CHAD:  As for the diet coke, you're on your own.  The "LAW" of this New 
Covenant household is Pepsi, although gracious exception is granted to my 
"sweetie"  from time to time. :-)   Of course, the exception is not without 
due  penalty.  :-)

ME:  Vile Pepsist!  Would you advocate referring only to the "result" of a 
beverage (i.e. pep) without revealing the underlying chemistry which, in its 
original formulation, gave us the desired pep (i.e. cocaine).  Will this not 
set men to seeking the result without due respect to its cause?  We 
Coca-Colians are not afraid to reveal the very essence and underlying cause 
of our forbears' fascination with the frothy beverage.  The gracious 
exception must be given - not to us - but to you shallow and weak cola 
drinkers who deceive and distract the masses with a beverage strong on sweet 
but lacking in the better things.  It is a wonder that this world, consumed 
as it is with its pursuit of instant gratification, has not been utterly won 
over to the cloyingly sweet taste of the lesser cola.  Our race no longer 
has time to develope the acquired and mature taste for the subtler nuances 
of a good cola.  Instant sweetness so overwhelms the tongue of the P*psi (I 
cannot bear to spell the whole word!) drinker that he has no time to 
develope deeper, more-lasting sensibilities to the cornucopia of delicious 
delights that is Coca-Cola.

 Ah, but all of us have been reduced to a poor substitute from which to 
derive our lifted spirits: caffeine.  How shallow!  How far we have fallen! 
Even for us Coca-colians, the necter of "the pause that refreshes" is in our 
name only.  Our favored Cola no longer contains the extract of the cocoa 
plant.  Caramel and caffeine is all we have. We are mere shell of our former 
selves.

:)

Joe Terrell