Hey, What’s Under That Bottle Cap? Six Words + Honest Tea
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
SMITH Magazine’s Six-Word Memoir project has seen a lot of incredible iterations: six-word classroom projects, six-word prayers, appearances in hacking conferences and museums of art, partnerships with places such as The National Constitution Center and Bono’s One.org.
And now Six-Word Memoirs will be a mystery in a bottle. Or rather, a “prize” under an Honest Tea bottle cap. Call it our adult, writerly version of the unknown treasure at the bottom of the box of Cracker Jacks. I’ve been digging for prizes, decoding secret messages, peeling back labels, and popping open bottle caps for as long as I can remember.
So, when our first book of Six-Word Memoirs was about to come out, I sent Honest Tea co-founder Seth Goldman a message—I just guessed his email and told him the honest truth: I love your tea—it’s tasty. I love your company—it has a socially conscious mission. Just as one of SMITH Mag’s core beliefs is to make better media, not simply more media, I wrote, you’re making a better drink, not just another drink. And I think SMITH’s Six-Word Memoirs are a perfect match for Honest Tea’s bottle caps. Seth replied: I love it, let’s do it.
This week, 100+ of the most thoughtful, inspiring, insightful, and funny Six-Word Memoirs can be found under around a million bottle caps across the country. Maybe it’s just me, but the little things in life—like reading short, short life stories in bottles of Black Forest Berry or Pomegranate Red Tea with Goji—give me a sweet little kick of inspiration. But just a tad sweet—that’s the Honest Tea and six-word way. Want your Six-Word Memoir inside a bottle cap? Shares yours on the Six-Word Memoir project, and now you’ll be considered for a bottle cap as well as a book (and in case your dream differs from ours, we’ll always check with you first).
Yay! That is real neat! I hope I get under a cap!
I might but I might not.
Good Job for your article
Life is short
then you die!
All man’s accomplishments
means absolutely nothing!
Life is temporary
Live every day
Live your life
before it’s over
Better tea capped than tea bagged.
Drink Me! Then Un Drink Me…
Drink me, then set me free.
ALWAYS UP FOR A “HONEST” TRY
Black cat ate my four-leaf clover.
Thumbs feverishly text formerly unsaid crap.
My mortgage fell, can’t get up.
My grandchildren feed me Play-Doh burgers.
Old teeth turn amber, like sunset.
Love is an intimate stranger’s kiss.
Dalai Lama caught eating Double Whopper.
Vodka plus Honest Tea: honest glee.
Hope I don’t win the lottery.
Summertime is littluns slurping drippy popsicles.
Ageless rope swings laugh at mortality.
Please and Thank You are symbiotic.
Fingernail clippings make shrapnel look tame.
We should’ve shared more happy meals.
Hemingway’s shoes took Sixers’ first step.
Honest Tea makes round world go.
You’re being surrounded by coffee drinkers.
Lost again. Smooched the Old Maid.
Mommy and Daddy wrestled like that.
Constipated astronaut loves his Prune Tang.
Divorce diet: Lost a whole person
Squirt water out before applying mustard.
Eighty-seven toddlers pee simultaneously: heated pool
Cell phones camouflage selves when sought.
Baby-Boomer,Free-Love Loser, Mid-Life Boozer, St. Peter Schmoozer
Life slowly goes far too quickly.
I’m a vegan, unless home alone.
You don’t look thirty. Thirty-eight maybe.
Mom secretly chews tobacco in bed.
Gimme, gimme, I’m a selfIsh knucklehead.
Mom treated head lice with respect.
Even Mom stole my lunch money.
Oddly, most women prefer men soft.
My grandson’s hands are bungee hooks.
Does anybody read these six-worders? — need some feedback
am i on the right track here? is anybody out there? wish i had a rooster….
With Honest Tea, no tea bagging.
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Tea for two: Buy yer own)
Brits have tea-time; Yanks, Honest Tea.
Honest teetotalers drink only Honest Tea.
[...] Since then, Six-Word Memoir project has become a global phenomenon and a bestselling book series. Six-Word Memoirs have been featured in hundreds of media outlets from NPR to The New Yorker, covered on tens of thousands of blogs, and, as of Summer 2010, can be found inside 1 million Honest Tea bottle caps. [...]
I came, I saw, I drank.
I came, I saw, I drank……
Keep mind full and bowels empty
Life’s a beach so just relax
Help! I’m stuck
Let me out
[...] Since then, Six-Word Memoir project has become a global phenomenon and a bestselling book series. Six-Word Memoirs have been featured in hundreds of media outlets from NPR to The New Yorker, covered on tens of thousands of blogs, and, as of Summer 2010, can be found inside 1 million Honest Tea bottle caps.” [...]
I live life to the fullest.