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# THIS IS ALL COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY UNTRUE!


It is, of course, satire and I would DEFINITELY NOT recommend or condone anyone copying it and emailing it to everyone they know, especially the people they know who will almost certainly pass it on to everyone in their address book, even if Coca Cola have been blatantly nicking the ideas of fellow b3tans. So please DO NOT PASS THIS ON TO OTHER PEOPLE, PRETENDING THAT IT IS TRUE!


FW: Coca Cola Warning – please read!


FDA try to ban Coca Cola!

I don’t want to scare anyone but this information has come from a friend of mine who is actually a governmental food safety scientist so I thought this was worth passing on. If you know anyone who drinks Coca Cola, please also pass it on to them so they are warned as well.

Apparently the FDA were considering banning Coca Cola earlier this year after a whistle-blower high up in the Coca-Cola Corporation passed them information which is generally kept secret. Both the whistle blower and the FDA scientist who tried to bring this information to light have been fired and may even be subject to prosecution due to the political pressure to avoid another large scandal involving a huge corporation and the possible damage to the economy like what happened with Enron.

Part of the information came from the Norwegian Health and Safety Authority (AHS) who last year closed down a large Coca Cola plant, fined the company $4,700,000, recalled all Coca Cola products from the market and are currently considering banning the company from selling in their country permanently.

The Norwegian site was closed down due to several things found when their inspectors visited the site:

• Company toilet seats being washed in the same machines used for washing parts of the industrial mixers, bowls etc. used for making Coca Cola products.
• The process of ‘fining’ (removal of cloudiness from the product) was carried out using proteins derived from cow blood – a practice which has been banned in Europe for well over a decade due to the chance of passing on BSE – Mad cow disease. This practice is still legal in the US.
• The lining of Coca Cola cans uses recycled plastic from polyethylene trepththalate (PET) which contains diethylhydroxylamine (DEHA) which is a known carcinogen. Both these things are discouraged by the FDA, which is why you see warnings not to re-use plastic mineral water bottles.
• The fungicide used in the lining of the cans and also in minute quantities to preserve the cola itself is known by its brand name of Acesulfame K (you can even see it on the list of ingredients!). The Norwegian chemists determined that it was actually a derivative of the herbicide 2-4-D….also known as Agent Orange.
• Customer complaints not being reported to the government safety authorities – the main breach being several complaints about people contracting Leptospirose poisoning from drinking Coca Cola straight from the can. It turns out that the pest control was not adequate in their warehouses and rats were leaving traces of urine on the cans stored there. Fortunately, nobody died…but doctors say that it was really only a matter of time.

The scariest thing is that the practices and procedures used at this site were the standard Coca Cola corporation procedures used all over the world. Unfortunately, the FDA (and presumably the authorities in other countries) do not really do anything about this as the Coca Cola corporation is so huge and pays so much money to politicians to support political parties, money to lobby and pressure groups and even pays large yearly fines to the FDA to allow them to make false calorie claims on their cans – as they believe that the money made from selling “low calorie” versions of Coke is worth more than the fines they pay for misleading labelling.

Most companies would be prosecuted for repeated breaches of the FDA labelling laws but Coca Cola corporation can apply so much political pressure that these things are swept under the rug and ignored.

I don’t know about you, but I’m really put off from drinking Coca Cola any more! And I shall definitely be telling people why. Please send this to your friends and loved ones who may otherwise be drinking Coke without knowing some of what really goes on!




(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:20, archived)
# huh
whaa?
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:20, archived)
# ....
*Ignore*
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:20, archived)
# TOO MUCH TEXT!!
and it still tastes better than Pepsi...

:D
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:21, archived)
# meercats prefer pepsi


ran out of steam on this.
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:33, archived)
# "life is like tehThomas"?
/i don't speak spanish blog
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:45, archived)
# nor me.
but it must be something to do with tomatoes
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:50, archived)
# .
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:51, archived)
# Hmm, an interesting image chalange
Ways to take the piss out of coke (or put piss in it, what ever you prefer)

Every entry must have the url for Rob's video clip on it.
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:54, archived)
# right
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:21, archived)
# What does it say?
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:21, archived)
# Something about stuff and so on.
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:22, archived)
# there are also things and doodads mentioned
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:23, archived)
# woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooords
eye've gone ber-lind!
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:22, archived)
#
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:22, archived)
#
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:27, archived)
#
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:30, archived)
#
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:31, archived)
# pfffffft!
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:32, archived)
#
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:34, archived)
# return my pants!!
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:35, archived)
#
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:36, archived)
# Hello wheeled bird person
I use the almighty-fun Flash to doodle mine images
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:41, archived)
# Ah.
That explains how you get that Flashesque appearance.

My mind is now sated. :)
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:44, archived)
#
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:35, archived)
# pray tell, is there a speach bubble plug-in for tattyshop or do you all draw these freehand, as it were.
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:41, archived)
# right click it
it's a magic script wank
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:43, archived)
# It is all done
with the beautiful magic of PHP's GD library.

I draw four corner quater-arcs, two bottom quarter-arcs for the bottom curvy bit, and then join them all up with lines as if they were dots. Hurrah!
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:48, archived)
# oh!
i'll pretend to understand and stick to trying to find a nice easy set of ready made bubbles to steal.
i'll stick to doing similar freehand bubble making in the mean time.
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:56, archived)
# I plan
on doing one myself soon, for purposes of hilarity!
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 13:02, archived)
# Doing what?
A speech bubble? That's hardly funny.
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 13:09, archived)
# pfft
Mine will be hilarious though. As it'll contain at least 78% ham.

And it'll be suspended about three feet to the left of MY REAL HEAD!
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 13:13, archived)
# cunning indeed
have you seen this website of mine?

just wondering
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 13:15, archived)
# I hadn't.
But I have now.


I'm scared.


Hold my hand?
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 13:19, archived)
# nah
just refresh it a couple more times...it'll grow on you ;)
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 13:26, archived)
# if you need speech bubbles
there are some nice vectored ones available here along with some of the best free comic fonts you can get
/spam

although they're vectors, Photoshop (CS2 at least) imports .eps files by converting them to bitmaps. you can even define the scale factor beforehand
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:55, archived)
# ta muchly.
i knew there must be some somewhere.
i'm such a lazy bugger.
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 13:01, archived)
# *abuses*
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:44, archived)
# It doesn't.
I couldn't be bothered to make it do that.
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:49, archived)
# fair enough
does it spellcheck? handle html entities? eh? eh?

only joking.
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:52, archived)
# the swear filter works on the text still :)
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:55, archived)
#
HA HA!

No, but if you want to use some special characters (like the humblem question mark) then you'll need to know the url hexcode for it. URL encoding is different from HTML you see. Hexcodes are the future.
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:55, archived)
# Hexcodes
burned my hamster
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 13:03, archived)
# Good.
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 13:07, archived)
# My raccoon was much cuter anyway
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:28, archived)
# ...though he's asked me to point out that as a raccoon he's not willing to try and decipher all that text either


You can lead a raccoon to water...
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:29, archived)
# MY!!!!
MY Racoon was cuter!!

:( *humpth*
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:30, archived)
# I DIDN'T READ IT ALL
but i don't drink coke, so i don't care
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:22, archived)
# WORDS!
WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:22, archived)
# More than words
/Extreme
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:24, archived)
# is all you have to do to make it real
Than you wouldn't have to say that you love me
Cos I already know!

Damn you! That's in my head now :(
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:30, archived)
# whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat would you say
if i took those words away?
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:32, archived)
# It's only words
And words are all i have
to take your heart away
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:34, archived)
# my mum bought their album because of that one tune
i don't think she realised what they were like normally :)
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:37, archived)
# What do you mean normally?
That songs the same as the rest of their stuff, absolute shite!
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:52, archived)
# ha ha ha!!
true :)
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:58, archived)
# I think you'll find
That their song "Play With Me" from the Bill & Ted soundtrack is one of the greatest songs ever recorded. Ever. In my opinion. FACT!
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 13:12, archived)
# hahaha
I know your pain - its been non-stop in my head since 1994.
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:34, archived)
# *starts singing Bombalurina ft Timmy mallet*
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:37, archived)
# *wheels out the big guns*
Boys Boys Boys - Sabrina
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:43, archived)
# *dies*
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:59, archived)
# needs more words
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:25, archived)
# Needs
more Thomas
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:47, archived)
# Words to memorise ~ words hypnotise
Words make my mouth exercise!

Words all fail the magic prize,
Nothing I can say when I'm in your thighs!
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:25, archived)
# word up

(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:35, archived)
# shut your mouth
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:38, archived)
# LINES AND LINES AND LINES AND LINES!!!
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:47, archived)
# Yay...
I'll be sending it to some EMail Bombers I know...
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:23, archived)
# if you were a noob
you'd be dead by now.
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:24, archived)
# yeah but he isn't so gets away with it...
go figure.
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:27, archived)
# flame him if you like
i'm not stopping you

edit: and the replies are hardly full of praise

go figure
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:28, archived)
# ^This
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:29, archived)
# *kicks in shins*
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:34, archived)
# If i drink cow's blood...
will my piss be less cloudy?
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:37, archived)
# hehe
was just being cheeky.

words though. words. words words words.
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:31, archived)
# I know this is untrue
as will everyone in my address book, and everyoine in their address books, and everyone in their address books and everyone in their address books and the internets broked
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:26, archived)
# christ!
please could someone enlighten me about this coke thing in less than 15 words and without recourse to video?
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:26, archived)
# ^This
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:27, archived)
# They nicked ideas* off of Joel Veitch
for an ad campaign.


*copied
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:27, archived)
# what's all the cow's stomach lining and loo brush stuff then?
:P
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:31, archived)
# We're playing...
..."lets make this falsehood viral!" so we can all get to appear on Snopes.
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:47, archived)
# can't be bothered to check
but isn't it all already on snopes, and isn't it all from an email that did go viral about 5 years ago?
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:49, archived)
# Some of it probably is on Snopes
mostly just half remembered stuff from a variety of emails mashed together with some new made-up stuff.
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 13:20, archived)
# Coca Cola...
...have pretty much ripped off Joel Veitch's Ninja Kitten / 7 seconds of Love video.
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:28, archived)
# I see
thank you both
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:32, archived)
# That is a lot of words.
But I hope it ensures their profits drop, even a little, to make Joel feel a bit better.

On another TJ note - what is that soft cheese roll covered in almonds (possibly orange or apricot flavoured) called? It comes in orangey hexagonal cardboard tubes.

I want to use it for the final installment of Fists Of CHEESE.

Thanks.

Sorry, as you were.
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:26, archived)
# Snickers. One of those limited editions.
Didn't sell terribly well.
*Starts thinking about potential soundtracks*
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:32, archived)
# from a little earlier
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:26, archived)
# Leptospirose poisoning
Weals disease is another one that you can get by drinking from bottles/cans that have rat piss on.

Never drink bottled beer from a pub as the bottles wil generally have been left outside. And they are a f***ing rip off.
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:27, archived)
# No you can't
it's all completely untrue.
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:28, archived)
# Wow I've definately been put off drinking coke now...
..oh hang on I don't drink it anyway becasue it's shit.
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:27, archived)
# ^this
with pipes on
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:50, archived)
# yeah
but it still tastes good.
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:29, archived)
# and it's good for hangovers
and bad bellies.

Also, it's coke's ad agency that eed chastised. Coke themselves have got no fucking idea who Joel Veitch is. Target the uncreative agency who made it.
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:36, archived)
# ^ this ^
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:39, archived)
# Never drinking Coke again.
Jesus fucking Christ. EVERYONE should read this.
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:29, archived)
# nowhere near enough words.
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:32, archived)
# finings are a dark art
urgh

what about diet coke? I'm addicted to the stuff.

I believe in the power of b3ta, we helped scupper dasani in the uk after all.
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:33, archived)
# words!
good ones, if many
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 12:48, archived)
# Whoa, almost got carried away there...
Was just about to write a reply slating this email and how ridiculous it was for a B3tan to get fooled enough by this to post it here...


And then I read the top bit. Oops :'(
(, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 13:38, archived)