13 May
2014
13 May
'14
2:57 p.m.
> I suppose if you were desperate after having just
spilled a Coke into
> your keyboard and
On Tue, 13 May 2014, David Riley wrote:
I have done exactly that, though with a somewhat
newer
Mac. And it was Mountain Dew.
The canonical form is PEPSI.
I have always reassured my programming students that nothing that they
accidentally enter through the keyboard of their computers would actually
DAMAGE the computer. One wiseguy said,"I entered a Pepsi."
After Three Mile Island, Saturday Night Live postulated that it was caused
by "The Pepsi Syndrome", the result of spilling a Pepsi into a computer
keyboard.
Shortly after that, the U.S.A. and USSR (CCCP) normalized diplomatic
relations enough to import vodka and export Pepsi to Russia.
That was followed almost immediately by Chernobyl.
Coincidence?
The Fukushima meltdown (and tsunami) were shortly after Pepsi
re-introduced their "Montblanc" flavor in Japan.
Coincidence?
Until their bailout, Apple Computer's ride into failure with Sculley,
was with a former Pepsi executive at the helm.
Coincidence?