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Candy, beer and soda

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There is of course this Drudge alert, about the hidden mandatory add-on "health" charge added to restaurant bills in San Francisco (and spreading).  Today I noticed that 24 pack cubes of Coke and Pepsi product are now 20 pack cubes.  At the same price.  At least they abstained from blurbing  "New Easier to Lift"  on the packages.  Not unexpected in these times though.  Nothing is. The reality of the hidden price increase gambit  hit me as a youngster.  The Three Musketeer candy bar we bought for a nickel, that I remember as being the size if a truck driver's wallet, and scored to break into three regular sized bars, suddenly wasn't.  Big. We went  into the candy store after school one day,  and there it was, all small, but still costing a nickel.  We complained to the candy store guy, who was as far as we were concerned responsible.  He, the original "Soup Nazi," told us to get the hell out of his store if we weren't buying anything.  Never had a Three Musketeer again, because I didn't really like them.  Only bought them because I was brainwashed. What struck me about this Coke and Pepsi gambit, however, is  that both companies independently thought to do this at the same time.  How serendipitous.

Ouch

Guess what else she won't be messing with for awhile

THOR

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Someone didn't get the message

"Mr. Transparent Gummnit"

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Retro Alice

Alice in Wonderland in 12 Minutes

Evidently a lot of parents will be taking their tots to see the new version, unaware of it's very dark nature, so I found this thrilling substitute.  Of course some parents are beyond help.

From the British Film Institute Archive comes this first-ever film adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s book. Made just 37 years after Lewis Carroll wrote his novel and eight years after the birth of cinema, the adaptation was directed by Cecil Hepworth and Percy Stow, and was based on Sir John Tenniel’s original illustrations…  With a running time of just 12 minutes (8 of which survive), Alice in Wonderland was the longest film produced in England at that time. Film archivists have been able to restore the film’s original colours for the first time in over 100 years. PS: Aficionados (like TUA) may appreciate this Movie Title Stills Collection.

You're Fired

In Passing

In Passing

We go inside Communist Training School!

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