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On occasion I find Sobe drinks on sale and will indulge my taste buds. Today I opened my last bottle, an Elixir, so named (I reckon) because it is made with cranberry grapefruit juice from concentrate (??) with a blend of carnitine, chromium and vitamin C..

The inside of the bottle cap has words written within... something I will look at after opening a bottle. I was struck by the message of this bottle's cap - "Live green or die."

My first guess was green like in ecology... living in harmony with the natural cycle. But this message could have been referring to green as money... "that jacket costs alot of green." A phrase I've heard many a time in my past. But then another "green" came to mind - "green with envy"...

So I was left pondering for all of three, maybe four minutes, whether this message in a bottle, "Live Green or Die" was warning me to live in accordance with Nature or I may die, or I should live with money or else I might die, or perhaps I should live an envious life, but would that keep me alive..? Nah, that would be ridiculous.

But just as ridiculous is implying if one lived green, regardless of the 'green meaning,' our lives (or that of the drinker of this elixir anyway) would become free of death. Who has ever escaped death anyway? Sobe or no Sobe, Elixir or no Elixir, living green or not, we must all face death... there is no getting away with that.

I do thank Sobe Beverages though, for giving me some material for thought, as corny as it may have been, but I ask myself, Why not? Why should any beverage be taken seriously? It did give me something to go with that "cranberry grapefruit flavored beverage from concentrate (??) with a blend of carnitine, chromium and vitamin C.."

This message might have been brought to you by "carnitine." Who knows? But then "concentrate" possibly had something to do with it...

Good write.

I wonder maybe it had something to do with the war effort? Kind of like Lucky Strike Green.

I think I will try one.

•S: (n) elixir (a substance believed to cure all ills) http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=elixir

Thank you for the good write.

thx, dadio. as much as most of us mistrust commercialism, it never fails to spring one's mind into action be it good or not so good.

howdy, JT! LSMFT ... now there's a perfect example of commercialism that goes back to at least when i was a little brat (50's). "Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco" those five letters stood for, and of course, there were the clever ones who made up their own meanings (none of which i remember!). i'm sure all of us have those memories of commercials that are so ingrained like tattoos in our brains - "Hi! I'm Buster Brown and I live in a shoe... here's my dog, Tige... he lives in here, too!"

(interesting that Tige was a Pit Bull Terrier along with, what many claim, was the RCA dog, Nipper... a breed of dog nowadays that stirs fear in so many Americans that the breed is actually outlawed in several regions around the country. We have a blue Pit Bull named Chang, who is a fantastic sleeper and is most comfortable in a chair, be it an overstuffed or plastic and even a wooden rocker. )

Another thing I liked about Luckies is that three out of two doctors who smoked recomended them for healthy digestion.
But I liked Camels because every week on the show they sponsored they would announce that they sent another 100 cartons of cigarettes to another Veterans Hospital.

Paint it green, wasn't that a song by the rolling stones.


I like your tagline, getting tired of mine.

Did Nietzsche think himself thoughtless

pardon the ramble
good to see you

the cigarette companies would have that luxury to pass out cartons of their products to the servicemen in these sensitive times, i'm sure. altho, even as (ex) smokers, we now know that overuse of tobacco is a no-no for the body, but like any drug we go ahead and indulge enjoying the immediate effects for the long term results. such is the shortness of visualizing beyond our personal wants, eh?

my last cigarettes 3+ years ago were Buglers, hand-rolled by moi... and did i love damn near every cigarette i smoked.

thanks, JT. i still drop in everyday and peruse the boards but just don't feel as if i have anything worth writing (yet), 'cept for the small comments on occasion.

I never have much to say either but I never let let it stop me from saying it.

Came back from the H.E.B. could not find Sobe. It comes in a glass bottle and if that ain't green it would hair lip the pope. according to wicki an Elixir should have some alcohol in it. Maybe I should have looked in the beer and wine section

I wonder if the "live green or die is a" variation on "better red than dead"

mtmynd, that maxim on the bottle is subject to multiple interpretations which you elucidate so well here. It gave me pause to think. Even a message on a bottle has significance though often passed over my the casual drinker.

John

Thank you, John, for the kind words. It is a fact that both truth and un-truths can be found in the most unexpected of places. It is incumbent on ourselves to challenge words and their significance in order to ascertain which encompasses truth and which encompass the un-truth... a responsibility that only we, alone, can make. Truth belongs to us all.

Peace, golden...