Steve continued to strike it rich after appearing on Time’s cover, managing to scrape enough money together to loose the Freddie Mercury look and shortening his name.
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When pressed, Steve Jobs admitted he could only come up with 7 really good reasons.
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The early nineties was a crucial time for the war on drugs in the USA, sadly however, the Partnership for a Drug Free America only managed to put people off eating eggs.
The Ad Agency was later busted by the DEA.
source: analog, January 1991.
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If “sanity” means good adjustment to particular circumstance, it’s a highly relative thing. But is it really that simple?
I don’t know about sanity, but I do know about proportions, and even factoring in perspective, those hands are very big, and the face mask, the dude’s head must have had a growth problem…
Source: analog, September, 1984.
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Introducing the Message Pad 2000, the only handheld computer you can actually use. If you have three hands.
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Naked androgynous cavemen and evil plotting Egyptians were the stuff of historical fantasy in the late eighties. If you look closely (click on the image for a bigger look) you can see a female explorer pointing out the lack of reproductive organs…
Source: analog, May 1987.
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Know Your Enemy – The Flea! Health warning poster from World War II.
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Cadbury Flake gained some notoriety for its highly sensual advertising. In the UK, the adverts showed people – almost always women – enjoying a Flake whilst relaxing.
The Flake Girl became famous as a symbol of indulgence and secret pleasure. Her emphasis – voted third most memorable of all time – was on allowing herself a guilt-free luxury. However, many saw in the delicacy with which she nibbled the crumbly chocolate bar, more than a hint of sexual pleasure. That, of course, was why it was so successful.
In the 1970s, an advert was taken off air following complaints about the suggestive manner in which the woman bit into the bar.
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C…is For Cookie is one in a series of character-centered Sesame Street albums released in 1974. Although some tracks are from the earlier Columbia and Warner Brothers albums, some tracks appear here for the first time.
Later versions of this album replace “The Birthday Cookie” with “We’ll Do It Together”. That version of the album was also released as part of the 2-LP set Just the Two of Us.
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