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spook102956 (
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01.24.08 (5:17 pm)
I like Coca Cola Zero too. Regular diet coke is about my least favorite diet cola, but Zero is great. However, I know some don't agree with me. When it first came out, I told my husband I was going to buy some and try it. He said, "Well, some one at work told me they didn't like it and that they knew why they call it zero." But I like it alot. Tastes just about like real coke to me.
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OldSchool (
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01.24.08 (5:23 pm)
Fight the power, Dave. I once boycotted Rocky Rococo pizza for about 8 years because they raised the price on the value meal I used to get from 4.98 to 5.07. I don't think they noticed.
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auntconi (
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01.24.08 (5:23 pm)
Hello my friend ~
I also do not like Cold Stone Creamery.
Some family members just get so excited about that place and 'what they can do with your order' but I did not like it ... at all! I didn't want to waste the calories ~ give me Blue Bell, or here in Michigan I like Stroh's Ice Cream.
Hmmm, maybe I'd better make a trip to the store for some ice cream. Now look what you've done!
So are you getting lonesome for family and some of the 'normal' chaos of one's life?
See you at the next posting!
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PastorDave (
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01.24.08 (5:24 pm)
Reply to: spook102956
In my opinion, it doesn't taste just like real Coke. I think the best drink in the world, including juices and alcoholic beverages and mixed drinks, etc., is Coke. Surely there will be CocaCola in heaven. Coke Zero tastes bad, but not nearly as badly as other diet drinks. With ice, and a strong thirst, and heavy gulps, I can tell myself it is good. So, why do I indulge in diet drinks? I drink lots of carbonated sodas, and I do not want to weigh 400 pounds.
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PastorDave (
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01.24.08 (5:29 pm)
Reply to: auntconi
Perhaps I will sit here and do some marathon posting? It will be the chronicle of a mind in deterioration, speeded to demise by an ancient laptop and a dial-up connection, encouraged by demented t-Blog friends.
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surrogate (
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01.24.08 (5:31 pm)
Bryers Butter Pecan has been my favorite Packaged Ice cream flavor for years... Plenty of Pecans (and they're salted) and still a few hints of vanilla beans in there.
A real treat? A float (either Root Beer, or Vernors - which for you folks not familiar with it is a Ginger-Ale we think is pretty good here in Michigan) made with Butter Pecan. You always get a treat at the the end, since a couple of nuts will invariably fall to the bottom of the glass during the eating and drinking. MMmmmmmmm.
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PastorDave (
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01.24.08 (5:32 pm)
Reply to: OldSchool
Yep, the price of a "value meal" continues to skyrocket. Some of the ones at McD's are up to 8 bucks. Still, I believe, the buns are smaller, pickles less numerous, and fries shorter. Remember when fries were long? And they tasted better.
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PastorDave (
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01.24.08 (5:37 pm)
Reply to: surrogate
Salted? Now that, my friend, sounds great. All my life I have enjoyed many varieties of butter pecan, and most have titillated my palate with great satisfaction. Yet never known to my budded taste has been the salted pecan with ice cream. This island seems to shut down at 10 p.m., but maybe I can find a Quick Trip with your brand of butter pecan. Heck. Who am I kidding? This place is as likely to have a Quick Trip as to have a Motel 6 with a bed that vibrates for a quarter. Hey, those beds are kind of neat.
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mimi (
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01.24.08 (5:48 pm)
oh, you poor baby! and I believe that good butter pecan was created by the Devil himself! Sam used to bring home hagen daaz (sp) and I used to help him by eating the pecans...learned to LOVE that stuff and at least in the case of haagen daaz, the pints have no brakes! LOL! Rich folks just do not know how to live a good life! Enjoy mother nature and leave the rest! xoxox
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fractalmom (
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01.24.08 (6:05 pm)
Reply to: surrogate
Vernors RAWKS !!
posted by:
fractalmom (
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post date:
01.24.08 (6:12 pm)
in the world of butter pecan ice cream there is awesome (Brewsters - a franchise here in ohio and pennsylvania, not sure where else, but at brewsters they call it WHITE TURTLE), and really REALLY good - Breyers all natural that surrogate talks about...
and then there is the rest. and they just leave you wanting more of what you don't have. which is probably why the devil came into the equation LOL.
when i ws in sc...we were on edisto beach. there was a piggly wiggly and a liquor store, and a few restaurants. that ws IT !! I had time for lots of reflection, and as i said before, watching bbc reruns which I find amusing.
take your butter pecan, and your laptop, and go watch a sunset, and write a sermon on the wonders that God has given us in this beautiful land/world. write about our stewardship of the earth, and of each other. write about friends, and how people can come into your life for no reason at all (say, um...tblog?) and yet, can say or do something that can be profound for you. then ask the congregation how they think God answers prayers?
Get DEEP pd. Get REAL deep. Reflect. Don't whine about missing everything LOL. make lemonade !!
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fractalmom (
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post date:
01.24.08 (6:12 pm)
good GRIEF!! i am sure i am sleep depraved - no wait, thats dePRIVED...sorry. didn't mean to rant at ya LOLOL.
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auntconi (
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post date:
01.24.08 (6:14 pm)
Reply to: PastorDave ~
"I think I will do some marathon posting, speeded to demise by an ancient laptop and a dial-up connection, encouraged by demented t-Blog friends..."
You are at the right place here
~ complete with butter pecan ice cream (of various brands) ~ and would this be sitting in the parking lot at Piggly Wiggly???
:D
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PastorDave (
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01.24.08 (6:21 pm)
Reply to: mimi
Thanks, I've been needing a "poor baby" from someone. I knew I couod count on you! And I think you have spelled it correctly. The gourmet freezer ice cream is good. I've stayed away from Ben And Jerry's because of their too-well-publicized social liberalism. Well, I've downed a pint or two, and grudgingly admit that it is good.
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PastorDave (
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01.24.08 (6:24 pm)
Reply to: auntconi
No more Piggly Wiggly! I'm using the dial-up service of a friend. Amazingly, I can use an access number from Savannah, which is a local call from here. Five miles out of town is long distance, but an hour and a state away is considered local! However...I do have a sense of debt to Piggly Wiggly for the free use of their wi-fi yesterday. Maybe I should go there for some more ice cream? Yep.
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auntconi (
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post date:
01.24.08 (6:25 pm)
Reply to: PastorDave
Next subject ~ Diet Coke! I never could stand the aftertaste the 'artificial sweetener' would leave in my mouth, so I avoided Diet Coke, or any diet beverage. However, I tried Diet Cherry Coke, and that was better than Diet Coke. Then they came out with Diet Coke with lime ~ I really enjoy this one. I don't taste the lime and have no aftertaste from the sweetener. I also did not want all those extra calories from regular Coke, so I drink Diet Coke w/lime now. Love it! Have you tried it yet?
Now, all reports say that 'diet carbonated beverages' are 'bad for us' ~ but we have to have something to drink. Well we 'could' drink water, I suppose, but nawwww! :D
See ya'
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auntconi (
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01.24.08 (6:27 pm)
Reply to: PastorDave
Yeppers ~ that's a winner ~ good ol' Piggly Wiggly ~ and they 'just happen to have ice cream' ~ cool!
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PastorDave (
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01.24.08 (6:27 pm)
Reply to: fractalmom
Now, there's the difference between yourself and mimi. She says "poor baby" and gives me a cyberhug. You tell me to "quit whining" and give me a cyberbuttkick! So, what happens to your poor hubby when he gets down-in-the-mouth and needs a little cheering from his sweet wife?
It's all fun! I like you just the way you are.
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PastorDave (
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01.24.08 (6:31 pm)
Reply to: fractalmom
"sleep depraved"? Now that is an interesting moral condition. Surely there would be an edict from the Vatican, or my own dear old SBC, of how we even sin in our sleep.
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PirateGirl (
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post date:
01.24.08 (7:03 pm)
- Mickey-D's - there should be a warning on the wrappers - "Warning - Object in wrapper may appear larger than in commercial"
posted by:
spook102956 (
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post date:
01.24.08 (7:46 pm)
I am definitely the expert on diet drinks. Regular diet coke is the worst. (or almost, read on). Diet Dr. Pepper the best. I disagree with auntconni. The only thing worse than regular diet coke is lime diet coke or cherry diet coke. Cherry tastes like cough syrup and lime diet coke like bug spray. That's how I've described them for years. You ask me how I know what bug spray would taste like, well I'm sure diet lime and bug spray are one in the same. Awful! I like diet Big Red, though. But Diet Dr. Pepper remains the best. Coke Zero comes in a close second. I also like Diet Dr. Pepper Berries & Cream.
posted by:
bawdy (
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post date:
01.25.08 (12:15 pm)
If their quarter pounder is your favourite burger, you need to have someone cook you a real one.
posted by:
Secret (
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post date:
01.25.08 (7:27 pm)
Your wife is going to be so mad at you for eating all that junk - ice cream! - 1/4 lbers - coke. Bet she doesn't let you go off alone again. See, if she had stayed with you on this vacation, you would NOT be getting to have all this fun. A blessing in disguise.
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Cuz (
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post date:
01.26.08 (4:22 pm)
Bless your heart Pd...poor, poor, pitiful you!!!
Shoulders slumped, sad-eyed, head down, bottom lip drooped, pout,pout and boo-hoo.
Nawh!!! I vote for the cyber butt-kick!!! Lay off the cokes and ice cream or you'll need your next vacation at the "***farm".
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PastorDave (
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post date:
01.26.08 (6:04 pm)
Reply to: Cuz
Cuz! I've been trying to call you. Give me a call right away, even tonight. Your phone numbers do not work.
posted by:
sebastianjoshua (
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post date:
01.27.08 (5:30 pm)
you threw your ice cream, you complaint 1/4 McD... wow
i can say that you are really lucky to have that kinda food... at my place, McD or KFC or PizzaHut or simillar of these are really damn expensive.
i cannot afford to buy that, even once a month... if my kids yell at me coz i'm stingy... yeap, i have to save monies for their future
smile always :-)
posted by:
cuz (
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post date:
01.28.08 (3:16 pm)
Reply to: PastorDave
I don't have a phone at all anymore. That's how I spell P-E-A-C-E-!!! The neighbor across the road was making me NUTZ! You'll have to email me. I would say you could stop by...but since you already did that, only to find me away from home I don't know that it would be a practical idea. I do hate that I missed seeing you. I could have given you a REAL "butt-kick". Heck, I REALLY hate missing that chance. After finding your card in the door, I ran inside to call you, but had misplaced your cell number. It is unbelievably hard to catch either of us these days. David was actually home and sleeping, but he never heard you knock. He was sleeping like a rock because the grandson had kept him awake the night before.
I have an actual email account you can contact me...I'll email you the address. It is my favorite route of communication.
posted by:
intricategirl (
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post date:
01.28.08 (4:38 pm)
I used to be really hooked on Diet Coke, or Diet Coke with Lime. I finally decided to give it up, and switched to Blueberry White Tea. It's good, but I get really funny looks when I drink it since it has a suspicious yellow color. And even though I have been off carbonated beverages for over 6 months, there isn't a day that goes by that I don't have that addiction call out to me. It's that feeling I get in the morning that I'm missing the incredible surge I'd get from the first sip of the day. Or the bite from the lime on the back of my tongue.
Even though I've left my addiction, it certainly hasn't left me.
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surrogate (
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post date:
01.29.08 (6:40 am)
You've not posted since returning... No vacation roundup? Overall impression? -Maybe a little opus on the agony you went through before making the decision to purchase one of those classy timeshares?
You did buy one, didn't you?
I need a place to crash in Hilton Head.
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auntconi (
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post date:
01.30.08 (11:51 am)
Hey there PD ~ I am checking in to see if you are doing all right... and then I see surrogate's post along these same lines...
You didn't ~ I know you didn't!
... but did you get eaten by a shark???
naw ~ we'd have heard something on the news if so!
Okay ~ I give up!
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If you know what's good for you mister...
you had better report in soon ...
we're going to count to ten ...
one
two
three
four
five
six
seven
eight
nine
... here we come, ready or not!!!
posted by:
kurtmaddox (
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post date:
01.31.08 (12:00 am)
OMG! (Gosh version!) Coke Zero is definite proof that there is, in fact, intelligent design to the universe!!!! See how alike we really are? ;-)
posted by:
Cuz (
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post date:
01.31.08 (4:17 pm)
Where the "heckanannies" are you Cuz'in PD?
Looks like I'm gonna have to borrow a phone, just to track you down.
