I looked around for this and found a descriptive historical ebay listing on: https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-1940s-1950s-hot-dog-cooker-416315236
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They also make hot-doggers for snowmachines and you can get manifold cookers for 4x4s as well. They work a proverbial treat.
That name is pure genius. I’m so stealing that the next time I need a witty nickname for drive-thru Wendy’s hamburgers.
I guess my family was cheap. We had the JCPenney version, “tv fun,” with 4 games!
Eight-year-old me was mesmerized by Pong the first time I saw it in an arcade. I didn’t even play - I just hung back and watched the screen do things I had never even imagined. It was like waking up one day to find out that magic is real.
Fun fact: On an early Atari system we had worn out the controller. I took some plastic pipe and wired two mercury switches to the controller wiring. Button on top.
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Don’t worry, dream on!
His quote about Forbidden Planet is pretty great too:
Its design language translated nicely...
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Not to mention the Boston Typewriter Orchestra, which performs songs entirely with typewriters.
Ironic use of a jiff.
now they are called giftcards.
She also carried around small pieces of wire, which represented the maximum length electricity could flow through a wire, in a nanosecond LOL. She would give them out to politicians who didn’t understand what she was telling them. Remember when she was on the “Tonight Show with Johnny Carson” talking about that.
I think it is amazing that Diana Rigg is hands-down the best “Bond girl” in this movie, gave the sexiest performance in TV history on The Avengers, and was one of the most badass characters on Game of Thrones in her 80s. And none of that is what she is really most distinguished for, which is her great theatrical…
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This sad news leaves me shaken and stirred. RIP Ms. Blackman.