Nothing imagined that the big veins of the legs must be like soda straws.

It drew power as a soda straw might draw water from wet sand.

You can also blow a soap bubble using a pipe or just a soda straw.

Only someone calling through a modem would let their data dribble out a 1200-baud soda straw.

It was a regular soda straw, cut down to not much longer than an inch.

In one pocket, along with other odds and ends, was a chopped off bit of soda straw.

When left alone, soda straws have been known to grow up to 9 metres (30 feet) long.

Beyond that was the lead soda straw jutting into the pile room.

But typically the simple commands we send back to the net need the data equivalent of a soda straw.

The video was like looking at war "through a soda straw," he said.