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Treasure Chess

THIS

is one of the greatest commercials of all time(/my childhood)

it almost made me want to join the Marines or learn chess or play outdoors in armor when it’s thundererering and lightninginging.  I never did none of that stuffs :(

it’s the Marine Corps ‘Chess’ ad created by J Walter Thompson in 1991

 

further reading - The Legend of the Gulf War: Marine Corps Recruitment and the Metaphor of Chess [pdf]

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Cow The Best Was Won

I love The Cowsills, and you should too

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they sang about ‘Hair’, down to here, down to there

and this lil ditty, which I have not stopped listening to, and don’t ever want to stop listening to…

they’re the original Partridge Family, with a pushy evilish dad manager on par with the pushy evilness of patriarchs Joe Jackson & Murray Wilson.  what is it about pushy evilish dads that push their kids to musical greatness?  maybe the kids woulda gotten there anyway, but maybe not, without all that pushing from pops!  bless them!  damn them!

there’s a doc on The Cowsills.  I know you know nothing about them, so you should watch and learn and LISTEN!

btw, how awesome of a last name is ‘Cowsill’?  AWESOMES!

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Starting Pitchers

Kool-Aid Man officially became an man in 1975

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and before he was Kool-Aid Man, he lived life as Pitcher Man, created in 1954 by Marvin Potts

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but in 1994, the powers that be was all like, NO MORE REAL LIFE/LIVE-ACTION KOOL-AID MAN!!  he will only be a garbage CGI Kool-Aid Man now & 9ever.  BOOOOOOOOOOO!  Long live real live Kool-Aid man!!

anywho, we recently saw the 1932 short Betty Boop For President [watch], where it looks like Kool-Aid Man/Pitcher Man’s original mack daddy/daddy mack was borns!!!!

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long live all pitchers with faces!!!

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Colts of Utzonality

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WAIT, THERE WERE 2pm NFL GAMES???????????????

[via ebay]

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