Do you order pop or soda?
This interesting map showed up on Strange Maps (another one of my favorite blogs) today and I found it really fascinating!
I usually order a “coke” because I like Coke best of all, but I refer to all soft drinks as “pop”. I have for my whole life, except for my early years when they were “refrescos”. (I think I drank mostly Fanta back then.)
In recent years I have heard the word “soda” used with increasing frequency here in Oregon (and even, ahem, said it myself a few times), but I still get the Arm & Hammer logo in my mind when I hear it!
The Strange Maps post has some interesting information on it about pop (and soda). Like the name “pop” came from the sound the cork made, and that it is considered unsophisticated by some… who knew?
I also didn’t know that most of the people in the South refer to all soft drinks as “coke”.
What do you call it?
Did you see the sunset last night?
It was Austin…
(click to enlarge)
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I suspected I’d score pretty high on this one…
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Microsoft has a very cool site called Live Maps. You can look at your property or other sites from 4 different satellite angles! Google Earth is very nice, but with this you can view from 4 different angles—not just straight down.
Tip: Type in your city, in the upper right search window, or just zoom way in. Click “Bird’s Eye”, then rotate (Oooo!)
Here for your enjoyment, is Newberg Friends Church, and Friends Center (from the east):
Dundee’s famous Purple House (from the west):
And Dundee’s famous traffic bottleneck (from the east):
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