Products
Early in his career, Barry Manilow wrote product jingles. Among them were:
"I am stuck on Band Aids.
cuz Band Aids stuck on me."
and
"Just like a good neighbor,
State Farm is there."
The Q in Q-tips stands for Quantum.
LEGO is derived from the Dutch words LEG GODT which translates as "Play well".
Mr Potato Head was the first toy advertised on T.V. in 1951.
The felt tip pen was invented by the American C.I.A. in an attempt to make a poison pen. The poison would not flow through a fountain pen.
Pencils have never contained lead. Well...maybe just the paint.
Del Monte was named after the Hotel del Monte in Monterey, California.The paper used in making U.S. currency is made (70%) from blue jean pants remnants.
The phrase "Often a bridesmaid, but never a bride," actually originates from an advertisement for Listerine mouthwash from 1924.
By 1939, Nazi Germany had 43 Coca-Cola bottling plants and employed over 600 people. CEO Max Keith tried to keep production going as the war progressed. Ingredients were getting hard to come by and even negotiations through neutral Switzerland failed. At that point Coca-Cola production in Germany ceased. Keith then decided to keep the plants running by producing a new soft drink. It was named when Keith announced there would be an employee contest to name the beverage and to "..let you fantasy run wild." Upon hearing that veteran salesman Joe Kripp blurted out....
1. In many states, police officers used to carry spray cans of Coke to shoot in the face of criminals and debilitate them. These Coke cans were eventually replaced with less harmful mace and pepper spray.
2. A vat of Coke can dissolve a beef steak in less than a minute.
3. Many automobile batteries are filled with Coke syrup.
4. If a Coca-Cola truck crashes on the highway and spills its load, a HAZMAT team has to be called and the cloud of noxious vapors can kill small animals up to three miles away.
5. Doctors and safety experts recommend that, if you must drink Coke, that you at least wear rubber gloves and safety goggles.
6. The title creature in Alien had Coke syrup for blood.
7. In the Fifties, girls used Coca-Cola as a contraceptive.
8. The Red Suit, the Reindeer, the coming down the chimney. Cola-Cola invented Santa in 1931.
Subaru is the Japanese name for The Pleiades, an open cluster in the constellation of Taurus. That is why it's on their logo.
NERF- You know, the toy? NERF is short for Non-Expanding Recreational Foam.
In 1989, the Barbie Liberation Army went into stores and bought the talking versions of Barbie and G.I. Joe. They took them home and switched the voice boxes of the dolls. The doctored dolls were then returned to the shelves. The BLA did this to protest the what they felt was the negative image Barbie taught little girls.When the string was pulled, Barbie said things like "Come on Boys, take this hill!" and Joe said things like "Let's go shopping!". The BLO today is also known as the more pc Barbie Liberation Organization. In response to the BLA, Mattel actually redesigned Barbie to be more anatomically correct with smaller breasts and a thicker waist line.
The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so the called themselves Motorola.
The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
WD-40 stands for Water Displacement, 40th attempt. That's how many tries it took Norm Larsen, a chemist, to concoct a formula that would prevent corrosion by displacing water.
The term secret sauce was created during the Cold War , in order to help discontinue the use of the term "Russian" dressing.
The more expensive the bottle of wine, the deeper its dimple on its bottom will tend to be.
The Zippo lighter was named "Zippo" because inventor George G. Blaisdell liked the sound of the word "zipper", but couldn't use it because it was already patented in nearby Meadville, Pennsylvania.
The television series Bonanza was created specifically to provide a product for RCA's new color TV sets.
TASERThe taser was invented by a fan of Victor Appleton's adventure novels featuring Tom Swift, sort of a techno-genius cousin of the Hardy Boys, and its name stands for
"Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle." Click Here to see proof
Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been over mixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since. [It floats in gasoline, too.]
The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. The first food he microwaved on purpose was popcorn.
The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.