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The inventor of the red Solo cup has died
- exabrial 10y agoOddly enough, the subject of a country music song: https://youtu.be/BKZqGJONH68 https://youtu.be/BKZqGJONH68
- nommm-nommm 10y agoThe music video is embedded into the article itself.
- sofaofthedamned 10y agoWas in the article, but is indeed a superb tune.
- oxide 10y agoFrom beer pong with close friends in my early 20s, to house parties with random folks in my teen years. All the way to now, in my late 20s, those close knit house parties becoming much more close knit around a game of beer pong and good company. I owe it all to the red solo cup. Thanks, Red Solo inventor. For everything. you've given a shy boy a lot to be thankful for over the years. My friends and I will mourn this loss the only way we know how, with beer pong, over new years.
- gkop 10y agoCan any old-timers here comment on whether or not beer pong pre-dated this cup, and if so, what were the prior cups of choice?
- mikestew 10y agoIn my part of the world, I don't recall beer pong being a thing before the 80s. My prime beer pong years were spent playing "quarters": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarters_(game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarters_(game). We used shot glasses for that (hard to bounce a quarter into a Solo cup). You drank your keg beer out of a Solo cup, though, as it has always been since the ancient times.
- mixmastamyk 10y agoReal men of genius… Mr. Red Solo Cup In-VENT-or Today we salute you…
- nommm-nommm 10y agoFor non Americans and young people, this reference is to the Real Men of Genius series of (originally radio) commercials for Budweiser (specifically Bud Light). They humorously mockingly "saluted" eccentric men and men with eccentric traits and took the format of the parent comment ending in a suggestion to "crack open a Bud Light." I could -totally- see them doing a "Mr. Red Solo Cup Inventor" one. Does this exist? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Men_of_Genius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Men_of_Genius https://youtu.be/lsC3ni7A88M https://youtu.be/lsC3ni7A88M (Examples) https://youtu.be/OdGj-FVxOcs https://youtu.be/OdGj-FVxOcs (my personal fav)
- bdcravens 10y agoThe voice of those commercials, Dave Bickler, was previously best known for his vocals on "Eye of the Tiger"
- mixmastamyk 10y agoYes, the voice of the lead singer though, not the narrator.
- Ocerge 10y agoI always found it funny that European students at my university were shocked that we really did play beer pong with red solo cups in the States. Some of them even took a cup home as a souvenir.
- bskdjx 10y agoI come from Canada, and I was shocked
- DKnoll 10y agoThat's odd, because we've had them for quite some time (and played beer pong with them). </Ontarian>
- bskdjx 10y agoI come from Canada, and I was shocked
- douche 10y agoRed Solo cups are too expensive to play pong with. Pong, (at least played properly, none of this ball tossing nonsense), is very cup-intensive. Some of the more interesting variations require upwards of 100 cups to lay out. And you don't tend to reuse cups, unless you are really desperate. $152 https://www.amazon.com/SLOP16RLRCT-Solo-Plastic-Party-Cold/dp/B004E3RRIC https://www.amazon.com/SLOP16RLRCT-Solo-Plastic-Party-Cold/d... $25 https://www.amazon.com/oz-Plastic-Cups-Bulk-Packs/dp/B0098MR9Y6 https://www.amazon.com/oz-Plastic-Cups-Bulk-Packs/dp/B0098MR...
- bedhead 10y agoThe Hulseman's live close to where I grew up and I went to school with his kids. Super nice family.
- rmason 10y agoFour years ago Solo was purchased by Dart Container for $1 billion. Dart is South of me in the small town of Mason, Michigan and they keep a very low profile locally. http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/industries/manufacturing/story/2012-03-22/solo-cup-dart-container-purchase/53704060/1 http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/industries/manufacturin...
- ChuckMcM 10y agoPersonally I'm more interested in the people with the green Solo cups :-) On a more serious note, this is a remarkably good cup for its volume. We used to "stock" them at Blekko for people who were getting water or needed a drinking cup. One of my hats there was to keep the larder full and I ordered some alternate cups (less expensive) one time and quickly realized they didn't hold up well when full and were too easily squeezed leading to potential crack/leak failures. Clearly the guy had put a lot of thought into something which, on the outside, seemed fairly simple.