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Is Timothy McVeigh responsible for the white Ryder Trucks on the road? You could see them from a mile away when they were all yellow. News reports from the scene at the Federal Building in Oklahoma City kept referring to a yellow Ryder truck out front minutes before the blast. Some kind of advertising! And now they are all white?

You wouldn't think Coke and Pepsi would even have to try to update their image today - nostalgia having been the only discernible nineties and early oughts fashion. But Coke is clearly losing its edge with the picture of the old glass bottle and the distressed typewriter font. If we wiped the slate clean and started the cola wars now, Pepsi would be kicking some ass.