"The Bubbler"..... What the flying fuck?
 

I had a student approach me after class on a lecture from last week today. She's from Wisconsin. As I'm finishing up my explanation and walking to the door, she goes, "excuse me, I'm just going to grab a drink from the bubbler."

I look blankly. "The bubbler?"

"Yeah. The bubbler. This thing." She leans over a drinking fountain and takes a sip.

"That's a drinking fountain. Where do you get bubbler from?"

"That's what I've always called it."


Now, I've done some research and apparently people from Wisconsin call drinking fountains "bubblers." Did you all know this? I think this is the most fantastically reeruned thing I've ever heard. There's absolutely nothing bubbly about a water fountain. Why would ANYONE call it a "bubbler" of all things?

I propose a massive deprogramming of all people in Wisconsin. This word must be removed from any trace of this country. Either that, or sell Wisconsin to Canada. Terrorists hate us BECAUSE of this word.

Who agrees with me?

I do, Mr. SNR.

I've always called it the amazing water maker.

FAX

This explains it.

I feel your pain. People in Wisconsin also look at me like i'm crazy when I ask for a pop instead of soda.

People from KS/MO call soda "pop". As in "Watcha huntin fer, some pop?"
Uh, no Grandma I was looking in the refegerator for a coke, thanks.

Bob Dole still cringes when these damned Texans call a shopping cart a "buggy". Bob Dole even carried around a copy of the original shopping cart patent for a year or so, and it made no difference.

I've always called those rolling grocery cages.

Unless they have a bad wheel. Then I call them fucking sonsabitches.

FAX

I refer them to them as the dent and ding makers!

In that case I usually just grab an unattended shopping cart from someone else. It's like Christmas. Never know what you're going to get inside.

OMFG. god damned sourthern jackasses.

coke is a brand, not a drink.

What if you ask for a coke, and they bring you a pepsi? Or you asked for a coke, got a pepsi but wanted a coke?

Pop sounds ignorant.
Coke is a brand
soda is the best choice.
Thanks

Soda > Pop > Coke

Get you a drink from the bubbler & then bring me a sody/soda/pop over here on the davenport.

smurf me a smurf

You're from St. Louis, aren't you?

We used to call it the indoor creek.

The only correct choice is Pop. This is factual, based on empirical evidence -- Jesus said so.