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?
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.
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.
Heh. I thought it was a swipe at the quality of a Michigan State education. 
I only said that 17 was a reasonable guess, not that it was right. Reasonable guesses are sometimes wrong, as apparently in this case.
It’s the University of Florida (whose teams are known as Gators) that receives the royalties.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Funnily enough, in the medical world, MSU is an abbreviation for midstream urine. 
And around here, it’s always Montana State University. Michigan? Yeah, we’ve heard of them, why?
Ahhh… mentally wandering in bacon fog… ahhh…
For the Rubik’s Cube, are they considering peeling and sticking as two moves or just one?
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.)
Mongo impressed.
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.
I’m surprised no one has mentioned Q.I 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.
Second in usefulness only to learning Chinese courtesy the fortunes in cookies.