As Pez dispensers became all the rage, Chicklet thought they would try to compete by creating their own novelty dispenser. This is one of the early prototypes.

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Shoes with a built-in expiry date! When things start sprouting from your damp, warm, clammy shoes, it's time to bury them!

When one of the little nephews was about 2, he used to correctly identify photographs of Hayden Christiansen, Jake Lloyd & Darth Vader all as, "who-pa," (his rendition of helmet-breath). My brother-in-law taught him well, this was before he'd ever seen Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith hadn't been released yet. My mother-in-law complained because he didn't know his colours; recognising Hayden Christiansen out of costume and in a variety of different hairstyles seemed infinitely more difficult to me.

Yellowstone was founded by Roosevelt... That's a decent enough reason for R.

Order register for a drive-in restaurant.

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Earthbounds - Banned by the TSA!

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I'm sorry, every single person in that arena should have been singing with that little girl FROM THE VERY BEGINNING.

I hate that the singing of the National Anthem has become a performance number, not group participation. It's something that has changed within my lifetime, I can't pin it down exactly, but sometime in the 90s. Learn the words, learn the actual melody (which, I may say, Elizabeth did a fantastic job with), take out the unnecessary improvisational glissando, sing it in G. Get America singing.

Filigree Siberian Hamster!

Snuggs.

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A belly button borer.

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When I was in middle school, in 1997, we did a medley of TV theme songs, Flintstones, Cheers, and this. Well, close, we skipped straight from "star-flight" to "but tell him." We all recognised the tune as Star Trek, but no one knew the lyrics from anyplace else.

I bet this is legit.

I didn't know this was a thing anyone else experienced. I don't get anything too weird, but I've always had a weird disconnect when I look at myself in the mirror too long, like there's another person on the other side of the glass. Interesting.

Iowan. Paper said that it polled well with high schoolers in that it "made them take notice" but only three percent said they would follow up and pursue the college. The quote in the Register from the marketing guy was something to the tune of, "I'm not marketing to me, I'm marketing to teenagers, who get irony and sarcasm." (paraphrase, not direct quote)

Well, it's obviously earning them attention, national attention. But, on the other hand, how many of you could, when pressed, tell anyone what your university's ad campaign slogan was?

The rest of the article sounds a bit more like, "places that didn't meet Catherine Price's initial tourist expectations," than places not to see. Maybe it's actually written in a, "I think this is weird, and it is weird, and if you're OK with that, go see it," style, that's not too bad. I like going to see weird things on vacation. I stayed in a converted prison hotel in Switzerland once, I would absolutely consider doing it again. It's not a Holiday Inn, but, really, why should it be? I went to Cairo, Illinois, too, which is billed like a fantastic tourist destination and in reality is one BBQ joint and a Civil War museum in a spooky ghost town. Not what I signed up for, but still worth the visit.