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Hug Me Pillow For Lonely People

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The article below draws parallels between Toyota’s current recall problem and the disaster that was the Audi 5000.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-02-04/audi-1980s-scare-may-mean-lost-generation-for-toyota-sales.html

If you’re not into reading. Check out this great commercial for the Audi 5000!

An old Nintendo NES system and five games sold for $13,105 on eBay. It wasn’t the console that was wanted but a rare game and even more rare that game’s box. Stadium Events is the name of the rare game. Read about it here. It was the first to utilize what would later be called the Power Pad.

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Upon checking out the wiki page for USA Network’s Cartoon Express, I discovered a really odd factoid…Keith Olbermann, of MSNBC and who some consider one of the last real journalists, was the narrator of Cartoon Express during the mid 1980’s! Hearing of this I headed straight to youtube to locate any videos that might demonstrate what his narration of the show was like, but I was unable to find any from around that time. You can view what YouTube has for Cartoon Express bumpers and trailers here.

Cartoon Express was a staple for me each and every morning. I remember drag myself out of bed and into the living room, where I would lay half awake watching as much of it as I could before having to get ready for school or falling asleep again.

So many cartoons were shown during Cartoon Express plus the bumpers such as “In A Minute”. My favorites would be Scooby’s Laff-A-Lympics, Shirt Tales, Pac-Man The Animated Series, The Smurfs, and later The Real Ghostbusters and The Snorks, which were just underwater Smurfs. [...]