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By: Jocy

Jocy — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 04:28:32 +0000

:-O I used to live in Mosman!
I live in Edinburgh, Scotland now so this v strange.
I miss the word bubbler

By: park rose

park rose — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:55:46 +0000

Sunrain, from your other comments, I think you’re an Aussie. Me too. I’m from the west and have never called it a bubbler in my life, nor have I heard it referred to as a bubbler. That’s not to say that people don’t. Maybe it’s generational, maybe it’s not an everyday topic…

By: Sunrain

Sunrain — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:31:04 +0000

Knowing australian teenagers, they probably do this every second weekend. Nothing special. Who needs a roof when you have 40 degrees C?

By: Sunrain

Sunrain — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:15:05 +0000

Nope, it’s not just an east coast thing. It’s bubblers over west as well.

By: anglophile

anglophile — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:51:50 +0000

Speaking for myself, I wasn’t at all offended by your remarks, Bubbler, but I don’t think your original remark is at all as innocent as you are trying to portray it. The laughing incredulity you displayed at thinking someone might have a word for water fountain that you are not familiar with indicated to me that you were ridiculing and I thought I could tease you back a bit. Your complete lack of understanding that you were being tweaked for misspelling it, and your apparent surprise at being corrected leads me to think you are either very young, very new to the Internets or both. Usually one can’t hang out long on an international community online before one has the pop vs soda vs coke/buggy vs shopping cart/sub vs grinder vs hoagie vs hero/bubbler vs water fountain vs drinking fountain conversation.

I totally agree with you about soda, though. But I’m Milwaukee born and bred and we speak funny here.

By: Wade

Wade — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 11:46:09 +0000

USAmerican is a many faceted language, Bubbler.

The main contenders in the USA are drinking fountain and water fountain, not bubbler.

FYI, the bubbler in question is in Australia, not USA. My guess is (as I alluded to much earlier in this old note ↑), that the bubbler was introduced in certain places and the brand name became the word associated with all drinking fountains – much like kleenex, band-aids, aspirin, dry ice, videotape, and zipper are trade names that have become generic.

(oh, and if you click on the “reply to this comment” link you can gigglebrax your post to the comment you are answering. Makes it easier to follow who you are talking to)

By: Andi

Andi — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 05:16:00 +0000

http://www.celebratewisconsin.com/DisplayDetail.aspx?which=139

“It might be called a drinking fountain elsewhere, but if you’re looking for a cold drink of water in Milwaukee, you ask “Where’s the Bubbler?”"

By: Bubbler

Bubbler — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 05:02:11 +0000

I was not trying to offend anyone.
I just find it intriguing how accents differ throughout the United States. Im not used to hearing bubbler.. as you are not used to hearing water fountain. so im sure its as funny sounding to you as bubbler is to me. It’s amazing how many variables USA english has. Its always interesting to hear other accents. In this case I dont think anyone is wrong or right bubbler just makes me think of fizzy lifting drink or soda ahah or if you like pop. =]

By: MAMARILLA2

MAMARILLA2 — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 20:38:59 +0000

When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.
George Carlin

By: Wade

Wade — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 19:55:00 +0000

The ‘bubbler’ was developed in 1888 by the then-small Kohler Water Works (now Kohler Company) in Kohler, Wisconsin, which was already well-known for its faucet production. While Harlan Huckleby is credited with the actual design, it was Kohler who patented it and trademarked the name. The original bubbler shot water one inch straight into the air, creating a bubbling texture, and the excess water ran back down over the sides of the nozzle. It was several years later before the bubbler adapted the arc projection, which allowed the drinker to partake more easily.

Thank you Google, Wikipedia and teh Internets.

Then again, Bubbler probably asks for a facial tissue, rather than a kleenex, because wtf? Kleenex?

By: Geek Goddess

Geek Goddess — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:34:25 +0000

Oops, sorry, Bubbler. I will stop using the word ‘Bubbler’ for water fountain, and the word ‘pop’ for soda. Any other words that I am using wrong? Please let me know, I wouldn’t want to look stupid or anything.

ps. is it okay to call it a drinking fountain? Water fountain makes me think of ornamental ponds in public spaces.

By: Geek Goddess

Geek Goddess — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:33:11 +0000

Total gigglebrax fail. Although gigglebrax may be a forbidden word too.

By: MAMARILLA2

MAMARILLA2 — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 15:18:15 +0000

I think that they call the music Pop, because it is Mostly water (common) with a lot of sugar and a little flavor..Easily liked by children.