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...rest, as they say, is history. Johnson, a small-town prodigy called the Professor by his high school buddies, had wrought one of the best-selling toys ever: the Super Soaker, a pump-action water gun capable of streaming water 50 feet. In the 12 years since he first got U.S. Patent No. 4,591,071 for the "squirt gun," as it is listed in official government records, more than 200 million Super Soakers have been sold. Revenue estimates for the gun range as high as $400 million. "Lonnie is the American success story," says Dick Apley, director of independent...
...ashes from a Quaker Oats box, into the wind. Thus DeGeneres' Pompano wolfs a corndog while questioning the distraught wife of the murdered. Or Billings at an autopsy, blood-sprayed by a being-buzzawed skull, protesting, absurdly, "Whoa, whoa, whoa" as if it were kids with a Super Soaker...
...prosecutor coming off a Supreme Court victory, this was like being blasted with a Super Soaker while strolling in his best suit. Starr immediately denied that he was probing Clinton's personal life and defended his use of "well-accepted law-enforcement methods" to identify witnesses who may have been close enough to Clinton to know whether he's been truthful in his sworn accounts to Starr. But it was hard to square that rationale with some of the questions the troopers say Starr's agents were asking, such as whether one woman had borne Clinton's child--and whether...
Many Boston stores have complied with the mayor's request and removed the Super Soaker from their shelves. But most have not agreed without reluctance--gearing the loss of a popular item will further hurt already lagging sales...
...still hurts to turn away customers looking for the water guns. "People have been asking for them left and right--that's a lot of sales lost," says one employee at the CVS on Tremont Street in Boston, adding that all but one Super Soaker had been sold out by the time they decided to stop selling them...