This advertisement, from a 1950s children's radio show, may have been the key piece of evidence:
Hey kids! Have you tried the OUTRAGEOUS taste of lead paint? No!?!? Well why not? Everyone knows that lead paint is the CAT'S PAJAMAS! Is it because you a total ZERO? Of course not! Get down to the hardware store and pick up a gallon of some RADICAL lead paint! It comes in TONS of WILD colors! Awesome! Everyone gather around and pick up your flat headed screwdriver. Now pry open the can! Wicked - look at all that paint! Just dip your finger in it and lick it off. Wow! Sweet! Lead paint tastes like a rainbow! Now pick up and drink it like a glass of SUPER AMAZING milk! Unbelievable! Right now you are probably spitting up some nasty stuff - that isn't lead paint - and being driven to the hospital to get your stomach pumped... so you can have some more lead paint!!! What other colors do you think taste GREAT!?!? Does yellow taste like a hot dog?!? Does green taste like a leprechaun!?!? Does purple taste like a mountain of your favorite ice cream!?!? You won't know until you try!
Product/add-in idea not related to paint: Microsoft Outluck. It is an email program that randomly reassigns tasks to other people. For example, if an email says "Dan, Clean the toilets" and it gets re-routed to Jeff, then Jeff has to clean the toilets. Jeff has been 'outlucked.' I feel it will create a flatter corporate hierarchy.
Also, what's the deal with Diet Dr Pepper and 4 packs of cans? I mean, come on! A 4 pack?
