Archive for '80's'
Sniglet 2.0
Remember Sniglets? Ahhh, the 80’s. Sniglets were invented by Rich Hall on Saturday Night Live, they are words that “aren’t in the dictionary, but should be.” I think that so-called neologism (fancy talk for making up words) has become more mainstream these days. Of course, it’s been around forever, that’s how languages are born and […]
Posted: October 5th, 2008 under 80's, Internet, Politics.
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Mazes and Monsters
There was a 1982 made-for-TV-movie called Mazes and Monsters that made an impression on me. In the movie, Tom Hanks plays a college student who gets involved in role-playing games (RPG), and ultimately cannot separate real life from the game, and ends up believing that he is his game character for the rest of his […]
Posted: December 15th, 2007 under 80's, Internet, 00's, TV, Conservation.
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