PEPSI'S DONE WITH ADVERTISING
Yup, that's what I said...why? Why would a multi-billion dollar company want to stop advertising during something like a recession? Besides, doesn't everyone drink and enjoy Pepsi? According to this article, Pepsi's CEO says that if people don't want it, they don't want it. She says that the company knows it has a good product, and essentially, there is no point in pushing something like a soft drink down consumers throats. While I'm not sure this would have worked with any other corporation, Pepsi may be on to something here. After all, while I don't know their slogan is this year, I DO know what their label looks like and what their product is supposed to taste like. Makes sense to me, after all....if you've got a strong customer base already with a product that's already a household name, why spend millions or even thousands on ads?
SOMEONE'S FRESHMAN YEAR MAY SUCK...
...or just may not live up to those wild stories their older siblings told them.
Most college students, while testing their newfound freedoms, end up with stories about dorm life and the adventures they had.
One adventure Tuft University students won't have (rather, aren't supposed to have) is the one where their roomie is getting it on while they're present. There is an actual rule now at the university that prohibits a student from having intercourse while their roommate is present. I wonder, at what point, this became enough of an issue that there needed to be a rule made...hmmm......
IT WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME... RATETHATHOOKER.COM
There is a website for high school and college students where they are able to hop online and check the instructors they'll be dealing with for the upcoming semester. They are able to read feedback from other students and rank them based on a star system. They can also leave feedback about these instructors, good or bad, for the world to see. That idea took place with a California-based website whose real name in www.punternet.com (ratethathooker.com was all my idea!); Johns are able to rate prostitutes they've encountered from all over the world on a site their pimps list them on. The site has gotten some attention from the British Parliment, asking the Terminator himself (Gov. Schwarzenegger) to shut it down. What's so bad about knowing what you're paying for in advance, anyway??
NATURAL ICE CAUSES A HOT MESS
My favorite story today, hands down, comes out of Florida. A woman and her boyfriend are drinking a "high quality alcoholic beverage" when things got a little out of control.
Her man refused to get her more of the liquid courage, and she broke a leg off of a table and chucked it at him. Police were called, and the official report refers to the leg as a "missle." Good stuff.
