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Re: Kill this Thread V: the 24 hour version! #228320 10/13/10 04:13 PM Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 25,675 Vanity, OR cleome57 space mutineer & purveyor of quality sammitches cleome57 space mutineer & purveyor of quality sammitches Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 25,675 Vanity, OR I was profoundly unnerved by those Hostess Chocodiles ads when I was little. Possibly because one of the school bullies went around singing the jingle all the time. Childhood is strange. Hey, Kids! My "Cranky and Kitschy" collage art is now viewable on DeviantArt! Drop by and tell me that I sent you. *updated often!*

Re: Kill this Thread V: the 24 hour version! #228321 10/13/10 04:35 PM Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 29,461 Hudson Valley Kent Shakespeare OP Time Trapper OP Kent Shakespeare Time Trapper Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 29,461 Hudson Valley I don't recall Hostess Chocodiles ads. The childhood friend Exnihil never had.

Re: Kill this Thread V: the 24 hour version! #228322 10/13/10 07:25 PM Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 16,670 A Huge, Pulsating, Ever-Expand... Outdoor Miner Time Trapper Outdoor Miner Time Trapper Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 16,670 A Huge, Pulsating, Ever-Expand... I don't recall Hostess Chocodiles. Legion World's Badwill Ambassador

Re: Kill this Thread V: the 24 hour version! #228323 10/13/10 09:20 PM Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 57,030 Boston Quislet, Esq strange but not a stranger Quislet, Esq strange but not a stranger Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 57,030 Boston Quote Originally posted by Rockhopper Lad: Ring Dings, of course, look just like Ding Dongs. At one time, Hostess could not sell Ding Dongs by that name in states where Drake's Ring Dings were sold. They were variously called Big Wheels and King Dons. Eventually, they came to be called Ding Dongs everywhere. King Dongs is so less euphemistic than Ding Dongs. Big Dog! Big Dog! Bow Wow Wow!

Re: Kill this Thread V: the 24 hour version! #228324 10/13/10 09:42 PM Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 16,670 A Huge, Pulsating, Ever-Expand... Outdoor Miner Time Trapper Outdoor Miner Time Trapper Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 16,670 A Huge, Pulsating, Ever-Expand... They seem pretty equal on that scale to me. Legion World's Badwill Ambassador

Re: Kill this Thread V: the 24 hour version! #228325 10/13/10 09:56 PM Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 57,030 Boston Quislet, Esq strange but not a stranger Quislet, Esq strange but not a stranger Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 57,030 Boston That is my point. Although I think the reason for renaming Ding Dongs in those states with Drake Ring Dings was more about copyright/trademark/tradename Big Dog! Big Dog! Bow Wow Wow!

Re: Kill this Thread V: the 24 hour version! #228326 10/13/10 10:21 PM Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 16,670 A Huge, Pulsating, Ever-Expand... Outdoor Miner Time Trapper Outdoor Miner Time Trapper Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 16,670 A Huge, Pulsating, Ever-Expand... There wasn't anything in the part of Rocky's post that you quoted that suggested it was anything other than tradename issues, so I wasn't sure where you were going with that. I'm surprised the Big Wheel people didn't go after them, though. Legion World's Badwill Ambassador

Re: Kill this Thread V: the 24 hour version! #228327 10/13/10 10:49 PM Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 22,660 The Pyngwyn Colonies Rockhopper Lad Fabulous and Sparkly! Rockhopper Lad Fabulous and Sparkly! Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 22,660 The Pyngwyn Colonies Ever try eating a Marx Big Wheel? The only character in all of literature who has been described as "badnass" while using the phrase "vile miscreant."

Re: Kill this Thread V: the 24 hour version! #228328 10/13/10 11:12 PM Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 16,670 A Huge, Pulsating, Ever-Expand... Outdoor Miner Time Trapper Outdoor Miner Time Trapper Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 16,670 A Huge, Pulsating, Ever-Expand... Not recently. Legion World's Badwill Ambassador

Re: Kill this Thread V: the 24 hour version! #228329 10/14/10 06:21 AM Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 22,660 The Pyngwyn Colonies Rockhopper Lad Fabulous and Sparkly! Rockhopper Lad Fabulous and Sparkly! Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 22,660 The Pyngwyn Colonies Besides the name shared with a plastic tricycle, the Big Wheel cake also had a mascot, Chief Big Wheel, who was just a bit (read painfully) culturally insensitive. The only character in all of literature who has been described as "badnass" while using the phrase "vile miscreant."

Re: Kill this Thread V: the 24 hour version! #228330 10/14/10 07:45 AM Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 25,675 Vanity, OR cleome57 space mutineer & purveyor of quality sammitches cleome57 space mutineer & purveyor of quality sammitches Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 25,675 Vanity, OR Quote Originally posted by Outdoor Miner: I don't recall Hostess Chocodiles. A Twinkie with crappy fake chocolate coating. They didn't last that long. Quote Originally posted by Rockhopper Lad: Besides the name shared with a plastic tricycle, the Big Wheel cake also had a mascot, Chief Big Wheel, who was just a bit (read painfully) culturally insensitive. No shortage of those, but I remember the particular ads you're talking about. Hey, Kids! My "Cranky and Kitschy" collage art is now viewable on DeviantArt! Drop by and tell me that I sent you. *updated often!*

Re: Kill this Thread V: the 24 hour version! #228331 10/14/10 07:23 PM Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 16,670 A Huge, Pulsating, Ever-Expand... Outdoor Miner Time Trapper Outdoor Miner Time Trapper Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 16,670 A Huge, Pulsating, Ever-Expand... Quote Originally posted by cleome: Quote Originally posted by Outdoor Miner: [b] I don't recall Hostess Chocodiles. A Twinkie with crappy fake chocolate coating. They didn't last that long. [/b] Sounds awful. Anyway, Zingers have that market sewn up. Legion World's Badwill Ambassador

Re: Kill this Thread V: the 24 hour version! #228332 10/15/10 07:27 AM Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 22,660 The Pyngwyn Colonies Rockhopper Lad Fabulous and Sparkly! Rockhopper Lad Fabulous and Sparkly! Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 22,660 The Pyngwyn Colonies Zingers also had commercials where Snoopy was the Zinger Zapper. Dolly Madison also sold chocolate pies with Frieda (she of the naturally curly hair) depicted on the label. The only character in all of literature who has been described as "badnass" while using the phrase "vile miscreant."

Re: Kill this Thread V: the 24 hour version! #228333 10/15/10 04:11 PM Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 57,030 Boston Quislet, Esq strange but not a stranger Quislet, Esq strange but not a stranger Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 57,030 Boston Frieda, of course, is not to be confused with the little red-haired girl that Charlie Brown fancies. Big Dog! Big Dog! Bow Wow Wow!

Re: Kill this Thread V: the 24 hour version! #228334 10/15/10 10:14 PM Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 16,670 A Huge, Pulsating, Ever-Expand... Outdoor Miner Time Trapper Outdoor Miner Time Trapper Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 16,670 A Huge, Pulsating, Ever-Expand... The little red-haired girl's name was never revealed, was it? Legion World's Badwill Ambassador

Re: Kill this Thread V: the 24 hour version! #228335 10/15/10 10:16 PM Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 22,660 The Pyngwyn Colonies Rockhopper Lad Fabulous and Sparkly! Rockhopper Lad Fabulous and Sparkly! Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 22,660 The Pyngwyn Colonies Not officially. In the TV special It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown, she is referred to as "Heather", but this was never established in the comic strip itself, so canonically, she remains unseen and unnamed. That wasn't one of the better specials, anyway. The only character in all of literature who has been described as "badnass" while using the phrase "vile miscreant."

Re: Kill this Thread V: the 24 hour version! #228336 10/15/10 10:20 PM Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 16,670 A Huge, Pulsating, Ever-Expand... Outdoor Miner Time Trapper Outdoor Miner Time Trapper Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 16,670 A Huge, Pulsating, Ever-Expand... "Heather" seems wrong as a name for her, anyway. Legion World's Badwill Ambassador

Re: Kill this Thread V: the 24 hour version! #228337 10/15/10 10:35 PM Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 22,660 The Pyngwyn Colonies Rockhopper Lad Fabulous and Sparkly! Rockhopper Lad Fabulous and Sparkly! Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 22,660 The Pyngwyn Colonies In a world where there are girls named Lucy, Violet, Sally, Frieda, Eudora, Marcie and two girls named Patty, a name like Heather is just too trendy-sounding. Maybe she could be Barbara or an Amy. The only character in all of literature who has been described as "badnass" while using the phrase "vile miscreant."

Re: Kill this Thread V: the 24 hour version! #228338 10/15/10 11:22 PM Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 25,675 Vanity, OR cleome57 space mutineer & purveyor of quality sammitches cleome57 space mutineer & purveyor of quality sammitches Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 25,675 Vanity, OR [pictures the original cast of Alpha Flight as drawn by Charles Schultz] Hey, Kids! My "Cranky and Kitschy" collage art is now viewable on DeviantArt! Drop by and tell me that I sent you. *updated often!*

Re: Kill this Thread V: the 24 hour version! #228339 10/15/10 11:41 PM Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 16,670 A Huge, Pulsating, Ever-Expand... Outdoor Miner Time Trapper Outdoor Miner Time Trapper Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 16,670 A Huge, Pulsating, Ever-Expand... [pictures Sasquatch as Pigpen, more or less.] Legion World's Badwill Ambassador

Re: Kill this Thread V: the 24 hour version! #228340 10/16/10 01:23 PM Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 25,675 Vanity, OR cleome57 space mutineer & purveyor of quality sammitches cleome57 space mutineer & purveyor of quality sammitches Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 25,675 Vanity, OR Well, we Legion fans all know that generating dirt and peculiar aromas counts as a superpower... Hey, Kids! My "Cranky and Kitschy" collage art is now viewable on DeviantArt! Drop by and tell me that I sent you. *updated often!*

Re: Kill this Thread V: the 24 hour version! #228341 10/16/10 10:04 PM Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 16,670 A Huge, Pulsating, Ever-Expand... Outdoor Miner Time Trapper Outdoor Miner Time Trapper Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 16,670 A Huge, Pulsating, Ever-Expand... Which makes some people I've met at conventions positively Herculean. Legion World's Badwill Ambassador

Re: Kill this Thread V: the 24 hour version! #228342 10/17/10 12:57 AM Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 25,675 Vanity, OR cleome57 space mutineer & purveyor of quality sammitches cleome57 space mutineer & purveyor of quality sammitches Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 25,675 Vanity, OR I'd be safe right now, since my sense of smell is temporarily non-functional. Hey, Kids! My "Cranky and Kitschy" collage art is now viewable on DeviantArt! Drop by and tell me that I sent you. *updated often!*

Re: Kill this Thread V: the 24 hour version! #228343 10/17/10 01:01 AM Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 16,670 A Huge, Pulsating, Ever-Expand... Outdoor Miner Time Trapper Outdoor Miner Time Trapper Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 16,670 A Huge, Pulsating, Ever-Expand... Lucky you, I guess. Seriously, though: Hope that gets better soon. Legion World's Badwill Ambassador

Re: Kill this Thread V: the 24 hour version! #228344 10/17/10 11:25 AM Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 25,675 Vanity, OR cleome57 space mutineer & purveyor of quality sammitches cleome57 space mutineer & purveyor of quality sammitches Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 25,675 Vanity, OR Thanks, Doll. Feeling much better this morning. Except for the cats waking me up at the crack of dawn. Again. Hey, Kids! My "Cranky and Kitschy" collage art is now viewable on DeviantArt! Drop by and tell me that I sent you. *updated often!*