#French man in the 1950s trying Coca-Cola for the first time. The 1950s was a period of significant cultural change and globalization

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A French man reacts to trying Coca-Cola for the first time, 1950s.

Now, imagine my face when I read that the French willingly eat Escargot which are snails under an assumed name. :)

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A French man reacts to trying Coca-Cola for the first time 1950s. [1811x1593]

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Good morning! I hope you slept well and feel rested? Currently sitting at my desk, in my study, attired only in my blue towelling robe, enjoying my first cuppa of the day. Welcome to Too Much Information Tuesday!

50% of Canada is A.

The faster you eat, the more weight you gain.

Sex burns 360 calories per hour.

Hitler and Napolean both had only one testicle.

French fries are from Belgium not France.

The richest 1% of the world, owns 99% of the world.

French queens gave birth in public to prove the baby was theirs.

In their first year of trading, Coca-Cola only sold 25 bottles.

There is a morning-after pill for STIs.

“No lemon, no melon” backwards is "No lemon, no melon".

Bolivia has a 5000 man strong navy. What Bolivia does not have is a coastline.

On March 10th, 2015, Ireland accidentally legalised 125 drugs for one day, including ketamine, ecstasy and crystal meth.

Oysters, avocado, chocolate, and bananas are all known to increase sex drive.

‘Hakuna Matata’ is a Swahili phrase that literally translates to ‘There are no worries.’

Why are you assuming that your guests’ shoes are dirtier than your floor?

Cannabis can double a woman's chance of having a mind-blowing orgasm.

In 1894, The Times estimated that by 1950 London would be nine feet deep in horse manure.

Semen contains zinc and calcium, both of which are proven to prevent tooth decay.

Everyone talks about leaving a better planet for our kids. Let’s try to leave better kids for our planet.

When. You. Read. Stuff. Like. This. The. Voice. In. Your. Head. Takes. Pauses.

Drinking moderate amounts of alcohol before writing can actually enhance your creativity.

In 2014, a man from Arizona stole a diamond that was worth $160,000 and traded it for $20 worth of weed.

Not having enough sex can put you at risk of anxiety, paranoia and depression.

Psychologists examined internet trolls and found that the majority of them are narcissistic, psychopathic and/or sadistic.

Women are more attracted to someone with the ability to make them laugh. Laughter strengthens relationships.

Woody Harrelson’s father was a door-to-door Encyclopaedia Britannica salesman before becoming a contract killer.

Generally, women care more in a relationship but are more likely to walk away and stay away once they reach breaking point.

If Benny and Bjorn from ABBA had been Steve and Dave, they would have been known as ASDA.

If you can’t send an Excel file because it’s too big, save it as .xlsb. This will shrink the size.

Only 16% of French people surveyed in 2015 said they could live without cheese ‘sans aucun problème’ (without any problem).

The average Brit spends more time per week on the toilet than they do exercising.

Each time you resist acting on your anger, you're actually rewiring your brain to be calmer and more compassionate.

The Stinking Rose restaurant in San Francisco uses 1.5 tons of garlic a month and features a 2,400-bulb garlic braid as decoration. According to one reviewer "They season the garlic with food.”

In 2021 an arrest warrant was issued for a woman in Oklahoma after it was discovered she hadn’t returned a copy of Sabrina the Teenage Witch on VHS to a video rental store in 1999 when it was due.

Broccoli, cabbage, and Brussel sprouts all contain a little bit of cyanide. Eating them primes your liver to deal better with other poisons.

In 1976, the typical US CEO earned 36 times the salary of his average worker. Today, the average CEO makes 369 times what an average worker makes.

Tchaikovsky was able to quit his day job with the support of a wealthy patron. Her only condition for her support was that they never meet in person.

Brian Cranston signed up to a screen writers’ guild so that he was paid royalties for the whistling he did as Hal in ‘Malcolm in the Middle’. He used the money to pay for parties for the crew.

It's hard to change a person's mind using facts due to "motivated reasoning". People often believe what they want, then use unsubstantial evidence to support it, even when there's an abundance of information disproving their point.

In 2018, a 13-year-old opened a hot dog stand in front of his home in Minnesota, prompting a neighbor to file a complaint with the health department. Instead of shutting him down, inspectors helped bring his stand up to code and paid the $87 fee for his permit.

In 1996, a store manager in California robbed the store, reported the robbery, and then gave a detailed description of the ‘suspect’ to the sketch artist. When the police pointed out to him that the ‘suspect’ looked exactly like him, the man confessed.

The last line of the film ‘Gone with the Wind’ — ‘Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn’ — was originally censored. Before it was finally approved, the producers considered such replacements as ‘I don’t give a whoop’, ‘I don’t give a straw’, and ‘I don’t give a Continental’.

The inventor of the transistor, John Bardeen, won a Nobel prize in 1956 but only brought one of his three kids to the ceremony. When questioned on it, he said he’d bring the others the next time he won, which he then did in 1972.

Okay, that’s enough information for one day. Have a tremendous and tumultuous Tuesday! I love you all.

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A French man reacts to trying Coca-Cola for the first time (1950s)

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Jan. 17, 2018: Columns

Perusing old phone directories...

By KEN WELBORN

Record Publisher

    It has been said many times that it doesn't take much to amuse me.

    This is most often said by the random person here and there who visits the offices of The Record and Thursday Printing and think that what passes for "decoration" here is less than the most wonderful exhibit of history, oddities and memorabilia they have ever seen.  This is, of course, after I have tried my best to get them into my "web" of stories and amazingly detailed information on most anything in the place--and failed.

    To that end, one of my personal favorite pastimes after I have been working on bookkeeping for what seems like forever, is to take a break and dust things off a little or move pieces around to get something up off the floor, making room for the fact that something "new/old"  is going to come in every so often.  During those fits of reorganization, I sometimes run across something I haven't paid any attention to lately or have even forgotten I have.  This past weekend, that item was a series of Central Telephone Company phone books running from 1950 to about 1970.  Most, if not all, of these phone books were given to me my friends Walter and Mary McSwain of North Wilkesboro.

     In looking through a couple of the Central Telephone books, 1950 and 1954 to be exact, it is clear that the phone company had figured out that the same business that was willing to pay them a couple of dollars a month for a telephone, would also be willing to pay a lot more for an advertisement in the phone book.  Some of those ads were quite interesting and, of course, it was interesting to note how many of the businesses are long gone by now.

    The catch lines and slogans were fascinating to say the least.  One I have heard fairly often seemed to date way back at least to the 50's.  In an ad for Fletcher Motor Company of North Wilkesboro it  proudly states, "Where used car prices are born, not raised."  Another old stand-by was in the ad for Busic's Cabs, after listing their three locations, their closing line appears, "If we please you, tell others, if we don't, tell us."  An early import car dealer in Wilkes was Pennell Motor Company of Wilkesboro, selling the French-made Renault, with the engine in the rear and touting its  45 miles to the gallon rating--in 1950, when gas was probably 15 cents a gallon.  They promoted the Renault as "The lowest priced 4-door sedan in America."

    The McNeil family's  Coca-Cola Bottling Company on the corner of 10th and C Streets in North Wilkesboro always advertised in every venue possible.  The parent Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta was always coming out with a new slogan or catch line.  In the local bottler's 1950 ad it read, "Coca-Cola--the Global High Sign."  By the 1954 edition, it was "Time Out for a Coke." 

    One West Jefferson company advertised International Harvester refrigerators and home freezers.  Yes, International Harvester,  and, being way ahead of their time, referred to their products as "femineerd."  Speaking of International Harvester, I always think of Clyde Cothren's City Sales Company which was for years located across from the old YMCA in Wilkesboro.  I can still remember the big trucks sitting around that old yellow building as I would ride my trusty Schwinn bicycle to the YMCA to go swimming in the late 50s.  However, in the old phone books appear ads for Willis cars, trucks, and Jeeps. Yet another City Sales ad was for the Nash Airflyte automobile--and from it came a slogan that must not have panned out too well, "Nash, the World's Most Modern Cars!!"   

    It is now time to wind up for the day, so I will leave you with the all-time best slogan I have ever seen, heard, read, or otherwise been made aware of.  Now, remember, Dizzy Dean always said "It ain't  bragging if it's the truth," so here goes. I must leave the phone book venue for this one and go back to an old Blum's Almanac from the late 20's which is here in the office somewhere among the treasures.  In this old Blum's Bible for Farmers, a man was advertising that he had fence posts for sale.  Not just any kind of fence posts, mind you, but Locust fence posts.  And, as Millers Creek's own resident lumberman Roy Triplett will tell you, Locust is special stuff.

    The ad in question ended up with this quote, or slogan if you will, "Our locust fence posts will outlast the hole."

    I love it.

 Listen first

By LAURA WELBORN

At Church this Sunday, Rev. Ann Dieterle reminded us of the movie "Field of Dreams" where the star hears the voice say: "Build it and they will come."

How often do we listen to the voices and clues around us?

I know that as hard as I try I still do not listen for the "voices or clues" as it is easier to go forward with my own plan and forge ahead.

St Benedict reminds us of the Monk's Rule:  "Listen first before you speak, act or judge."

I have decided listening is one of the hardest things for me- really listening, paying attention to what is happening around me and then taking in the clues or signs of direction.  I come to the conclusion that it is not the saying "build it and they will come," but that someone listened to a voice that did not make much sense at the time. It’s the act of faith to move forward with something we don't understand.  

Richard Rohr in his daily meditation says, "God reveals God’s self to us through what unfolds as our life, along with every visible thing around us. These ordinary revelations must be respected and deeply listened to.  Life itself is the primary divine revelation.

Maybe we start by asking better questions like who are we, what do we live for, what is worth the pain, what do you never give up on, what do you look forward to?  These questions challenge us to live intentionally and focus on what is important to us.  But to go one step further and listen to the voices and clues we are given in life is to ask ourselves about the ransom life situations that are causing us stress and heartache-  “What else could this mean?”  

·                 What is the story I’m telling myself about this situation?

·                  Can I be absolutely certain the story is true?

·                  How do I feel and behave when I tell myself the story?

·                  If I stopped telling myself the story once and for all, what else might I see, hear, or experience?

While I would love to have an honest to goodness voice tell me to build it and they will come, I realize my voices maybe already there if I will simply ask the questions to myself first and then listen to my own answers. 

Time to Balance the Books

By EARL COX

U.S. President Donald Trump recently tweeted a clear, long overdue message to Mahmoud Abbas; in effect: you can’t have it both ways.

Offended by Trump’s December speech, which clearly left Jerusalem’s final boundaries to be negotiated by both sides, Abbas overreacted with trademark false accusations, and a huffy rebuttal of the U.S. role as peace broker.

 Like the proverbial farmer sawing off a tree limb but forgetting he’s sitting on it, Abbas overlooked the billions in U.S. aid funneled to the PA since the mid-’90s, which last year alone totaled more than $730 million in all sectors—economic and humanitarian, security and justice, and UNRWA. Abbas’s tantrum backfired. It’s payback time.

Trump recently tweeted: “We pay the Palestinians hundreds of millions of dollars a year and get no appreciation or respect. They don’t even want to negotiate a long overdue peace treaty with Israel. So why should we make any of these massive future payments to them?”

It’s about time America balanced these books.

The PA has long misappropriated U.S. and European aid to support jailed terrorists and their families at more than half its annual budget—$300 million annually, and more than $1 billion in the last four years. Convicted terrorists even got a 13 percent raise last year (their families gained 4 percent), according to Palestinian Media Watch. Though safeguards have attached to U.S. aid, some observers cite that evidence indicates that the attempted controls did not significantly alter this practice, according to Jim Zanotti, for the Congressional Research Service.

But that’s not all. PA leaders also siphon off foreign assistance for personal enrichment for themselves, family members and cronies at the expense of the Palestinian people.

The intent of development assistance is to “help the Palestinians build the physical and social infrastructure to enable the emergence of a sustainable, prosperous society. But few seriously questioned how much money is sent and how it is used,” Deputy Foreign Minister Tsipi Hotovely told The Wall Street Journal.

Aid from Europe has also been misappropriated. The Times of London quoted an EU report on the “loss” of development assistance due to “bribes and misuse of aid” amounting to €2 billion ($2,405,421,820) to the West Bank and Gaza Strip from 2008 to 2012.

The Palestinian Authority’s abject trail of corruption began upon its inception in 1994, as money and aid for the Palestinian people were funneled to the Fatah budget, said Sawsan Ramahi for Al-Monitor. “Money meant for the establishment of a state quickly turned into balances in Swiss bank accounts, personal projects in neighboring countries and partnerships.”

It surprised no one that the Panama Papers exposé of tax evasion and money laundering by international elites included leading Palestinian Authority figures, Adnan Abu Amer reported for Al Monitor. Just one example: Abbas’s son Tareq secretly owns, in partnership with the PA, a holding company in the British Virgin Islands worth more than $1 million. In addition to money laundering and tax evasion, there also has been theft of public money, bribes, transfer of government land to officials for private use and more, he said.

“The Panama Papers confirm that the PA is a nongovernmental entity,” Palestinian author Adel Samara said. Its model more closely resembles the infrastructure and clientelism of the Sicilian Mafia, which built its crime empire on illegal profits using bribes, extortion, threats, violence and murder—and perpetrated its ranks by recruiting young boys and turning them into “soldiers” who did the dirty work and were lowest and least paid on the food chain.

“Corruption in the PA … gives the Palestinian ruling elite a strategic tool to control the popular bases … maintain the status quo, dominate political and economic assets, and implement its political agenda without facing any effective opposition,” Amer said.

The Trump administration and the U.S. Congress—which recently passed the Taylor Force Act—are taking a good hard look at U.S. support for the PA and UNRWA. The president understands that perpetuating previous failed U.S. policies could be catastrophic, especially with Abbas at the helm.

Perhaps Trump should make him an offer he can’t refuse.

  Sizzling on the Grill

By CARL WHITE

Life in the Carolinas

Upon arrival, Sylvia said, “this morning’s ice on the roads were the worst I have seen in my 50 years of driving a school bus”. I was setting at the counter waiting for breakfast to come off the grill when those words drifted through the air. I had seen a little ice on my drive to Alvin’s Dockery Grocery & Snack Bar in Traphill, NC and I knew that school had been delayed for a few hours, but I did not realize that the early drives had been so challenging. The thing that stuck in my head most was not the ice but rather the fact that someone had just announced that she had been driving a school bus for 50 years.

I ask Sylvia if her bus did much sliding on the ice, not really, she replied, I’ve been driving long enough to know what I am doing. Way to go Sylvia.

I try to visit Alvin’s place at least once a year, I enjoy the random conversations about life and a good country breakfast.

Ray was talking about the single digit cold weather and the cows that stand in the pasture, and for whatever reason, they do not huddle together for the benefit of combined body heat. This line of conversation opened the floor for other cold weather stories.

Another fellow shared a story about the cold weather causing iguanas to fall from trees in Florida. Some in the room thought that they were frozen to death, while others seem to think that maybe they were hibernating due to the cold weather. Iguanas like it above 45 degrees. And when they get colder things move much slower and they become frozen, and that’s why they were falling out of trees like ripe fruit. In most cases, active life will return to the iguana when warmer weather returns.

Another story about the effects of cold weather surfaced about Swamp Park, in southeastern North Carolina.  The alligators found themselves living under a frozen lake. Before the lake is frozen over the alligators will stick their nose above the water line so they can breathe as the lake freezes over, and then they just wait for warmer weather.

Alvin stays busy at the grill preparing food but always finds time to share colorful thoughts and often it relates to a reflective memory from youth or maybe a movie reference.

It is evident that for the most part, he enjoys the people he serves, he’s been on the grill for a long time. And it seems like everyone is treated like family and friends.

We all deal with things in life that at times overwhelm us, so maybe we can learn a few things from our shorter legged friends. Maybe we just need to poke our nose out of the muck and just wait for things to get a bit more comfortable.

I ask Alvin for his quote of the year, “When I was young, my mind was always moving fasts. Now my mind is more focused on profound thoughts with purpose, (he tilted his head and with a classic smirk says) O hell, I’m just getting older, now go and have a nice day.”

And so, it goes, Sizzling on the Grill at Dockery Grocery & Snack Bar.

 Carl White is the executive producer and host of the award winning syndicated TV show Carl White’s Life In the Carolinas. The weekly show is now in its seventh year of syndication and can be seen in the Charlotte viewing market on WJZY Fox 46 Saturdays at 12:00 For more on the show visit www.lifeinthecarolinas.com, You can email Carl White at Carl@lifeinthecarolinas.com.  

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