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1980's

The Wellingborough Carnival

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The town of Wellingborough, UK, has been holding a carnival for over 100 years. The old affairs certainly featured things that look weird to us today. Here's a photo album to peruse.

And the Wellingborough Carnival home page reveals this year's affair is on July 7th! Plenty of time to make your plans to attend!

Over The Top





Best--if only--movie about arm-wrestling ever? Watch the trailer, then the whole thing, then decide.

Or save a painful 90 minutes by reading this review.


Posted By: Paul | Date: Sat Jun 16, 2012 | Comments (2)
Category: Family, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, Wrestling, 1980's

I Like to Stay Home



More about Moore here.
Posted By: Paul | Date: Thu Oct 27, 2011 | Comments (2)
Category: Eccentrics, Music, Avant Garde, 1980's

Turnabout Map of the Americas

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Suddenly I feel dizzy....
Posted By: Paul | Date: Sun Oct 16, 2011 | Comments (2)
Category: Geography and Maps, 1980's

A Bargain

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An online inflation calculator says:

"What cost $999 in 1982 would cost $2226.84 in 2010. "

I just looked at 8 gigabyte thumb drives on Amazon for $14.00.

Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul | Date: Tue Sep 13, 2011 | Comments (10)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Computers, 1980's

Follies of the Mad Men #154









Four decades of commercials for the medicinal tasting soda. Which one would convince you to drink it?
Posted By: Paul | Date: Fri Aug 05, 2011 | Comments (6)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Junk Food, 1960's, 1970's, 1980's, 1990's

Toto Coelo

total coelo - i eat cannibals from alexei glowakz on Vimeo.



If you didn't live through the 1980s, you would not believe they happened.

Toto Coelo info here.

Follies of the Mad Men #151

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The French Foreign Legion. Enlistment of criminals. Hot, spartan living conditions. Death by savage natives. Cruel officers. Boredom, disease, fistfights.

Nice home furnishings? Not so much.

Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul | Date: Thu Jul 07, 2011 | Comments (5)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Interior Decorating, 1980's, Armed Forces

Follies of the Mad Men #147

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View top two panels left to right, then bottom two panels left to right.

Somehow, I doubt any human being on earth would ever utter this dialogue unless under threat of torture, and maybe not even then.

And I resent the implied slur at my native state, Rhode Island! Foggy Pawgansett, indeed!
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