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The most useless information you ever needed.
What brand name cookie
if stacked
one on top of the other, would stretch to the moon and
back three times over?
Oreo cookies-Oreos
were
introduced in
1912
by the
National Biscuit Company (N.B.C.) and were first sold as
the Oreo Biscuit. It became the Oreo Sandwich in
1921,
the Oreo
Creme Sandwich in
1948,
and the Oreo
Chocolate Sandwich Cookie in
1974.
No one knows
for sure how the name Oreo came to be. One commonly
accepted explanation is that the word may be derived
from the French word "or" meaning gold. The original
package label had gold scrollwork on a pale green
background, while the product name was in gold. Another
theory is that Oreos derive their name from the Greek
word for "hill," because they were originally
mound-shaped.
Oreos are still imprinted with the original symbol of
the National Biscuit Company, an oval surmounted by a
cross with two horizontal lines instead of the one. The
first chairman of N.B.C., Adolphus Green, discovered
this symbol late one night while thumbing through an old
book of Italian printers' symbols.
It
was supposed
to represent the triumph of good over evil. The Oreo
cookie was good indeed to N.B.C., becoming the
best-selling cookie in the world today. Over 200 billion
have been sold so far.
If
stacked one
on top of the other, they would stretch to the moon and
back three times over!
Best explanation of the market crises I've seen yet
A farmer sent his 18 year
old son to town and, as a birthday present, handed him a
duck.
"See if you can get a girl in exchange for this," he
said.
In town, the lad met a prostitute and said, "It's my
birthday and all I've got is this duck. Would you be
willing to..."
"Sure," she said. "I'm sentimental about birthdays. And
besides, I've never owned a duck." Afterwards, she said,
"Do you know, for a 18 year old, you're quite a lay. If
you do it again, I'll give you back your duck."
"Sure," said the boy.
When his pleasurable work was through, the lad started
on his way home. While he was crossing the main street
in the village, the duck suddenly flew out of his hands
and was hit by a passing beer truck. The driver of the
truck felt sorry for the boy and gave him $2.
When the lad returned home, his father asked, "Well, how
did you make out?" His son replied, "Heck, I got a fuck
for a duck, a duck for a fuck, and two bucks for a
fucked-up duck!"
The boy now works for Goldman Sachs
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