Word: plastics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Patricia S. Constantikes '85 was treated to a bizarre dinner at the Union by three oversized green elves named Herbie, Douglas and Ervin. She said she was serenaded with "really tacky tapes" while the elves carried her from Matthews in a plastic chair...
...jacket also tells us that the person playing the piano on the vinyl is named Hargus "Pig" Robbins and that Slim has cut a single entitled "Where Is the Christ in Christmas?" It is everything one can do to peel the plastic off the cover...
...next bin over at Woolworth's, boasting enough mark-down tags to make it clear this is not the next Rubik's Cube, are a pile of half-sized plastic swivel chairs. On each there's a label, like the ones men wear at conventions that say "Hi! I'm Bob, General Consolidated (ret.)" Only these say "Hi! I'm a swivel chair." Truth in advertising and all that...
...number of options, from the traditional kiddy-cart to the sporty Big Wheel. This year, though, the "Shoe-Skate Rider." seems all the rage. Now, this takes a little explaining. Imagine one of those running shoes/roller skates; now imagine it three times lifesize and made entirely out of cheap plastic. Now imagine buying...
...already apparent. Ballantine Books has published Not Another Cube Book, an anticube treatise that tells readers "How to Live with a Cubaholic" and "How to Kick the Habit." Entrepreneurs Steven and Roger Hill of Menlo Park, Calif., have produced what they call "the ultimate solution": the Cube Smasher, a plastic paddle guaranteed to pound the puzzle to bits. So far they have sold 100,000. Those who resort to the Cube Smasher may also be interested in a paperback released this month by Tor Books. Its title: 101 Uses for a Dead Cube...