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17 Feb 2008 |
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The house that perky, creepy brother/sister team 'The Carpenters' lived in together is now owned by a hispanic couple who ain't too happy that it's a pilgrimage site, and they plan to demolish it and rebuild.
I remained outside the Carpenters revival of the nineties, cause I still think their music is insipid.
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27 Oct 2005 |
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Thousands of images of cassette tapes on a single page. Full-screen your browser for the maximum effect.
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09 May 2005 |
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Check out this 1984 video where Mr. T does a shout out for mother's everywhere. I pity the fool that doesn't like a man w/ a hundred pounds of bling in coochie-cutters singing about his mother.
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10 Mar 2004 |
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Some of you may be too young to remember Wacky Packages stickers. My brother - Mike - and I ruined the door to our bedroom with them as kids. Well Topps (the inedible chewing gum concern) is reviving them. There's some debate whether they'll be a hit with kids the 2nd time around, but it just doesn't seem like corporations tolerate mockery too well.
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23 Jan 2004 |
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Captain Kangaroo: R.I.P. I'd watch my ass if I were a Wiggle. Pazen knows what I mean.
Don't know how many of you remember Ray Rayner, but he died on Wednesday down in Florida. He was a truly great local TV personality who did a kid's show and I loved him. It's odd, but hearing of his death is like a door slamming shut to being a kid.
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03 Oct 2003 |
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Retrocrush has all your favorites from the past. (Probably a good thing for a site called "Retrocrush.")
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13 Aug 2003 |
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Fluffy mackerel pudding!
Once upon a time the world was young and the words "mackerel" and "pudding" existed far, far away from one another.
One day, that all changed. And then, whoever was responsible somehow thought the word fluffy would help.
Oh, and eggs, too.
via Graf via Julie via Steve
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25 Apr 2003 |
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Two links that bring back dot-com days of wine and roses memories...
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07 Mar 2003 |
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In the years since it disappeared, the sponge achieved a kind of cult status, helped by a 1995 "Seinfeld" episode in which Elaine, discovering it would be discontinued, goes from pharmacy to pharmacy to stock up, then forces boyfriends to prove themselves "spongeworthy."
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The actual article is behind a NY Times login.
Q sez on these sites the login 'ANNOYING' and the password 'ANNOYING' works for me...
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26 Feb 2003 |
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You can pit He-Man versus Beast-Man playing for the power of Castle Grayskull...He-Man and Beast-Man each sold seperately
More classic 80's commercials available here.
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03 Dec 2002 |
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"Victorian taxidermy was very popular once but is not really in favor now," said Kevin Moore, owner of the mid-18th century Jamaica Inn in southwest England, where the 6,000 figures are set out in sentimental -- some would say tasteless -- tableaux.
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12 Sep 2002 |
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Al Axe needs to sell his toy. Yesterday.
Got any gearhead friends in need of a new ride to blow the doors off Rice Boys? This is the car they're looking for.
Chevy 350 / 350 turbo transmission. 5500 stall converter. 11 second 1/4 miles. No radio, air or heat. Really cool smoky burnouts.
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17 Jul 2002 |
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No ordinary reptile, Old Rip was entombed in a makeshift time capsule 105 years ago and emerged alive three decades later.
It's the friggin' Jesus Toad!
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03 Jul 2002 |
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An exhibition curated by Diane Keaton for the Los Angeles Public Library September 1999
The captions are almost as good as the photography:
Maybe, just maybe, everything will turn out all right and Karen Tompkins, 11, missing since Friday, will find her way back to safety; but perhaps, authorities say, it is too much to hope.
via consumptive.org
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12 Jun 2002 |
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31 May 2002 |
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This reminds me of the Y2Katastrophe chooser we put together way back in the heady days of the Internet boom. Unforunately, I seem to have mis-placed the database that contained all of our Perpetrators, Methods and Locations used to determine the eventual demise of the world at the turn of the millenium. (Remember all those arguments about how 2000 wasn't really the start of a new century? Boy, weren't those interesting? Ah, memories.)
via Textism
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01 Apr 2002 |
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Ever since their kids bought houses, my parents have (naturally) been on an un-ending quest to rid their basement of our shit. Either they visit with a trunk-load, or we are sent home with boxes of ancient crap that should've been thrown out a decade ago.
Every once in awhile, there are some gems. In sorting through a box full of old high school physics homework, college history papers and whatnot, I found a folder full of things that at one point in my life I thought were either cool, funny or both. Most of it was worth a chuckle before it hit the trash.
I will, however, be keeping this one...
