Fun fact: Swingline didn't actually made a red stapler until after the movie came out and they were overwhelmed with consumer demand. The movie props were painted red so they'd show up better on film.
I wonder if maybe the development was so early that they were thinking about proposing a new figure, along the same lines as the "Mysterians" figures that ended up as the non-Penny Racer minibots.
One of the benefits of growing up in Ye Olde New England was never even encountering "pancake syrup" until I was old enough to know better.
Also, these:
I have a friend who loves to tell the story of blowing her then 3-year-old daughter's mind by telling her that adults could have ice cream for breakfast if they wanted to.
I grew up Congregational Protestant, so it was kind of a thing insomuch as it was the beginning of Lent, but not the Catholic level of 'go to church and get a smudge on your forehead for the day' thing.
Once again I am saddened that no one has uploaded Slartibartfast's kind of a threat to make his compatriot 'the late Dent Artur Dent' from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to YouTube.
That issue was rough. Seeing those Joes mowed down like that and knowing there wouldn't be any kind of "he's in a coma!" to save them was certainly something.
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