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From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
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Subject: Re: Re: Pop vs. Soda
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Date: Thu, 9-May-85 13:20:34 EDT
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>>> "Tonic" belongs on your hair (if you're an old geezer).
	( Tonic is short for "hair tonic")

>>so what is a gin and 'tonic'?

I never drank "gin and tonic" during my childhood
(the years when words acquired their meaning).

What you are referring to is actually:
	"gin mit ah shpritz seltzer"

	Frank Silbermann