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7-Eleven Coffee Cups Earn Pundit Street Cred

OK, so those blue and red coffee cups called it (sort of). Of the John McCain/Barack Obama coffee cups sold by 7-Eleven, 60 percent carried the Obama blue. Final returns (or as final as they get for the next week or so) show that Obama took 53 percent of the vote. I hear now the cups have earned the right to be 3-D holograms on the set of CNN and will be yelled at by Keith Olbermann. Caps off to you, mysterious inanimate coffee objects!

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5 Comments to “7-Eleven Coffee Cups Earn Pundit Street Cred”
  • SAC

    Sounds good. How ’bout a little more info on the record/video/calendar/book picture behind the phone. More interested in that at this point.

  • LF

    you should show a picture of a blue cup too!

  • the cynic

    Looks like a Herb Albert & the Tijuana Brass album if I remember right.

  • the cynic

    OK, here’s more info than you prob wanted to know from http://www.tijuanabrass.com/tjb1.php...

    Whipped Cream and Other Delights
    A&M Records LP-110/SP-4110
    Produced by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss
    Arranged by Herb Alpert
    Billboard peak album chart position: 1, 8 weeks (debuted 6/12/65)
    Weeks in Top 40 album chart: 141
    RIAA certified Gold (12/15/65)
    Album released 1965
    Song Listing:
    A Taste Of Honey {Scott-Marlow} [2:43]
    Green Peppers {Sol Lake} [1:31]
    Tangerine {Mercer-Shertinzer} [2:46]
    Bittersweet Samba {Sol Lake} [1:46]
    Lemon Tree {Will Holt} [2:23]
    Whipped Cream {Naomi Neville} [2:33]
    Love Potion No. 9 {Leiber-Stoller} [3:02]
    El Garbanzo {Sol Lake} [2:13]
    Ladyfingers {Toots Thielmans} [2:43]
    Butterball {Mike Henderson} [2:12]
    Peanuts {Luis Guerrero} [2:09]
    Lollipops And Roses {Tony Velona} [2:27]

    The world was quite unprepared for the explosive success of the fourth TJB album. Alpert’s reputation as an ace arranger would be cast in concrete after the song “A Taste Of Honey” hit the ears of the record buying public. Nobody had ever heard that song in this context before–a slow pressure-cooker beginning, followed by a few well-placed bass drum kicks and a trombone “blaaaat” before the TJB shuffles off into the melody. Herb had quite a “buzz” about this song, while Jerry felt that the “Third Man Theme” was the hit, and it was released on the A-side with “A Taste of Hone” on the flip side. Turns out that the B-side soon became the A-side. Both songs charted, but “A Taste of Honey” was the real hit.

    Al Hirt originally rejected the title track of this album, and Herb recorded it, selling 150,000 copies in the process. Jerry Moss came up with the idea to do an entire album of song with food titles. Thus was born the idea for this album. As for the other excellent songs on this set, Sol Lake’s “Bittersweet Samba” is a standout as well, and the strip tease arrangement of “Love Potion #9″ swings its burritos off. There’s even a shot of polka music with “Peanuts”–go grab the accordion, Frankie! Two of this album’s songs, the title track and “Lollipops and Roses”, were used on popular game shows of the day. This album propelled the TJB to the top of the charts, and cemented the Brass as a top-flight recording act.

    This album even invited a little controversy into the act–just what “other delights” are promised by the whipped-cream-covered girl on the front cover? For that matter, who was lucky enough to dish out all that whipped cream to…oh, never mind! What actually appeared to be whipped cream was actually shaving cream in the photo. And to top it off, under all that shaving cream, model Dolores Erickson was three months pregnant!

  • Grumpy Demo

    7-11 Coffee and 7-11 candidate at lest your consistent in your tastes.

    On topic, Mr. Alpet was not only a great musician but a brilliant business man his career was quite exceptional.