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10-09-2008, 05:18 PM
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How does my unfamiliarity with a phrase make me pretentious? I didn't make any judgments.
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Your willingness to instruct the OP on what a real "Ivy" is, is pretentious. The OP (as well as I) am well aware what an Ivy League school is. Which is why we call it a Southern Ivy.
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10-09-2008, 05:43 PM
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I was exiled to New Jersey (Cherry Hill and Bridgewater) for 5 hellish years. So, yeah, I know what a "bubbler" and a "tonic" are. And yes, we did indeed lose the War to Suppress Yankee Arrogance.  
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10-09-2008, 06:34 PM
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I was exiled to New Jersey (Cherry Hill and Bridgewater) for 5 hellish years. So, yeah, I know what a "bubbler" and a "tonic" are. And yes, we did indeed lose the War to Suppress Yankee Arrogance. |
I was about to say, I've never even been up there but I know that stuff.
I thought bubbler was more of a Wisconsin thing though?
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Overall, though, it's the bigness of the car that counts the most. Because when something bad happens in a really big car – accidentally speeding through the middle of a gang of unruly young people who have been taunting you in a drive-in restaurant, for instance – it happens very far away – way out at the end of your fenders. It's like a civil war in Africa; you know, it doesn't really concern you too much. - P.J. O'Rourke
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10-09-2008, 07:16 PM
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twisting vines...
Those of us who grew up among these schools often lovingly--and I do mean lovingly--refer to such group of schools as the Kudzu League. I don't know of a finer education offered than at some of these schools,especially since two close family members went to Vandy and various other friends and family went to other Kudzu schools, but the "Ivy League" was already defined before most of these gained prominence. And with the proliferation of Kudzu in the South...it's just a vine thing!
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10-09-2008, 07:50 PM
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I thought bubbler was more of a Wisconsin thing though?
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I did, too! I didn't know it was a Northeastern thing, too.
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10-09-2008, 08:17 PM
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My original statement was not intended to sound arrogant. As someone who, for more than 3 decades, associated "Ivy League" with a specific small group of Universities in the north east, it made me "giggle", because to me, it would be the equivalent of saying the Big East (basketball, not football) is "The Northern SEC". There is only one SEC, as there is only one Ivy League.
No pretentions, no arrangonce intended.
PS Tonic water = club soda.
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10-10-2008, 01:20 AM
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PS Tonic water = club soda.
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According to Wiki Tonic Water is a carbonated beverage flavored with quinine and Club Soda (aka Seltzer, or Carbonated Water) is simply water infused with carbon to make it bubbly (no flavor). . . .
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10-10-2008, 01:51 AM
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Thanks. I didn't know if it was a funny, old fashioned way of calling cough syrup something else.
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10-10-2008, 11:38 AM
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PS Tonic water = club soda.
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actually, in New England, “tonic” can be used to simply mean soda. It’s generally an older term though. My grandparents still use it. And jimmies and frappes are a general New England thing, not just Massachusetts as Nanners52674 said. I grew up in New Hampshire, and moved to MA, and I heard them used everywhere. Although, in Rhode Island, a frappe is actually called a “cabinet”
I heart New England.
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