When you order coke and want a coke, do you say, “I’d like a coke coke, please?”
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I have heard:
“I’d like a coke”
“What kind?”
“Coke”
So, yes.
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What @sqlrob said. It has this weird dual status as both a genericized brand name like kleenex and a proper brand name. Which way you are using it can usually be inferred by context. Language is weird.
ETA: Also, if you know you want a Coke specifically, you can bypass the question by asking for a Coca-Cola, which, because Texas, usually sounds like “Co-Cola”.
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In the GOP, anything that follows “praying for” means nothing, other than praying, will be done. They don’t actually expect justice-from-on-high to take place.
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I think they are counting on Justice not happening.
Still, I hope he is blighted by rainbows.
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is praying for a biblical response for all those involved,"
What does this mean? “A biblical response”? (Sorry, haven’t yet read thread. Apology if already asked and answered.)
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Thanks for teaching me the lingo 
Or shall I say, “Thangkew!” ↞ That’s the extent of the Texan I speak, and a Texan commended my pronunciation 
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In New Orleans, “coke” is just the generic word. I don’t think pepsi is allowed anywhere, but a Sprite is a coke, for instance.
I’ve only heard “coke coke” used at the neighborhood liquor store where I grew up; one could buy “coke” or “coke coke”. “Coke coke” was Coca Cola; coke was not another type of soft drink though (I still have no clue what the hell either “pop” or “soda” are but it wasn’t those either)
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I don’t know for sure, but I’d guess that means everyone is supposed to forgive this poor man who is only human, after all, and move on. Of course, that response is reserved only for rich, straight, white, Christian men. Everyone else burns in hell for eternity.
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Many possibilities have been mentioned. I immediately thought of Sodom and Gomorrah, but I don’t think that’s what the Xtians meant.
That’s closer, I’m sure.
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Point taken but my point is that “coke” could be short for “cocaine” while “Coke” means Coca Cola (or, if you’re in some parts of the US, any soda). The point isn’t which brand of soda he offered her, but whether the “coke” he offered her was cocaine or soda.
They kicked him out, even after he resigned. Unanimous vote. So weird to feel positively about my state legislature
Although Slaton resigned Monday, unless expelled he was entitled to his House salary and per diem, Murr said. Until voters elect a replacement, Slaton also would have continued to sit on assigned committees and count toward establishing a working quorum of the House.
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Oh. I didn’t even think about that kind of coke.
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Something, something, Pemberton’s original recipe for his invigorating tonic.
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