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Month: March 2011

Diet Coke Unseats Pepsi As #2 Cola Brand

Pepsi has spent decades throwing stones at Coke from its position in second place among the fizzy beverage brands. And now Pepsi will need to toss those stones even farther as the brand has given up its spot to Diet Coke and slipped to third on the list.

According to 2010 sales data published in Beverage Digest, Coke and Diet Coke maintained steady market shares of 17% and 9.9% respectively, but Pepsi’s market share slipped .4% to 9.5%.

Book Filled With Blank Pages Outsells Harry Potter and The Da Vinci Code

Ever wonder what every man thinks about apart from sex? Apparently, the answer is quite simple: nothing. Or at least that’s what author and comedian Sheridan Simove claims in his gripping book, What Every Man Thinks About Apart From Sex.

To demonstrate his position, Simove cunningly has filled the book with 200 blank pages. And even though you could say it is far from “well written”, it’s climbed the ranks of Amazon’s charts to No. 744, and even outsold both Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code and J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. But who exactly is lapping up Simove’s words of wisdom?

Fort Wayne refuses to name gov’t building after Harry Baals

A new government building may officially be called Citizens Square, but to some not-so-square citizens it will always be the Harry Baals Government Center.

Fort Wayne Mayor Tom Henry announced the new city and county government center’s name Monday.

The most popular choice for the building in an online poll was the “Harry Baals Government Center.” The second-place finisher was “Thunder Dome.”