The Inside Scoop

Recently the “Coke Machine” in Maxwell Student Union was brought to my attention. Someone informed me that on the top of the Coca-Cola can, pictured on the front, there is a woman lying down with her hair hanging on the coke. The image in question is formed by an interesting piece of ice.
Now granted, this was pointed out to me, and I did not notice this on my own. If you look at the picture and also at the machine, it is easy to see when someone points it out, but I probably never would have noticed it on my own. After looking at the piece of ice, it is fairly clear that there is what seems to be a woman lying on the top of the coke with her head to the left.
In the picture, I have pointed out the different features which we have been able to discern. You can clearly see on her face, a mouth and a nose and a left eye. Her hair is flipped over her face hanging down the “Coke.” Looking right down the picture, you can clearly see the rise of her left shoulder and then her “rear end.”
Now the point of me telling you this is simply because I feel that it could be seen as a subliminal image to those who buy coke that beautiful women are associated with Coca-Cola. I even found on the World Wide Web a site that talks about an incident where students at a high school in Canada were found crowding the hallway “staring” at the machine. The school even went so far as to contact the Vice-President of Public Affairs in Toronto, Canada, yet if you go to the site, it is clear that there is an anti-Canadian sentiment that runs the site. But either way you look at it, other people have noticed this same image.
Personally, I take this with a grain of salt. I mean, it’s just a piece of ice, right? Well, yes it is, but there is no physical way that something that looks that much like a woman accidentally melted into that image and ended up on a Coca-Cola machine. There is no way that was an accident. Therefore, someone is trying to pull a fast one on all of us. Just like all of the “so-called” subliminal messages in Disney cartoons (which at least two of them I think do exist), this is something that the general public doesn’t notice on a daily basis but views quite regularly.
If you would like to read the story about the high school kids, go to http://www.pigdog.org/auto/canadia_sucks/link/1310.html. Just keep in mind that they are making fun of Canadians, and that none of the sentiments in that article are supported or condoned by me and/or the Colonnade.
Aaron Hill

Posted by Colonnade Archives on Jan 25 2002. Filed under Opinion. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry