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Oy vey…

During the next-to-last performance of Theatre Guild of Rockingham County‘s production of Gypsy this past weekend, I happened to spot this curious visual oddity.

It was just before the show, during “lockdown”: when all the actors and actresses are supposed to be sequestered in the makeshift dressing rooms across the hallway from the auditorium we use at Rockingham Community College, so that nobody in the audience spots us in costume before the play or musical starts. Another actor, Michael Olivo (he played Yonkers), had picked up a quick bite to eat at Taco Bell, including a large-sized Mountain Dew.

Okay, this is a seriously stylized Mountain Dew logo. I doubt that whoever designed it, meant for it to have any hidden meaning… which makes this all the more funny!

Because when you look at the cup from this angle…

…it looks like it says “Tn Jew”. The ...

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I’m still not entirely persuaded that this wasn’t a planned stunt. Like last week’s to-do about the 4G-equipped iPhone that some Apple engineer, ahem, “drunkenly” left in a bar. Sure got the Intertubes abuzz about it, aye? So yeah, mark me down as being in the “planned marketing conspiracy” column on that one.

Nearly a full quarter-century earlier, something similar happened to another American mega corporation. That time it was The Coca-Cola Company. On April 23rd 1985, executives announced that the original, world-famous Coca-Cola formula was being retired. Seems that the “old Coke” wasn’t cutting it anymore in the “cola wars” between Coca-Cola and Pepsi. So the time-honored Coca Cola was to be put to pasture. In its place we would be getting something called “New Coke”.

Witness anew what is arguably the lowest point of the illustrious career of Bill Cosby…

“Better than ever”?? I still remember the ...

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Remember how Smokey and the Bandit was about smuggling a lot of Coors beer from Texas to Atlanta, because at the time it was illegal for Coors to be shipped anywhere east of Texas? Well, right now I feel a bit like “Big Enos” Burdette ‘cuz even though I don’t drink beer, I do now have something that is still as hard to get outside of Texas today as Coors was thirty years ago…

It’s a six-pack of Dublin Dr. Pepper. Last month when I went to Texas, I got to visit the Dr. Pepper Museum in Waco. That part of Texas is the only place that you can find what is called “Dublin Dr. Pepper”, which is Dr. Pepper made with real cane sugar as opposed to corn syrup. They were selling the Dublin Dr. Pepper at the gift shop there, but since I was going back ...

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