A 104-Year-Old-Superhero

In honor of our first superhero can of the year, let's take the time to get to know a real superhero. CNN reported that Elizabeth Sullivan reached the age of 104. Her secret to such superhero longevity? She claims her habit of drinking 3 Dr. Peppers a day has helped keep her alive so long!

Dr. Pepper Ironman 2015 with some of his Avenger buddies

Who knew? You can watch an interview of Elizabeth here. It's hard to deny her spunk. She doesn't even look a day over eighty! Chug those Dr. Peppers, girl!

Dr. Pepper Debate

One of the most infamous anachronisms is Shakespeare having a clock tower chime in Julius Caesar, set in a time period where there of course were no gonging bell towers.  (Sorry, Marty McFly.)  Shakespeare's error was written in 1599.  A more minor one occurred in 2009 on an episode of Mad Men with Dr. Pepper.

Dr. Pepper Cherry 2012

The debate is whether a Dr. Pepper machine could really have been in a hospital waiting room in 1963.  Experts weighed in (because this is a massive question of high cultural importance) and the verdict was it could have been there, although highly unlikely.  The kicker is of course that it doesn't really matter anyway, since Canada Dry, made by Dr. Pepper, was sponsoring Mad Men that season.  They supplied the vintage Dr. Pepper props.  So I guess the unlikelihood was given a little leeway in the name of commercial sponsors.  Which means, of course, that perhaps Billy Shakes didn't make a mistake either; maybe the production of Julius Caesar was sponsored by an Elizabethan clock maker.

Dr. Pepper Scholarships

Dr. Pepper unrolled their scholarship cans again this year.  I have several of them, but I decided to show off my man Garrett Booker first.  The lad won $100,000 scholarship from Dr. Pepper.  I would be raising my fist in triumph too if that was me on a Dr. Pepper can.

Dr. Pepper Scholarship 2013...Garrett Booker, $100,000

I like that I have the $100,000 winner.  None of the others I found on Dr. Pepper cans this year won so much from the soft drink industry.  That makes me feel like sorta of winner too.  Like the can is just slightly more collectible than the others.

Sun Drop Girl

While posting about the Diet Sun Drop soda can in my collection, I came across the website for the soda.  I saw it and I was confused.  First, why do all caffeinated citrus drinks have to be marketed as aggressive or crazy?  The website for Sun Drop has a zany, awfully dressed girl wiggling in a painful looking manner to advertise Sun Drop soda.  At first I didn't get it, but now I do.

The Sun Drop girl 2013 

Soda is really one of those nothing products. It's zero nutrition, zero purpose, and zero importance.  It is the epicenter of everything expendable.  But this blank nothingness is soda's advertising charm.  Since it is a product of nothing, it can be defined as anything.  Hence you have Beyonce with Pepsi lips (and a bizarre statement by her stating how Pepsi helps her reach fulfillment as a creative artist), cuddly Coca-Cola polar bears, and the Sun-Drop girl.  Now, you can be suckered into Beyonce and polar bears, but it's obvious the Sun Drop girl is a farce.  And that's genius of it.  It's calling  it like it is.  For this truthfulness, I like Sun Drop now.  Beyonce, you are the Sun Drop girl.  As are the Coca-Cola polar bears.  The Sun Drop girl is just the only one wise enough to see it.  See her here.