1990s
Power Athletic Shoes Commercial
Our shoes will crush all opposition and restore the Fatherland!
Posted By: Paul - Sun Mar 26, 2023 -
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Category: Dictators, Tyrants and Other Harsh Rulers, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Advertising, Shoes, 1990s
Serial aperitif thief
Philippe Delandtscheer may have preferred to steal aperitif, but that's not all he stole. He was later arrested for stealing meat from a supermarket.
Saskatoon Star-Phoenix - Feb 15, 1996
Posted By: Alex - Sun Mar 05, 2023 -
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Category: Crime, 1990s
Gnaw by Janine Antoni
Gnawed chocolate and lard as art. From the artist's website:She gnawed it in 1992.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Mar 01, 2023 -
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Category: Art, Chocolate, 1990s
Woops!
A comedy about life after nuclear Armageddon.Fox cancelled the series in late November. At the time, it was ranked 105th out of 108 weekly shows [54]. Only 10 of the 13 produced episodes were aired; the last was broadcast on December 6th.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 01, 2023 -
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Category: Humor, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Television, War, Atomic Power and Other Nuclear Matters, 1990s
I Dream of Madonna
Thirty years ago, Madonna seemed to be invading the psychic spaces of sleepers. The phenomenon was recorded in I DREAM OF MADONNA, which may be read here, at the Internet Archive.One wonders if today those dreams might tend towards the disturbing.
Read a contemporary review here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Feb 20, 2023 -
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Category: Celebrities, Dreams and Nightmares, Music, Books, 1990s
Brief Intro to PRESTEL
This kind of tech will never catch on!
Posted By: Paul - Sat Feb 04, 2023 -
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Category: PSA’s, Technology, 1990s, United Kingdom
Shoes with Hinged Soles
There must be a good reason why, for millennia now, all shoes have come with unibody-construction soles. But Robert M. Lyden thought differently.Full patent here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jan 17, 2023 -
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Category: Body, Inventions, Patents, Shoes, 1990s
Survival on Mayonnaise Alone
Never mind that Eiichi Urata managed to survive for 15 days on mayonnaise alone. What seems stranger to me is that he decided to climb a mountain and took only two jumbo squeeze-tubes of mayonnaise as his food.
Tampa Bay Times - May 27, 1999
Posted By: Alex - Fri Sep 23, 2022 -
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Category: Mayonnaise, 1990s
The Most Unwanted Song
Wikipedia entry.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Sep 21, 2022 -
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Category: Music, 1990s, Pranks, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Inflatable Woman’s Bathing Suit Top
We've all seen those famous vintage ads that show inflatable bras.
But I had not realized that the gimmick had been applied also to bikinis. I cannot find any such currently for sale, however, which seems to show the idea was...a bust!
Source of article: The Paducah Sun (Paducah, Kentucky) 30 Jul 1992, Thu Page 11
Posted By: Paul - Tue Sep 20, 2022 -
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Category: Fashion, Hoaxes and Imposters and Imitators, Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, 1990s
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