# Is Snapple just MSU now? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 20, 2010, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-snapple-just-msu-now/540132 "2010-05-20T15:33:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-snapple-just-msu-now/540132/21 "2010-05-20T23:54:25Z")
I was wondering what if anything Michigan State University had to do with Snapple – did they own them, or a part of them, the way Florida State owns a piece of Gatorade? ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-snapple-just-msu-now/540132/22 "2010-05-20T23:59:33Z")
Making Shit Up. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-snapple-just-msu-now/540132/23 "2010-05-21T00:15:47Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > Making Shit Up. I figured that out after reading part of the thread – but my expectation of what the TLA meant threw me for a loop at first. ---
**Author:** ![gazpacho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@gazpacho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gazpacho)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-snapple-just-msu-now/540132/24 "2010-05-21T00:33:40Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > Making Shit Up. Snapple is not making shit up. That is more work than what they are doing. Which is putting factoids from emails silly emails that get sent around. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-snapple-just-msu-now/540132/25 "2010-05-21T00:34:10Z")
Heh. I thought it was a swipe at the quality of a Michigan State education. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-snapple-just-msu-now/540132/26 "2010-05-21T02:55:20Z")
> [@](#): > > The Wikipedia page mentions two configurations which require 26 quarter turns and 20 face turns, though. So 17 is out again unless the definition of “move” is broadened even further. I only said that 17 was a reasonable guess, not that it was right. Reasonable guesses are sometimes wrong, as apparently in this case. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-snapple-just-msu-now/540132/27 "2010-05-21T02:59:36Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > I was wondering what if anything Michigan State University had to do with Snapple – did they own them, or a part of them, the way Florida State owns a piece of Gatorade? It’s the [University of Florida](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatorade) (whose teams are known as Gators) that receives the royalties. ---
**Author:** ![Ostrya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/35a633/32.png) [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-snapple-just-msu-now/540132/28 "2010-05-21T03:35:58Z")
> [@Manduck](#): > > Heh. I thought it was a swipe at the quality of a Michigan State education. 😛 What do you say to the MSU grad when he shows up at your door? answer, You don’t say anything. You just pay for the pizza, let him get on his way. ---
**Author:** ![Omphaloskeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bcef8e/32.png) [@Omphaloskeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omphaloskeptic)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-snapple-just-msu-now/540132/29 "2010-05-21T03:45:04Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I only said that 17 was a reasonable guess, not that it was right. Reasonable guesses are sometimes wrong, as apparently in this case. Yeah, I wasn’t specifically replying to you; I just found more bounds after posting and replied to the last post in the cube subthread. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-snapple-just-msu-now/540132/30 "2010-05-21T03:46:37Z")
> [@groman](#): > > Back of the envelope calculation leads me to believe a gallon of water would make roughly 10 cubic yards of fog. A square mile of fog would have to be less than a millimeter thick to be only a gallon of water. Fog can occur in very dry regions. How did you come up with only 10 cubic yards. I can’t think of a way of visualizing the amount of water used but I can certainly smoke out my kitchen with a piece of bacon. Using the notion that smoke is just redistributed mass I can imagine what a gallon of bacon grease would look like and it’s way more than 10 cubic yards. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Seventh\_Deadly\_Finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6bbea6/32.png) [@The\_Seventh\_Deadly\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Seventh_Deadly_Finn)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-snapple-just-msu-now/540132/31 "2010-05-21T04:02:51Z")
I suspect that the fog error was the result of somebody calculating a cubic mile as equivalent to 5280 cubic feet. That answer is, of course, off by a factor of… let’s see… 27,878,400. Oops. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-snapple-just-msu-now/540132/32 "2010-05-21T05:27:55Z")
Funnily enough, in the medical world, MSU is an abbreviation for midstream urine. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-snapple-just-msu-now/540132/33 "2010-05-21T05:32:13Z")
And around here, it’s always Montana State University. Michigan? Yeah, we’ve heard of them, why? ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-snapple-just-msu-now/540132/34 "2010-05-21T12:42:20Z")
> [@Magiver](#): > > Fog can occur in very dry regions. How did you come up with only 10 cubic yards. > > I can’t think of a way of visualizing the amount of water used but I can certainly smoke out my kitchen with a piece of bacon. Using the notion that smoke is just redistributed mass I can imagine what a gallon of bacon grease would look like and it’s way more than 10 cubic yards. Ahhh… mentally wandering in bacon fog… ahhh… ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-snapple-just-msu-now/540132/35 "2010-05-21T14:38:12Z")
For the Rubik’s Cube, are they considering peeling and sticking as two moves or just one? ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-snapple-just-msu-now/540132/36 "2010-05-22T01:04:32Z")
Not to get metaphysical, but what makes particulants “fog”? How thin must a sheet of water droplets (let us say) be to be sort-of-opaque? (That’s my definition of the effect of fog and I’m sticking to it.) ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-snapple-just-msu-now/540132/37 "2010-05-22T12:22:16Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > Cool: [Rubik’s Cube-solving robot](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaRcWB3jwMo&feature=player_embedded) made entirely of LEGO. > > Well, maybe not _entirely_, but mostly. Mongo impressed. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-snapple-just-msu-now/540132/38 "2010-05-22T13:36:06Z")
This is all very interesting to me, because I generally find the underside of soft drink bottle caps to be a very reliable source of factual information. ---
**Author:** ![JollyGoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dec6dc/32.png) [@JollyGoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JollyGoon)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-snapple-just-msu-now/540132/39 "2010-05-22T14:04:38Z")
I’m surprised no one has mentioned [Q.I](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QI) yet. Amazing show that dispels the half-truths and outright lies that permeate the psyche of the generally ignorant millions. Basically the straight dope presented as a panel show by the great Stephen Fry. Youtube it! 🙂 One of my favourites is the one that the ford model T came ‘in any color you want so long as it’s black’. Actually, there was more than 30 colours used. ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-snapple-just-msu-now/540132/40 "2010-05-22T14:40:57Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > This is all very interesting to me, because I generally find the underside of soft drink bottle caps to be a very reliable source of factual information. Second in usefulness only to learning Chinese courtesy the fortunes in cookies. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-snapple-just-msu-now/540132.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-snapple-just-msu-now/540132.md?page=3)