The cigs, baby oil & iodine thread made me think of this. I'm not talking about a product found to be dangerous after it was firmly entrenched in society (cigarettes) or a product with not-well-thought-out implications (Jarts...sigh, I loved that game...kids throwing steel tipped missiles around the yard, who coulda thunk of any unintended consequences?).
My nomination: candy/gum cigarettes. Even came in a nice realistic carton, so you could pretend you were smoking until you were old enough to scrounge up the real thing.
BTW, you can still buy these things.
What's your favorite SMH product?
I really hate household cleaning "systems" where you have to continually feed the system (purchase the disposable items that make the system operate) until they stop making said system and you have to purchase the next system.
eg Swiffer Wetjet... what is wrong with a mop and a bucket? It will last you 50 years.
Hard at work making beautiful things.
Reminds me of this SNL sketch
Rich
"Failure is Not a Destination"
Coach K on the Dan Patrick Show, December 22, 2016
80% of toys ARE kid shows.
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PS, Transformers are far from despicable. They've probably birthed a few genius engineers along the way. My Little Pony, however, can rot in equestrian hell.
Q "Why do you like Duke, you didn't even go there." A "Because my art school didn't have a basketball team."
"toy" guns
or cigs...
"One POSSIBLE future. From your point of view... I don't know tech stuff.".... Kyle Reese
And this one. Products include Johnny Switchblade Adventure Punk doll, Bag O'Glass and Teddy Chainsaw Bear. A later Halloween costume sketch with Irwin (brilliantly played by Dan Akroyd) included Johnny Human Torch kit (a bunch of oily rags and a lighter) and Johnny Space Commander (a plastic bag to go over your head and a rubber band).
https://youtu.be/veMiNQifZcM
Pet rocks. Mood rings. Chia anythings.
I was going to say UNC merchandise, but someone beat me to it...
after that I think realistic looking toy guns is way up there on the list. I'm not talking about the neon colored squirt guns, but ones like the real thing. I'm ashamed to say I bullied my parents into getting one of these. They were AWESOME! But now as a parent, they are so so wrong.
Pet Rocks. Seriously.
No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
Radithor and other radium cures probably should be among those considered for this title.
Government designed gas cans.
The bass-o-matic! This 59-second video will explain the whole thing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HKTx5WFcs0
"We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world." --M. Proust