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Saturday, August 18, 2012

Bonne Bell Lip Smackers


Bonne Bell Lips Smackers were a lip gloss that came in SUPER cool flavours. Like Coca Cola, Dr, Pepper, 7-Up, Hires Root Beer, Orange Crush and many others.

But alas, it was a lip gloss for girls. The boys were stuck with ChapStick....unless they wanted their lips really shiny...... 

UPDATE: They're still available (in "Party Packs" even!)

http://www.lipsmacker.com/productListing.php?id=8


Wacky Packages Stickers

Hanes Inspector 12


Inspector 12 always scared me.

I simply do not know what was going on in the minds of the promotions department of the Hanes Underwear Company that they thought hiring a scary old woman with a boys underwear fetish to promote their products was a neat idea.

And secondly, can you imagine the UPROAR if they got a dirty old man to fool around with the girls underwear like THIS? I mean, what was the difference?

To quote one voice-over on the early Inspector 12 TV commercials "She POKES!.....She STRETCHES.......And that's just the beginning......."

It was violating to look at.

Worse yet, in later commercials she TRAINS other scary old women to do the same thing she does.


I became a sworn Fruit Of The Loom man for the rest of the '80s.........


Funk & Wagnalls


They were found at any given supermarket. The ubiquitous Funk & Wagnalls encyclopedia store displays.

In the pre-internet age, the Funk & Wagnalls encyclopedia sets were fun to collect. And they lured you in with the first book, which sold for a penny or some ridiculously low price. But each week, you had to buy more volumes at the not-so-cheap regular prices to complete your set.

Once you completed the collection and you just had to pick up the Y-Z book, you were often rewarded with a matching dictionary set or even a small veneer bookcase for your encyclopedia. 

Funk & Wagnalls also got into the record business in the '70s, offering a collection of light classical and opera music called The Joy Of Great Music, using the same scheme as their encyclopedias...

The Fisher Price Movie Viewer


How many of you remember THIS when you were a kid?

This was Fisher-Price's nifty little comeback to GAF's ViewMaster. Each cartridge held a short cartoon (it was silent.) Plus it was hand-wound. No batteries!