Hic Sunt Dracones

Though he doesn’t condone it. And he agrees that I’d make a terrible stand up comic. Anyway.

Took the riverside path home today, passing through Federation Square I spotted a ute full of V. Or at least significantly full of it. And took the proffered beverage. And continued my walk home.

I used to drink a fair whack of V back at school. For a long time opening a bottle would give me that strange smell-memory triggering effect and send me back to The Loft. Didn’t drink too much of it after honours, but got back onto it during afternoon snack time where my boss and I would walk to the dairy and get a V and a cookie. Which of course led to ODing on it, in probably the same way as the eCOSM boys did. Actually no. They probably just drank eight cans one day and felt ill.

Sitting on the couch drinking my ill gotten (well no) gains I noticed that the can was embossed around the V as an atom section and wondered about that. Don’t know if I’ve come across other cans with embossing… It’s pretty minor, and I wonder about the cost to do it, versus the reward? People going to choose V over something else because the can is embossed? People going to spend a few seconds telling someone else? Me going to blog about it? (The last one seems like a given at this stage).

And then, when I was thinking about blogging it, or asking the question or what have you. I realised that a few years ago I would have – in the interests of full disclosure – been forced (not) to acknowledge that I was a share holder in Frucor, the makers of this fine beverage. A very small shareholding it was. But it was fun.

But then the French came along and bought it up, eventually compulsorily acquiring my shares. But they got too big and fat, so they all died and they turned into oil. And then the Arabs came and they bought Mercedes Benzes.

The end.

Unrelated Red Bull update: They now have cans that are 400ml to compete with MOTHER which rocks the 500ml can. Leading to a bizzare “max 1.2 cans daily” recommendation. Also, Red Bull Racing won a GP! Woo (Well, Scuderia Toro Rosso, which is Team Red Bull in Italian, as opposed to Red Bull Racing which is the other Red Bull team in F1, ’cause when you got it. Flaunt it.)

Largely unrelated MOTHER update: As promised, I found some MOTHER drink and I drank it. And it was OK. And it was in a drink.

This was going to be a brief thing about V, Shares and Dinosaurs. But I pulled in some other threads. My stories in real life tend to be like this, rambling and ultimately pointless. Luckily here it’s easier for you to get out of the car and walk home. Although, as usual, you probably realised that too late.

Tags: cookie, freebie!, good story, stockmarket manipulation is for kids, v

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