Job of the Day: Market manager for Solo

Your cup overfloweth with sales and marketing skills? If so, this may the job for you.

1. The CIA and mafia killed JFK.
2. The moon landing was staged.
3. Solo Cup Co. invented the game of beer pong.

Let’s leave Nos. 1 and 2 to Oliver Stone and the sort of people with AM radios affixed to their bikes, and, instead, tackle No. 3.

Solo Cup did not, in fact, invent beer pong, the game in which players try to bounce a ping-pong ball into a plastic cup filled with beer. (It’s a real binge drinker’s delight.)

Turns out some suds-loving frat guys from Dartmouth did in the 1950s. True story.

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