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Bottled Water

Water Hill Grammar Lesson

January 24, 2010
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The week we’ve already shown you that spelling matters and today we bring you Water Hill to demonstrate the importance of grammar. Enjoy bottled water from a brand that touts [...]

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Bottled Water, We Really Do Love Ya

January 18, 2010
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Regular visitors here know that we often get our jollies by ridiculing bottled water. Our barbs, though, are directed at those who regularly use the product though they have easy [...]

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Vittel: It Must Be the Water. And the Budget.

January 7, 2010
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Vittel is a brand of bottled mineral water from the northeastern French spa town of the same name. Sounds quaint, but the brand has since 1992 been owned by the not-so-quaint [...]

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Best of 2009: Bottled Water for Pervs

December 31, 2009
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Our favorite global water brand discovered in 2009! I dare you to refresh yourself with this bottle! We’re taking it easy the last week of the year with reposts of [...]

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Designer Water is SO Last Year

December 13, 2009
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In 2008 and 2009, Evian partnered with influential international fashion designers Christian Lacroix (2008) and Jean Paul Gaultier (2009) to create limited edition “Prêt-à-Porter” water bottles. (For you non-fashionista types, [...]

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For No Debris, Choose DMZ

December 10, 2009

Entrepreneurship springs eternal when it comes to bottled water, so we’re only slightly surprised that it is now springing from the Korean Demilitarized Zone. That’s right, DMZ water, extracted from [...]

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Ducks Cheerleader Should Have Ducked

December 1, 2009

Will this water-bottle violence never end? (Our rule: Three observances equals a certified trend! Here’s the first and the second!) In the latest installment of water bottle as weapon, irate University of [...]

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Is There Tap Water in a Time Warp?

November 2, 2009

Travelers must get desperately thirsty zipping through the space-time continuum, and one shouldn’t trust the quality of the tap water in a time warp, I’d think. (The “Doctor” character in the famous [...]

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Mysterious Fruits of Water: Lychee Fruit

October 13, 2009

Installment #4! The world’s most esoteric fruits are helping marketers de-commoditize bottled water with mysterious, value-added flavorings. I shelled out $2.50 just so I could share this Borba Water with Lychee Fruit with you! The [...]

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Spotting Dangerous Predators

September 9, 2009

From the Flickr photostream of www.visitbritian.co.uk, a photo that sets up an interesting analogy on predatory marketing! Is it your “Jaws” devouring that bottled water?

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