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Why do they call it Ovaltine? The mug is round. The jar is round. They should call it Roundtine.
I know you're joking, but I looked it up :) 'Ovaltine was developed in Bern, Switzerland, where it is known by its original name, Ovomaltine (from ovum, Latin for "egg", and malt, which were originally its key ingredients).' [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovaltine
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A perfect "be sure to drink your Ovaltine" moment! If anyone is unfamiliar, it refers to the movie "A Christmas Story". The moment here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdA__2tKoIU I first saw that movie a only a couple years ago and quickly realized how many pop culture references come from it. It does such a good job of capturing a period of time in North America. Even before I saw the movie, eating out at a Chines…
It was a reference to an actual ad campaign, I believe, for a real product
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Ha, as a Swiss, from the Bern region, I was thinking whether this strange sounding Ovaltine has anything to do with Ovomaltine and was about to look it up. In Switzerland, Ovomaltine is among the products with highest brand recognition ever and has a cult status because of their advertisement in the 80s and 90s. Never knew it was a thing outside of Switzerland
Used to be pretty big in Italy in late 70s/early 80s, then Nestlé destroyed all competition with their Nesquick. You can still find Ovomaltine in large supermarkets but it's clearly a bit player.
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Google Foobar does it right and lets you skip to actually be considered, which is nice.
Has Google even bothered with Foobar for like past 2-3 years? It appears so frequently on non-incognito searches that surely every developer must have seen it by now.
NYTimes.com: All the code that's fit to printf()
We're hiring: https://nytimes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/TechJust telling people to apply to domain.com/jobs is pretty lame. So, basically the same door that anyone else goes through when they click the "Careers" link in your site's footer? Reminds me of when I solved one of the CTF challenges for a website only for my reward to be "We're hiring! Apply at jobs.example.com!" Real "be sure to drink your Ovaltine" moment.
fwiw, a few of them say "mention this header"—so perhaps there is some accelerated path that it goes on.
Just telling people to apply to domain.com/jobs is pretty lame. So, basically the same door that anyone else goes through when they click the "Careers" link in your site's footer? Reminds me of when I solved one of the CTF challenges for a website only for my reward to be "We're hiring! Apply at jobs.example.com!" Real "be sure to drink your Ovaltine" moment.
A perfect "be sure to drink your Ovaltine" moment! If anyone is unfamiliar, it refers to the movie "A Christmas Story". The moment here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdA__2tKoIU I first saw that movie a only a couple years ago and quickly realized how many pop culture references come from it. It does such a good job of capturing a period of time in North America. Even before I saw the movie, eating out at a Chines…
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It was a reference to an actual ad campaign, I believe, for a real product
Seems meta. As far as references to ads in movies I enjoy Demolition Man. I loop the classy cover of the jingle for Jolly Green Giant from time to time to endear me to my (close) colleagues. It's burnt deep, whelp time for a listen.
> For some non-American releases, references to Taco Bell were changed to Pizza Hut. This includes dubbing, plus changing the logos during post-production. Taco Bell remains in the closing credits. In the Swedish release the subtitles still use Taco Bell while the sound and picture has been altered as above. The original version released in Australia (on VHS) contained Taco Bell, yet the newer version on DVD was changed both in logo and dubbing to Pizza Hut (in the scene where the restaurant patrons are looking through the glass windows to the fight scene outside, Taco Bell can be seen etched into the glass, even in the modified version).