Axl Rose and Dr Pepper deserve each other

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Having written about Dr Pepper's infamous Guns N' Roses promotion before, we should come full circle with the latest about it. As you've surely heard, GNR has filed a lawsuit demanding that Dr Pepper make good on its promise to give everyone in America a free soda now that Axl Rose has finished his masterpiece, 17 years in the making. Dr Pepper's attempts to pay up, via a coupon on its Web site, failed when the site crashed.

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