Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 20:12:00 -0500 From: Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com> To: lcremean@tidalwave.net, "Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=" <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Slurpees (was: Re: cvs commit: src/release/sysinstall/help XF86.hlp hardware.hlp) Message-ID: <4.1.19981106201121.00b7aa30@genesis.ispace.com> In-Reply-To: <19981106200031.A23167@tidalwave.net> References: <xzpg1bwhf8h.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no> <2083.910372890@time.cdrom.com> <xzpg1bwhf8h.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>
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At 08:00 PM 11/6/98 -0500, Lee Cremeans wrote: >On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 07:02:06PM +0100, Dag-Erling C. Smørgrav wrote: >> "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> writes: >> > > "code slurpee" might be more accurate, seems that a lot >> > > of code gets sucked in (through the) cold. >> > And it usually gives me a big headache. OK, I'll go with that. "Code >> > slurpee" it is. Now YOU get to explain this to all our >> > non-U.S. members who don't have 7-11 stores and probably don't know >> > what a ``slurpee'' even IS. :-) >> >> Norway *does* have 7-11 (or -4, as my fellow CS students tend to call >> them) stores, though they rarely open at 7 or close at 11 (most of >> them are open 24/7). We do not, however, have slurpees that I am aware >> of. A clarification would certainly be welcome :) > >[moved to -chat for my own good] > >All the 7-11s here are 24/7 now as well. :) Anyway, a Slurpee is a lot like >a sno-cone; it's basically carbonated water, partially frozen in a chamber >very much like an ice-cream churn, then flavored with sugar syrup--and all >this done by a special machine, where you pull the handle and the slush >pours (sometimes with a LOT of force from the carbonation) into your cup. >Every 7-11 store in the US has the machines (usually made by a company >called "Cornelius" and holding 2 or 4 different flavors) that dispense >Slurpees, and they're usually self-service (they were over-the-counter >untill about 10 years ago, I think). > >-- >Lee Cremeans -- Manassas, VA, USA (WakkyMouse on DALnet and WTnet) >A! JW223 YWD+++^ri P&B++ SL+++^i GDF B&M KK--i MD+++i P++ I++++ Did >$++ E5/10/70/3c/73ac/95/96 H2 PonPippi Ay77 M | mailto:lcremean@tidalwave.net >http://st-lcremean.tidalwave.net | Powered by FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT > > A Slush Puppie is strikingly similar.. Although the Slurpee's are like Mountain Dew and inane things like that that would likely cause my heart to beat out of their chest.. --- Drew "Droobie" Baxter Network Admin/Professional Computer Nerd(TM) OneEX: The OneNetwork Exchange 207-942-0275 http://www.droo.orland.me.us My Latest Kernel: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT (ONEEX) #14: Mon Oct 19 22:36:58 EDT 1998 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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