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Friday, April 04, 2014

Plastic Easter Grass


Like the similar shiny silver plastic tinsel for Christmas trees....

THIS evil crap (Luckily metal tinsel was replaced by shiny plastic in the 1970s.)
Plastic easter grass (and tinsel) are indisputably the worst holiday decorating products EVER.

Namely because by April, you're STILL picking out the strands of Christmas tinsel that shedded off the tree and now gums up the roller of your vacuum cleaner.

But plastic Easter grass is much worse. Because that stuff doesn't stay in one general area. If you have little kids, they throw that stuff everywhere. And just as you're trimming the Christmas tree once again, out of the corner of your eye in an overlooked edge of the wall, you see a shiny strand of green transparent plastic that gets your blood pressure up.....

Today however, biodegradable paper is often preferred (one ugly side effect of plastic grass is pets eat them. And plastic doesn't digest.) or even edible candy Easter grass.  

Wednesday, April 02, 2014

Dudley's Easter Egg Colouring Kits


Remember Dudley the Easter....whatever it was....?

In the 1970s, you pretty much had two choices for Easter egg colouring kits. The cheap and traditional, but lame Paas kits (or the similar Chick Chick kits.)


 Or the more expensive and more interesting Dudley kits.



Dudley kits had more artistic variety, such as swirls and glitter.


But Dudley always resembled some 40something bachelor guy sitting next to you in a sports bar that you probably talked to after a few strong drinks. Not so much a cute fluffy bunny rabbit we associate with Easter.


Perhaps noticing this, the makers of Dudley gave him a makeover, Now he doesn't look like a fat cross-eyed buffoon.

 
But really, the "new" Dudley is.....Well....A little too cutesy?

Tuesday, April 01, 2014

Wanna (Virtually) Go Back To 1976?


Today is of course, April Fool's Day. And today from 6am-6pm EDT/3am-3pm PDT, WMOH 1450 AM, a talk radio station out of Hamilton, OH (Cincinnati area) turns back the clock to April 1, 1976. Reuniting their air staff of that year and playing 1976 music, 1976 commercials and news of the day. Should be interesting. Go to their website to tune in and enjoy!

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