Re: PBM/PBeM List of Lists

From: silver@phoenyx.net (Karen J. Cravens)

Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 00:00:00 +0000

In article <mirKhLAMUb4zEwDg@phildee.demon.co.uk>,
Phil Shulkind <phil@phildee.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>It's worse than that, I've not even *heard* of Mountain Dew. But then
>you've probably never heard of Old Peculiar or London Pride. We've
>plenty of excellent mood-altering chemicals available here as well!

I have to confess to inside information:  on another newsgroup (or
mailing list, I forget) I read, a Brit had just remarked that he'd
never heard of MD, so I figured I was safe.  :}

It's a sort of radioactive yellow-green (I suppose it's supposed to
imply that there is something related to citrus fruit in it, but I
don't think there actually is), and has the most caffeine of any
major soft drink, which some people don't realize because they
assume only brown drinks are caffeinated.  (A competitor has come
out with "Surge" and is playing up the caffeinated aspect, but it
remains to be seen whether it'll catch on... it has slightly more
caff than Dew.)  Anyway, it used to be sold in green bottles with a
cartoon hillbilly on them; "mountain dew" is (or used to be, anyway)
a slang term for bootleg whiskey.  (Hmm. My dictionary doesn't
indicate that that's an Americanism.  I always assumed it was.)

Karen

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Re: PBM/PBeM List of Lists
silver@phoenyx.net (Karen J. Cravens)
Mon, 28 Jul 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Re: PBM/PBeM List of Lists
Phil Shulkind <phil@phildee.demon.co.uk>
Tue, 29 Jul 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Re: PBM/PBeM List of Lists
silver@phoenyx.net (Karen J. Cravens)
Tue, 29 Jul 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Re: PBM/PBeM List of Lists
Phil Shulkind <phil@phildee.demon.co.uk>
Wed, 30 Jul 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Re: PBM/PBeM List of Lists
silver@phoenyx.net (Karen J. Cravens)
Thu, 31 Jul 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Re: PBM/PBeM List of Lists
Phil Shulkind <phil@phildee.demon.co.uk>
Fri, 01 Aug 1997 00:00:00 +0000
PBM/PBeM List of Lists
godot22@earthlink.net (PJ Killian)
Mon, 28 Jul 1997 00:00:00 +0000