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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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To: b4its2late

There marking?


41 posted on 12/29/2016 11:44:52 AM PST by tophat9000 (Tophat9000)
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To: tophat9000

LOL!


42 posted on 12/29/2016 12:14:29 PM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Calvin Locke

True but sweet nonetheless.


43 posted on 12/29/2016 12:26:52 PM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Morgana

And what is ingenious about it is that the lines around the cup correspond with 12 ounces for beer and the smaller one for a standard shot.


44 posted on 12/29/2016 12:29:17 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: KC_Conspirator

And the middle one for wine I guess.


45 posted on 12/29/2016 12:31:11 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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