X-Entertainment's Christmas Season & Advent Calendar, 2008.

01/15/2007: Boku: Nectar of the Gods, Boxed.

I started thinking about Boku tonight. Not sure why. There isn’t a lot of information about Boku online, save for the innumerable mentions of its ad campaign, which starred funnyman Richard Lewis as just the right guy to bridge the juice box gap between kids and adults. I really don’t remember much about those ads, surprisingly, but I certainly remember Boku.

The early 90s brought with it a proliferation of “let’s try this” beverages, and by that I’m referring to drinks with marketing strategies that hadn’t truly been tested before. I remember being totally floored by stupid things like Mistic’s line of bottled fruity drinks, because they looked like water and tasted like liquid Starburst. Common now, but at the time, our collective consciousness was knocked into unconsciousness by the deliciousness of these new beveragenesses. Within this mighty gamut of wet new competitors, Boku stood out as a true original.

Basically, Boku was a collection of drink boxes for the older crowd. At least, that’s how it was marketed. To differentiate Boku from Ssips and the many other kiddie drinks, the boxes were taller, slenderer and just more adult looking overall. Though Boku boxes ultimately caved into pressure and became more colorful and loud, when they first launched, I distinctly remember buying them in really odd, mostly white boxes with just a few touches of color. The flavors were also aged up — instead of grape, you got “white grape.” I would describe their appeal as being along the lines of nonalcoholic wine.

Wait. I can’t believe “slenderer” is really the correct plural of “slender.” Spellcheck says it is.

The biggest change of all? No straws. At least, not initially. I’m betting that parent company McCain ultimately stopped trying to be so damn rebellious, but when I was buying Boku, it didn’t come with a straw. It just had this foil “slip” that could be peeled away to reveal a much larger drinking hole than was the norm for juice boxes. I don’t really get why they were so adamant about giving juice boxes an adult spin, but I think dropping the straw was crossing a line that juice boxes should never cross. Sure, I was young when I drank these, but I don’t think you need a college education to drink stuff without spilling it. Between the gaping drinking hole, slenderer (I still can’t believe that’s correct) boxes and lack of straw, Boku tended to spill like spilling was the in thing.

When I was in whatever grade I was in, I attached a milk crate to my bike’s handlebars. That same week, I was finally given permission to ride to the few stores that were in a negotiable biking distance from my house. So, armed with rights and a milkcrate, I spent many summer afternoons going to this shitty little deli a few blocks away, loading my crate with Boku and chips and the occasional copy of Weekly World News, and riding home like a big boy.

I loved the Weekly World News back in the day. I think it’s kinda gone downhill (if such is possible in the eyes of most) by adding supposedly humorous features such as the Batboy comic…

Matt, I don’t know if you’ve heard about it yet but apparently there is a new Ghostbusters videogame in the works.

It’s not confirmed but at the very least it has some neat videos to watch. As someone who has Ghostbusters embeded in their DNA I drool at the idea.

Xabungle: Yeah, I really liked WWN back then, but that’s at least in part because I was too stupid to realize that they weren’t even trying to be taken seriously. Even if I knew some of the stories were fake, I believed other ones. The stories also tended to be a bit more creepy than outrageous back then, and often freaked out my young head. (I remember one story in particular about the devil possessing someone at a church, yikes.)

Mostly, though, I read it for the classifieds. I loved them and still do. Everything from personalized readings to shark cartilage pills. Mmm.

Is that juice kind of like “Sips?” or is it “sip its?”. I loved those as a kid because it wasn’t fruit juice it was a fruit drink. Big difference. Damn that Juicey Juice.

yea i was just reading about that ghostbusters game on gametrailers, looks awesome!

apparently they’re saying sony owns the ghostbusters property so this might be ps3 exclusive

Did it again. Just skimmed and then asked. I do this at work because I constantly have to read manuals and they force you to skim. Makes me wonder what I miss at work. :/

Anybody out there remember an ’80s-era juice that alsom came from McCain? I’m talking about Junior Juice, the boxes that held, like, literally 4 ounces of juice for real little kids who wouldn’t dream of finishing a regulation-size drink box. Being a teacher now, and seeing how much of a typical child’s lunch goes to waste, these seem genius to me. Back then, however, as I sipped on my Kool-Aid Kooler (or Capri Sun, which would inevitably get stabbed all the way through both sides of the pouch, making a mess), I scoffed at Junior Juices, not realizing they weren’t for my age group, thinking you would have to tape three or four of them together just to taste it.

ABOUT TIME somebody remembers this? These little bastards fought my cookies over space in my power rangers lunch box in 3rd grade. And nooooobody has a clue what I’m talking about when I mention them.

I wish I had a place where I could write things and throughout what I write have a running commentary on my grammar and/or spelling and have people sympathize. Slenderer? My fingers rebel as I try to type it.

when i was a kid it was all about capri sun, i don’t remember drinking anything else!

I used to poke the straw through the bottom of the Capri Sun pouch because I would always f*ck it up if I tried to do it right. The problem is that I relized to late that I had to drink the whole thing because you can’t put it down. Lunch time conundrum.

The Ghostbusters VG vids look pretty cool. My brother and I hope that they release a Wii version. My brother pointed out that the Wii remote would be an ideal means of aiming the power wand, something I imagine Matt has already thought of.

Don’t remember Boku, but I do remember when Lifesavers had their juice line in the early 90s. They even came in the then new squeezable plastic bottles instead of juice boxes.

Your reflection on childhood is what makes X-Entertainment so appealing and palpable.

Wasn’t there an actual fruit drink called “Squeeze-It” that kicked off the whole squeeze bottle trend? Those things were like crack. I could polish off a whole pack of 4 in one sitting.

Is anyone else just a wee bit paranoid that, eventually, someone is going to go crazy and start killing people who have milk crates that have “Property of Milk Place, DO NOT REMOVE” and whatnot on them? I kind of am, but I may be crazy.

When I was in ninth grade (maybe it was tenth) the teacher told one of the girls in the class that she wasn’t allowed to drink anything in class, and she said “It’s a Boku.” as if that mattered, or something.

As to Squeeze-Its, I remember those. Each flavor had a character assigned to it. I remember that one of the flavors was amazing, though I don’t remember which it was. I hated the cherry ones, though.

milk crates are dope for storing vinyl, i think that’s the only thing i’ve ever used them for

never thought of attaching one to my bike, that woulda been dope.. didn’t even make the connection til now what was goin on with that e.t. kid’s bike

Mystic?? I forgot about those. The first time I saw one in the hands of a kid I thought it was an alcoholic beverage, and I felt like such a badass when I finally had one at a football game with my friends. Ah youth.

In other news, I finally picked 3 of the new Transformers Classics toys: Astrotrain, Starscream, and Mirage at Target. I think all 3 figures are very awesome and especially faithful to the originals with minor updates, mostly for the better. (especially with Starscream, his legs move now!) My favorite of the 3 is Astrotrain, especially since I have the original sitting next to it to compare it to. (CLA Astrotrain’s Bullet Train mode is 1 1/2 times longer than the original)

Squeez-its….I used to buy those for my kids. They came in a soft plastic, vaguely soda-bottle shaped container, and you twisted a small flat piece off the top - you’d drink from the resulting opening - or squirt the juice at someone else, usually. Seems that the favorite flavor was orange.

I was always too unsophisticated for Boku, but man, do I remember Junior Juice!!!! I LOVED it! I drank Junior Juice from the age of 2 to at least 10. It was just so adorable and tiny, with cool little fun facts and jokes written on the back! Motts came out with a similarly tiny juice box in the nineties, and I remember it being the only way I could tolerate apple juice (I don’t know why. I hate most juices or sodas in large doeses). I’ll check my grocery to see if their still sold. It’d be a shame for tiny boxes like those to dissappear. Some kids don’t like their juice super sized. :/

I used to keep my books in milk crates. I had two or three stacked at the foot of my bed (pink and blue). They were really makeshift bookshelves, but they did the job. I remember I had yarn tied in one of the holes, too. Hmmm.
Never tried Boku.

Just a by the way- “slenderer” isn’t plural, it’s comparative. But it still looks dumb.

Heh, a buddy and I put out a zine back in high school, and we used to fill white space with classifieds out of the News. I remember particularly the ones with chicks in bullet bras. I still have an envelope somewhere full of ads I was saving up…I actually tried to pick up a WWN the other day, but I looked up and down and the store didn’t carry it, which is a travesty.

And just so that I can make sure I’m not Highjacking the thread, my Grandma made me clean out her garage, (I’m 26 years old but that women still instills fear like the hand of god, so I pretty much do what she wants) Lo and behold she had like 15 trunks of old newspapers, one of them was full of Weekly world newses and the National Enquirerers. Talk about having the rest of the day shot.

Ah, Weekly World News. Once a bastion of untold entertainment, it has gone completely downhill since it became, for lack of a better term, “self aware”.

When it presented the completely outlandish and insane as fact, it was awesome. Now it’s in on it’s own joke, and the entertainment is long gone.

While Hi*C was always my favorite (in fact, I picked up a case of Orange Lavaburst the other day… so disappointing…), does anyone remember the Hershey’s chocolate milk boxes? I LOVED those things!

Hey, did anyone else have a plastic juice box holder?!?! I did and I remember being the talk of the cafeteria because I had a special see-through plastic box that snapped on around my juice box. I really have no clue what purpose it served, but it made me quite the trendsetter back then. haha

I loved Squeez-Its, as well. Their blue flavor was always my favorite (not sure what that flavor was as I seriously doubt my elementary school self would have touched anything blueberry-flavored).

And “more slender” is always my preferred alternative when I come across one of those pesky “erer” words.

I know Matt did an article on this but I still love the Ecto-cooler Hi-C. It remindes me of summertime at the shore. I think when you say “juice box” it pretty much will make anyone regress a little.

By the way, loved the AD episode when Buster mistakes the wine box for a giant juice box. Who keeps straws that size?

dammit i wanted to play this, i think they may have just been hyping up their other game “time o”

We are very glad to see the overwhelming response to the Ghostbusters prototype movies. What youâ€™ve seen is indeed in-game footage of early prototypes on the Xbox 360, running on ZootFlyâ€™s proprietary engine. Due to licensing issues, further development of the Ghostbusters game hit a bump on the road, but everybody here at ZootFly is working actively on resolving the challenges with the owners of the Ghostbusters IP.

As soon as the Ghostbusters IP issue is resolved, the whole team will go back to Ghostbusters. In the meantime, please enjoy these two movies.

Mystie: Orbitz! Was that the drink that had those little neon floaty things in it?? If so, I remember that was one of the weirdest tasting beverages I’ve ever consumed…Whatever happened to those?

Holy crap, hearing about Boku made me remeber that while they were making juice boxes for adults they were also marketing juice boxes for little toddlers as well. There was this one drink box add, I can’t remember the name of the drink, but it came in juice boxes that were roughly HALF the size of normal juice boxes. I remember seeing one kid drinking it at school in the third grade. He needed like 3 of them just to equal one full ssips. It was insanity!!!!! If anyone can remember these things please reveal their identity for me!!!

Orbitz were indeed the carbonated beverage with tiny floating balls of glucose in them. They didn’t last long, primarily because people didn’t like their drink being interrupted by the constant interference of tiny beads of stuff that had the texture of soggy bread.

The idea was cool in theory. I certainly bought a six back of the thing just because I thought they looked cool, so it was a good marketing device. It was just that, once you got them, the drinks were absolutely awful.

I’ve always hated the whole straw thing. I love it when boxes have openings for sippage. I don’t use a straw in anything unless it has a lid. And even then it’s a pain.

I’m one of those guys who eats milkshakes with spoons. The better to dunk my fries

Ahhh … yes … Boku. I hearted that stuff, the white grape and rasperry was particularly fine. I was also a fan of Clearly Canadian, the carbonated, flavored water. I liked the cherry flavor. It really set off the flavor in those fake Funions I liked so much as a kid.

I used to drink that stuff when I was younger. I really liked the taste. Never spilled it, though.

Don’t remember much about the commercials, except that Richard Lewis would constantly be bitching about other drinks and saying something like “I want my Boku.” Now that I think about it, I wonder if it was just a matter of the verbal irony being lost on me (seeing as I wasn’t to learn about that until a few years had passed), in that he was whining like a child about how he didn’t want this or that kind of drink, but he wanted Boku because Boku was the beverage for adults. Whether or not it’s actually funny will have to wait until I see the commercials again.

Orbitz, yeah, I really really wanted to like them. They looked so cool, I think the only flavour I had was, something and pineapple, man it didn’t even taste like it was edible. Blah!

Hey, can someone help me outÃ‰ I remember drinkin this weird shit when I was a kid. I cant remember the name of it or much else but I do remember it was a clear liquid with a shitload of tiny colored balls of gel or some shit floating in it. Much appreciated if anyone can help

Ssips Lemonade and Grape would leave flem in your throat. Playing “build up” or ‘tin foil” football in the schoolyard was the best. The worst was being put on the wall by the lunch mothers hacking on Ssip flem. Orange Drink Ssips were the best until Iced Tea made its debut.

Dro Bro , it was called Orbitz. We’ve been talking about it on this thread quite abit. Mystie even linked the Wiki entry

Mmmmm…. Orbitz. Little Brother and I used to call them “Floaty-Colas” and drank our share when they came out. I liked the orange drink with the vanilla floatys in it. Sister-in-Law recommends Mead for the all-time drink you can eat. She’s a history buff.

I bought Bumblebee for my first Classics. He was the first G1 I ever got, so he’s first again. So, Norb, on a one-on-one comparison, how do the ‘Trains stack up? And, do you know of any plans to release the other Triple-Changers? I hope they do Springer soon.

I just checked out the new Astrotrain on Amazon. I am NOT feeling that at ALL. Astro is one of my favs and that is just plain meh. Beyond meh.

Rodimus doesn’t look that bad, actually. Besides the fact that it’s actually Hot Rod

LemurCat- Clearly Canadian was awesome. Looking back it’s funny how it was classed as healthy. I guess when you don’t add food coloring it must be good for you. You could also break the bottles for self defense. That’s healthy too.

I think all the Classics are fantastic. Wish they were like this when I was a kid.

What do you guys think of the new toys coming out for the live action Transformers movie?

I think megs looks like a mess, both the toy and cGi model. Prime looks cool in both, and Starscream? The less said about him, the better.

Pineapple Banana Cherry Coconut! That was the kind of Orbitz I tried, looking at the other flavours I would have liked to try the Raspberry Citrus, oh well too late now.

damn i didn’t know they had the movie toys already. the prime looks cool but that paint job looks wack to me. blue flames?

i like the lil gameboy figure, although it looks like something you’d get in a happy meal

I loved Clearly Canadian but my all time fave was New York Seltzer. Those where the bomb! I was never really a juice box drinker so I don’t feel like I can comment on them but I do indulge in the occasional CapriSun Water every now and again with my daughter and those aren’t too bad.

I don’t think I ever heard about or saw a Boku so now I am just curious. Our 7-11 / AM-PM never had them that is for sure, but we did have some pretty sweet slushy machines all over school so that more than makes up for it. Loved me the slushy! Cherry or grape….CHERRY!!! Mmmmmmmmm…slushy.

I know someone who was obsessed with the WWN, kinda freaked me out a little bit.

I miss juice boxes in general. I remember when Capri Suns first came out and how I thought that they were the most insane idea ever. You mean juice, in a pouch?

I also love some Squeezits, which were the fore-fathers of the Kool-aid squeeze things they have out now. But Squeezits were so much better.

I miss Ecto Cooler, Candy Apple Red and Grape Hi-C. I also used to like some tropical Capri Sun with tangerine and coconut I think. Kool Aid Koolers never tasted right. They were like Kool Aid light.

I don’t think they ever fixed the whole Capri Sun opening problem. I opened one for a kid a few weeks ago and it still stabbed through the back of the package.

Did anyone else ever blow INTO a Capri sun and turn it into a makeshift squirt gun for about 10 seconds. I know I wasn’t the only one to try this. Also I used to chew on the weird banana shaped plastic tops that came with Squeeze-its and by bitng on it whilst pressed against your tongue it would turn into a suction cup and stick on the end of your tongue. Then I would wag my tongue with this gian plastic crescent thingy on the end of it… good times.

Moony actually had L’il Screamy comment on the movie version of Starscream, in her webcomic. I believe he discribed him as being dressed like an “Ugly Hamster Chicken”

Mystie, as much as I’d like to think I was the first person to associate Orbitz with soggy bread, there is a very real possibility I picked it up from that Wikipedia article through osmosis.

All I know is this: The stuff was disgusting, and out of the initial six pack I purchased, I drank two and tossed the rest out.

And yes, Clearly Candian was awesome. I felt so adult when I drank it. They still make it, but they changed the bottles and it’s a lot less….faux classy, for lack of a better term.

Also, on the subject of drinks in bags, did anyone’s school system ever abandon milk cartons (this was around 92 or 93, I guess) in favor of milk in plastic bags at lunch, or was that just a Louisiana thing?

They looked remarkably like angular breast implants. Even as fourth graders we realized that.

Old E: I know EXACTLY what you mean, i used to do the same exact thing, both with Capri Suns and Squeeze-its.

I remember we had a special day in science class where they showed us how to use them. Even had teachers making the rounds to make sure little Jimmy didn’t explode his milk.

I hate it when I think of things that are off topic, but I have to ask…is anyone else as fucking creeped out by the new Orville Redenbacher as I am?????

I swear, I thought it was a joke; then I thought someone would pull the plastic mask off Orville; but it never happened…the commercial just ended as if everything were normal.

On a completely unrelated nbote I watched Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare on HBO this weekend and solemly rfuse to believe the movie was THAT horrible the FIRST time I saw it. The stoner kids ponytail had me ready to throw a brick at my TV. Also, I have never been LESS SCARED watching as horror movie ever in life. I then took it upon myself to watch a few old horror movies again, to see if they too still held up after time. I came to the conclusion that Puppet Master (or any of Full Moon’s stuff), Brainscan, and Basket Case seriously sucked. They are all, however, much more enjoyable than this embarassment of a Nightmare on Elm Street installment. At least it was in “Freddy Vision” but even that just seemed too out of date and weird.

I wasn’t able to figure out how to get the straw into Capri Sun without it going out the back until recently, and I STILL do it from time to time. :p

I vaguely recall these. I don’t know if we bought them or not; Mom just usually bought whatever was on sale, the heck with fads. I still love the clear, flavored water. I drank tons and tons of Mistic and Clearly Canadian and whatnot throughout the 90s. I also felt grown-up when I bought them. Made me feel so tall when I’d stand in line at Eckard’s with a Clearly Canadian when there were other kids still begging for plain old soda.

i saw talk of clearly canadian, and I found it completely amazing that I found it at the carry out across from my house the other day. Oh how good it was with it’s fake cherry goodness.

Apparently Capris Sun is the heroin addict’s drink of choice. If you can stick the straw the way it was intended you could hit a vein easy.

Bought the Star wars top 5 pc game pack. It’s great. I got it for 25 bucks at Best Buy. Let’s see if I have the attention span to master at least one of these.

Once I get my digital camera back, I can compare the 2 Astrotrains side-by-side. I still think the Starscream fig is pretty awesome, he looks nice and the fig is incredibly faithful to the original figure (his feet are exactly the same as the G1 original!) And I heard that the last G1 Reiusse is Soundwave, but I haven’t found him in TRUs yet.

And Yes, I do remember the Juice Boxes in elementary school from years back, but I was a Hi-C loyalist and I basically stopped drinking them for the most part when Ecto Cooler got discontinued (sadly, I never found any of its clones either)

Evening everyone. I bought the new DriveMax Megazord from Power Rangers: Operation Overdrive at the local Target today. I payed for about half of it using my Christmas giftcard.

Aside from Mistic, I too was into Clearly Canadian, and I too mistakenly took both beverages’ clear “water” base to mean that they were in fact supremely healthy and not at all like soda. In fact, they were just as bad.

I preferred Mistic to CC even though they were just about the same exact product. Mistic coming out a bit earlier (at least around here) probably had something to do with it, but I think it had even more to do with the surreal descriptive stickers placed on Mistic bottles, which presented the liquid inside the bottle as some kind of fruit-flavored elixir sent from God to fix us up.

Matt, I found a link to the Mini-sip pouches that Wukong and I are talking about:

They still make Junior Juice. I buy them for my daughter. They have a punch flavor and apple at my local grocery, dunno if there are more flavors in the line *probably*. Clifford the big Red Dog is on the box these days.

Speaking of movies….I saw The Watcher today with James Spader and Keanu Reeves on USA. I looked it up first since I’d never heard of it and wondered if it was worth my time. I have to say that I was impressed; both Spader and Reeves were good (I may be one of the few people that likes Keanu Reeves anyway) and the suspense build-up was excellent, as well as the cinematography. But what I found interesting was the reason that the film wasn’t promoted as a Reeves vehicle (from the film’s comments section on imdb.com):

Third-billed Keanu Reeves gave his verbal agreement to director Joe Charbanic several years before production started, after reading his original script. With his involvement, the filmakers were later able to attract a bigger cast and budget than originally envisioned, and Reeves’ part (originally meant as little more than a cameo) was substantially rewritten to feature him more prominently. Reportedly Keanu Reeves, who would be paid scale while his costars James Spader and Marisa Tomei would get $1,000,000 paychecks tried to drop out of the film but eventually changed his mind (apparently influenced by the legal precedent of the Kim Basinger /Boxing Helena (1993) debacle). He eventually agreed to do the picture and abstain from bad mouthing it in interviews on the condition that his involvment in the film be downplayed in all promotional material for the film, including trailers.

I would have like a little more explanation into the backstory of Reeve’s character and the relationship between him and Spader. Even so, check it out…

The best way to drink Capri-Sun was to push the straw in, blow real hard and then let science do the rest….

Also, IMO the best figure in the new Transformer Classic line is Jetfire…hands down. I was lucky enough to find one at the local Wally-Mart and it doth rocketh…

i remember seeing the watcher at the theatre a few years back, at the time i remember it being known as a “keanu reeves” movie but i dunno, maybe they didn’t feature him in the commercials much or something

kinda funny tho, it wasn’t the greatest film but it’s not exactly like he’s had a stellar career or is considered a great actor or anything

Cameron T, yep that’s them. Although ours didn’t have the fancy designs and graphics, they were just plain clear bags.

As the resident expert I have this to say. I wasn’t really all that impressed with The Watcher. Now I DO believe in the theory that EVERY movie before and after the Matrix of his, has a Matrix reference in it somewhere. Be it a camera angle, dialogue, concept, etc.

The Watcher has the “opposite” aspect. Keanu being the opposite of Spader. That is my favorite aspect of the Matrix (look at my name, I’m someone’s negative, Hello?!?), so I think it makes sense that the movie that contains that element isn’t really one of my favorites. I like him dancing with the victim (s) [I've only seen it once], but beyond that wasn’t all that enthralled.

i’m probably the only person who’s never watched the matrix. i’ve tried to look at it on cable and shit before but just can’t get into it

We had those milk-implants in southern NH while I was in middle school for oh, about a week. It was just way too much fun for kids to resist stomping on them 50 times each lunch period.

I also picked up WarioWare Smooth Moves yesterday and it is a definite MUST-OWN for the Wii! Never before has acting like a jackass been so much fun. Matt, march on down to Toys ‘r Us and buy it today! DO NOT PASS GO!

I plan on getting Jetfire right shortly. I’ll probably get all the voyager class TFs soon as possible, and fill out the ranks with as many deluxeseses as I can. And the MiniCon Dinobots. Oh, and this week, I will get the Megatron/Optimus Prime two-pack with DVD. I can’t miss that one, even if I have to chew through a nun to do it.

At one school, we had a milk dispenser that was called the RoboUdder by the students. We would get a plastic cup, and get the milk at a almost soda-fountain like thing with a long plastic tube sticking out of it. When it ran out, one of the workers would open it up, pull a large plastic bag with the tube in it out, put a new milk-filled bag in, thread the tube through to the outside, close the top part, and cut the end of the tube off, and RoboUdder was back in service. Moo.

I forgot to comment on this yesterday, but to whoever said that Hershey’s had awesome drink boxes, I totally agree. Hershey’s beat the pants off of Yoo-Hoo any day. I drank those almost exclusively in high school, though in my early school years it was all about Kool-Aid in a thermos. According to Mom and Dad, we didn’t need those fancy, overpriced drink boxes. We also bought the value bags of chips that we broke down into separate sandwich bags instead of buying those single-serve bags. Yeah, I was THAT kid.

My favorite juice box/single-serving-container by far was Ecto Cooler. It tasted great, but the package art was the best part of it.

Every time I hear (or read) the word “Mystic,” my brain automatically inserts “go naked” after it. Talk about effective advertising.

just out of curiousity, why are the classic transformer toys called the “voyager” line, is voyager the name of a cartoon series using the classic designs or something?

I still can’t open a Capri Sun without busting through the back. I just cut the top off and pour it into a glass.

I started listening to the ‘06 Jukebox again. I miss Christmas. I miss Knacks and Kuse.

“slenderer” is actually a comparative. The superlative would be “slenderest.” Both are forms of adjectives.

just out of curiousity, why are the classic transformer toys called the “voyager” line, is voyager the name of a cartoon series using the classic designs or something? just out of curiousity, why are the classic transformer toys called the “voyager” line, is voyager the name of a cartoon series using the classic designs or something?

“Voyager” refers to a size of a Transformers toy, which was previously called the “mega” size, I think.

I think it started with the Energon line, there are: Scout Class (the tiny figs), Deluxe Class, Voyager Class (the ones in the small boxes), Leader Class (usually Optimus & Megatron), and Supreme Class (Primus, Unicron, etc)

On another note, I am not sure where I saw it so it could have been here, if so I am sorry, but have any of you checked out Wii Have a Problem on the web yet (linked below)? I can’t stop laughing at 1) How stupid some people are and B) Why they would share their stupidity with the world by posting face shots in some?

Yeah that was definitely Candace who corrected Matt the first time. Then La La chimed in with the Hooked on Phonics.

Just a by the way- “slenderer” isn’t plural, it’s comparative. But it still looks dumb.

Wow, a mention by an X-E regular!

I’m flattered! :) If anyone wants to see the comic he mentioned, just click on my name. Screamy would describe the recent pictures of the defaced prototype as a “runned over ugry hams’er chiggen” now, tho. XD

It took me a while to remember the Boku commercials, but then I realized its because I never liked Richard Lewis. For some reason, I always wanted to throw things that would stick to his forehead.

Actually, there’s a whole group of comics that came to prominence during the mid-80’s that, frankly, I’ve never found funny in the least.

ORBITZ! Man, I drank that stuff all the time in high school just because it was the thing to do…it was gross stuff, really- but cool!

Had a rough day- found out I need glasses, and I was in a car accident! Bastard rear ended me- didn’t even slow down. Who doesn’t notice that the car ahead of them is stopped??? Plus, he was a COP driving a ‘ghost car’. I don’t need this. This is the second time someone else has slammed into my car in 2 months- the last time was in my parking lot, and resulting in my car being scrapped and my buying THIS car- that is now banged up. Grrrrrr….I need a drink!

Old E, I also did both those things with Capri Suns and Squeeze-It’s. Although I would usually keep the Capri Sun straw in my mouth after blowing into it and end up having to drink it really fast. I miss Squeeze-It’s. Why’d they disappear, anyways?

For some reason when I read that, I flashed on that old Lifesavers commercial with the dad putting his arm around his son - in a gymnasium, maybe? Seems like I might be mixing it up with a Happy Days episode where Howard Cunningham did the same with Richie….

So anybody else notice that Trix cereal has gone back to its original ball shapes?

but i suppose it wouldnt make for good marketing to say, “Back to the way it was pre-’92!!!”

You know, I can’t recall that I’ve ever had a bowl of Trix. I thrived off of Capt’n Crunch…peanut butter when my granny was feeling generous and crunchberries when she was feeling crazy….

I know I considered buying a box of Trix not to long ago, just to try something new yet retro, but I picked up Cocoa Pebbles and Eggo Cinnimon Toast instead…I never regretted that decision one bit…

I last saw Boku at a BigLots MANY years ago and it was in 24 oz Bottles and I got about 20 of them because they were 25 cents a piece….but when I got home they were missed labled they all tasted like coconut and pinapple GROSS not the correct flavor…I think I have some still in storage…you want them if I find them?

I worked in the cafeteria of the boarding school I went to and had to change the “mam” in the RoboUdder many times. We had lots of weird/gross terms for the ginormous bag of milk, but we eventually settled on “mammary,” then got lazy and shortened it to the “mam” as seen above.

And I have now proof read this post so many times as to not be attacked by the grammar nazis that I can’t figure out the correct placement of the e and i in weird (wierd?) Arrrrgh. Neither looks right anymore!

Invader Norbert… Have you got the new Grimlock? He is a total bitch to transform.

Luap - I just wish Trix would go back to the original flavor, it’s the only flavor I genuinely miss from childhood. Sometimes I fantasize about having a big bowl of Trix back when there were no green/blue pieces of cereal with their crappy flavors to mess it up.

Ecto Cooler (renamed Shoutin’ Orange Tangergreen in 1997, then later renamed Crazy Citrus Cooler in 2005.)

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