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Dave, what's the story behind your Mountain Dew avatar? I'm a big Mountain Dew addict (diet Dew), and I've recently noticed that the grocery stores no longer sell Mountain Dew. Instead, they have replaced it with "Mtn Dew" and "Diet Mtn Dew." I guess that's supposed to seem cooler to us trendy Dew drinkers and solidify its appeal to the desired demographic and trendsetters like you and me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Dew

If you're getting product placement bucks from PepsiCo, you might need to update to the new logo.

TheConfessor wrote:Dave, what's the story behind your Mountain Dew avatar? I'm a big Mountain Dew addict (diet Dew), and I've recently noticed that the grocery stores no longer sell Mountain Dew. Instead, they have replaced it with "Mtn Dew" and "Diet Mtn Dew." I guess that's supposed to seem cooler to us trendy Dew drinkers and solidify its appeal to the desired demographic and trendsetters like you and me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Dew

If you're getting product placement bucks from PepsiCo, you might need to update to the new logo.

Apparently Pepsi is changing a lot of their logos, because they did a major tweak to teh Pepsi globe a few months ago, and it looks outright ass ugly....

And as a small digression, I miss the Mtn Dew commercials of the 90's with all the wannabe X-gamers downing Dews while doing all kinds of crazy shit. They were pretty hilarious....

lb13

littlebeast13 wrote:

TheConfessor wrote:Dave, what's the story behind your Mountain Dew avatar? I'm a big Mountain Dew addict (diet Dew), and I've recently noticed that the grocery stores no longer sell Mountain Dew. Instead, they have replaced it with "Mtn Dew" and "Diet Mtn Dew." I guess that's supposed to seem cooler to us trendy Dew drinkers and solidify its appeal to the desired demographic and trendsetters like you and me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Dew

If you're getting product placement bucks from PepsiCo, you might need to update to the new logo.

Apparently Pepsi is changing a lot of their logos, because they did a major tweak to teh Pepsi globe a few months ago, and it looks outright ass ugly....

The logo looks as bad as the drink itself tastes.

earendel wrote:

littlebeast13 wrote:

TheConfessor wrote:Dave, what's the story behind your Mountain Dew avatar? I'm a big Mountain Dew addict (diet Dew), and I've recently noticed that the grocery stores no longer sell Mountain Dew. Instead, they have replaced it with "Mtn Dew" and "Diet Mtn Dew." I guess that's supposed to seem cooler to us trendy Dew drinkers and solidify its appeal to the desired demographic and trendsetters like you and me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Dew

If you're getting product placement bucks from PepsiCo, you might need to update to the new logo.

Apparently Pepsi is changing a lot of their logos, because they did a major tweak to teh Pepsi globe a few months ago, and it looks outright ass ugly....

The logo looks as bad as the drink itself tastes.

Just wait until we become The Official Soft Drink of Rivendell......

who is the guy in the pepsi avatar? and does he have kidney stones?

Second Chance wrote:who is the guy in the pepsi avatar? and does he have kidney stones?

I have no idea who it is. As I recall, I pulled that off of some college website....

But I'd say there's a good chance he doesn't have stones. If you look real closely, you'll notice he's pushing the little water tab on the soda fountain!

But it does seem like he's either an avid bowler or has a jerking off problem....

lb13

ThePepsiGeneration wrote:

earendel wrote:

littlebeast13 wrote:
Apparently Pepsi is changing a lot of their logos, because they did a major tweak to teh Pepsi globe a few months ago, and it looks outright ass ugly....

The logo looks as bad as the drink itself tastes.

Just wait until we become The Official Soft Drink of Rivendell......

Only orcs and Nazgul drink Pepsi.

aaarrrrggghh! someone poke out my eyes.

littlebeast13 wrote:And as a small digression, I miss the Mtn Dew commercials of the 90's with all the wannabe X-gamers downing Dews while doing all kinds of crazy shit. They were pretty hilarious....

lb13

I loved those too. Just Dew it!

Not that it made me want to drink any Mtn Dew. Ugh!

earendel wrote: Only orcs and Nazgul drink Pepsi.

LOL!

Ear should get some JJC points for that!

TheConfessor wrote:Dave, what's the story behind your Mountain Dew avatar? I'm a big Mountain Dew addict (diet Dew), and I've recently noticed that the grocery stores no longer sell Mountain Dew. Instead, they have replaced it with "Mtn Dew" and "Diet Mtn Dew." I guess that's supposed to seem cooler to us trendy Dew drinkers and solidify its appeal to the desired demographic and trendsetters like you and me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Dew

If you're getting product placement bucks from PepsiCo, you might need to update to the new logo.

No special meaning or story behind it...it was a spontaneous reaction to the discussion in this thread. I've been a Mountain Dew addict since I was about 14 or 15.

Like you, I've assumed that "Mtn Dew" was supposed to be cool and trendy. Or perhaps they're marketing to the internet and text message generation, who mostly don't know how to spell complete words. (I say that as if I, at the crusty old age of 33, don't constantly abbreviate things in my text messages and on the internet, and speak the lingo as well as those half my age.)

I didn't even think about it when I grabbed an avatar, though. I'll have to fix that. Far be it from me to be behind the times.

I only drink 40 oz of DMD each day. I pick up one 20 ouncer on the way to school and get a refill around lunch. So far, so good since I like my caffeine cold. I did get a bit of a scare the other night while watching the Diane Sawyer special on Appalachia. The show pretty much laid the tooth decay problems of the kids in the mountains on the doorstep of Mountain Dew. Thankfully, most of the blame was placed on the sugar and DMD is sweetened with something other than sugar.

lilclyde54 wrote:I only drink 40 oz of DMD each day. I pick up one 20 ouncer on the way to school and get a refill around lunch. So far, so good since I like my caffeine cold. I did get a bit of a scare the other night while watching the Diane Sawyer special on Appalachia. The show pretty much laid the tooth decay problems of the kids in the mountains on the doorstep of Mountain Dew. Thankfully, most of the blame was placed on the sugar and DMD is sweetened with something other than sugar.

A young, thin friend was having tooth decay problems, and her dentist told her in no uncertain terms to quit drinking sodas. She asked if she could just switch to diets. He told her absolutely not, the calcium loss would still threaten her dental health. Add in the threat to her bone density health and the unknowns of Equal and Splenda, and she's far better off without it.

She drinks coffee, juice, or milk now, when she's not drinking plain water. I wonder about the coffee and her bone density health, but the dentist didn't say anything about that, and I assume her GP didn't either.