Useless Thread.
DVSNCYNIKL
10-08-2001, 02:47 PM
Well, Jay made a breakthrough with the pointless thread. I thought it would be cool to make a useless one. So without any further interruptions, here totally useless information that might prove useful in the future.
Useless site (http://home.nycap.rr.com/useless/index.html)
Just as an example, did you know........
Available in Eucalyptus, Peppermint, and Chlorophyll flavors!
PEZ!
You must be living in a box if you are not familiar with this candy and its flip-top head dispensers.
Over 1 billion of these little bundles of compressed sugar are sold each year.
So where did this novel approach to selling candy come from?
To find out, we must take a trip back to Vienna, Austria in 1927. Here we will find a candyman named Eduard Haas III
Eddie did not try to sell his candy to kids, however. His market was adults - adults that smoked cigarettes.
PEZ was originally marketed as a compressed breath mint for smokers (or to cover up smoker's breath).
I know what you are thinking - How did those fruit flavored pellets cover your bad breath?
The answer is quite simple - they weren't fruit flavored back then!
In fact, they were peppermint flavored, which explains the origin of its unusual name. The German word for peppermint is PfeffErminZ. Take the first, middle, and last letters of the word and you get PEZ!
The first dispensers weren't introduced until the late 1940's and are now referred to as "regulars" - they lacked the character heads PEZ is famous for.
In 1952, it was time to come to America. The company did extensive market research with children that led to the introduction of the fruity flavors and character heads on the dispensers.
Since then, over 275 different PEZ heads have been designed, with some 48 models on the market at any one time.
The most popular dispensers of all-time are the Mickey Mouse and Santa Claus models. When the Flintstones models were introduced several years ago, they quickly rose to become a hot seller, with Dino the purple dinosaur being in short supply.
Believe it or not, people actually pay big bucks for these things! The highest price ever paid was $3600 for a rare Big Top Elephant, which was sold by David Welch in July, 1995.
Technology has also played a part in the history of Pez. For example, a company named Cap Toys makes the battery powered Power Pez which twirls and shoots the candies out into your mouth. Another company, Dream Castle, markets the Pez Watch which dispenses the candies out the side of the watch.
Which leads to the available flavors.
In the United States, only Grape, Lemon, Orange, Strawberry, and Peppermint (I am a large consumer of PEZ and don't recall ever having peppermint) flavors are available. Hop across the border to Canada and you can add Cherry to your stash.
Raspberry and Apple are available in Spain. Chocolate is available in Hungary and Thailand.
An unusual type known as IZO PEZ is also available - it is vitamin enriched (does a vitamin enriched candy make sense to you?).
The most unusual flavors, however, have to be the discontinued ones: Chlorophyll, Cinnamon, Coffee, Eucalyptus, Flower (just what do flowers taste like?), Licorice, and Menthol.
What were the marketing guys thinking of when they came up with some of these flavors?
Useless? Useful? I’ll leave that for you to decide.
Useless site (http://home.nycap.rr.com/useless/index.html)
Just as an example, did you know........
Available in Eucalyptus, Peppermint, and Chlorophyll flavors!
PEZ!
You must be living in a box if you are not familiar with this candy and its flip-top head dispensers.
Over 1 billion of these little bundles of compressed sugar are sold each year.
So where did this novel approach to selling candy come from?
To find out, we must take a trip back to Vienna, Austria in 1927. Here we will find a candyman named Eduard Haas III
Eddie did not try to sell his candy to kids, however. His market was adults - adults that smoked cigarettes.
PEZ was originally marketed as a compressed breath mint for smokers (or to cover up smoker's breath).
I know what you are thinking - How did those fruit flavored pellets cover your bad breath?
The answer is quite simple - they weren't fruit flavored back then!
In fact, they were peppermint flavored, which explains the origin of its unusual name. The German word for peppermint is PfeffErminZ. Take the first, middle, and last letters of the word and you get PEZ!
The first dispensers weren't introduced until the late 1940's and are now referred to as "regulars" - they lacked the character heads PEZ is famous for.
In 1952, it was time to come to America. The company did extensive market research with children that led to the introduction of the fruity flavors and character heads on the dispensers.
Since then, over 275 different PEZ heads have been designed, with some 48 models on the market at any one time.
The most popular dispensers of all-time are the Mickey Mouse and Santa Claus models. When the Flintstones models were introduced several years ago, they quickly rose to become a hot seller, with Dino the purple dinosaur being in short supply.
Believe it or not, people actually pay big bucks for these things! The highest price ever paid was $3600 for a rare Big Top Elephant, which was sold by David Welch in July, 1995.
Technology has also played a part in the history of Pez. For example, a company named Cap Toys makes the battery powered Power Pez which twirls and shoots the candies out into your mouth. Another company, Dream Castle, markets the Pez Watch which dispenses the candies out the side of the watch.
Which leads to the available flavors.
In the United States, only Grape, Lemon, Orange, Strawberry, and Peppermint (I am a large consumer of PEZ and don't recall ever having peppermint) flavors are available. Hop across the border to Canada and you can add Cherry to your stash.
Raspberry and Apple are available in Spain. Chocolate is available in Hungary and Thailand.
An unusual type known as IZO PEZ is also available - it is vitamin enriched (does a vitamin enriched candy make sense to you?).
The most unusual flavors, however, have to be the discontinued ones: Chlorophyll, Cinnamon, Coffee, Eucalyptus, Flower (just what do flowers taste like?), Licorice, and Menthol.
What were the marketing guys thinking of when they came up with some of these flavors?
Useless? Useful? I’ll leave that for you to decide.
primera man
10-09-2001, 04:27 AM
I think you have to much spare time on your hands DOC !!!
:finger: :finger:
:finger: :finger:
DVSNCYNIKL
10-09-2001, 06:58 AM
Originally posted by primera man
I think you have to much spare time on your hands DOC !!!
:finger: :finger:
What makes you say that?http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid27/pfea12d837c8657666f98baeaab0737ca/fe342f00.gif
I think you have to much spare time on your hands DOC !!!
:finger: :finger:
What makes you say that?http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid27/pfea12d837c8657666f98baeaab0737ca/fe342f00.gif
YogsVR4
10-09-2001, 06:43 PM
Just in case you ever need to know, the temperature in Petoskey was 64 degrees at one point today. Write it down, because it could be next on "who wants to be a millionare"
gang$tarr
10-09-2001, 07:41 PM
Originally posted by YogsVR4
Just in case you ever need to know, the temperature in Petoskey was 64 degrees at one point today. Write it down, because it could be next on "who wants to be a millionare"
hahahaha :D
not another pointless, i mean useless, i mean......... dumb thread!!
Just in case you ever need to know, the temperature in Petoskey was 64 degrees at one point today. Write it down, because it could be next on "who wants to be a millionare"
hahahaha :D
not another pointless, i mean useless, i mean......... dumb thread!!
olds88
10-09-2001, 09:02 PM
ok here is the million dollar question of the day in the us whe have 3 mesurmets of presure psi. (pounds per square inch) kpi (kilipaskels per square inch i think ) and BAR and i dont have a clue what it means if any one can help i would be apprecative
Cavallino
10-09-2001, 09:03 PM
more pointless knowledge
"who was the first character sketched by walt disney. If you guess it then ill give you a cookie" (yellowmaranello doesnt get a cookie if he gets it though)
"who was the first character sketched by walt disney. If you guess it then ill give you a cookie" (yellowmaranello doesnt get a cookie if he gets it though)
kris
10-09-2001, 09:07 PM
Originally posted by olds88
ok here is the million dollar question of the day in the us whe have 3 mesurmets of presure psi. (pounds per square inch) kpi (kilipaskels per square inch i think ) and BAR and i dont have a clue what it means if any one can help i would be apprecative
I think BAR has something to do with every 10psi of boost you have in a turbo setup.
ok here is the million dollar question of the day in the us whe have 3 mesurmets of presure psi. (pounds per square inch) kpi (kilipaskels per square inch i think ) and BAR and i dont have a clue what it means if any one can help i would be apprecative
I think BAR has something to do with every 10psi of boost you have in a turbo setup.
olds88
10-09-2001, 09:35 PM
no it is on many of my diagnostic gauges and i still dont have a clue what it is example my vacume gauge has it cooling system gauge had it and my fuel presure gauge also has it
gang$tarr
10-09-2001, 09:47 PM
Originally posted by Cavallino
more pointless knowledge
"who was the first character sketched by walt disney. If you guess it then ill give you a cookie" (yellowmaranello doesnt get a cookie if he gets it though)
Mickey Mouse?
more pointless knowledge
"who was the first character sketched by walt disney. If you guess it then ill give you a cookie" (yellowmaranello doesnt get a cookie if he gets it though)
Mickey Mouse?
Cavallino
10-10-2001, 03:47 PM
nope sorry. Oswald the duck, but good ol walt lost the rights t him and then came mickey.
Jay!
10-11-2001, 08:01 PM
Oswald was a rabbit. :D
gang$tarr
10-11-2001, 08:58 PM
Originally posted by jay@af
Oswald was a rabbit. :D
yeah i remember seeing a picture of him... he was ugly (oswald) no wonder he wasn't popular at all
but i heard that bugs bunny was based on him... and some other warner bros. characters were walt disney's
Oswald was a rabbit. :D
yeah i remember seeing a picture of him... he was ugly (oswald) no wonder he wasn't popular at all
but i heard that bugs bunny was based on him... and some other warner bros. characters were walt disney's
Jay!
10-11-2001, 09:00 PM
Originally posted by gang$tarr
yeah i remember seeing a picture of him... he was ugly (oswald) no wonder he wasn't popular at all
but i heard that bugs bunny was based on him... and some other warner bros. characters were walt disney's I've heard a lot of WB animators worked for Walt, but quit because he took all the credit...
yeah i remember seeing a picture of him... he was ugly (oswald) no wonder he wasn't popular at all
but i heard that bugs bunny was based on him... and some other warner bros. characters were walt disney's I've heard a lot of WB animators worked for Walt, but quit because he took all the credit...
YogsVR4
10-11-2001, 09:05 PM
Originally posted by kbslacker
I think BAR has something to do with every 10psi of boost you have in a turbo setup.
Close - one bar is one atmosphere of pressure (about 14.5 psi)
I think BAR has something to do with every 10psi of boost you have in a turbo setup.
Close - one bar is one atmosphere of pressure (about 14.5 psi)
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