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Willie and Millie
Submitted by goodcleanliving
Oh, the days of yesteryear, when child-friendly advertising icons plugged everything great about the USA; from cigarettes to beer to liquor! Notice Willie, the bisque constructed “Dr. KOOL.” On the left you see a pristine set of S/P shakers. On the right, a razor disposal cup that suggests that KOOLS will smooth out your cough. And the Willie and Millie scatter pins, so loyal smokers could “Brighten up your dresses, your suits, and sweaters, too, just the way that KOOLS do brighten your smoking taste for you!”
Jethro Tull are a British rock group formed in 1967.[1] Their music is characterised by the songs, vocals and flute work of Ian Anderson, who has led the band since its founding, and guitarist Martin Barre, who has been with the band since 1969.
Initially playing blues rock with an experimental flavour, they incorporated elements of classical, folk and ‘ethnic’ musics, jazz and art rock into their music.
The band have sold more than 60 million albums worldwide.[1]
Billy Hoyle (Woody Harrelson) is a talented former college-level basketball player who makes a living hustling streetball players who assume he cannot play well because he is white. The ‘hustle’ is even more provocative because, although he appears ‘goofy’, Billy never plays-down his skill to increase the stakes; it is the African-American basketball players’ own assumptions that are at the root of the hustle. In the opening scene Sidney Deane (Wesley Snipes) loses a game to Billy in front of his friends on a Venice Beach, California, basketball court.
This makes me nostalgic not just for the game and old commercials but for a time when companies had no idea how to market video games, because the field was relatively new and the graphics were such a bad representation of the ideas behind them. Take a look at the art from boxes and manuals at the time for confirmation. “Really? That’s what an octorok is supposed to be?” Plus I’m pretty sure this actor hadn’t played the game when they shot this.
Clueless is a 1995 comedy film based on Emma by Jane Austen and set in a high school in Beverly Hills.
The film was groundbreaking for a variety of reasons. Much of the teen slang used in the film was researched by Heckerling during the four years in which she wrote the script. The success of the film caused much of this slang to carry over into real-life usage and it is still a major part of American slang at present date.
The costumes used in the film were surprisingly trendsetting and soon became the new fashions of real life, as plaids, pastels, babydoll dresses and knee-high tights quickly became the new “thing” in young women’s fashion at a time when grunge fashion was still popular. Technology-wise, new and smaller cell phones and pagers were never used so much in a film as they were in Clueless; at the time, they were items possessed by a minority of the population. The film became a surprise sleeper hit of 1995, grossing well over $11 million on its opening weekend second place behind Apollo 13, and it eventually grossed $60 million during its theatrical run. It was the 32nd highest-grossing film of 1995 and brought the then-largely unknown actress Alicia Silverstone to national and international attention. In 2008, Entertainment Weekly selected Clueless as one of the “New Classics”, a list of 100 released between 1983 and 2008, Clueless was ranked 42nd. Entertainment Weekly has named it the 19th best comedy of the past 25 years.
Knightmare was a televised version of Dungeons & Dragons (to at least attempt to draw a comparison). I grew up with this show and LOVED it, there were even parts that scared me half to death (the opening dungeon when you can hear the orcs running after the player!).
The game worked like this. The Dungeon Master instructed/guided four players (school children). Three would stay behind with the DM and one would then wear a large helmet and a sheild with a bag and would have to go into the dungeons. The fourth player couldn’t see and the remaining three would guide them and solve the puzzles. Players used to “die” and the three kids remaining would “disappear” I think I’ve only ever seen one team complete the whole dungeon and the sheild used to be an eye that the fourth player could activate. But I believe this was a later item that had to be “discovered” by the team before the player could wear it.
Micro Machines: The Original Scale Miniatures (called either “Micro Machines” or simply “Micros”) were a line of toys originally made by Galoob (now part of Hasbro) in the mid 1980s and throughout the 1990s. Micro Machines were tiny scale component style “playsets” and vehicles that were slightly larger than N scale. Although Micro Machines have not been sold in the United States in some years, newer models are available in the UK and Europe.
