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Charliegrs posted:Links to websites I like. Half the links are broken. Not just links, but links to webrings! I remember my Geocities (or was it my Angelfire?) page was part of a pretty sweet AD&D webring 
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augias posted:Softcore porn on Showtime. Oh God, me too...  I do remember one particular time, for whatever reason, Showgirls was on, and it was clear enough to see actual titties for a several minute stretch...being 15, I probably was able to grind out 10 or 15 times in those few minutes.  The craziest thing happened one weekend, though. We had a crazy lightning storm, and I poo poo you not it caused us to receive free Showtime and Cinemax for about a day. It occurred late at night, and I noticed flipping through that it wasn't all scrambled. Being smart, I immediately put a tape in the VCR. The very next movie was some softcore porn (I think it was called Showgirl Murders? Something like that.) I recorded that, and after that, was some softcore about a guy who wrote music for porn movies. That was the better of the two, much more attractive women. Anyway, I'll just leave this here. (Despite previous talk, this is as far from softcore porn as you can get.) Edit: Oh, and who can forget Nick's attempt to cash in on the teen crowd? (Roundhouse rocked, though I wasn't a teen when I watched it...well, maybe I watched a bit when I was 13 or 14?) DrBouvenstein has a new favorite as of 22:58 on Mar 23, 2012 |
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Cleretic posted:From what I understand they normally recorded about six episodes of Legends of the Hidden Temple in one day, so those kids would have been sitting in a poorly air-conditioned room eating and drinking stuff that's relatively meager for hours at a time. Add to that that I can't imagine the studio was terribly pleasant to be in either, and that the Shrine of the Silver Monkey came near the end of the entire thing, I can understand why they'd have some trouble getting the goddamn thing to fit right. Sorry, not good enough of an excuse. It's a monkey head! It goes on top on the monkey! How is that so hard? Beer_Suitcase posted:What about Beekmans World? It was like Bill Nye the Science Guy but all kooky and weird, also there was a man in a rat costume. I must be the only person who liked Beakman's World more than Bill Nye. And Lester was the poo poo! The best part was that he wasn't supposed to be a rat...he was just a guy in a rat suit, with no explanation given as to why he was in a rat suit. And the girl who played the first assistant recently plated a hooker on Always Sunny in Philadelphia. It was surreal watching her say poo poo like "man, this coat is tighter than dick skin." Childhood innocence GONE!
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Mar 24, 2012 15:30
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korusan posted:Remember this little prick? Hey, easy there, future-boy. Bonza-Buddy was clearly the early 2000's. Take that space-man stuff to some other thread, we've no need for it in our world of 56k modems, Backstreet Boys, Nick Arcade, and Schumacher Batman movies. 
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Mar 24, 2012 20:05
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Cmdr Tomalak posted:I'm pretty sure this was more early 2000's, but gently caress I hated that show so much. I don't think I've ever met anyone that liked it. The voices were ear-bleeding, and the "animation" was hideous and creepy. And thus the inspiration for most of Adult Swim's original programming was born.
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Thanks to this thread, I've been watching a lot of Rocko and Stimpy on Netflix this weekend. Glorious.
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Mar 24, 2012 22:25
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QuickbreathFinisher posted:Speaking of stuff like that, who had Earthsearch? Not that, but I had this one: 
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BuckarooBanzai posted:You know who got their start in anti-smoking commercials? And look who got her start in an anti-drug PSA. Rachael Leigh Cook.
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Nastyman posted:Speaking of sodas, I think this is the only norwegian soda that actually survived the 90s and is still popular. (Though lately they've released a lovely "energy drink" and now that's all people under 20 buy). I'm both sad and glad Surge is no longer around in the US. Sad because I loved it, but glad because holy poo poo, I'd drink way too much of it...though I'm sure if I tried some now, I would hate it...it's almost certainly way too sweet...perfect for a teenage boy, not so much for an almost 30 adult.
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SpazmasterX posted:The final season got a bit bizarre, if I remember correctly. Yeah, like someone else said, the producers booted the creator off the show during production of season 3 (which was almost like season 4 because season 2 was crazy long...wikipedia says it was in two "volumes" of 26 episodes each.) I know all this poo poo because like eight years ago I re-watched the whole drat series, and looked into why it went so bad in the last season and whatnot, so I found all this out: The creator (Greg Weisman) had all these grandiose ideas, not just for the main show, but for like two or three spin-offs as well. The producers didn't want to bother with any of that, and sort of cleared house and what we got was a half-assed season three where the fat gargoyle becomes a freakin' action movie star in Hollywood, or some stupid poo poo. From wikipedia: quote:Because of major staff and writer changes, series creator Greg Weisman considers these episodes non-canon and instead has chosen to continue the storyline with the comic books published by Slave Labor Graphics. The only exception is the season premiere "The Journey," which Weisman wrote himself. Here's a website that has a lot of info on what Greg wanted to do. And I was wrong...not two or three spinoffs, but five. Yeah, it's no wonder Disney and ABC thought he was getting out of hand...it's too bad, because if he had been more grounded, maybe the third season would have been decent and even one or two of the spin-offs would have been made.
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Wandering Knitter posted:...Other people changed their computer shut down noises to Dr. Who audio clips, right? I'm sorry, but the correct answer is Simpsons .wavs. At start-up, you had Homer saying "To start, press any key...hmmm, Isee 'esc, 'ctrl', and 'pg-up'...there doesn't seem to be any any key!" And when you shut down, you have Apu going: "Thank you for coming, I'll see you in hell!"
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Mar 29, 2012 00:02
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thedouche posted:I'm still pissed that The Adventures of Pete and Pete season 3 never got a DVD release. Watching the first 2 season, the show is better than I remember it being (and it was probably my favorite when it originally aired). But there's no Artie in season 3, so what's the point? "Farewell, my Little Viking" was one of the saddest episodes of TV for 12 year-old me. 
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WescottF1 posted:Pauly Shore is doing two standup shows at a bar just down the road from me next month sometime. Tickets are $25.00 though - otherwise I'd probably go. I assume you mean that they pay you $25?
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mrkillboy posted:CLOSING TIME... From 1997 - 2001, every senior class awards ceremony, or "banquet", or whatever you call it, ended with a slide show or PowerPoint presentation filled with pictures of the graduating seniors (a mix of candid shots, yearbook photos, and kid/baby photos) set to "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" by Greenday. Every. Single. One.
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TShields posted:I don't remember what Widget did, exactly, but I feel like it was entertaining. Just a shot in the dark here, but I think he watched the world.
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Apr 11, 2012 13:34
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Holy Cow posted:I never watched much of the show so I always presumed he was a bad guy, but reading the wiki it turns out he's good which makes me pretty happy. I always pretended he was secretly a good guy anyway. If by 'good guy' you mean 'was never actually on the show, but just one of the 100's of toys they made of 'extra' characters, usually just a slightly modified and/or repainted model of an existing character to make more  and randomly decided to make a Maximal' then yeah, he's a good guy.
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It might have been made in 2000, but that's ok, we've all agreed that counts as the 90's: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnvkbKiYoLQ
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Oak Read Erryday posted:To somewhat contribute, I met Donkeylips on Saturday in North Hollywood (where they filmed Salute Your Shorts, in fact). He was really friendly and loud and he even let me take a picture with him. Also he put up with my Awful Waffle jokes for 5 whole minutes, which I'm probably more thankful for than the picture. Did you make sure to comment on how shiny and flake-free his hair was?
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Apr 25, 2012 17:38
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QuickbreathFinisher posted:I haven't played/thought about KidPix for at least ten years and I read this in the three different voices it used. Holy poo poo. Huh...I had Kid Pix, but have no clue what the two of you are talking about...it was just silly art software for kids? 
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The absolute worst Temple Run ever.
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magic pantaloons posted:
 A marker you were allowed to huff! And then sometimes there wouldn't be enough to go around, and you'd get stuck with that lame-rear end four pack...gently caress that poo poo!
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Some of these are 80's, but the ones that are 90's, are pretty drat 90's. And also kinda trippy for a kids' network  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvYvqQuqhiI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZQLYV3lprg
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ookiimarukochan posted:Was it a cartoon? Because you're probably talking about Pole Position (which was 80s, not 90s) There's also that one where a kid turns into a car when he gets wet, or something. Ahh, yes, Turbo Teen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UevBVGMap4 Oh, I guess it's heat and cold that change him to car and back to teen, and it's from the 80's so it doesn't belong here.
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Tewratomeh posted:I never watched Beakman's World when I was a kid but holy poo poo, that guy is like Dr. Clayton Forrestor's Good Twin. Even the set decoration looks like the inside of Deep 13. I loved Beakman's World. Lester was the best sidekick because he was a guy in a rat suit. By which I mean that even in the context of the show, he was just a guy who, for whatever reason, was always wearing a rat suit. quote:In the pilot episode, Lester was a puppet, but in every subsequent episode he was simply a clueless, crude man (Mark Ritts) in a tattered rat suit. In a running joke, it was never asserted that his character was actually supposed to be a rat; rather he was specifically identified by himself and others as a guy in a rat suit
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I'm cross-posting this from the "Lost stuff before the internet" thread: I'm looking for an old commercial that aired ALL THE loving TIME in the 90's. It was for a VHS series called something like "Mysteries of the Universe," but that's not the actual title, obviously. One of the biggest things I remember about the series was that it talked about the "Face of Mars." And there was a long, panning shot of said Face from one of the probes NASA sent up in the 70's/80's. I think it also said there were secrets about the pyramids? It's NOT the Time Life "Mysteries of the Unknown" book series. I'm fairly certain it was for a set of videos, not books...though it still might have been books. Actually, it might have been that Time Life series, but the commercial that was posted in the "Lost Stuff" thread isn't the one I'm thinking of. I really, REALLY remember that shot of the "Face of Mars." 
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QuickbreathFinisher posted:And then I also had like every Zoobook they made. My favorite was the elephant one, because I seemed to be one of the few kids not freaked out by the muscle and skeletal elephants.
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Bro Nerd Alpha posted:Renting SNES games from the local mom and pop place. I can honestly say that there was more decision making in those trips than the majority of my life. Judging a game by the back of the box, it better be awesome... The weirdest part about renting NES/SNES games was sometimes you'd get a weird, not original, manual in the plastic case. And I don't just mean a photocopy, I mean someone not in any way involved with the producers of the game just made a half-assed manual full of misleading, and flat-out wrong information. If you were really unlucky, you'd just get that sticker on the back of the case that told you the controls of the game (again, usually with several errors) in blue ink. From what I gather, other people often had this guy:  But I never saw him in my little podunk town in New England. Always the sticker with the blue ink on the back cover of that plastic case.
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 Oh, 90's fashion.  Thank God I was never "cool" enough to wear anything other than regular jeans and a t-shirt. Yeah, I'm sure I'd be a little embarrassed over a few of the t-shirts (nothing too nerdy, but I know I had at least one Big Dog shirt) but nothing so loving stupid as that poo poo, or "skater fashion" that was pretty big at the time. Though in a twist of irony, one of my most used pair of shoes currently are Airwalks. Did you even know they still exist?! They're a Payless brand now, but drat, they are some of the comfiest shoes I've ever worn, and were only like $15.
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Ema Nymton posted:Say what you will about MS, but stopping this was certainly the right move. Now if only we can get Google to do the same with Android! Yeah yeah, the whole point is that's it's open and they're free to poo poo all over it in any way they want.
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Someone in the sea slug detachable penis thread posted this image: I had completely forgotten about those until now.
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madlilnerd posted:I had one that was all different colours, so it was like having a whole pack of coloured pencils in the space of one. Only, the leads were horrible and waxy so I never liked colouring with them The biggest problem was if you lost just one of those little plastic pieces, the pencil was useless since it relied on the whole column of pieces in the barrel to push back against the top cap. Though eventually I figured out that if one lost a lead piece, I could keep it to provide "replacements" to other pencils that lost a piece. That was a big logical leap for an 8-year old.
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Be prepared to relive all your junior high lunch periods.
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cobalt impurity posted:Holy poo poo I forgot pagers even existed. What might blow your mind even more is that plenty of people still use them. I have one for work.
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The last few posts reminded me of old Tiger Direct flyers/sales magazines from the late 90's and early 2000's. There was a stack of them in the physics building on campus in a break room near one of my classes, so I'd go in there and flip through them while waiting for the other class to leave/on a mid-class break. Some of the stuff in there was so freakin' awesome at the time, and so freakin' expensive. What's that? A 16MB "jump drive" for only $150? And you obviously have to install the drivers for it on every PC you use it for? Sign me the gently caress up!
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Croccers posted:Don't hospital staff still use them because they don't interfere with medical equipment? Yes and no. We do use them in hospitals, but not so much because of equipment interference. They're used because they're cheaper, and need a less strong signal. Most hospitals I go to have almost no cell service inside because it's a giant concrete and/or brick building. My pager gets service just fine.
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I don't know what triggered this memory, but I suddenly had to find the videos for the early 90's Sci-Fi Channel's "Cartoon Quest." It's weird that the bumpers tried to tell some kind of weird story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdENrJwzaSE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXQ296rgrww https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDSRxzeEyc0 So near as I can tell, Not-Fabio, Atreyu, and Captain Cleavage are on a quest to find...the Sci-Fi Channel logo? But then it flies out of her hands and they lose it...or something. This one's probably the best...just a nice lingering shot of Not-Fabio for the ladies. (and gay dudes, but it was the early 90's, so still not entirely OK to talk about  )https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTYhqpsqlm0
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If you didn't want to win this jacket when you were 12, then I don't want to know you. 
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Buzfeed is clearly a fan of this thread: http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/pictures-that-should-be-left-in-the-90s   Daniel Craig with long hair does not compute! 
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Ha, I just now realized how redundant calling it a "Mobile Battle Tank" is. Like...isn't it sort of implied that any and every tank is mobile, and for battle? Why not just apply that moniker to every vehicle in their arsenal? "This is our pride of the skies, the Flying Shooting Jet." And, "The lynch-pin of our navy, the Floating Big Gun Battleship!"
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Dirk Digglet posted:Liquid Television was the Adult Swim of it's day I have fond memories of watching The Head, but being too young to really "get" it, other than being all "heh, an alien in the guy's head, hilarious!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CL98mMqRqo DrBouvenstein has a new favorite as of 03:02 on Mar 23, 2013 |
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