Posted on 05/25/2019 5:24:09 PM PDT by SamAdams76
Some might find this practice sort of macabre, but when I'm watching an older movie at home, I sometimes have my laptop open to that movie's IMDB page and then I click on each member of the cast to see if they are still alive or not. Every now and then I come across a movie in which most of the cast is dead but it's rare in that I watch a movie in which all the cast are dead. I think that's more a function of not watching a lot of really old movies. But time is catching up with me for a lot of the movies that were popular when I was growing up or a young adult now disturbingly have more and more of their cast dead.
Anyway, I'm just wondering if I'm the only one that does this. That said, I'm usually relieved when an actor or actress from a movie I saw is still alive. Unless it was a particularly bad movie. For instance, "Thank God It's Friday". Sorry Debra Winger and Terri Nunn.
So has anybody wondered how Gatorade got its name? I used to think it had something to do with alligators. Maybe the drink was laced with a little bit of alligator skin? To give it some of those electrolytes or whatever else they put in that stuff to rejuvenate the dehydrated body.
But no. Nothing to do with alligators. Turns out that back in the 1060s, some scientists got to wondering why athletes didn't urinate when they were in high intensity workouts. Obviously they sweated it out. But on hot days, the athletes would tire quicker due to dehydration. Drinking water didn't seem to help much.
So they decided to do an experiment with water loaded with sugar, salt and those famous electrolytes. The idea was that by drinking this solution, the athletes wouldn't dehydrate as quickly and would maintain peak performance for longer.
One of the scientists was friends with the football coach at the University of Florida. The coach agreed to hold a scrimmage between his varsity and freshman squads with the freshman getting the special solution to drink during the scrimmage. In the second half of the scrimmage, when the varsity team was starting to peter out, the freshman scored something like four touchdowns and beat the varsity team!
The coach was sold and immediately had his entire team start drinking this stuff. They started winning more games and went all the way to the Orange Bowl in which they beat the other team that was also playing there on that day.
Eventually word got around that this football team (called the Gators) was drinking a special kind of water. That special water was dubbed "Gator-Aid" and the rest is history. Gatorade went on to become a billion dollar business and the "sports drink" industry was born.
Now this all reminds me of a "beach hack" I used to pull off in my earlier days. I used to like to drink cold margaritas on a hot day at the beach. Only problem was, whenever you go to a beach, there's always these signs saying NO ALCOHOL PERMITTED ON BEACH.
So what we would do is make a pitcher (or two) of margaritas the night before going to the beach. Then we'd pour them into empty Gatorade bottles and put them in the freezer. Next morning, we'd put the frozen Gatorade bottles in the cooler and by early afternoon, as we were sitting on the beach, they'd be only partially melted and you basically had frozen margaritas in a Gatorade bottle that looked exactly like real Gatorade.
I totally get the aging thing because when I think of Gatorade a colonoscopy prep immediately comes to mind.
I download my TV and movies from Amazon Prime and that imdb stuff downloads with the content automatically.
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We had other ways of accessing alcohol. I always had a bottle of rubbing alcohol in my locker that was really 190 proof Everclear. Another favorite was taking high test oranges to football games. They’d been injected with liquor.
LOL!!!!
What if you are a life guard ?
We always poured out half of our Coke and added rum in the car at the beach, too.
In the '70s they had a carbonated Gatorade.
It was tasty.
It would make a terrific mixer.
That’s it! Thanks for the walk down memory lane.
The drink was initially created for the fighting seminoles of Florida state, but calling it Seminole fluid didn’t have the appeal like gator aid...
I looked up a gorgeous twenty something actress in a 1932 movie I was watching...she turned out to be still alive. I’m talking 2019 here.
I call B.S. - or can you name her?
Regards,
I actually did know the origin of Gatorade, and I’m not a sports fan.
“mag well”
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No picture credits in 1932, but she would have been 16. Her earliest picture credit is from 1935, A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Personally I would forgive a three-year error in dates and suggest this might be the one TalBlack mentioned.
Either or.
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