Calling any soda a Coke is a Southern thing. Calling it pop is a midwestern thing. Just one of those weird little regional things. You say tomato, I say...Coke.

Here you go, all the differences in one of those little internet quizzes. Fun for the whole family!
Yankee or Dixie?

Back to the actual product, these Cool Downz things are awesome. My A/C went out Fri and I had to suffer through the entire weekend without it and I just happened to have a couple of these things sitting around. Life savers!

ummm calling it pop is hick thing in PA thats what my relatives call it
meanwhile when I visit up there I can go to the 5&10 and still get a coke in the 16 oz deposit bottles.Don't know what it is but they are still the best damn tasting cokes you can get.

the day i placed my order for these, i had one of my weekly migraines and had read that these actually help. it was the primary reason for purchasing it. the day i received it, i actually had another migraine that was severe enough to make me want to skip dinner and go straight to bed. this thing didn't make the migraine go away, but made it quite bearable. it worked so well that i gave it to my mom who is afflicted with regular migraines as well. i've seen her wearing it, so i believe it helps her too.

as for cooling me down, i got a chance to try it out during a memorial day bbq. it worked ok. i might've been hotter without it, but i wouldn't say it kept me cool. cooler maybe, but not cool. ymmv.

my only complaint is that for some of them, the polymers seem to leak out. they come out in a clear jelly form. the directions say to soak for 10-15 minutes, so i tried 13, which caused it to come out. i threw it away and tried another for 7 minutes, with similar results. i think some of the polymers are in the stitched area possibly due to poor manufacturing processes, so it might not be an actual leak, but i don't want to take the chance since i have a dog that might ingest something she shouldn't.

overall, for the ones that don't leak, i give it a thumbs up.

This was my first fling... flung 3 more since.
I bought them for my wife because she works at a day camp in the summers and it can get quite hot out there. She was appreciative of the thought, we'll see how they work in practice next week.

I plan on trying these out at the summer camp I'm working at, but the weather has only been in the 70s-80s so far. If these are as good as I've heard, I bet our camp director will be wanting to buy 300+ of these.

So, you're saying they are coming back? I didn't really want to buy 25 of these back in April but May has been so HOT (to me anyway) that I can't wait to try them out. I sure hope I am around a computer when they are next flung. I don't suppose there is a way of pre-ordering an item?

told you so

My first fling! From reading all the good reviews on this, I decided to give it a try. My husband and dad spend a lot of time in their yards, so maybe I can get some smiles from both of them with this! It was a great enough price to at least try them out!

Thanks ThingFling!