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Right, I heard that Coke is actually a sort of greeny-yellow colour, except that they add dye to make it black/brown. Any truth to that?

No, it's actually people.

No, it's actually people.

http://www.emotioneric.com/soylentgreen.jpg

Right, I heard that Coke is actually a sort of greeny-yellow colour, except that they add dye to make it black/brown. Any truth to that?

The caramel coloring makes it the color that it is today. What color it is before they add that I have no idea. I was kind of guessing a cloudy clear, sort of like Fresca.

it's actually a faint yellow-ish clear prior to the caramel coloring they add.

No, it's actually people.

Soylent Green... Is Coca-cola!!!

http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/green.asp

http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/green.asp

Fair enough, so what the fuck colour is the before hand?

While we're on rumours and legends, how's this one? I've heard that Southern Cross train station here in Melbourne is the only station in the WORLD with an abstract name, i.e. not named after where it is. I find that hard to believe, anybody confirm or deny?

Soylent Green... Is Coca-cola!!!

I keep telling these people, but NOOOO they didn't listen!

it's clear. I already said that. I used to know someone who worked in the bottling plant, it's clear until they add the caramel coloring.

Ok, so wait... Crystal Pepsi was really just Pepsi, except half assed?

Fair enough, so what the fuck colour is the before hand?
it's clear. I already said that. I used to know someone who worked in the bottling plant, it's clear until they add the caramel coloring.

While we're on rumours and legends, how's this one? I've heard that Southern Cross train station here in Melbourne is the only station in the WORLD with an abstract name, i.e. not named after where it is. I find that hard to believe, anybody confirm or deny?Don't all the "Central Station"s take care of that already, seeing how they're not necessarily "central" but really just the main stations?

Ok, so wait... Crystal Pepsi was really just Pepsi, except half assed?

yep.

Don't all the "Central Station"s take care of that already, seeing how they're not necessarily "central" but really just the main stations?

Kinda, but Central Stations sort of tell you that they're at the centre of the train system. Southern Cross tell you absolutely NOTHING about where you are. Any other stations like that?

While we're on rumours and legends, how's this one? I've heard that Southern Cross train station here in Melbourne is the only station in the WORLD with an abstract name, i.e. not named after where it is. I find that hard to believe, anybody confirm or deny?

Nope.. I can think of Grand Central Station in New York, Station Square in Pittsburgh... right off the top of my head, they don't mention what town they are in.

Kinda, but Central Stations sort of tell you that they're at the centre of the train system. Southern Cross tell you absolutely NOTHING about where you are. Any other stations like that?


Waverly Station in Edinburgh.

Kinda, but Central Stations sort of tell you that they're at the centre of the train system. Southern Cross tell you absolutely NOTHING about where you are. Any other stations like that?
I don't exactly know many names of train station, unless you count subway stations.

But of course the Anhalter Bahnhof comes to mind, even though it was destroyed in WWII.
It's in Berlin but it's named after a region in the current day state of Sachsen-Anhalt, quite a distance west/southwest of Berlin. It apparently got that name because there used to be trains services connecting it with train lines from that region or something.

Those stations which are named after place a thousand miles away are actually WORSE :P

Oh, also, according to wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Cross_Station), Southern Cross station used to be called Spencer Street station and only had its name changed as part of a big redevelopment plan in 2005, so it's not a "grown" name after all, more like a nice shiny rebranding thing. So I don't know if it really counts as such an exception from the rule.

Oh, also, according to wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Cross_Station), Southern Cross station used to be called Spencer Street station and only had its name changed as part of a big redevelopment plan in 2005, so it's not a "grown" name after all, more like a nice shiny rebranding thing. So I don't know if it really counts as such an exception from the rule.

It's a stupid name. And besides, they virtually demolished the old station, you'd never know it existed anymore.

While we're on rumours and legends, how's this one? I've heard that Southern Cross train station here in Melbourne is the only station in the WORLD with an abstract name, i.e. not named after where it is. I find that hard to believe, anybody confirm or deny?

Your disbelief is justified. Two of England's biggest stations are Waterloo and Victoria.

Kinda, but Central Stations sort of tell you that they're at the centre of the train system. Southern Cross tell you absolutely NOTHING about where you are. Any other stations like that?

It tells you that you're in the northern hemisphere? :P

Fair enough, so what the fuck colour is the before hand?

While we're on rumours and legends, how's this one? I've heard that Southern Cross train station here in Melbourne is the only station in the WORLD with an abstract name, i.e. not named after where it is. I find that hard to believe, anybody confirm or deny?

Heuston Station (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuston_Station)
Connolly Station (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connolly_Station)

Both are named after rebels of the Easter Rising here in Dublin, not after where they are.

Don't all the "Central Station"s take care of that already, seeing how they're not necessarily "central" but really just the main stations?

"Union Station," too. Gotta be more than one of those.

Fair enough, so what the fuck colour is the before hand?

While we're on rumours and legends, how's this one? I've heard that Southern Cross train station here in Melbourne is the only station in the WORLD with an abstract name, i.e. not named after where it is. I find that hard to believe, anybody confirm or deny?

All metro stations in North Korea are named things like "victory" and "sacrifice."

Your disbelief is justified. Two of England's biggest stations are Waterloo and Victoria.

Waterloo is near Waterloo bridge, and Victoria is also the name of the area around the station.

Ok, so wait... Crystal Pepsi was really just Pepsi, except half assed?

As a former employee of Pepsico Int and Pepsico UK I can tell you that from my tours of production facilities that Pepsi is a cloudy white-yellow before the color is added. As far as Crystal Pepsi it took alot to make it clear. I believe it was in R&D for the longest of any Pepsi product.

Cocaine?? I don't know, in movies it's always white.

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Kinda, but Central Stations sort of tell you that they're at the centre of the train system. Southern Cross tell you absolutely NOTHING about where you are. Any other stations like that?

They should have just left it as Spencer St station. That's where the bloody thing is located.

Did you know that it was a bird, not a munchkin?!

well if you've ever had any of those organic cola's you know that cola itself is just about colorless clear. i don't know about this faint yellowish or yellowish green color that's been mentioned several times. of course the dark charmel coloring IS just dark charmel coloring. maybe if someone works where coke or pepsi is made, they could say about that other color. i'm pretty sure it's not from the kola nut itself so it must be from all the other chemical crap they put in it.

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