Comments on: The First Time News Was Fit To Print, III

By: meeeee

meeeee — Fri, 08 May 2009 03:42:00 +0000

i thought you weren’t supposed to put any metal in the microwave or you would start a fire!

at least thats what my mom told me

By: Bob Somerville

Bob Somerville — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:05:23 +0000

I know the guy who claims to have invented the phrase “generation gap.” John Poppy, he was a writer for Look magazine in the mid 1960s and used the phrase in a piece about youth movements. His reference was to the then-known phrase “missile gap” from the days of the Cuban missile crisis.

By: Apan

Apan — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:11:58 +0000

How about Google?

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:48:45 +0000

This was a great one, Jason! Love the Saddam, JFK and Internet finds, but I had to laugh at the microwave’s claim about using metal pans.

Oh, and Yay – Magilla Gorilla!

By: Cynthia

Cynthia — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:21:10 +0000

Ooh! Ooh! (Hand shoots in air)

Globalization, childhood obesity, restless leg syndrome, DVDs/DVD player, Michael Jackson, Paris Hilton (I’ll forgive you if you don’t do that one, really–I was just curious), sex tape (while we’re on the subject of the previous suggestion, it might be interesting to see when these things were actually news), spell-check, Mozilla and/or Firefox.

By: Dusty

Dusty — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:26:27 +0000

Love this idea!
How about LCD technology, Plasma screens, VCRs (forgive me if you alread did that one), Gangsta Rap, New Kids on the Block, ZZ Top, Dan Quayle, and Sky Mall.

By: KHM

KHM — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:51:54 +0000

How about Al Gore, bottled water, post-it notes, Polaroid, megapixels, and Ronald Reagan?