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Celia, I think Zal was talking about Cards and Mafia, but i was definitely complimenting you, in all your dark glory.
Kat, I apologize for making things uncomfortable. I only used the personal example because, honestly, mine is the only story I'm at liberty to tell and it happens to be a damned good example.
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In Utah, most Barq's root beer doesn't have caffeine. I think it's bottled locally, and the local plant does it differently. But you still have to read the label when you buy it to be sure.
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My grandmother is still dead set against face cards. The closest thing she allowed was Rook, which works for most things since there are 4 suits of 13 cards, but instead of face cards there are numbers 11 through 13.
President Joseph F. Smith was the one who spoke out against face cards the most, and Zal is right, usually his reasoning was that card-playing was becoming so popular in Utah that it was becoming a total time-waster for a lot of people who had better things to do with their lives.
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I have only ever seen caffeine-free Barq's on BYU campus. Nowhere else. (But Ruth isn't from Utah, so the stuff she was drinking was definitely caffeinated. And anyway, Barq's sucks.)
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Jim, I appreciate that it's a personal example, and it's horrifyingly far too common. I don't think it's a representative example, though. But I don't want to get into Battle of the Anecdotes, and that's what I could see the discussion becoming.
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Well, caffeine-free Barq's certainly isn't limited to BYU campus, or even Utah County, because I have had a lot of it, and I always spent as little time as possible in that forsaken region of the state.
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