I'm giving up pop for a year

[opebo]

Your youth sounds like it occurred ... in the 1940s.

You have a point on both counts. In fact, up until age 13, looking back, it was ludicrously posh relatively speaking.

Beautiful house.  Btw, how old are you? You were alive in the 1940s?  I thought you were just 60 years old or so.

And also, btw, what was your father's business that enriched him so, and what happened to make your lifestyle less posh from the age of 13 onward?

[Torie]

Your youth sounds like it occurred ... in the 1940s.

You have a point on both counts. In fact, up until age 13, looking back, it was ludicrously posh relatively speaking.

Beautiful house.  Btw, how old are you? You were alive in the 1940s?  I thought you were just 60 years old or so.

And also, btw, what was your father's business that enriched him so, and what happened to make your lifestyle less posh from the age of 13 onward?

No, born in 1951, but I think I in some ways early on did have an "old fashioned" upbringing. My mother was from the Middle West. My dad was VP of a record company. He ended up living beyond his means, and 8,000 square feet of carpet needed to be switched out, and the galvanized plumbing was going, and so forth, and my Mom was going blind, so she needed someone around every day to attend to her, with lots of medical bills to boot, my dad was not canny with finance (I took that over as soon as I got my MBA in 1974), and on and on. So we decamped to Westwood (just blocks away from UCLA and Westwood Village), which I loved but my mother hated, so a year after that, we moved to Encino into a somewhat more "normal" upper middle class house.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

It's called soda.

Speak murican. Its pop.

No.

Don't they call them tonics or something in your area?

[John Dibble]

Pretty much impossoble to do. It's playing on speakers at banks, malls, restaurants, every radio station. You'll have to go live in a cave.

I don't believe you're forced to drink it because of the advertisements. So long as you have an alternative you like well enough you shouldn't have a problem - I gave it up for the most part (will drink it if no alternative is given) years ago.

Who's talking about advertisements?  Pop is definitely impossible to avoid these days, unless you're either a hermit or deaf.

*gets the joke* *facepalm*

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Pretty much impossoble to do. It's playing on speakers at banks, malls, restaurants, every radio station. You'll have to go live in a cave.

I don't believe you're forced to drink it because of the advertisements. So long as you have an alternative you like well enough you shouldn't have a problem - I gave it up for the most part (will drink it if no alternative is given) years ago.

Who's talking about advertisements?  Pop is definitely impossible to avoid these days, unless you're either a hermit or deaf.

To be fair to Dibble, I missed it until I saw Ernest's joke.

[AndrewTX]

Best of luck. I haven't had a soda in months now. I'm just not a fan of it.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Best of luck. I haven't had a soda in months now. I'm just not a fan of it.

You do realize beer isn't an acceptable substitute, right? 

[Franzl]

Best of luck. I haven't had a soda in months now. I'm just not a fan of it.

You do realize beer isn't an acceptable substitute, right? 

It isn't? Oops