Big Bucks for Spilled Coke

So did you know a little Coca-Cola can get you fined $50,000?  Jason Kidd of the Net's found that out after using a friend's Coca-Cola as a diversionary tactic on November 26th of this year.

Coke Zero 2013 Basketball Can

Out of time outs and with 8.3 seconds left, the lad had the admirable strategy of bumping into a teammate enjoying some Coca-Cola.  The result was a slick and sugary basketball court that required clean-up, which involved, guess what..an informal time out!  Unfortunately, neither strategy worked.  The Net's still lost and replays showed the spill was intentional and hence the fine.  Still, you gotta admire Kidd for trying!

Godless Pledge Can Part 2

I had a second thought about the Godless pledge of allegiance Pepsi can controversy.  How could people believe it was true? For example, why would Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Dr. Pepper and other Lords of Sugar be kow-towing to political correctness by omitting the word God anyway?  Pepsi clears things up here, but do you really need a soda company to be doing your critical thinking?

Pepsi Max $5.00 Off Buffalo Bills Tickets 2012

Look, folks who are offended about God being in the pledge are not the people buying soda.  They are those hybrid car folks who dislike soda, guns, trans fats, greasy barbecues, successful businessmen, northwest logging companies, and anything else connected to the unwashed masses. And the people who do like soda, you know, that sugar stuff "da poor" drink, are rather fond of God in the pledge or are at least ambivalent about it.  In other words, the meme doesn't make sense from a marketing point.

Look at it this way.  It would be like Pepsi putting "Football Sucks" on a Pepsi can. Not gonna happen.  See, you gotta think critically about these things.  Even when it is just about crappy hypothetical soda cans.

Godless Pledge Can

Here's an interesting meme floating around the internet.  Pepsi supposedly is releasing patriotic cans that have images of New York City on them with the Pledge of Alligeance but omits the words "Under God".  Well guess what?  It's not true.

Wild Cherry Pepsi 2013

But it wouldn't bother me if it was true.  Mainly because Pepsi hasn't release a patriotic can in a while.  (Unless you count Beyonce as patriotic as part of the Super Bowl, which I don't.) Secondly, if they did release one, and it did omit the words, and a real bruhaha erupted, they would reprint the can, making the first one a valuable collectors item.  See, I don't care about religion or the country; I just want to collect cool cans in my basement.

Fanta Halloween

I know, I know, it's Christmas time and I should be posting about Christmas cans, but like a true cop-out, I don't even have that many in my collection yet.  See, I only buy soda when we run out as a family.  We still have Mt. Dew in the fridge from the Xbox One (I had to by one o 'dem big 24 pack cubes to get it) so I haven't had a chance to buy holiday ones yet.  But...I do have this Halloween can!

Fanta Halloween 2013

Coca-Cola is admittedly shady during the Halloween season.  Fanta is the only brand I see of theirs that sports Halloween.  Hopefully this tradition can end and we can see a little more scare in 2014.

Mt. Dew The Dark Knight Rises

After that last post about Mt. Dew and Xbox I had to dig a little deeper in my collection for this blast from the past...a 2012 Mt. Dew The Dark Knight Rises soda can.  Mt. Dew is always neat and tidy with their promotions.  It is always a little black advertisement on the top of the can.  I like that.  Simple and predictable.  If only more things in life were like that too.

Mt. Dew The Dark Knight Rises 2012

Coca-Cola Summer Countdown Can 1

So yes, it is December, but even amid the snow and blow I am already fantasizing about summer. I thought of all the ways I could get a jump on the summer season, you know, like maybe working on those abdominal muscles to look good in a swimsuit, but that takes to much work.  So I'll toss up a soda can instead.  (Utterly diametric, I know.)

Coca-Cola Summer Can 2013 1 of 6 

BAM!  So Coca-cola released 6 summer coke cans last summer in 2013.  Above is can 1 of 6 cheerfully spouting the 2013 tagline "Open for Summer."  Yours truly hunted hard and collected all six.  I will be tossing up a summer can a month from December through May.  Once they are all up Memorial Day will be here and we will be open for summer once again.  Bring it on.