You put the lime in the coconut and drink'em both together

The BBQ Pit
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You put the lime in the coconut and drink’em both togetherYou put the lime in the coconut and drink’em both togetherYOU PUT THE LIME IN THE COCONUT AND DRINK’EM BOTH TOGETHER YOU PUT THE GODDAMN LIME IN THE MOTHERFUCKING COCONUT AND DRINK BOTH THE SHITNASTY THINGS TOGETHER…

I hate this commercial. I can’t get the song out of my head. I’m prone to hypnogogic hallucinations, and yesterday there were three small men standing by my bed singing this jingle over and over and over and over until I forced myself awake enough to turn over.

As God is my witness, I will NEVER put the lime in the coconut. And I’m damn sure not gonna drink’em both together. What the hell is this commercial for, anyway?

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You put the lime in the Coke, you nut!

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Three men? Slacker. I’ve got my own tiny little oompah band.

You haven’t heard the coke jingle 'till you’ve heard it oompah style.

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You may be hurting now because that commercial drives you nuts. But if Harry Nilsson were alive, he’d just have got rich all over again. I imagine his estate could not rationally turn down the amount of money Coke offered them to use that song. When somebody else has written your jingle for you, and millions of people already know it, that’s serendipity. And good business.

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I laughed out loud the first time I saw that ad. It’s brilliant.

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I love that song. They had it playing at the gym yesterday, and it was all i could do to keep myself from singing along as I puffed away. I had no idea it was in a Coke commercial. Ah well.

Daniel

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“Clowns to the left of me!
Jokers to the right!
Here I am stuck in the middle with you.”

Sorry. “Coconut” always reminds me of Reservoir Dogs

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I don’t mind the commercial so much, but the actual product it’s selling? Damn that’s some nasty swill. Maybe it was the diet-drink hater in my speaking, but diet-Coke with lime tastes like somebody went down on Crystal clear Pepsi and spit the results in a cup.

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OK, you just undid all their advertising. I blush to admid that formerly, I had been a happy consumer. That image, however, has ruined it for me.

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Since when does Coke = a coconut? Is the song not about an actual fucking coconut? This commercial hurts my brain.

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Well, I really really like the muppets version. :smiley:

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They’re singing, “You put the lime in the Coke, you nut, and drink it all up.”

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There’s regular Coke with Lime now, too. I have to admit, I’m a bit addicted to it. I can’t stand the Diet Coke with Lime, but the regular stuff is pretty good.

I stick lime in my Coke all the time, though, so that’s probably why I like it.

E.

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It’s words like these that let me look over each day and smile.

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The commercial sparks a war of songs in my head, pitting the coconut song against Cougar Mellancamp’s song that includes the line “that’s when a coke was a coke” (I can’t recall the title atm).

So far, the coconut is winning.

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Ah, thanks. That makes sense. And is fucking stupid.

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“Cherrybomb”?

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That’s Cherry Bomb, *Greenback, IIRC.

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This is where I admit I’m too young to know the original song, and thus thought it was a random-ass commercial with people in lab coats.

I do, however, like my cheeseburgers with Heinz 57 and french-fry potato.

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That’s Tim McGraw’s “Back When.”