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Noun park, not verb park.Also renaming driveways & parkways. Always bothered me.
A parkway is a road (way) that travels inside or towards a park.
Noun park, not verb park.Also renaming driveways & parkways. Always bothered me.
Easy... When they introduced Clear Pepsi, they didn't remove Pepsi from the shelves.Why does new coke catch so much flak, but clear Pepsi gets off scot free?
Or was that a bad decision? Original Coke got a huge boost from the supposed discontinuation that never really happened. May have just been a brilliant marketing ploy.Easy... When they introduced Clear Pepsi, they didn't remove Pepsi from the shelves.
Coke executives a week after releasing New Coke
And the whole fiasco made Bill Cosby stop endorsing Coke. Another win for Coke.Or was that a bad decision? Original Coke got a huge boost from the supposed discontinuation that never really happened. May have just been a brilliant marketing ploy.
and completely unnecessaryThe marketing for Crystal Clear Pepsi might be the funniest thing ever. Incredibly pompous release considering the idea of a clear soda was anything but new.
You would have thought they invented the internet or HDTV or a flying car.and completely unnecessary
The Rangers got a Hall of Famer, what is wrong with that? Luckily that trade allowed Sosa to then be traded across town for George Bell.Filling up a giant balloon with hydrogen and floating around the skies seemed dicey.
Not being concerned with ice bergs also not a trait I'd want in a ship captain.
Sammy Sosa AND Wilson Alverez for Harold Suckasssse Baines?
Cop Rock.
The Yugo.
28-3
Is that a mistake or just destiny?The Rangers got a Hall of Famer, what is wrong with that? Luckily that trade allowed Sosa to then be traded across town for George Bell.
Unreal when you think about it, and when Dan Carlin relates the story.Apparently the limo driver for Archduke Ferdinand and his wife took a wrong turn on the way back to the palace from the hospital where Ferdinand had just visited survivors of the assassination plot, which he initially survived. In doing so he happened across one of the plotters who was straggling home after the failed plot, giving him a second chance.
The result was 2 world wars and a lingering cold war and repercussions following from all that.
Yep, see if you can hook some people on New Coke (if so, you’ve got another cola) and create some buzz and desire for Coke to come back. Brilliant marketing that it still comes up 35 years later. Does it make you want to buy Pepsi or get the old Coke?Or was that a bad decision? Original Coke got a huge boost from the supposed discontinuation that never really happened. May have just been a brilliant marketing ploy.
The whole problem with new Coke is that it was a Pepsi equivalent. If I liked that I would just have gotten Pepsi. Screw that I want the original Coke.....Yep, see if you can hook some people on New Coke (if so, you’ve got another cola) and create some buzz and desire for Coke to come back. Brilliant marketing that it still comes up 35 years later. Does it make you want to buy Pepsi or get the old Coke?
ehhhhhhhh......that's pretty tainted, GB. He have the Rangers all of 16 HRs and wasn't near the player he was for other squads. Meanwhile, the Rangers gave away Sosa! I'm still mad!!!!The Rangers got a Hall of Famer, what is wrong with that? Luckily that trade allowed Sosa to then be traded across town for George Bell.
prompted this.The marketing for Crystal Clear Pepsi might be the funniest thing ever. Incredibly pompous release considering the idea of a clear soda was anything but new.
I can’t say I truly even remember what New Coke tasted like. I think I liked it but not as much. Pepsi was always too sweet for me.The whole problem with new Coke is that it was a Pepsi equivalent. If I liked that I would just have gotten Pepsi. Screw that I want the original Coke.....
it tasted like Pepsi which is why it alienated all the Coke fans..I can’t say I truly even remember what New Coke tasted like. I think I liked it but not as much. Pepsi was always too sweet for me.
- sweeterit tasted like Pepsi which is why it alienated all the Coke fans..
Same with Caddyshack 2. No Rodney, Bill, or Ted.Dirty Dancing 2. No Swayze, no way-ze.
That Olajuwon guy sure was a bum.3) Houston and Portland passing on drafting MJ
Not sure where / how you are coming up with 16% of the population dying. 50 million people died worldwide out of 1.8 billion people = 2.78%. The U.S. had 675,000 Spanish Flu deaths out of a population of 103 million people = 0.65% of people in the U.S. I am not suggesting that wasn't a large number of fatalities or that it wasn't a tragic situation . . . just trying to figure out how you got to the 16% number.If anyone claims COVID response is an historically bad response, up to 50 million died in the Spanish Flu when that was 16 percent of the population. Much of the spread was exacerbated by refusal of some governments to disrupt wartime mobilization. Undoubtedly millions died as a result. Stepping up a level, the convoluted treaties that led to World War I is up there, and encapsulates the up to 22m killed, 23m wounded, and a good swath of the 50m deaths from the pandemic.
Greg Oden looked like a grandpa when he left high school.Portland also passed on Kevin Durant for the 48 year old Greg Oden and his 78 year old balky knees.
Portland also passed on Kevin Durant for the 48 year old Greg Oden and his 78 year old balky knees.
Greg Oden looked like a grandpa when he left high school.
As a Cubs fan I give my Sox fan friends crap for Baines making it into the Hall, even they agree he isn't worthy of it.ehhhhhhhh......that's pretty tainted, GB. He have the Rangers all of 16 HRs and wasn't near the player he was for other squads. Meanwhile, the Rangers gave away Sosa! I'm still mad!!!!
In high school we had to make a 10 minute video for one of our classes, in the middle of it we put a commercial for "Crystal Tennis Balls" that was at least a minute of us just tossing imaginary balls in the air and trying to hit them.The marketing for Crystal Clear Pepsi might be the funniest thing ever. Incredibly pompous release considering the idea of a clear soda was anything but new.
Really? I always thought of Coke being sweeter. But I always preferred it because it has a less synthetic taste to it than Pepsi IMO. Basically, Coke is what I would imagine a cola “should” taste like.I can’t say I truly even remember what New Coke tasted like. I think I liked it but not as much. Pepsi was always too sweet for me.
Yeah, Pepsi tastes a little sweeter to me. It’s been a while since I drink Diet Coke if I have a soda. I could easily tell the difference between Pepsi and Coke back then. Coke now is way too sweet for me just because it’s not Diet.Really? I always thought of Coke being sweeter. But I always preferred it because it has a less synthetic taste to it than Pepsi IMO. Basically, Coke is what I would imagine a cola “should” taste like.
Pepsi wins in blind taste tests particularly because it IS sweeter. When taking a small sip of two beverages, most people choose the sweeter of the two. That's why Pepsi wins blind tests. However, when it comes to drinking it regularly, Pepsi is too sweet IMO. Coke has a better balance of fizz, sugar, and cola flavor IMO(and in the opinions of most cola drinkers).Yeah, Pepsi tastes a little sweeter to me. It’s been a while since I drink Diet Coke if I have a soda. I could easily tell the difference between Pepsi and Coke back then. Coke now is way too sweet for me just because it’s not Diet.
Eh... Those shares would only be worth $134 billion today. I'm sure he has no regrets about it.In the realm of business decisions, its hard to ignore Ronald Wayne, who founded Apple with Jobs and Woz, taking a 10% stake in the company. He designed the Apple logo and wrote the user's manual for the Apple I. Wayne sold his 10% stake in the company about a week after it was created, for $800.
I'm not saying this to be a jerk, but when you think about what I'm saying, it makes a lot of sense.I don’t equate evil and mistakes. Slavery, the holocaust were evil. This Covid response will go down as the biggest mistake we’ve ever made. As I said more will die and subject to a life of misery than the virus would have caused.