"Not sure why this sign has been erected in Omaha, but felt compelled to take a picture and send it to you!" declares Paul. "Perhaps the ladder and sprinkler don't like the paparazzi!"
Sweet-talking teens to help crack Cola market
A reader writes: "My father-in-law worked for a soft drink factory in Auckland in the late 1950s and was given the job of promoting Pepsi-Cola in North Auckland. He took a truck loaded with the product and wasn't having much luck with the sales, or getting any of the retailers to stock it, due to the popularity of its rival at that time, Coca-Cola. So he decided to approach the teens as they were coming out of high schools in various towns that he visited. He had a wee chat and got several of them to go into the local shops and ask for 'that new Pepsi-Cola?' The kids then scuttled off home with their free half-dozen bottles of Pepsi and sales to the retailers in those towns soared. He went back to Auckland a happy man."
Prince's death lures the culture vultures
There's nothing like a celebrity death to present an opportunity to make some cash, right? One opportunistic eBay user has decided to auction off a jar of rain from the day that Prince left this world -- or, as the post describes it, a jar of "Purple Rain". The item's condition reads, "Rain form out side [sic] Paisley park, Minnesota. From 4/21/2016. Passed away."
