Date:  Tue, 17 May 1994 08:10:29 EDT

From:  Wayne Glowka <wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAIL.GAC.PEACHNET.EDU>

Subject: Re: pop -- aka "dope" in these parts



    In San Antonio, Texas, in the late fifties, my father used the term

"dope" to refer to paint for model airplanes--and for illicit drugs. I

remember his refusing to drive down a certain country road near Kelly AFB

because people down there used "dope." A model airplane builder, I said

that I used "dope," and he had to broaden my understanding of the term. I

haven't heard "dope" used for paint since that time.



    Speaking of soda water, when I was child, we made fun of each other

for drinking Dr. Pepper because we thought that it contained prune juice--a

different kind of drug from the dope said to be in Coca Cola. When I hear

a commercial telling me that Dr. Pepper (the "friendly pepper-upper" at 10,

2, or 4) is "so misunderstood," I have a scatological vision that makes me

smile.





Wayne Glowka

Professor of English

Georgia College

Milledgeville, GA 31061

912-453-4222

wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]mail.gac.peachnet.edu