Department cookout today, which means it's time to head down for the cornhole tourney. Not quote a retirement day, but I'll take it. Back later.
Cornhole tourney? 
it's this game they play in the Midwest with plywood, and a cutout hole, and tossed beanbags.
not the stonewall tavern event.
We call that beanbag toss. But they also call soda "pop" up there, so whatever.
Whatever you call it, we got 2 wins, then got beat. Not complaining though, cause after the rain passed, it started to get quite humid out there. Lol
Bean, this one is for you:
I can understand Florida, but WTF with Missouri and even more with Wisconsin? How could those be Team Soda?
maybe they didn't have a critical mass of soda jerks, in local drug stores to call it
soda pop. they could have been drinking beer, and sarsaparilla,
till they saw a national TV campaign that called the stuff soda.
It was the Arabs that gave us the term, in medieval times. They used the word Suwwad for a salt-rich coastal plant (saltwort) that could be burned to produce what we call soda ash for soaps. In medieval Latin and Italian it became soda, which first appears in a French medical guide describing a bubbly liquid concoction in 1558.
Pop was added on in the late 19th century when bottled individual servings began to be available, as a pun - it was a prepared serving (as in a 'hit' or a 'slug' or...a 'pop') and the cork made a popping sound when it was pulled.
