Sinister: The man with the plan

[Robin Stout]

Hello

	I once read somewhere how Dr Pepper got it's name. It was a 
long time ago, in Fast Forward magazine, I think. Here's what I can 
remember of the story.
Once upon a time there was a man who had a plan. He planned to make a 
drink out of plums and shoes and sell it to the world and make bags 
of money so he could buy more plums and more shoes and make more 
drinks and more bags of money and then he would buy himself a dog. So 
this man, let's call him Bob, he made the drink and he tasted it and 
he saw that it was good. Although it tasted a bit like cough 
medicine. But no-one will notice, he thought, as long as I give it a 
super name that simply dazzles everyone. The first name he gave it 
was Mr Yo! He tried selling it in his shop that sold bog brushes but 
to no avail. So he changed its name to Mrs Bag. "That'll do the 
trick" he thought, and it sold quite well for a while, but one day 
the real Mrs Bag came into the shop and wasn't too pleased. She hit 
him with a big stick and poked him in the eyes with her thumbs.
	Blind and hopeless, Bob staggered home. He opened the door and his 
daughter bounded up to him. "Daddy dearest!" she cried "I want you to 
meet my new boyfriend, Graham. My god, what's happened to your eyes?" 
Bob explained the story about Mrs Bag. "Oh dear" said Graham "Now it 
sure is a good thing my papa's a doctor. He could fix you up in no 
time, mister." So off went Bob to the doctor.
	The doctor mended Bob's eyes and got rid of his verruca and even 
gave him special hover boots which let him fly over people in post 
office queues. "Thanks doc." said Bob, "Oh, and by the way, I never 
asked you your name." "Dr Pepper" said Dr Pepper," but you can call 
me Fred".	"Dr Pepper", thought Bob as he walked straight to his bog 
brush shop. "Mmmm, Dr Pepper..."
	And the rest is history.

	So it was named after some bloke's daughter's boyfriend's dad. 
Obvious really.
	About the lowercase debate - I don't like e-mails that are typed in 
lowercase simply because I find them very difficult to read. The 
sentences all seem to join together.
	Oooh! No, a bit lower. Ooooooh!
	
	Two thumbs up to Ailsa and Nick. If eloquence was on my side I'd 
have said the same.

	Bye!

	love Robin xxx
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