Joie de Vivre Magazine: Coca Cola

Friday, March 22, 2024

It's Finally Friday! Yeah! TGIF! But What Does That Mean? (O.o)

When I was a kid I remember seeing a Coca-Cola commercial on television. The young girl is sitting at her desk in a work suit – white blouse, black skirt, black jacket – wearing eyeglasses, sitting at her desk in front of a typewriter typing away, hair fastened into a neat tight bun – looking ever so proficient. Somebody indicates to her that the work day is over and she goes:

"Yeah! And it's Friday!"

Image credit:

© Photographer: Rafael Torres Castaño | Agency: Dreamstime.com

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After the exclamation, the young lady pushes back the chair on wheels from her desk, takes off her eyeglasses, yanks at the back of her head to let her hair loose and shake it! Next scene is her strolling along in some area (looked like a beach ~ can't remember), dressed casually in her blue jeans, still wearing a white blouse, but drinking a bottle of Coca-Cola.

My late sister was watching that commercial with me and says, in her most boring monotone voice: “So that's what Friday means?”

My late sister. Always one for being super enthusiastic and excited! (Not.)

* First of all, does anybody even remember that commercial?

* Secondly, what does Friday mean to you?

Do you get to take yet another selfie and post it on Instagram?
Do you leave work to rush home and order a pizza and watch movies all night?
Do you go out partying and clubbing with your friends?

For me? I get to go to the grocery store in the afternoon. In the evening, might watch a Bollywood movie or a Korean historical drama series. Will probably keep working on my laptop, while being entertained, trying to earn a few more pennies. Then go to sleep.

Yeah! But it's Friday!!

And I'm doing the happy dance anyway! ☺

YouTube Video : Cartlton Dance - It's Friday!

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Happy Friday everybody!

Fail is not a task on your “To Do List”.

Rid yourself of doubts.

I can do this!

Don't get distracted.

Aim small, miss small.

You know yourself better than anybody!

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Saturday, May 4, 2019

Food and Drink: Health and Coca Cola : Teaching the World to Lament and Repent

From music evolution to soda slamming? (O.o)

You may ask: How did I get there? Here's how.

No longer subscribe to cable or satellite TV and don't often tune in to the telly in the mornings. But my husband happened to be watching CBS This Morning and there was an interesting segment titled "CBS CHANGING TUNES".

It began with the moderator going through a series of songs that were all a part of my life's musical tapestry and of course, my head was nodding up and down in agreement with all of the selections – Beatles, Eurythmics, Duran Duran, Bee Gees, Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, etc.

But then they switched and said that a more exact method was going to be used to determine the music evolution in America.

What were the results of using this method?

Changing tunes in the USA still started with the Beatles ( i.e. the British Invasion ) but ended up with Hip Hop (Example: LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out.)

For those who disagreed with the research findings, this was the response: “This is science. Everything else before that was just opinion.”

Needless to say, I disagreed.
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But as if that wasn't bad enough, in an attempt to try to find that particular segment of the CBS morning TV show on the Internet to listen to it again, stumbled across the "CBS SODA SLAM" segment.

Commercial jingles were not included in the music research project mentioned in the previous paragraph. If they were, the Coca-Cola jingle – harmony hilltop song would certainly have been included. To lift a quote from this TV program segment, that tune is the “single most famous commercial ever produced”. So well-known that a health advocacy group chose to remake it and change the lyrics to promote healthy eating and drinking.