Coke adds ...

[Ray Moscow]

what exactly?

Coke partners with Creation Museum (http://blogs.answersingenesis.org/museum/2007/07/13/thirsty-museum-guests-choose-coke/)

The Creation Museum and Coke have been partners officially since April even though Coke has been on site for years.

(thanks to WEIT (http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/shoot-me-now-coca-cola-an-official-partner-of-the-creation-museum/) and Pharyngula (http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/06/coke_is_for_creationist_cretin.php) for the link)

[tjakey]

I wonder if Pepsi and rum tastes the same?

[Ray Moscow]

Keep increasing the proportion of rum until it does.

[tjakey]

Now that's the best idea I have heard all day.

[DMB]

I wonder if they have a MacDonalds franchise selling dinoburgers.

[Valheru]

That's the perverse beauty of capitalism - you can do anything to make money and end up pissing off somebody.

[Pendaric]

I don't know, but I strongly doubt that this implies any kind of endorsement by Coca Cola.

My guess is that if you sell above a certain amount of produce you get the label of 'partner', irrespective of what your business is.

[Valheru]

Coke wants to make money, plain and simple. I think the museum itself is taking liberties by trying to paint Coke as some sort of endorsing partner, and I wouldn't be surprised if someone high up in Cokeland doesn't like it one bit.

It's a motherfucking soft drink vendor - how could it possibly relate to creationism except by associative proxy in the minds of the curators?

[Ray Moscow]

I don't know, but I strongly doubt that this implies any kind of endorsement by Coca Cola.

My guess is that if you sell above a certain amount of produce you get the label of 'partner', irrespective of what your business is.

That's my guess, too.

"Partnering" with a restaurant or snack shop that sells your products doesn't necessarily mean that you're endorsing the institution itself.

However, it wouldn't hurt for Coke to say so, just to clear things up for the public now that it's become an issue.

[Valheru]

It actually doesn't surprise me. In all probability the janitor has been inducted as a Fellow for his tireless efforts in the name of creationism! :rolleyes:

[Pendaric]

I don't know, but I strongly doubt that this implies any kind of endorsement by Coca Cola.

My guess is that if you sell above a certain amount of produce you get the label of 'partner', irrespective of what your business is.

That's my guess, too.

"Partnering" with a restaurant or snack shop that sells your products doesn't necessarily mean that you're endorsing the institution itself.

However, it wouldn't hurt for Coke to say so, just to clear things up for the public now that it's become an issue.

Well, the Creation Museum people haven't actually told any lies if the above is the case, so it isn't necessarily an issue as such.

Don't get me in any way wrong - they're a bunch of loonies, but I don't really see why they can't announce a legitimate business acknowledgement if they want to. Part of the reason Coke will give this label will be for the PR value for both parties.

[Garnet]

Fuck! Diet Coke is my favorite drink.

*grumbles, mutters and kicks the wall*

[Valheru]

*grumbles, mutters and kicks the wall*

Well... it IS called Diet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diet_(assembly)) Coke, after all. :D

[Matty]

Coke, doing for your teeth what creationism does for your brain.........

[Valheru]

Well, now, that depends on what sort of Coke you're referring to :)

[Matty]

fair point.

"Coke, now with as much nutritional goodness per can as there are facts in the Bible.


"You know how a little Jack or rum can make this can of coke taste even better? Try adding a little thinking to your religion"


Part of the reason Coke will give this label will be for the PR value for both parties. It can only be a good thing, some diversity. I mean so far the fundy religious pop market has been totally overwhelmed by Kool Aid.

[Valheru]

I mean so far the fundy religious pop market has been totally overwhelmed by Kool Aid.

No! You did NOT just say that! Bwahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:D:notworthy:

[Celsus]

I can't remember if the proper label is 'partners' but basically any vendor that commits to selling Coke products exclusively in their beverage lines (and there are enough Coke-owned brands of every kind of beverage for most people not to realise this) get some kind of 'partner' status.

[Christina]

I mean so far the fundy religious pop market has been totally overwhelmed by Kool Aid.

*spews coffee

That was a terrible thing to say, Matty.

*giggles some more

[Puck]

I wrote to coca-cola yesterday and suggested that I'd no longer use their products, and if they really wanted to support someone, the new planetarium fund raiser in Mn would be much smarter and useful.

[DMB]

I really think Matty wins this thread. :thumbup:

[Jobar]

Yep. :D

Small nit to pick, though- it wasn't actually Kool-Aid name brand that was used at Jonestown. I don't recall the real brand, and it was, basically, Kool-Aid; but IIRC seems that back at the time of the Jonestown mass suicide/murder, Kool-Aid made a public statement that their product wasn't involved.

[Matty]

yeah i know. its all Greek to me tbh anyway.
i'm a pop ignoramus both musically and berveagely , i just know i'm not drinking or eating anything a cult leader offers me. :)

[LoneWolf]

It doesn't mean anything. They would be just as likely to "partner" with a Secular Humanist organization I am sure.

[Danhalen]

Coke, doing for your teeth what creationism does for your brain.........

Well, now, that depends on what sort of Coke you're referring to :)You've obviously not done much of the other sort of coke. Done properly, coke (with a small 'c') rots every part of your body, especially the teeth.