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Economic use of precious time, or AOL style "me too"? You decide. Stephen opened his brand spanking new site with a lamenation of Coca Cola and Sinn Féin. He's mad at Coke for giving $15,000 to Sinn Féin; and at Sinn Féin for supporting the ban on Coke, funding terrorism in Ireland and Columbia, and just being not-very-nice people overall.

I'm mad at Coke for stealing my colour scheme for Vanilla Coke.

How do we refer to original Coke now? It used to be 'Coke', but now that name is ambiguous. Ordinarily I'd refer to the original version as vanilla, in a geeky ice-cream related way. A conundrum, eh? I propose 'vanilla Coke' for the original and 'Vanilla Coke' for the new flavour. That should end any confusion.

Comments:
Mon, 26th Jan 2004 (14:50)

AOL style 'me too' definitely…

It's not so much a 'Brand Spanking New' site as a pretty old site with a new name, hosting and email address. Oh and a slightly modified logo, the background colour of which no longer matches the rest of the banner. Some call it sloppy, others call it character. Since my character is inevitably rather sloppy, I say it doesn't matter…

Incidentally, I propose the extension of our already rather Americo-centric approach to life to our references to Coke, which should now be referred to as 'Coke Classic'. Although I still draw the line at ColoUr.

by Stephen
Tue, 27th Jan 2004 (14:06)

I meant to ask about the logo. You broke it and don't know how to fix it, right?

My AOLism was limited. More than half of that post was original.

by Rory
Fri, 30th Jan 2004 (16:39)

right. well not really: i could fix it, but it was 3AM before I even started on the logo, and I don't think it looks any worse for being a slightly different colour. feel free to change it, but you'll need to know my new ftp username & password…

by Stephen

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