Eric Clapton famously stopped performing the J.J. Cale song “Cocaine” once he got sober. But now he’s resumed. Why? After all these years, Clapton decided that the song is in fact anti-drug; plus, he admits, he just really missed playing the guitar riff.
In other cocaine news, there’s a new carbonated energy drink called Cocaine, with about three times the caffeine per serving as Red Bull. The company’s website offers recipes for drinks like Cocaine Blast, Cocaine Snort, and Liquid Cocaine. In New York City, where crack cocaine posed a blight that none of us here care to recall, lawmakers are not very amused. “There are only two reasons that you would seek to use this infamous and insidious name to market your so-called energy drink,” Queens councilman James Sanders Jr. told the New York Times. “Either you are woefully ignorant of the horrors of cocaine addiction, or your god is the dollar bill, and not even human life is more sacred.”
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If it only takes someone drinking a drink called cocaine to get them to actually use real cocaine, there are bigger issues with said person.
If it only takes someone drinking a drink called cocaine to get them to actually use real cocaine, there are bigger issues with said person.
Councilman Sanders said it well.
I’m also disturbed by the increasing use of the word “pimp” in a positive context, as in “pimp my ride”. Somehow, all the politically correct people have let this one slide.
Alternative lyrics to “Cocaine” can be found at http://www.amiright.com/parody/artist/claptoneric.shtml among other places on the web.
These include:
Where’s your hair?
Where’s your hair?
Where’s your hair?
Rogaine
[If this is double posted, I apologize -- either I hit a wrong key or the site hiccuped and earlier version was lost, I think.]
Councilman Sanders said it well.
I’m also disturbed by the increasing use of the word “pimp” in a positive context, as in “pimp my ride”. Somehow, all the politically correct people have let this one slide.
Alternative lyrics to “Cocaine” can be found at http://www.amiright.com/parody/artist/claptoneric.shtml among other places on the web.
These include:
Where’s your hair?
Where’s your hair?
Where’s your hair?
Rogaine
[If this is double posted, I apologize -- either I hit a wrong key or the site hiccuped and earlier version was lost, I think.]
Of course, this would be very different if say one of the biggest soft drinks companies like Coca Cola had got started by putting cocaine in their beverage.
Or is this just SO obvious everyone’s groaning that I’ve pointed it out?
Of course, this would be very different if say one of the biggest soft drinks companies like Coca Cola had got started by putting cocaine in their beverage.
Or is this just SO obvious everyone’s groaning that I’ve pointed it out?
Aren’t energy drinks the next big frontier for soft drink companies? Somewhere on the news I heard that energy drinks have had the highest growth in the last few years.
So these guys use a gimmick to sell a soft drink. What’s so bad about that? If the problem is that a person might drink the Cocaine energy drink, then try to buy real cocaine.. well, that either says a lot about things that influence our decision process OR it just says that some people don’t know what’s good for them.
Either way, I hope it at least tastes good.
Aren’t energy drinks the next big frontier for soft drink companies? Somewhere on the news I heard that energy drinks have had the highest growth in the last few years.
So these guys use a gimmick to sell a soft drink. What’s so bad about that? If the problem is that a person might drink the Cocaine energy drink, then try to buy real cocaine.. well, that either says a lot about things that influence our decision process OR it just says that some people don’t know what’s good for them.
Either way, I hope it at least tastes good.