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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.
Margaritas and trickery are right up my alley.
You would have gotten along FAMOUSLY with passed-on FReeper Legion5999.
He was in Shelton. He used to call them “Car sodas” and hang out on the beach near Charles Island, and in Westport at Compo.
All of his favorite drinks, mostly the brown party liquors, would look like something they weren’t.
1060 was a long time ago
I was watching the game on TV when the announcers were going on and on about the drink that the Gators were drinking. That was the first time it had ever been talked about. I remember it was a really hot day and the Florida Gators were beating the other team pretty thoroughly and the announcers were going on and on about how this drink was the difference.
I fired a couple of guys when I found out their water bottles were filled with vodka.
Smuggling booze onto a beach is one thing. Smuggling it into the workplace is totally different.
Gummie Bears in the Mag Well? Hah!
When I watch old movies, I don’t use the IMDB page. I use Wikipedia.
More information. Less ads.
There’s an old WC Fields quote:
If you’re on a job interview and the manager catches you taking a swig out of your flask, have the common decency to offer him a pull.
“Turns out that back in the 1060s...”
That patent has to be expired! ;-)
“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. “
This has nothing to do with the beach or Gatorade.
“That special water was dubbed “Gator-Aid””
I took one of Dr. Cade’s classes. I don’t think it was ever dubbed Gator-Aid.
The Normans got their kicks in 1066!
Yes. When watching movies, I too, open IMDb and look up the actors to read their bio. I’m a people person...a relationship person.
I have a friend who loves local musicians. She goes to their concerts or performances, then looks the musicians up on Internet to learn about them.
Back then we called "Ye Olde Gator-ale"
If those are sugar-free gummy bears, they might be more powerful than the rifle.
Jokes aside, I recall the drink as “Stokley’s” in Orange or lemon-lime.
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