The McDonalds coffee lawsuit, most people use it as a sign of what’s wrong with America and what’s wrong with the current judicial system. A concern is that most people don’t know the facts of the case, or what happened during the trial. The case was a meme before memes existed. Today we will dispel […]
Month: April 2021
New Coke…… Who this?
Coca-Cola (Coke) vs. Pepsi, the old vanguard of tradition vs. the new upstart vying for the soft drink crown. This story has been told many times throughout literature, history and pop culture, it’s essentially a battle of old vs. new, or innovation vs. tradition. Pepsi introduced Diet Pepsi in 1964, it took Coke until 1982 […]
The War on Drugs
When most people think of The War on Drugs, they think of the 1980s, D.A.R.E., Nancy Reagan and the Just Say No TV ads. The term was first introduced into our Lexicon in the 1970s by Richard Nixon. He used the term in a speech, where he declared drug abuse “public enemy number one.” In […]
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Teddy Bear vs. Billy Possum: The fight for the early 1900 toy market
In 1902, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt went on a bear hunting trip in Mississippi with Governor Andrew H. Longino. During the trip, everybody but Roosevelt had killed an animal. A group of men on the tour, cornered, clubbed and tied an American black bear to a willow tree. The man called for Roosevelt to shoot […]
