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Funny for 30 seconds? Oh yeah. 30 minutes?
Posted in TV & Radio

Hey ABC? Next time, maybe do a little research.

  • Chris Holmes
  • posted on March 2, 2007April 7, 2011
  • 2 Comments
The key to a really fresh and fun concept staying that way is to avoid overexposure. But entertainment executives rarely subscribe to the “less is more” theory, and as a result we get
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Who's winning, the dashes or the lines? I can never tell.
Posted in Advertising, Retrotisements

Retrotisement – NFL Deluxe Electronic Football

  • Chris Holmes
  • posted on March 1, 2007September 15, 2011
  • 1 Comment
Hot on the heels of the wildly popular Mattel Football handheld game, Tudor Games released NFL DELUXE Electronic Football in 1980. Toy companies are certainly no stranger to hyperbole, but I think
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Posted in Funny Stuff, TV & Radio

Do you know who I am? I’m Chris Hansen dammit!$#!

  • Chris Holmes
  • posted on February 28, 2007June 8, 2011
  • Comments Off on Do you know who I am? I’m Chris Hansen dammit!$#!
Last night “To Catch a Predator,” still quaintly referred to as Dateline NBC (as if anything else on that show matters anymore), brought the Chris Hansen Tour ’06-’07 to
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Posted in Blogstuff

OK, I’m done changing things…I think.

  • Chris Holmes
  • posted on February 27, 2007April 22, 2011
  • Comments Off on OK, I’m done changing things…I think.
After trying about a dozen different templates in the last 24 hours, I think I finally found one I can live with.  It’s basically a modified version of this one.  It support Widgets, which is
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Posted in Games & Toys

The one and only king

  • Chris Holmes
  • posted on February 27, 2007April 30, 2013
  • 6 Comments
Wherein Chris Holmes professes his love for Burger King's "The King" mascot, especially in bobblehead
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Posted in Music

Rooooooooooxanne!

  • Chris Holmes
  • posted on February 26, 2007June 18, 2013
  • Comments Off on Rooooooooooxanne!
Well the gods truly smiled on me today. After getting denied on Police tickets for MSG, I managed to score them for their August date at Giants Stadium! Of course it’s pretty far back, so I
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Posted in Blogstuff

Whew!

  • Chris Holmes
  • posted on February 26, 2007April 22, 2011
  • Comments Off on Whew!
Well, after finally getting fed up with Blogger (in spite of their recent, long-overdue upgrade), I decided to close up shop and move to the more affluent section of town – WordPress. Of course
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Posted in Retrotisements

Retrotisement – Triumph cigarettes

  • Chris Holmes
  • posted on February 25, 2007March 29, 2011
  • 1 Comment
I say any time you can incorporate your company’s name with an advertising slogan, that’s a stroke of genius. So what exactly is the “UMPH!” in Triumph cigarettes? Carbon
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Posted in Music

So many decisions…

  • Chris Holmes
  • posted on February 24, 2007June 18, 2013
  • Comments Off on So many decisions…
I’m sure you have been coming here every day for months, wondering what happened to me. Kind of like opening the refrigerator 20 times in a night in the hopes that something new and delicious
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