>  > I see the B.S.A. has changed its name to "Scouting America" Which is a
>  > usurpation since the Boy Scouts were invented by Robert Baden-Powell in
>  > Merrie Olde England as the Boy Scouts Association in 1908.

>  MP> I saw that.  That is sad, really.

> And I learned last night at my "Computer Olde Tymers" monthly dinner
> get-together that the Boy Sprouts have been letting girls join for some
> time. My mind flashed instantly to what I used to get up to at that age
> and wondered how they are going to keep a damper of fraternising and the
> inevitable results of unprotected fraternisation.

My potentially incorrect impression is that the girls they've been letting
in might not be interested in boys and may not be biological girls, so
those results might not be as likely.  That said, you do wonder what are
they thinking.

>  > Today is the anniversary of the first time bottle Co'Cola was sold in
>  > 1886.

>  MP> I am more of a Double Cola / Ski man myself.  ;)

> That has to be a "regional" like my local "Whistle" soda(s) used to
> was. I've seen Double Cola and Ale-8 in Lexington, KY. Actually drank
> some Ale-8 ... which has more caffeine than Mount & Do from Pepsi.

> Made the hair on the back of my neck march in lockstep.

Ale-8 actually has less than either of those Pepsi products, but it also has
ginger which supposedly enhances the effects of the caffeine.  That is
another favorite of mine.  Double Cola and Ski are somewhat regional.  You
are not too far north of one of those "regional" areas.  Excel Bottling is
somewhere in Southern Illiois -- Breese, I think.  Other hotspots include
Evansville, IN; South Central Ohio; and South Central/Western Kentucky.

Coke pretty much ran Double Cola out of its former Kentucky region, when
they bought out Greensburg Bottling, but Ski is still around (and is now
distributed locally by Ale-8-One).

Mike

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