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Re:The inventor of the red Solo cup has died by nommm-nommm on Thursday December 29, 2016 @03:22PM (#13279815)
For non Americans and young people, this reference is to the Real Men of Genius series of (originally radio) commercials for Budweiser (specifically Bud Light). They humorously mockingly "saluted" eccentric men and men with eccentric traits and took the format of the parent comment ending in a suggestion to "crack open a Bud Light." I could -totally- see them doing a "Mr. Red Solo Cup Inventor" one. Does this exist?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Men_of_Genius

https://youtu.be/lsC3ni7A88M (Examples)

https://youtu.be/OdGj-FVxOcs (my personal fav)

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Re:The inventor of the red Solo cup has died by bdcravens on Thursday December 29, 2016 @06:20PM (#13281101)
The voice of those commercials, Dave Bickler, was previously best known for his vocals on "Eye of the Tiger"
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Re:The inventor of the red Solo cup has died by mixmastamyk on Friday December 30, 2016 @01:06AM (#13282863)
Yes, the voice of the lead singer though, not the narrator.
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