Tuesday, August 6, 2019

And now, a word from our sponsor

13 comments:

bruce said...

I remember this ad, which is unusual because most of ours are local. MD was introduced in Oz 1960s/70s and I think they ran an edited version of this.

Fun fact: MD in Australia had no caffeine, just the unique refreshing flavours made it popular. Now they are introducing an 'energized' version here with caffeine, like it's a new thing.

rinardman said...

Yeah, if I had a dollar for every green bottle of MD I bought out of the coke machine at the corner store when I was a kid...it might have been enough for my parents to pay the dentist for the cavities he filled when I was about 12 years old. :)

Steve Skubinna said...

I never developed a taste for Mountain Dew. For one thing it's sweeter than I like. But most of all the color was too much like urine for comfort. Must be why the bottles are that green color.

Spiny Norman said...
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Spiny Norman said...

MD reminds me far too much of antifreeze (color, smell and taste). Thanks, but no thanks.

(BTW, I just discovered I've been banned by Disqus. Account terminated. I didn't know they did universal bans, but only individual websites did bans. I haven't a clue what I might have posted that was so egregiously offensive. Meanwhile, actual white nationalists / neo-Nazis still post at Twitchy - or are they actually mobies?)

[ Note: previous comment deleted for embarrassing typo. ]

Paco said...

I'm with you, Steve, on both points (although I vaguely recollect trying a variation of some sort a few years ago that I kind of liked).

Growing up, I enjoyed all kinds of soda pop. I was basically a Pepsi and root beer consumer, but also drank Cheerwine (which, at the time, was only sold in western North Carolina), Orange Crush (remember the brown bottles?), Dr. Pepper, 7-Up (fizzy!), and TruAde, a now-extinct non-carbonated orange drink. My late mother's home has an old trash heap on the property (which has been occupied for almost 200 years), and I used to take my children out there to dig through it; it was a treasure trove, not only of old pop bottles manufactured all the way back into the 1920s, but also patent medicine bottles (e.g., "Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root").

Paco said...

Actually, TruAde may not be quite extinct, just yet.

Paco said...

Spiny, did you find out why you got banned by Disqus?

Spiny Norman said...

Nope. Still "Access Denied".

The "Forgot Password" function doesn't work, because my username, the same one I use everywhere, "does not exist", and my email address, the same one I've used on Disqus (for, what, a decade?) is generating the "access denied" message. It now allows commenters to log in with a Google account (like here - it didn't work, btw), Facebook, Twitter, and a couple of others, but no luck on any of them.

Kinda pisses me off.

TBH, it may be a technical glitch because they've changed everything. It looks like Typepad now, actually, but it isn't, because I'm having the same problem at all the Disqus sites I comment on, and I'm not having any trouble with Typepad.

Spiny Norman said...

Update: I checked some comment threads at my usual Disqus sites, and the "New Disqus" is pretty much loathed by all. So it may not be just me.

Veeshir said...

I never liked MD, too sweet. And it reminds me of a Dead song, and by extension, smelly hippies.


I gave up on disquus almost immediately. I tried to use it when the puppy blender started comments. It's more annoying than captcha. And that's saying something.
I refuse to use a google account, I want to make them work to track me.

Spiny Norman said...
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Spiny Norman said...

Oops. Posted too soon...

I hate having to solve 5 or 6, or even as many as 17 captchas in order to post, though (which is why I'm logged in here with Google **spit**).

What I liked about "old Disqus" was posting images was absurdly simple, posting links to YouTube automatically embedded the video and linking to Twitter automatically embedded the tweet. All that is gone now, apparently.