Fortunately, you don’t need “most people” to be successful. “Most people” didn’t go to Taylor Swift’s Eras tour. “Most people” don’t watch the Super Bowl. “Most people” have never read Stephen King. Aiming for “most people” as your audience would be insane.
Traded by the Cardinals because manager Vern Rapp (lifetime .467 winning percentage) didn't like his hair. The '70s Cardinals were one of the stupidest franchises in sports.
My hometown and my current town are 102 degrees apart (Fahrenheit).
It's the Big Gulp's world, we're just living in it.
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Reese’s rhymes with pieces. Soft s in the middle, hard possessive s at the end.
Yeah, X-Men was the top-selling ongoing comic at this point and Marvel were definitely not averse to milking it: the Wolverine/Kitty Pryde miniseries came out at this same time (chart from October 1984).
Merry Christmas to anyone who, as a kid, was invested in the question of whether Rudolph was one of Santa’s “real” reindeer.
I only knew him as cheerfully amiable (Heaven Help Us) or petulantly slimy (Big), and effective in both modes. Then a few years ago I saw this and 🤯 -he should’ve been huge.
This clip is an essential watch in my house every year. Did you know the narrator played Francis's dad in Pee-Wee's Big Adventure? (And did about a million other things)
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Homemade brownies are not UPF while a bottled kale smoothie with some benign preservatives is UPF. It’s not a particularly useful category for determining how nutritious or healthy food is.
Of course, the Cardinals never should’ve traded Carlton…
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Maybe they just hated rice.
In the first few months after I moved from St. Louis to Seattle, several locals made snide remarks to my face about how backward my hometown is. ”Liberals” in America’s whitest cities love to shit on the blackest cities.
Blockbuster nostalgia always makes me think this. Our local video stores each had their own niches and had way cooler stuff. Even the supermarket video rental sections had random left-field finds. Blockbuster was always mid and got worse as they leaned into the more-copies-of-new-releases thing.
Meanwhile my family had homemade "Cabbage Patch Kids". Here's to all the parents who scored their kid a reasonable facsimile despite their lack of funds.
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The decline of broadcast TV, and commercials, means kids are growing up without knowing the names of their local mattress stores, carpet outlets, heating & cooling installers, and other boring businesses.
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One ‘90s thing I miss is hardcore punk shows at random normal bars. Let’s go see System Necrosis and Forcefeed at TJ Quackers while hockey plays on the TVs.
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This one never ages
I'm not proud of it, but I probably tried vaping before anybody else you know - before it was even called "vaping".
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Except a baby laughing in wonder at the power of its pooping abilities is actually funny.
America! Your expats and your friends are *always* with you! Sending you love and courage and #NoKings solidarity and frog costumes from Melbourne, Australia. Make fascism history again!
I use newspaper archives a lot for the stories I write. So many details about daily life were written down up until like 2000-2010, then the historical record is a massive black hole.
I love classic Little People so much, I turned myself into one!
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Which school shooting will mark the moment American citizens notice how far their country has fallen behind?
Fellow old folks: remember how every 5-10 years there'd be a new physical media? Audio cassettes, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray? Yeah, looks like that's over. We've probably seen all the kinds of physical media we're ever going to see. 😐
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Good point - and we also know how to reduce homelessness and they don’t want to do that either. They need people to despise and degrade. If today’s targets disappeared, they’d move on to new ones.
The real color of the '80s wasn't aqua, or purple, or hot pink. It was brown.
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The great Sony rootkit scandal of aught-five! One of my Pitchfork colleagues got his laptop wrecked by that stupid thing.
