Hello Friends. Happy Monday, welcome back to your work week; to the blogosphere, and to the latest edition of my favorite trip down memory lane. Here it is:
Remember This? episode 7
1. Hypercolor- Don’t pretend for one second that you somehow missed this bizarre chemistry-experiment-on-a-shirt trend. You know you bought that tacky oversized t-shirt, and then regretted it when the “creepy” kid at school came up and blew onto your abdomen to make your shirt change colors. Or told you he had to leave his hand on your back for 5 minutes so that the body heat would have its’ effect. I am proud to say that my only hypercolor shirt was in fact a hand-me-down given to me by one of my sisters (after she probably realized its creepiness) and by that time the “effect” had lessened so it barely changed colors. This tendency for the shirts to lose their power was the icing on the cake of why this trend was lame. I will admit, however, that for a very brief time I was indeed hyper for hypercolor.
2. Cool Tools- Misnomer. Are there indeed, “tools” involved (for you from outside the states, that’s a common slang for d-bag/moron)? Why, yes there are! But is there any part of this cheesy product that is, in fact, in any way cool? negative. Alas, we’re left with simply tools. Or as the commercial (yes, I looked it up on youtube) says, “cool, cool, cool, cool tools.” Sure… if you call them cool several times, maybe the kids will buy it…
3. Oregon Trail- Okay, hold up the wagon train a minute while I gush. For every iota of disdain I might hold for the abovementioned “cool tools,” I have a several times stronger love for this elementary school computer game. From naming your characters inappropriate things to naming a character after the girl at school you’re mad at and then seeing to it that she gets dysentery right quick… this game was not about survival, it was about pure entertainment. Sure, it was educational, too- I learned about cholera, typhoid, and the location of some Colorado River, after all… but it was more about shooting game in the woods, holding your breath to see if you’d drown as you tried to ford the river, and trying to outlive everyone else. After all, only a greenhorn would look out for anyone but themselves on the Oregon Trail!
yes kids, this is what computer screens used to look like.
4. O-Town- This band didn’t last long, but they were really something for a week or two. Along with the influx of other squeaky clean Floridian pop tarts (Mandy Moore, Britney Spears, Aaron Carter?), O-Town came out of nowhere with some song I can’t remember. All I can, in fact, remember, is that for about 3 days I had a crush on one of the groups’ members, named: wait for it… “Ashley Angel.” Oh barf, I need a teenage lobotomy…
Representing Orlando… for better or for worse… O-town!
5. Capri Sun commercials- Okay, we all probably remember Capri Sun. Last year a friend of mine created an “adult” beverage out of them at her 80s party, and so I’m pretty sure they are still even in production. But do you all remember the bizarre commercials where the silver tide of juice took over the town and turned everyone into extreme sports athletes? I still maintain either they stole this concept from the Nickolodeon hit “Alex Mack,” or vice versa, but I probably can’t ever prove it, and would it matter if I could? All I know is that I didn’t want to be immortalized as Capri Sun if I was going to be going through genetic changes, for crying out loud! I’d take King Midas’ golden touch any day! Weak, Capri Sun. Bonus points for your collapsible pouches, though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM7YBrqA160
I’m not sure that will work, I’m not tech savvy, but you can try it. Haven’t I already given you people enough??!?!?! Kidding…
What were your names on the Oregon Trail? Do you remember the flash-in-the-pan O-town? Did you own some regrettable Hypercolor (or adore it)?
Meri
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