Submitted by E Bailey

There was a guy that we heard about that knew this other guy whose cousin got suspended for betting another kid $5 that he couldn’t put 6 Warheads in his mouth at the same time and then his brain like, exploded. It was awesome. If you can still find them at the store, we bet you couldn’t even do like, four. If you do, you should totally make a video of it and post it a link in the forums too.

Submitted by katsak

“Lets see which family we can cover in the most slimy stuff!” should have been the name of this show. Anybody ever figure out what that stuff was?
Double Dare can probably be credited with reviving the Pieing movement after it died off when The Three Stooges were canceled in the 70’s. Way to carry that torch Double Dare. Without you and the inspiration to pie a sibling that you gave millions of children, Ready-Whip may have gone out of business.

Submitted by katsak

Mmmm, delicious cookies disguised as cereal. Did anyone actually eat these with milk or did they just snack on them in the afternoons or stashed in lunchboxes for school?

Submitted by katsak

Oh, I wish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener
That is what I truly want to be
‘Cause if I were an Oscar Mayer wiener
Everyone would be in love with me.

Who tried out to be an Oscar Mayer Wiener kid? Epic childhood if you showed up at the auditions and sang the song!

From Wikipedia:

A “Wienermobile” is an automobile shaped like a hot dog on a bun that is used to promote and advertise Oscar Mayer products. It was created in 1936 by Oscar’s nephew, Carl G. Mayer, and variants are still used by Oscar Mayer today. In 2004, Oscar Mayer announced a contest whereby customers could win the right to use the Wienermobile for a day. Within a month, the contest had generated over 15,000 entries. Drivers of the Wienermobiles are known as Hotdoggers and often hand out toy whistles shaped as replicas of the Wienermobile, known as Wienerwhistles.

Submitted by katsak

From Wikipedia:

1972 is a key year in the history of American lunch boxes. This is an important year because this is the supposed year the steel lunch box died.

In 1971-72, a concerned group of parents decided that metal lunch boxes could actually be used as weapons in school-yard brawls. With petitions signed, they marched all the way to the Florida State Legislature, and demanded “safety legislation” be passed. It eventually was passed, and other counties in Florida, and even other states adopted this legislation.

The migration to plastic was probably nearing anyway, and probably was as much a factor in the stoppage of metal lunch boxes as any law could have been. This is not to say that plastic quickly killed metal production. From the early plastic boxes in 1972, they stood in the shadow of metal boxes until 1987. 39% of all lunch box production from 1972–1987 was steel.

By the time the 1980s came, lunch box sales were still strong, but they were waning. Many popular licenses were around during this time, including Pac-Man, GI Joe, Dukes of Hazzard, The A-Team, Strawberry Shortcake, Knight Rider, and other characters.

As the decade drew towards the end, lunch box manufacturers simply stopped producing new boxes for the back-to-school season. Generally, it is accepted that Rambo, produced by KST, was the last lunch box of the golden era (1950–1987) to be sold. Lunch box production did not stop, but companies now moved to plastic and vinyl as a means of making lunch boxes. These boxes were generally solid colored with a label on one side and no other decoration beyond the thermos.

Who else would have been pissed if they’d known that they got a plastic lunch box, as opposed to the cool metal ones their older siblings had, all because of some goody-goody Tipper Gore-esque Mom who ruined it for us all? Especially since now-days the Hipster scene-kids are living our steel lunchbox dreams, with their Invader Zim or Emily the Strange lunch boxes.