1. McDonald’s Changeables Back in the late ’80s, McDonald’s Changeables toys turned fries, shakes, and burgers into transforming robots, which already sounds like a lot of small moving parts in one tiny hand. Kids were expected to snap, twist, and […]
1. The Bodleian Library, Oxford Walking into the Bodleian feels a little like stepping into a world where the walls have memories, and some of them insist on being heard. Visitors sometimes claim to catch soft murmurs between the stacks,
1. Vintage Salad Toppers Back in the ’60s and ’70s, grocery stores sold these tiny boxes of “salad toppers” that were basically flavored crumbs meant to jazz up iceberg lettuce. They came in oddly specific varieties like bacon-flavored bits, cheese-flavored
1. Ethel Mertz (I Love Lucy) Ethel always felt like the friend who showed up armed with common sense, only to immediately get dragged into chaos anyway. She balanced Lucy’s wild ideas with deadpan humor, making even their quiet scenes
1. Kool-Aid Bursts Kool Aid Bursts were the kind of drink you begged your parents for, mostly because the plastic bottles looked fun to squeeze. The colors were brighter than anything found in nature, which probably should have been our
1. “Lola” – The Kinks It might be hard to imagine now, but “Lola” was banned by the BBC—not for its lyrical content, but because of a product placement issue. The original version mentioned “Coca-Cola,” and the BBC had strict
1. Tom Hanks on Happy Days Tom Hanks showed up on Happy Days as a karate obsessed childhood rival of Fonzie, which already feels like a sentence from an alternate universe. His character, Dwayne Twitchell, was determined to settle an
