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Coca-Cola
This nOde last updated April 11th, 2004 and is permanently morphing...
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Coca-Cola goes on sale May 8 at Jacob's Pharmacy in Atlanta, where local pharmacist John S. Pemberton has formulated a headache and hangover remedy whose syrup ingredients include dried leaves from the South American coca shrub (COCAINE) and an extract of kola nuts from Africa plus fruit syrup. He has been advertising his Coca-Cola "esteemed Brain Tonic and Intellectual Beverage" since March 29. His bookkeeper Frank M. Robinson has named the product and written the name Coca-Cola in a flowing script. Pemberton has persuaded fountain man Willis E. Venable at Jacob's to sell the beverage on a trial basis, Venable adds carbonated water, and by year's end Pemberton has sold 25 gallons of syrup at $1 per gallon, but he has spent $73.96 in advertising and will sell two-thirds of his sole ownership in the product next year for $1,200.

The Coca-Cola name in China was first read as "Ke-kou-ke-la", meaning "Bite the wax tadpole" or "female horse stuffed with wax", depending on the dialect. Coke then researched 40,000 characters to find a phonetic equivalent "ko-kou-ko-le", translating into "happiness in the mouth". It was later changed to "Shaolin Cola".

The secret recipe for Coca Cola, code-named "Merchandise 7X" is kept under lock and key in a vault in the Sun Trust Bank Building in Atlanta, Georgia, the home of Coke inventor Dr. John S. Pemberton and current world headquarters of Coca Cola International.

10 Coca-Cola Slogans

1. Delicious! Refreshing! Exhilarating! Invigorating! - 1929
2. The Pause That Refreshes - 1929
3. It's The Refreshing Thing To Do - 1936
4. It's The Real Thing - 1942 revived in 1969

commercial _I'd Like To Buy The World A Coke_ MP3
commercial video footage _Teach The World To Sing_ (quicktime)

5. Global High Sign - 1944
6. Things

Go Better With Coke - 1963
7. Have A Coke and A

Smile - 1979
8. Coke Is It - 1982
9. You Can't Beat The Feeling - 1987
10. Always - 1993

"The Coca Cola company was the first big company to invest in mass advertising, and they did that in an attempt to keep the market they'd first acquired when they still had a substantial amount of cocaine in the drink. If you can't hook consumers one way, you have to find another. Every commodity today tries to be as close to a drug as it can possibly be without actually being a drug."

- Sadie Plant

cokebottle /kohk'bot-l/ n.

Any very unusual character, particularly one you can't type because it isn't on your keyboard. MIT people used to complain about the `control-meta-cokebottle' commands at SAIL, and SAIL people complained right back about the `escape-escape-cokebottle' commands at MIT. After the demise of the space-cadet keyboard, `cokebottle' faded away as serious usage, but was often invoked humorously to describe an (unspecified) weird or non-intuitive keystroke command. It may be due for a second inning, however. The OSF/Motif window manager, mwm(1), has a reserved keystroke for switching to the default set of keybindings and
behavior. This keystroke is (believe it or not) `control-meta-bang' (see bang). Since the exclamation point looks a lot like an upside down Coke bottle, Motif hackers have begun referring to this keystroke as `cokebottle'. See also quadruple bucky.

- _The New Hacker's Dictionary_ by Eric S. Raymond

604 track _Coca Coma (Crystal)_ MP3 by Synchro off of _Drugs_
track _Koka Kola_ by The Clash off of _London Calling_ 12"x3 (1979)
- I get my advice from the advertising world
  Treat me nice says the party girl
  Koke adds life where there isn't any
  So freeze, man, freeze
  Koka Kola advertising and kokaine
  Strolling down the Broadway in the rain
  Neon light sign says it
  I read it in the paper-they're crazy!
track _Coca Cola_ MP3 (224k) by Radio Boy off of _The Mechanics Of Destruction_ on Accidental (2002)

track _Coke_ MP3 by Flickerstick off of _Welcoming Home The Astronauts_ on 226 (2001)
track _Rum And Coca Cola_ MP3 by The Andrews Sisters

characters Coke Machine Robber played by Albans Benchoff and Coke Heist Accomplist played by Zara Barron in the film _Slacker_ (vhs/ntsc)(1991) directed by Richard Linklater

in 1903 cocaine was removed from Coca-Cola
In many states (in the USA) the highway patrol carries two gallons of Coke in the truck to remove blood from the highway after a car accident.
You can put a T-bone steak in a bowl of coke and it will be gone in two days.
To clean a toilet: Pour a can of Coca-Cola into the toilet bowl.......Let the "real thing" sit for one hour, then flush clean. The citric acid in Coke removes stains from vitreous china.
To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers: Rub the bumper with a crumpled-up piece of Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil dipped in Coca-Cola.
To clean corrosion from car battery terminals: Pour a can of Coca-Cola over the terminals to bubble away the corrosion.
To loosen a rusted bolt: Applying a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola to the rusted bolt for several minutes.
To remove grease from clothes: Empty a can of coke into a load of greasy clothes, add detergent, And run through a regular cycle. The Coca-Cola will help loosen grease stains. It will also clean road haze from your windshield.
The active ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid. It's pH is 2.8. It will dissolve a nail in about 4 days.

To carry Coca Cola syrup (the concentrate) the commercial truck must use the Hazardous material place cards reserved for Highly Corrosive materials.
commercial _Polar Bears_ quicktime for Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola owns Columbia. Columbia owns Gottlieb. Gottlieb produced classic arcade videogames like Q*Bert.
Coca-Cola was originally colored green.
Anomalog: Coca Cola Uses Paramilitary Groups In Columbia To Murder Union Members

When it originally appeared in 1886 - Coca Cola was billed as an "Esteemed Brain Tonic and Intellectual Beverage".
track _Assimilate_ by Skinny Puppy sample: "We've got the taste!" from Diet Coke commercial
track _Japanese Cherry Coke Commercial_ MP3 (112k)

DNA is like Coca-Cola
Coke	DNA	Solubility
water	water	-
Sugar (sucrose)	Sugar (deoxyribose)	VERY High
Phosphate (PO₄^- acid)	phosphate	moderate
caffeine	bases (A,T,C,G)	extremely low

Usenet: alt.food.cocacola

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