From: nobody@huge.cajones.com (Huge Cajones Remailer)
Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 03:53:12 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: SAFE Bill / Fuck You (an inch at a time)
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William H. Geiger III wrote:
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> In <199705020430.VAA16643@fat.doobie.com>, on 05/01/97 at 10:30 PM,
>    nobody@huge.cajones.com (Huge Cajones Remailer) said:
> 
> >  We put up with crap from our government that we wouldn't accept from
> >someone trying to sell us a mouthwash. The reason that we're not all
> >drinking the "New Coke" is that D.C. has siphoned off all of the spin
> >doctors/brainwashers from the corporate advertising industry.
> 
> Well there must be a few spin-doctors left as we are drinking "New Coke".
> :)
> 
> The whole "New Coke/Orriginal Coke" was one of the best con jobs I have
> ever seen. The Coca-Cola Company had a small problem, the cost of sugar.
> It's compitition was using corn suryp as a sweetner in their products which
> was much cheaper than the sugar Coca-Cola was using in theirs.
> 
> Now how were they going to switch from sugar to corn suryp in Coke without
> lossing a portion of their customers because of the change in taste? NEW
> COKE!!
> 
> Here is what they did:
> 
> Come out with NEW COKE which was a major formula change.
> Drop OLD COKE at the same time.
> Wait a few months while the natives are restless over the change. Bring
> back "OLD COKE" due to customer demmand (making Coca-Cola Inc. the "good"
> guys). Don't tell anyone that you have switched from sugar to corn suryp
> (the sheep will never notice).
> 
> Vola!! Now Coca-Cola has dramatically increased their profits and won a
> major PR campain (they care about their customers) sales are up costs are
> down and the sheep are happy.
> 
> Now I have NEVER seen the neanderthals in DC ever pull off somthing this
> good. :)

  I guess that if their spin-doctors had been involved in the
cypherpunks
list takeover, that we would all have golden images of Sameer on our
computers.

CokeMonger