Comments on: 1/2 of a Two-Way Conversation

By: Ashley Bowers

Ashley Bowers — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 12:13:45 +0000

Sounds to me like a missinterpertation but if I had to guess I would go with Brians answer of “fueling the fire”

By: Jessica

Jessica — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 06:26:32 +0000

I think it was because the person on the other end of the call was being hyper.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 02:51:42 +0000

One of my favorite overheard conversations:
“So anyway, they spent all of last week optimizing it.”
“And?”
“And now it doesn’t work a little faster.”
(I know this might seem a bit off topic, but I swear it’s not. The two people I overheard were none other than Sue Garr and Yaso Daguy.)

By: luxuryluke

luxuryluke — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 09:31:47 +0000

mmm, yes, perhaps it was the “Shoe Garin Yaso Dagai,” which, when translated, means:
Sugar-in-your-soda Guy.

By: sinclair

sinclair — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 20:58:34 +0000

*clearly* a faulty transliteration, though the transciptionist can hardly be blamed for all the homonyms!
the original question was surely, “hmmm…oh, you mean the sugarin’ Yasoda guy?”, a reference to a person trying to suck up to the foster mum of Krishna…
http://www.answers.com/topic/yasoda

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 00:37:12 +0000

Sounds to me like an deviation of “adding fuel to the fire.”
For example, “as if there isn’t enough sugar in the soda, let’s add some more.” (Even though it’s probably high fructose corn syrup)
I’d be sure to be that the “sugar-in-your-soda” guy probably likes to rub people the wrong way for fun.
Well if that didn’t sound pessimistic!

By: Mike Arndt

Mike Arndt — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 21:25:27 +0000

Okay… Matthew Backus’s suggestion is definitely the funniest so far. Anyone else find it ironic that we could be literally playing the telephone game here? Are you sure it was sugar-in-YOUR-soda? Maybe sugar-in-A-soda… or sugar-FOR-your-soda? Oh, well…

By: Evan

Evan — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 17:02:58 +0000

Ahhhh… Mexican Coca-Cola, with real sugar. I’ve had US Coca-Cola and various East-Asian varieties, and nothing even comes close. This ‘sugar-in-your-soda’ guy sounds like an intelligent and tasteful individual.

By: Patrick Taylor

Patrick Taylor — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 22:45:03 +0000

Must be John Sculley …

By: Matthew Backus

Matthew Backus — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 21:53:55 +0000

It’s that person at restaurants who walks around asking ‘sugar in your soda’? How could you forget?