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Rahonavis posted:I guess I was the only person who knew anyone who insisted for an obnoxious amount of time that it was actually pronounced "IN-tendo". Like, the N was silent. I knew people like that too. I presume it was an example of juncture loss where "a Nintendo" became "an Intendo" in their minds, same as how English words like "umpire" and "adder" and "apron" and "nickname" were formed.
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Retail Slave posted:In the early 90's the absolute coolest legal substance an 11-year-old could obtain (at least in my area) was a can of Jolt Cola. If you had Jolt, you were the poo poo. Then the rumor was they discontinued it because some kid drank 3 and his heart exploded. I remember a notion floating around among the youngsters of the time that Bobcat Goldthwait drank a whole six-pack of Jolt Cola before going onstage and that was how he managed to be such a wildman!
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DrBouvenstein posted:Ooh, nice, I actually found a picture: In the retail development business, that sort of ersatz town center is usually called a lifestyle center for some reason.
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Sizone posted:Why couldn't you just have been a child of the '80's? Then it would've Starriors and the mystery could be solved. Yeah I was thinking that or R.A.T.S. (Robot Anti-Terror Squad), which were made from the same molds as the Starriors for European markets. And I think the Zoids toy line actually started out with toys that were originally designed to be Starriors, or something like that. But like you said that was more mid-80s, although I guess 1000 Brown M and Ms might have been playing with one that was a few years old in the early 90s.
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