I'm really on vacation and
tidying up at home, but I thought I'd share a few leftovers. No, no
trivia this week (or until I generate some more). Just some
doggerel.
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"As is true for so many of our Beltway elite, the fact that war
opponents turned out to be so right, and our serious Beltway geniuses
so wrong, has increased the contempt for those who were
right." -- Glenn Greenwald salon.com 6/19/07
FROMA HARROP: Only Suckers Pay Bills (creators.com)
Wouldn't it be fun to do a money-dance around town, throwing borrowed hundred dollar bills to passersby, while arranging to have others pay for the adventure? That in essence has been the Republicans' two-step: Spend money you don't have, and cut taxes so you have even less - then let future generations foot the bills.
SUSAN ESTRICH: Pinky (creators.com)
I met her in a green room, which, like so many others, wasn't even green. The woman doing makeup had no idea who she was and neither did the camera man, but they knew I was going on first, to discuss some OJ-like topic of no real importance, so they asked her to get out of the makeup chair so I could be "done" first.
A SHARE OF THIS ARTICLE GOES TO CHARITY (moreintelligentlife.com)
Can you really help Africa by buying a t-shirt or the right sort of coffee? Perhaps so, says Allison Schrager, but you could probably do better by putting in a bit more intellectual effort and giving the money directly ...
Roger Ebert: Enchanted (3 stars)
It's no surprise to me that Amy Adams is enchanting. She won my heart in "Junebug" (2005), where she told her clueless husband: "God loves you just the way you are, but he loves you too much to let you stay that way."
Sophie Verhagen: Remembering Jane Rule (curvemag.com)
American-born author Jane Rule died November 27 at age 76 in her adopted home of British Columbia, Canada due to complications from liver cancer. Rule famously took the literary world by storm when she published Desert of the Heart and became an icon of the gay rights movement in the '70s as one of the few out lesbians in Canada.
zEN mAN (observing Pope Benedict XVI (the former Joseph Alois Ratzinger) wearing his ruby ring, crested crown and shaking a dead guy on a stick....oh...i forgot ...notice the gilded naked cherubs behind the mitre....(make your own popes hat)
A: Coca Cola
B: Dr Pepper
C: 7-UP
D: IBC Root Beer
E: Fanta
First sold in 1885 at Morrison's Old Corner Drug Store in Waco, Texas, Dr Pepper is the oldest soft drink in America. It was soon followed by Coca-Cola (1886), Pepsi-Cola (1898), IBC Root Beer (1919), 7-UP (1929), Sprite (1961), and countless other soft drinks that have long since disappeared from the shelves. In 1929, there were more than 600 lemon-lime soft drinks alone on the market!
source
Doug ("What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of
little consequence. The only consequence is what we do."
- John Ruskin), my old pal in Tallahassee was first:
I thought it was Vernors Ginger Ale
ducks answered:
dr. pepper although coca-cola wasn't very far behind.
DanD wrote:
Actually, this question should be worded: "What is the oldest known (or
advertised) soft drink in America?"
Back in the 1970s, my father once took the opportunity to buy a town.
The "down" town -- or main buildings -- (long unincorporated perhaps
since the beginning of the 1930s) of Rex Georgia, which is about 20 miles
south of Atlanta, consisted of a grist mill and furniture factory on one
side of the road next to a creek (which my father did not own), and a row
of red-brick buildings on the other side of the road which he bought,
along with an old delipidated cotton gin that was the same side of the
street and across from the water-wheeled grist mill.
The row of red brick buildings were basically three separate yet
connecting structures. The center building was the first to be built, in
around 1880. The second was first a bank and was constructed in the late
1880s to early 1890s. It was located on the right of the first building,
and eventually changed into a general store. The third building was
located adjacent to the left of the first, and had been constructed in
the first decade of the 20th Century over what used to be a a much
earlier blacksmith's stable. It was built to take over the function of
the original bank, and to this day still has its old iron-clad vault.
One time in the 80's while fixing some water pipes underneath this third
building, I notice that there was a tremendous number (I eventually
recovered about 30 or 40) of old iron horse, mule, and pony shoes.
Later, I went back underneath this building and started digging in a
slightly different area that was somewhat depressed and came across an
ancient flywheel that one supplied the momentum power for a blacksmith's
bellows. I then dug closer to the first building's foundation wall and
came across my first soda artifact. It was a clear colorless,
straight-sided bottle that had the name "Ryola" embossed in glass across
it. half-a-foot away I found my first partial, ever-so-lightly,
green-glass tinted -- PRE-PINCH-WAIST -- Coca Cola bottle.
Later I came across two more straight-sided Coke bottles, one of them
completely intact. From the great amount of broken bottle glass that was
also in this buried pit, I have come to the conclusion that the Ryola
drink was noticably more popular than Coke was, in spite of the fact that
these Coke bottles obviously came from the era when cocaine was a
critical ingredient of "Coke." These were the only soda bottle names I
ever uncovered there, and this was from a time when soda bottles always
had the soda's name written in glass on it.
I suspect that beyond those five-named soda pops above, there were other
lesser known soda drink rivals of Coke that were developed collateral to
(and perhaps maybe even predating) that most popular drink.
As it is, I think that Dr. Pepper was introduced slightly earlier than
Coke in another urban venue, but don't take my word for it.
Alan J said:
Dr Pepper
Ned:
Oldest soft drink in America ...
Dr Pepper, 1885, Morrison's Old Corner Drug Store in Waco, Texas.
You had to wait until the 1893 for my favorite ... the first Pepsi!
And, Sally responded:
From the choices offered, I believe the answer is "B" or Dr Pepper (circa 1885) is the oldest soft drink in America.
However, "Vernors" ginger ale is really the oldest soft drink in America (invented in 1866). It's hard to come by, but worth the chase...
Pop, pop, fizz, fizz.
:
Well, seem to have opened another can o'worms with this one.
Using my old pal, google, found there are several soft drinks that all claim to be the first.
Here's an article from the NYTimes -
Maine Marks Century of Moxie Soft Drink
back in 1984.
The Urban Dictionary gives it to Dr Pepper (there's no period after 'Dr').
Here's a list of
Soft Drink Brands with locations of factories and a bit of info on each.
But,
Wikipedia states:
Vernors shares the title of America's oldest
soft drink with
Hires Root Beer. It was invented in 1866 by
James Vernor, a Detroit pharmacist.
Although both Hires Root Beer and Vernors claim the title of first American soft drink, some argue that while Hires Root Beer was just another root beer, Vernors was not just another ginger ale, due to its unique aging process and unusual sweetener. For many, Vernor's Ginger Ale is, in fact, the first true American-born soft drink.
So, I'm gonna go with Vernors as first, then Hires, but of the brands listed, Dr Pepper was the oldest.
thanks for the link to the top 100 horror movies even though I haven't seen more than half of them. My style isn't texas chain saws, it's more the mind-game-scary-because-it's-so-real type.
I don't disagree with most of the top ten (Psycho scared the bejesus out of me and the Shining has a great ending) but the list did not include one of the all-time scariest movies I've ever seen at a movie house -- The Haunting (of Hill House) which is not the same as the House on Haunted Hill. The original movie, with Russ Tamblyn, Claire Bloom, and Julie Harris was as spine-tingling a ghost story as anyone could ask for. After the first time I saw it (I was just entering teenage-hood), I could feel oddly cold places all over the house. The remake sucked, but the book (by Shirley Jackson) and the original movie were great and should be on this list.
yeah, just call me the esoteric duck ;-)
Thanks, ducks!
The Haunting (1963/I) was directed by
Robert Wise, and
House on Haunted Hill (1959) was directed by
William Castle -
sorta like comparing a fine aged cheese to a pasteurized, processed cheese-food product like Velveeta. There's room for both, because sometimes you want cheese, and sometimes you want cheez.
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'How I Met Your Mother', followed by a RERUN'Big Bang Theory', then a RERUN'2½ Men', followed by a RERUN'Rules Of Engagement', then a RERUN'CSI: The 2nd One'.
On a RERUNDave (from 12/16/99) are Jim Carrey and Alanis Morissette.
On a RERUNCraig it's TBA.
NBC begins the night with the 2-hour 'Saturday Night Live I The 80s: Pop Culture Nation', followed by a RERUN'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
On a RERUNLeno (from 1/3/07) are Justin Timberlake, Masi Oka, and Matisyahu.
Conan is pre-empted.
Carson 'The Scab' Daly is pre-empted.
ABC starts the night with the movie 'Shrek 2', followed by the FRESH'Dick Clark's Primetime New Year's Rockin' Eve 2008'.
Jimmy Kimmel is pre-empted.
The CW offers a FRESH'Everybody Hates Chris', followed by a FRESH'Aliens In America', then a FRESH'Girlfriends', followed by a FRESH'The Game'.
Faux has the movie 'Men In Black'.
MY has 'Celebrity Expose', followed by another 'Celebrity Expose'.
A&E has 'Intervention', another 'Intervention', still another 'Intervention', 'Paranormal', and another 'Paranormal'.
AMC offers the movie 'Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', followed by the movie 'Planet Of The Apes', then the movie 'Beneath The Planet Of The Apes'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 2 Walnut Tree;
[1:00 PM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 2 Corry-Thomas;
[2:00 PM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 13 Newark 61;
[2:30 PM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 14 Ardingly 67;
[3:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 3;
[3:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 4;
[4:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 10;
[4:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 11;
[5:00 PM] My Family - Ep 6 Deliverance;
[5:30 PM] Coupling - Episode 1;
[6:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 2 The Fenwick Arms;
[7:00 PM] BBC World News;
[7:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 9;
[8:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 6;
[9:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 5;
[10:00 PM] BBC World News;
[10:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 12;
[11:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 6;
[12:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 5;
[1:00 AM] Coupling - Ep. 1 The Man With Two Legs;
[1:40 AM] The World Stands Up - Episode 6;
[2:00 AM] The Weakest Link - Episode 6;
[3:00 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep.1 Liverpool;
[3:30 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep. 6 Camberwell;
[4:00 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 11 Wetherby 56;
[4:30 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 12 Kedleston 72;
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 2;
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 3;
[6:00 AM] BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Project Runway', another 'Project Runway', still another 'Project Runway', and 'Kathy Griffin: Everybody'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'National Lampoon's Van Wilder', 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', still another 'Scrubs', yet another 'Scrubs', 'South Park', another 'South Park', and still another 'South Park'.
Jon Stewart is pre-empted.
Colbert Report is pre-empted.
FX has the movie 'Wag The Dog', followed by the movie 'Wag The Dog', again, then the movie 'Gone In Sixty Seconds'.
Sundance -
[05:45 AM] The Rock and Roll Kid;
[07:00 AM] Marnie;
[09:15 AM] The Passenger;
[11:30 AM] Tales of the Rat Fink;
[12:45 PM] Zizek!;
[02:00 PM] Go Further;
[03:30 PM] Robyn Hitchcock: Sex, Food, Death ...& Insects;
[04:30 PM] Who Gets to Call it Art?;
[06:00 PM] Control Room;
[07:30 PM] Tales of the Rat Fink;
[09:00 PM] 100 Films and a Funeral;
[10:30 PM] Heavy Metal Jr.;
[11:00 PM] The Best of Youth (Part 1);
[12:40 AM] The Best of Youth (Part 2);
[02:20 AM] The Best of Youth (Part 3);
[04:00 AM] The Best of Youth (Part 4). (ALL TIMES EST)
Tito Ortiz and Jenna Jameson attend the red carpet event at the CatHouse nightclub grand opening in the Luxor hotel-casino Saturday, Dec. 29, 2007 in Las Vegas.
Photo by Ronda Churchill
Trumpets of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra lie on chairs during a rehearsal for the New Year's Concert 2008 in Vienna's "Goldener Musikvereinsaal" December 28, 2007.
Photo by Herwig Prammer
Messages and wishes for the new year from people around the world will float down on the New Year's Eve revelers in Times Square when the confetti is dropped.
Like it or not, major record companies are expected to continue drafting their artist contracts so that labels share a piece of most -- if not all -- of the artists' rights in all types of revenue streams, not just record sales, but also concert tickets and t-shirts.
Artist lawyers say that their responses are as varied as the rights and terms in each label's "360-degree" deal. Some labels want to be the merchandiser, while others want rights only in certain types of merchandise connected to album cover artwork. And when it comes to artist royalties, some labels pay a royalty based on wholesale prices, while others are offering profit-sharing arrangements.
Billboard asked four top lawyers how they will respond to 360 deals in the upcoming year: GARY GILBERT (Sugarloaf, Death Cab for Cutie, Kenny G) with Manatt Phelps & Phillips in Los Angeles; ELLIOT GROFFMAN (Dave Matthews Band, Pearl Jam, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah) with Carroll Guido & Groffman in New York; J. REID HUNTER (John Mayer, the Fray, Manchester Orchestra) with Serling Rooks & Ferrara in New York; and ANDY TAVEL (the Cheetah Girls, Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, James Taylor) with Greenberg Traurig in New York.
With its fearsome record of kidnapping and violence, Colombia's largest guerrilla army might seem a nightmare group to encounter. But not to Oliver Stone. The American filmmaker is jumping at a chance to meet with a group the U.S. classifies as a terrorist organization.
Leaving the glamor of Hollywood far behind, Stone arrived in the steamy Colombian city of Villavicencio on Saturday as part of a mission led by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to retrieve three hostages held for years by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.
"I have no illusions about the FARC, but it looks like they are a peasant army fighting for a decent living," Stone said in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press at his hotel bar. "And here, if you fight, you fight to win."
Stone is part of an international delegation expected to fly by helicopter as early as Sunday into the country's eastern jungles, an area the size of France, to collect the captives: former congresswoman Consuelo Gonzalez, Clara Rojas and her young son Emmanuel, who was fathered by one of her guerrilla captors.
A young boy, wearing a bear fur, watches New Year ritual dances in Comanesti, 300 kilometers north of Bucharest, Romania, Sunday Dec. 30, 2007. In pre-Christian rural traditions, dancers wearing colored costumes or animal furs, toured from house to house in villages singing and dancing to ward off evil. With the average income in Romania, which joined the European Union in 2007, at around 200 euros ($US 295) a month and much lower in rural areas, the tradition has moved to Romania's cities where dancers travel to perform the ritual for money.
Photo by Vadim Ghirda
Court TV, R.I.P. The network that burst into public consciousness with the O.J. Simpson trial and other big-name courtroom dramas in the 1990s becomes part of television history Tuesday, renamed truTV to emphasize its prime-time action programming.
Besides the name, there won't be many immediate changes to what Court TV has become. The six remaining hours of legal-oriented material during the day will remain, labeled "In Session."
The Tuesday premiere of "Ocean Force Huntington Beach O.C." typifies the network's direction. The series follows lifeguards on a busy California beach, emphasizing heart-pounding rescues rather than hours spent ogling hot bodies.
William Kristol, a prominent conservative pundit neo-con propagandist and magazine editor warmonger, has signed on as a columnist for The New York Times, a publication he has often sharply criticized, the newspaper announced on Saturday.
Kristol, 55, is the editor and co-founder of The Weekly Standard, a Washington political magazine with a strongly insanely conservative viewpoint.
He regularly appears on Fox News, and served as Vice President Dan Quayle's chief of staff during the administration of President George H.W. Bush.
Kristol, a staunch supporter of the war in Iraq, will write his first weekly column for the January 7 issue, the Times said.
Restaurant owner Michael Windisch poses while smoking a cigarette through a special hole in the wall of his restaurant in Goslar December 29, 2007. Windisch made holes in the wall so the smokers can put their head and arms through and smoke while staying warm indoors. Germany's Lower Saxony and Baden-Wuerttemberg in the west and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in the east become the first states to ban smoking in public places. The other 13 have pledged to introduce bans by next year.
Photo by Johannes Eisele
An essay that won a 6-year-old girl four tickets to a Hannah Montana concert began with the powerful line: "My daddy died this year in Iraq."
While gripping, it wasn't true - and now the girl may lose her tickets after her mom acknowledged to contest organizers it was all a lie.
The saga began Friday with company officials surprising the girl at a Club Libby Lu at a mall in suburban Garland, about 20 miles northeast of Dallas. The girl won a makeover that included a blonde Hannah Montana wig, as well as the grand prize: airfare for four to Albany, N.Y., and four tickets to the sold-out Hannah Montana concert on Jan. 9.
"We did the essay and that's what we did to win," Priscilla Ceballos, the mother, said in an interview with Dallas TV station KDFW. "We did whatever we could do to win."
Swarms of jellyfish stung nearly 300 swimmers looking to cool off from a heat wave in a southeastern beach city, Brazilian media reported Sunday.
At least 15 people including children and teenagers were treated in Praia Grande for severe stings, doctor Adriano Bechara told the Tribuna newspaper, though their lives were not in danger.
Fire Capt. Atila Gregorio Ribeiro Pereira said the jellyfish were Portuguese man-of-war, which have long tentacles but are not too dangerous unless the victim has an allergic reaction, according to the Folha online news service.
Authorities blamed an extreme heat wave over the southeastern region for the swarm in the shallow waters off Praia Grande.
Ari Derfel leads a trashy life. He just wants to remind everyone else that they do, too.
The 35-year-old Berkeley caterer said he has saved every piece of trash he has generated over the past year to see how much garbage one person creates.
The experiment began as a way to examine his own consumption habits, Derfel said, but grew into a statement about consumerism and the environment.
The refuse - including every tissue, receipt, food wrapper and plastic bottle - lies in bins in the kitchen and living room of Derfel's apartment. He composts his food scraps.
Fortune-seeker Nicolas Cage, lonely guy Will Smith and a pack of talking chipmunks ended Hollywood's year on a happy note. Cage's "National Treasure: Book of Secrets" was the No. 1 movie for a second weekend with $35.6 million, followed by "Alvin and the Chipmunks" with $30 million and Smith's "I Am Legend" with $27.5 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Those hits along with a solid crop of other holdovers and new movies that opened Christmas Day capped a year-end hot streak for Hollywood, whose business soared the last few weeks after a sluggish fall.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Media By Numbers LLC. Final figures will be released Wednesday.
1. "National Treasure: Book of Secrets," $35.6 million.
2. "Alvin and the Chipmunks," $30 million.
3. "I Am Legend," $27.5 million.
4. "Charlie Wilson's War," $11.8 million.
5. "Juno," $10.3 million.
6. "Alien Vs. Predator: Requiem," $10.05 million.
7. "The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep," $9.2 million.
8. "P.S. I Love You," $9.1 million.
9. "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street," $8 million.
10. "Enchanted," $6.5 million.
A fisherman helps a 170-pound female green sea turtle to get back into sea in a coastal village west of Zamboanga City, southern Philippines, December 30, 2007.
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