Comments on: Hokey Pokey Coca Cola http://jakartass.net/2010/07/hokey-pokey-coca-cola/ Home thoughts from abroad. Alien thoughts from home. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:05:37 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jakartass http://jakartass.net/2010/07/hokey-pokey-coca-cola/comment-page-1/#comment-4860 Jakartass Sat, 07 Aug 2010 15:58:50 +0000 http://jakartass.net/?p=2454#comment-4860 <p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-robbins/the-dark-side-of-vitaminw_b_669716.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="#006600"><b>Coca-Cola is being sued</b></font></a> <span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 128);">by a non-profit public interest group, on the grounds that the company's vitaminwater products make unwarranted health claims. No surprise there. But how do you think the company is defending itself?<br /> <br /> In a staggering feat of twisted logic, lawyers for Coca-Cola are defending the lawsuit by asserting that "<em>no consumer could reasonably be misled into thinking vitaminwater was a healthy beverage</em>."</span><br /> <br /> <small>Lifted from <a href="http://j-walkblog.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="#006600"><small><b>J-Walk Blog </b></small></font></a></small></p> Coca-Cola is being sued by a non-profit public interest group, on the grounds that the company's vitaminwater products make unwarranted health claims. No surprise there. But how do you think the company is defending itself?

In a staggering feat of twisted logic, lawyers for Coca-Cola are defending the lawsuit by asserting that "no consumer could reasonably be misled into thinking vitaminwater was a healthy beverage."

Lifted from J-Walk Blog

]]> By: Jakartass http://jakartass.net/2010/07/hokey-pokey-coca-cola/comment-page-1/#comment-4859 Jakartass Sat, 07 Aug 2010 07:22:53 +0000 http://jakartass.net/?p=2454#comment-4859 <p>I'm not sure what the relevance of the last comment is to my post, but I do like its poetic nuance.</p> I'm not sure what the relevance of the last comment is to my post, but I do like its poetic nuance.

]]> By: lost http://jakartass.net/2010/07/hokey-pokey-coca-cola/comment-page-1/#comment-4858 lost Sat, 07 Aug 2010 06:19:06 +0000 http://jakartass.net/?p=2454#comment-4858 Eating, loving, singing and pooping are, in actuality, the four acts of the mirthful opera known as freshness, and they pass like bubbles of a grit of champagne. Whoever lets them break without having enjoyed them is a entire fool. Eating, loving, singing and pooping are, in actuality, the four acts of the mirthful opera known as freshness, and they pass like bubbles of a grit of champagne. Whoever lets them break without having enjoyed them is a entire fool.

]]> By: Jakartass http://jakartass.net/2010/07/hokey-pokey-coca-cola/comment-page-1/#comment-4845 Jakartass Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:15:28 +0000 http://jakartass.net/?p=2454#comment-4845 Coca Cola Inc. seems to make a habit of <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/jul/18/coca-cola-facebook-promotion-porn" rel="nofollow"><font color="#006600"><b>not thinking about consequences</b></font></a>. The company has backtracked after a campaign which allowed teenagers' Facebook status box to be taken for a marketing campaign. Those who had 'joined' were fed "<i>messages that made direct reference to a hardcore pornographic film.</i>" Coca-Cola said <i>the offending line had been approved by them, without them realising its true meaning.</i> Coca Cola Inc. seems to make a habit of not thinking about consequences.

The company has backtracked after a campaign which allowed teenagers' Facebook status box to be taken for a marketing campaign. Those who had 'joined' were fed "messages that made direct reference to a hardcore pornographic film."

Coca-Cola said the offending line had been approved by them, without them realising its true meaning.

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