New Netflix series: Pepsi, Where's My Jet

Watch on YouTube

This ought to be fun!

It started in 1996, here's John Scalzi's original column from when he was a newspaper writer: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2022/10/26/pepsi-points-and-the-jet-a-column-from-1996/. Kid sees this ad on TV that you can get a Harrier Jump Jet for 7,000,000 points. Then he sees a shortcut: you can buy Pepsi tabs straight from Pepsi for $0.10 each. $700,000. He gets some wealthy people to back him.

Pepsi laughs at him and refuses to give him the jet because they don't have one.

He takes them to court.

I remember hearing about this a few years ago, I do not remember the outcome. I look forward to watching this!

A fun blog, but sadly stale: Unnecessary Quotes

Featuring photos of signs of horrible abuses of quotation marks. I subscribe to two ebook newsletters: they published a book collecting what I suppose are their best of the best, but the sample was only nine pages and didn't show anything, so I went straight to the blog. Cute, but not enough to compel me to buy the book.

http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/

I particularly liked New Orleans "Cuisine".