Jimmy T Pitches The Commodore VIC-20
Did you know that before he hawked for Priceline or regaled us with the adventures of T.J. Hooker, William Shatner had another TV career? Yes, he appeared in commercials for the Commodore VIC-20:...
View ArticleLooking Back: The Subprime Meltdown Explained By The NYT… In 2002
The end of the year is a time for looking back and reflecting on the past. Perhaps learning from it. With that in mind we poked around the NYT archive and found a great article on the subprime...
View ArticleMother's Cookies Goes Out Of Business, Kills Off Circus Animals
If you’re a fan of those pink and white frosted Circus Animal cookies from Mother’s, either stock up or start priming your nostalgia, because this week the company closed its doors abruptly. They’ve...
View ArticleCrackpots Detail Insane Ideas For Banking Reform
Credit Slips has this wild idea about reforming the banking system by letting some fairy-tale character named “Bob” run around issuing loans to qualified people in his community. We normally love...
View ArticleThis Is What Kids Did For Fun In The 80s
Josh at GeekSix unearthed a comic book ad that might be familiar to you if you were a kid in the 80s. Olympic Sales Club was one of those door-to-door greeting card companies that enlisted kids across...
View ArticleCrappy Food, Flimsy Headphones & 5 Other Things That Used To Be Free On Flights
Somewhere in the last two decades, airplane food went from comedy punchline to premium purchase (though the quality is still often laughable), airline headphones went from “crappy but they’ll do in a...
View ArticleLady Weeps With Joy As First Texas In-N-Out Burger Opens
Yesterday the first In-N-Out Burger join in Texas opened its doors. The chain is unlike others in terms of the fervent loyalty it engenders in its fans, and they came by the thousands yesterday to...
View ArticleA Best Buy Flyer From '96
A Best Buy flyer from 1996 has resurfaced and it’s full of hilarious old technology and high prices. Gotta snag me a copy of Muppet Treasure Island for $34.99! (See the rest of the flyer here.) Hmm.....
View Article"Field of Dreams" Will Become Youth Baseball Complex
If you were saving up the $5.4 million it was going to take to buy the real Field of Dreams featured in the movie “Field of Dreams,” in hopes of keeping it out of the hands of evil land developers,...
View ArticleSugar Coated Rice Krinkles: Your Parents’ Favorite 1960s Racist Cereal
(SA_Steve)That handsome fellow at left is So-Hi, mascot of the now-discontinued Post breakfast cereal, Sugar Coated Rice Krinkles. The same product had another, strangely beautiful name: Sugar Sparkled...
View ArticleHi-C Ecto Cooler Will Return To Store Shelves On May 30
A few months ago, news and early samples of a new and exciting beverage hit Twitter and eBay. Hi-C’s Ecto Cooler was a green citrus-flavored beverage and a tie-in for the Ghostbusters franchise. The...
View ArticleNintendo Announces $60 “Mini NES” That Includes 30 Classic Games
In a move that will please countless 30- and 40-something gamers who remember the days of pounding out not-so-secret cheat codes on their controllers, Nintendo has announced plans to release a...
View ArticleL.L. Bean’s Duck Boots Still All The Rage, Continue To Be Backordered
Last year, L.L. Bean hired 100 additional workers to ramp up production of their iconic, unglamorous USA-made duck boots. Nonetheless, the popular footwear was quickly put on backorder. Now, the...
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