The Shortest-Lived Fads EVAH

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"Tamagotchi", "Cockfarmer", "Interweb",y'know!

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Thursday, 27 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Prozone.

― Jonnie, Thursday, 27 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

BETAMAX?

― Will McKenzie, Thursday, 27 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the "caring 90s"

― mark s, Thursday, 27 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Kim Campbell.

― Mr Noodles, Thursday, 27 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I kiss you.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 27 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mr Noodles
But now shes in LA meetign her stars like Norma Desmond.

― anthony, Thursday, 27 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I Kiss You was the best fad ever.

Hypercolour t-shirts.

― Ally, Thursday, 27 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

hypercolour undies.

― Geoff, Thursday, 27 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

When pheremones were all the hype.

― Mandee, Thursday, 27 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

mr. fad.

― fred solinger, Thursday, 27 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Time for a hypercolour undies revival, methinks. 'Specially since I missed out on them the first time.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Thursday, 27 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Whose Norma?

― Mr Noodles, Thursday, 27 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I try to start fads in fits of enthusiasm, my latest one was to wear brooches and other baubles on the hem of your shirt, left side, like down by your hip. It was the shortest and least copied fad ever: my flatmate said, "that looks weird", and then I got shy.

Please explain "I Kiss You"?

― rainy, Thursday, 27 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch.

― Robin Carmody, Friday, 28 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Was "I Kiss You" that thing with that strange foreign guy that had an interweb page that said "I Kiss You!" in big, bold type? I saw him on TV while I was in the US and didn't quite understand the fervor. Also: ostensibly, you kerazy 'mericans went mad for this rubbish singing, gyrating plastic robot fish thing called "Bigmouth Billy Bass" or something. And I never understood what this "All Your Base are Belong to Us" business was about.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Friday, 28 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

― dave q, Friday, 28 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(Isn't ILE kind of a lo-fi VR without the headaches?)

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Friday, 28 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(Conclusive proof that tiredness impairs reading ability: "Munky Mark and the Funky Bitch")

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Friday, 28 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

All Your base wasnt short lived, but it was wierd. Had to do with a poorly translated Sega Genesis game. The only one I found really funyn was "All Your Train Belong To Us" spray painted near a rail yard in TO.

― Mr Noodles, Friday, 28 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Further 'All Your Base" explanation required! And what of the wiggly robo-fish?

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Saturday, 29 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Um, try this for All Your Base are Belong to Us. There was a good Cats vs Mr T flash around that made as much sense.

The robofish sang Take Me To The River, and his lobster pal, though I never heard him sing I would hope Rock Lobster was one of them.

― Mr Noodles, Saturday, 29 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

eaty

― Graham, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Geoff Thomas

― chris, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pinketron and Glof!

My roommate bought that singing fish - The Boogie Bass. And let me assuuuuure you that it does sing 'Take me to the River' but also there's 'Don't Worry, Be Happy'. We also have a highly tacky boom box fridge magnet that plays the beginning to that Marky Mark song - and another one shaped like a computer that says 'You've Got Mail', but it says it like, five times and you want to throw it on the floor to smash it up. Gloriously tacky.

― Kim, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I thought that the decline of UK society had reached its nadir when both the Prime Minister AND The Queen were revealed to own Bigmouth Billy Bass.

But then I saw BBB and realised that it is actually funny.

― Tom, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I nominate Stor Troopers. Y'know, those things everyone had on their websites for a fortnight 10 months ago, a little pixelated cartoon which looked nothing like you but had approximately the same colour hair. Well, if you did what you were supposed to and tried to make them look like you, anyway. Ha ha ha! What WERE the interweb community THINKING? We must all have been on DRUGS!! etc.

I have just killed my browser in the name of research into the web ephemera of ten months ago. I hope you're grateful. ;)

― Rebecca, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But then I saw BBB and realised that it is actually funny.

Someone who would diss "Ashes to Ashes" would think Billy Bass is funny.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Would I? I'll keep an eye out for the fish, then.

― Tim, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't know if the UK has dollar stores, but you should be able to pick them up cheap now. Why their popularity has plummeted is baffling. How could anyone get sick of a fish that sings "Take Me to the River"?

― Nicole, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wow. We have that boom box magnet on our fridge too. It only ever gets utilised by visitors though. Magnetic fridge poetry (which also adorns our Hotpoint) seems to have fucked off as well.

― Jonnie, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Perhaps I will find someone else's fish. On our fridge, we have a cow that moos and doubles as a paperclip. In my housemate's record collection we have a fool who sings "Ashes To Ashes".

― Tim, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

our fridge features various items of Spurs (not mine I hasten to add) ephemera, it's horrible. We also have a tottenham toilet.

― chris, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That toilet sounds cool.

― Jonnie, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'd like an Argyle-themed bedpan.

― Tim, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jonnie knows the toilet in question, when girls showered at my house over the weekend they were slightly perturbed by the Tottenham squad watching them shower, not to mention the large foam cock(erel) on the wall.

The spurs calendar usually takes about 4 days for the new photo to get graphittied (sp?)

― chris, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I get disturbed by the defacement of Neil Sullivan et al, more than can be expressed in words.

― Jonnie, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't know if the UK has dollar stores

We have pound shops - funnily enough, we don't make purchases in foreign currency :) Glasgow has 99p shops because they like to be difficult.

― Madchen, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Cabbage, what kind of "showers" do you get girls to go round your house for at weekends?

― David, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Blimey! Miller and Mooro in one day! Hello chaps!

― Tim, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mr Moore you should know that I would never be inappropriate about showers, and you know one of the girls in question *very* well!

― chris, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tim, yesterday was a eM of a day.

Sorry Cabbage, just couldn't resist. It was the way "showered" looked in that sentence.

The FADS in Chelmsford is still open.

― David, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I didn't think FADS still existed. The old York branch remains to this day the only place I've ever been thrown out of for bad behaviour.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The FADS is still there in Chesterfield too. Or it was when I was last there anyway.

― chris, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

BriXtor AGANE is best - we have a branch of FADS on Brixton High Street. You may find shelves from there residing in both mine and the Arsemonkeys room. Woo-hah!

― Sarah, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There is one in London's Trying to be Trendy Crouch End too, combined with a 99p shop! What an embarrassment of riches we have and what a pity Cafe Rouge closed down.

― Emma, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

We have pound shops - funnily enough, we don't make purchases in foreign currency :)

D'oh! I should have said "the equivalent to a dollar store", obviously.

― Nicole, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

seven months pass...

These pounds stores are going down hill. The other day I went past one and it said 'Everything one pound or more' like they were guaranteeing that nothing was that cheap.

― N., Saturday, 4 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Care Bears
The British Conservative Party going 'green'
Baby Amphetamine
erm, seems I'm stuck in the '80s.

― stevo, Sunday, 5 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh I thougt of one. Does "Mr. T Ate My Balls" ring any bells?

― Kim, Sunday, 5 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Beanie Babies and those fucking Furbees.

― Chris, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

meep

― Graham, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

those retarded socks that looked like gloves{they were a gift} i wore them for a couple of hours took them off and threw them in the trash oohhh i believe i just gave my age...

― jean, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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