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Pour one out: The inventor of the red Solo cup has died
cnn ^
| December 29, 2016
| Doug Criss
Posted on 12/29/2016 8:05:38 AM PST by Morgana
(CNN)2016 is still not done. Before we lost George Michael, Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds this week, we lost someone who's probably had just as big an impact on our lives, though you've never heard of him: Robert Leo Hulseman.
He's the man who invented the red Solo cup, staple at every party ever. He died last week at age 84. The Solo Cup Company was the family business -- Hulseman's dad started it in 1936 -- and Hulseman started working in the company factory when he was 18, according to his obit on Legacy.com.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: obituary; redsolocup; rip; solocup
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If this has already been posted 200 times I DID SEARCH it came up not as been posted under this title, don't want to hear about it.
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posted on
12/29/2016 8:05:38 AM PST
by
Morgana
To: Morgana
Surely nobody here would stoop solo.
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posted on
12/29/2016 8:08:11 AM PST
by
pax_et_bonum
(Never Forget the Seals of Extortion 17 - and God Bless America)
To: Morgana
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posted on
12/29/2016 8:08:43 AM PST
by
InterceptPoint
(Ted, you finally endorsed. About time.)
To: Morgana
Great invention.
All the benefits of a cup, without the attachment nor having to wash dishes!
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posted on
12/29/2016 8:11:32 AM PST
by
VanDeKoik
To: Morgana
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posted on
12/29/2016 8:11:39 AM PST
by
DannyTN
To: pax_et_bonum
Could not type fast enough yesterday, I do apologize for that. Sometimes other FReeprs are just faster by a few minutes.
Any way you know this dude made a fortune over a little Red Cup.
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posted on
12/29/2016 8:11:46 AM PST
by
Morgana
( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
To: DannyTN
I like the ones where they put Christmas lights in them and string them along.
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posted on
12/29/2016 8:13:38 AM PST
by
Morgana
( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
To: Morgana
First Leia, now Solo!!!!! NOOOOO!
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posted on
12/29/2016 8:14:38 AM PST
by
commish
(Freedom tastes Sweetest to those who have fought to preserve it!)
Sad to hear...I was just thinking about how these kinds of things never show up places like Facebook as Its not like he read other peoples words in front of a camera, of strummed the same three cords over and over again for multiple decades.
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posted on
12/29/2016 8:14:51 AM PST
by
dsrtsage
(One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
To: Morgana
Not to be confused with Han Solo Cup...
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posted on
12/29/2016 8:16:38 AM PST
by
Flick Lives
(Les Deplorables Triumphant)
To: commish
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posted on
12/29/2016 8:20:42 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: pax_et_bonum
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posted on
12/29/2016 8:22:32 AM PST
by
Sirius Lee
(If Trump loses, America dies)
To: Morgana
Only beverage cup that I know of that ever had a song written about it....
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posted on
12/29/2016 8:23:11 AM PST
by
JBW1949
(I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
To: DannyTN
That thar’s whatcha call Grandma’s Good Crystal
(in West Virginia).
To: Morgana
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posted on
12/29/2016 8:25:06 AM PST
by
Sgt_Schultze
(If a border fence isn't effective, why is there a border fence around the White House?)
To: pax_et_bonum
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posted on
12/29/2016 8:25:34 AM PST
by
workerbee
(America finally has an American president again.)
To: Morgana
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posted on
12/29/2016 8:25:57 AM PST
by
Daffynition
( "The New PTSD: Post-Trump Stress Disorder")
To: workerbee
Well........I needed a good laugh
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posted on
12/29/2016 8:27:37 AM PST
by
Morgana
( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
To: Morgana
I’ve stared at many a bottom inside a Red Solo Cup.
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posted on
12/29/2016 8:28:47 AM PST
by
moovova
To: Morgana
Red Solo Cup: Universal sign for PARTY!
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posted on
12/29/2016 8:30:27 AM PST
by
folkquest
(Alleluia!)
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