Word: coked
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...organize a campaign for literacy, with Harry as the spokesperson. And, images of Harry Potter will appear on Coca-Cola product packaging, but he will not be pictured actually drinking the products. There will also be no product placement in the movie itself. Even so, Save Harry!, an anti-Coke/Potter alliance campaign condemns the global marketing rights given to Coca-Cola for promoting consumption of unhealthy beverages. The Save Harry! website calls the alliance “a sales vehicle for liquid candy!” and urges J. K. Rowling to “save Harry from...
...line for pizza at Pinocchio’s: It’s a bad thing when you have to stop mid-smooch so that your partner can mumble, “large slice of pepperoni and diet coke with lemon, please...
...regard her with a jaundiced eye), but from Madison Avenue's standpoint. From the perspective of Madison Avenue, this whole war on terrorism situation is a global marketing problem. And, by the way, that's how Osama bin Laden sees it, too. For him, the battle is in fact Coke versus Pepsi, that is, the Christian West versus Islam, two towering brands that are in a perpetual death struggle for supremacy...
...Finally, a delicious irony from India's Telegraph, a paper whose banner giddily proclaims it "unputdownable." The Calcutta paper reports that some 200 Mumbai (nee Bombay) restaurants had stopped serving Coke and Pepsi, offering only traditional Indian yoghurt drinks as a means of protesting U.S. air strikes against Afghanistan. Many more of the city's Muslim restaurateurs are expected to join the boycott of U.S. products. So the enterprising paper asked the Hindu nationalist Shiv Sena party, which has previously organized similar boycotts to protest globalization's onslaught on Indian culture, whether the party would be joining. The boycott makes...
Favorite Drink: Diet Coke with Lemon. It’s new and it’s amazing. And with rum, obviously...