the world just hasn't caught up yet.

    Post edited by barbult on
  • 3Diva3Diva Posts: 12,027
    barbult said:
    Divamakeup said:
    barbult said:

    My husband heated up some chicken soup. He just called me to the table, telling me that my burger is getting cold. See, I told you.

    Is he going senile or just being quirky? 

    Quirky, and proud of it.

    Edit: He says there is a third option. He is correct and the world just hasn't caught up yet.

    ROFL He's definitely quirky. :P Keeps things interesting and fun though, I'm sure! :)

  • TaozTaoz Posts: 10,307
    barbult said:

    My husband heated up some chicken soup. He just called me to the table, telling me that my burger is getting cold. See, I told you.

    They say that for people who only have a hammer everything will start looking like nail.  Maybe his parents fed him only burgers when he was a child?

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 26,662
    Taoz said:
    barbult said:

    My husband heated up some chicken soup. He just called me to the table, telling me that my burger is getting cold. See, I told you.

    They say that for people who only have a hammer everything will start looking like nail.  Maybe his parents fed him only burgers when he was a child?

    Interesting theory. I asked. He said "No, they only fed me nails." laugh

  • TaozTaoz Posts: 10,307

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    barbult said:
    Taoz said:
    barbult said:

    My husband heated up some chicken soup. He just called me to the table, telling me that my burger is getting cold. See, I told you.

    They say that for people who only have a hammer everything will start looking like nail.  Maybe his parents fed him only burgers when he was a child?

    Interesting theory. I asked. He said "No, they only fed me nails." laugh

    Then maybe the problem is that they never gave him a hammer.

  • KeryaKerya Posts: 10,943

    ROTFL !

    Looks like I started something ... can't contribute much to the soft drinks debate (anybody interested in German cola drinks? Coca Cola was great when I was young - no diet whatevers for me!).

     

  • manekiNekomanekiNeko Posts: 1,455
    Torquinox said:

    I think the new store software will be fine. I hope so, anyway. I recommend keeping a backup of all downloaded content on local storage and at least one backup drive. I keep that along with a copy of my whole, unzipped content directory.

     

    The sodas and burgers thing is something else. laugh

    yeah it's pretty wild - but you have no idea... i had a look at the new soda thread.. omg my head is spinning so fast, i had to stop after a dozen posts because my brain started to spasm and take weird shapes... probably trying to cover its ears with no hands or sth XDDDD. and i'm not in an "awake" day ^^

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,097
    Cybersox said:
    McGyver said:
     

    Also... you may want to start keeping a Super Soaker full of holy water, or a flamethrower next to your computer at some point in the near future.

    Just in case.

    I'm sure it'll be just fine.

    Probably.

    A question that just occured to me - if you can convert gasoline into napalm by using a thickening agent like like frozen orange juice or styrofoam, can you make the vampire equivalent with Holy water and jello? 

    That is friggin' GENIUS!
    Better than the scene I gave to my daughter for something she was writing... the good guy is confronting a vampire and has a super soaker pointed at him trying to buy time for other characters to escape and the smarmy arrogant vampire is like "Fool... you believe the old fairy tales... you think holy water will stop me?"... and the hero is like "Oh... uh... No... This is hydrochloric acid... " (Squirt-spuirt-squirt)... 

    Yeah, I know it wouldn't stop them, but it would slow them down and piss them off... especially in that case where the vampire was already weakened.

    Holy Jello... I wonder what would happen if you tricked a vampire into doing holy-jello shots?
     

  • manekiNekomanekiNeko Posts: 1,455
    edited July 2020

     

    the good guy is confronting a vampire and has a super soaker pointed at him trying to buy time for other characters to escape and the smarmy arrogant vampire is like "Fool... you believe the old fairy tales... you think holy water will stop me?"... and the hero is like "Oh... uh... No... This is hydrochloric acid... " (Squirt-spuirt-squirt)... 

    brilliant! XDDDDD... and this kind of stuff is exactly the reason why i keep coming back to this thread again and again, while i had sworn to quit yesterday already. but i'll quit today. i swear. *takes a big thread whiff*
    how can you get quotes out of quotes without the whole thing falling apart???

    Post edited by manekiNeko on
  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 109,705
    manekiNeko said:

     

    the good guy is confronting a vampire and has a super soaker pointed at him trying to buy time for other characters to escape and the smarmy arrogant vampire is like "Fool... you believe the old fairy tales... you think holy water will stop me?"... and the hero is like "Oh... uh... No... This is hydrochloric acid... " (Squirt-spuirt-squirt)... 

    brilliant! XDDDDD... and this kind of stuff is exactly the reason why i keep coming back to this thread again and again, while i had sworn to quit yesterday already. but i'll quit today. i swear. *takes a big thread whiff*
    how can you get quotes out of quotes without the whole thing falling apart???

    I click the Source button at the top-right of the format controls, then edit the HTML, if quotes need adjusting - though if you just want to insert a paragraph, as long as the post used paragraphs and not line breaks, place the cursor at the end of a paragraph, presss return to start a new paragraph within the quote, then press return again and the line will cease to be quoted (or just click the " button in the formatting tools).

  • manekiNekomanekiNeko Posts: 1,455
    edited July 2020
    Richard Haseltine said:
    manekiNeko said:

     

    the good guy is confronting a vampire and has a super soaker pointed at him trying to buy time for other characters to escape and the smarmy arrogant vampire is like "Fool... you believe the old fairy tales... you think holy water will stop me?"... and the hero is like "Oh... uh... No... This is hydrochloric acid... " (Squirt-spuirt-squirt)... 

    brilliant! XDDDDD... and this kind of stuff is exactly the reason why i keep coming back to this thread again and again, while i had sworn to quit yesterday already. but i'll quit today. i swear. *takes a big thread whiff*
    how can you get quotes out of quotes without the whole thing falling apart???

    I click the Source button at the top-right of the format controls, then edit the HTML, if quotes need adjusting - though if you just want to insert a paragraph, as long as the post used paragraphs and not line breaks, place the cursor at the end of a paragraph, presss return to start a new paragraph within the quote, then press return again and the line will cease to be quoted (or just click the " button in the formatting tools).

    mkay.. i hope i manage next time. with single-level quotes, or if you want to "copy"/quote all the whole bunch as is, it's easy - but when you try to extricate one from the others... thanks Richard ^^

    EDIT: yeah.. i obvs didn't quit, hey? blush

    Post edited by manekiNeko on
  • 3Diva3Diva Posts: 12,027
    McGyver said:
    Cybersox said:
    McGyver said:
     

    Also... you may want to start keeping a Super Soaker full of holy water, or a flamethrower next to your computer at some point in the near future.

    Just in case.

    I'm sure it'll be just fine.

    Probably.

    A question that just occured to me - if you can convert gasoline into napalm by using a thickening agent like like frozen orange juice or styrofoam, can you make the vampire equivalent with Holy water and jello? 

    That is friggin' GENIUS!
    Better than the scene I gave to my daughter for something she was writing... the good guy is confronting a vampire and has a super soaker pointed at him trying to buy time for other characters to escape and the smarmy arrogant vampire is like "Fool... you believe the old fairy tales... you think holy water will stop me?"... and the hero is like "Oh... uh... No... This is hydrochloric acid... " (Squirt-spuirt-squirt)... 

    Yeah, I know it wouldn't stop them, but it would slow them down and piss them off... especially in that case where the vampire was already weakened.

    Holy Jello... I wonder what would happen if you tricked a vampire into doing holy-jello shots?
     

    ROFL That's what I was thinking when someone mentioned jello as a thickening agent: Holy Water Jello shots. :P Funny enough, I've never had a jello shot. They do sound tasty though. The opportunity to try one has just never presented itself. 

  • RuphussRuphuss Posts: 2,631

    wasnt this thread about DAZ being able to run a shop at all ?

  • shadowhawk1shadowhawk1 Posts: 2,208

    I am sure the store migration will get along jsut fine with the rest of 2020. 

  • miladyderyni_173d399f47miladyderyni_173d399f47 Posts: 2,723
    kyoto kid said:
    nonesuch00 said:
    Gordig said:
    vwrangler said:
    zombietaggerung said:
    Cybersox said:
    zombietaggerung said:

    Diet Mountain Dew is the best soda. But I would put A&W a close second, if I'm feeling like a cola.

    A&W isn't a cola, it's a root beer.  Cola's contain the essence of the Kola nut while root beer's distinctive flavor is originally based on a root extract from the sassafrass plant.*    Cola's are also natually caffeinated (unless they've been specifically decaffeinated) whereas Root Beers are naturally caffeine free... though a few brands, like Barq's, actually add caffeine.  A&W is caffeine free, btw.  

    *and then there is birch beer, which tastes almost identical,but is based on birch rather than sassafrass.

    I know. But I'm one of those weirdos who calls all brown sodas "cola". 

    US regionalisms on this are weirdly interesting. There's a big stretch across the southeast where all carbonated soft drinks are "coke" or "cola", no matter what they actually are. (Not unusual to hear "I'd like a 7up coke, thanks" or something like that.) Northeast is soda, I think; midwest is "pop" (or sometimes "soda pop", and the west pretty much does all of it. I don't remember the theories about why this is so.

    (Also, this thread is like the weirdest lite beer commercial ever. "Soda pop! new store software!" And the only actual disagreement of any type is in the "Soda pop!" section.)

    I grew up calling it "pop", and then at some point, for no reason I can discern, transitioned to "soda".

    nonesuch00 said:

    There used to have an independent root beer maker called Barq's when I worked in DFW and had the funniest radio commercials (I think it was the fellow(s?) from Greater Tuna). Anyway, the root beer was much better than the other brands too, until it was bought out and the formula changed to use cheaper raw materials.

    It's hard for me to imagine Barq's ever being anything but vile. If I ask for root beer and you give me Barq's, there might be violence.

    There are a few A&W restaurants near where I live, and the root beer there is brewed fresh and so delicious. My favorite root beer by far, though, is Thomas Kemper. There was a short-lived (no surprise) root beer store near me a while back, so I bought a whole bunch of craft root beers before the store vanished into the æther. Nothing could unseat Kemper, though.

    A&W was what I had originally growing up when I was real little. You may not remember as that drive-in culture was fading already, but there used to be these drive-in diners, picture a combination of DAZ 3D's Moonshine's Diner & Monnshine's Drive-In Theatre, where you'd park, order via an drive-in intercom, and a waitress would bring out the food and you'd pay, all while seated in your car. Some places the waitresses skated out. Also in those days you could order a gallon of A&W Rootbeer (there were at one time  A&W Drive-in Restaurants), brought to you in a gallon milk jug, and that was good rootbeer but the canned and bottled stuff in the store was junk when I was actually old enough to work and try buying some for myself. The A&W Rootbeer in those gallon jugs my parents ordered wasn't brewed fresh by any means, though but I do believe it was brewed normally elsewhere and kegged up and not one of those carbon water fused with 'root beer syrup' dispencers you usually get in modern restaurants.

    I've never lived in a place with artison handcrafted beers and rootbeers though. I've never even driven through Austin, Texas, so if I was handed a handcrafted artisan beer and a bill for $20 I wouldn't get violent but I might wet my pants laughing. laugh

    ....couldn't find an actual photo ofthe A&W stand we used to go to out on S. Lake Drive in Mileaukee but this is pretty much what it looked like.

    There was an A&W stand in my Florida hometown when I was little. I still have (somewhere, boxed up) this itty-bitty A&W mug I got as a preschooler. It was thick enough glass it was practically unbreakable. (Evidence: I last recall seeing it when my kids were in middle school, 50+ years & lots of moves after I got it.) I think it held less than 1/2 cup/250mls. So not enough to give me a (cane) sugar high. LOL Thanks for the memories.

  • CybersoxCybersox Posts: 9,632
    kyoto kid said:
    nonesuch00 said:
     

    ....couldn't find an actual photo ofthe A&W stand we used to go to out on S. Lake Drive in Mileaukee but this is pretty much what it looked like.

    When I was a little kid we lived in Albuqueque for a few years and there was a A&W drive in just a few blocks from the house and it looked pretty much exactly like that.  We went there a lot because my little borother could get a kid's size rootbeer float and a "baby-burger", while the rest of us got regular floats and Teen Burgers (which had bacon) or Mama burgers (regular burgers) with fries.  Then we moved to Alamogordo, which didn't even have a McDonalds or a full department store, but if we drove 90 miles there was an A&W just as you came out of the mountains into El Paso, and since we went to El Paso or Juarez around twice a month, we hit that A&W up quite a bit as well.  (I should note that the speed limt was 100 mph back through the desert back then, so it's not as bad as it sounds.)  Then we moved back to the DC area and didn't see another A&W for something like 15 years... and when I did, they weren't drive ins anymore and served hot dogs instead of burgers.  Bummer.

  • tsaristtsarist Posts: 1,640
    FirstBastion said:

    ...bad memories...

    Yeah, I know right?

    I guess you lot are hell bent on migrating to new software, but you FINALLY have THIS site working properly.

    I remember the disaster from the last migration. I thought the last site was okay, but you lot said it was held together with duct & prayers. The new site went down & it looked a bloody mess when you finally got it set up.

    You went through a phase where all the junk you have on your pages crashed my browser. You got that fixed (you still have too much going on on each page, but...)

    So, why the change this time? It ain't broke, so why fix it?

    Are our purchases safe?
  • barbultbarbult Posts: 26,662
    tsarist said:
    FirstBastion said:

    ...bad memories...

     

    Yeah, I know right?

     

    I guess you lot are hell bent on migrating to new software, but you FINALLY have THIS site working properly.

     

    I remember the disaster from the last migration. I thought the last site was okay, but you lot said it was held together with duct & prayers. The new site went down & it looked a bloody mess when you finally got it set up.

     

    You went through a phase where all the junk you have on your pages crashed my browser. You got that fixed (you still have too much going on on each page, but...)

     

    So, why the change this time? It ain't broke, so why fix it?

     

    Are our purchases safe?

    But it IS broken. How often has there been a day with all sales working as advertised? A better store platform will hopefully work better and give Cris a less hectic time in the sales errors thread.

  • mrposermrposer Posts: 1,134

    Every day of 2020 seems like a month so "by the end of the year" seems like way way in the future.

  • zombietaggerungzombietaggerung Posts: 3,893
    mrposer said:

    Every day of 2020 seems like a month so "by the end of the year" seems like way way in the future.

    That's true. And at this point literally anything could happen between now and Dec 31.surprise

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