Category: 1990s

This isn’t Heaven, Got Milk?

Milk is a white liquid produced by the mammary glands of mammals.

A chocolate chip cookie is a drop cookie that originated in the United States and features chocolate chips (small morsels of sweetened chocolate) as its distinguishing ingredient.

The flip or clamshell is a form factor of a smartphone or other device which is in two or more sections that fold via a hinge.

A semi-trailer truck (more commonly semi truck or simply “semi”) is the combination of a tractor unit and one or more semi-trailers to carry freight.

Got Milk? (stylized as got milk?) is an American advertising campaign encouraging the consumption of milk, which was created by the advertising agency Goodby Silverstein & Partners for the California Milk Processor Board in 1993, and was later licensed for use by milk processors and dairy farmers.

The [California Milk Processor Board] was created in 1993 to counter falling sales of milk as Americans switched to soft drinks, health drinks, and other beverages.

Nintendo Game Boy Color Boy to the World

The Game Boy Color (abbreviated as GBC) is a handheld game console manufactured by Nintendo, which was released on October 21, 1998 in Japan and was released in November of the same year in international markets.

“Joy to the World” is a popular Christmas carol. The words are by English hymn writer Isaac Watts, based on Psalm 98, 96:11-12 and Genesis 3:17-18, in the Bible.

Christmas ornaments or baubles are decorations (usually made of glass, metal, wood, or ceramics) that are used to festoon a Christmas tree. Ornaments take many different forms, from a simple round ball to highly artistic designs.

From 1992 until 2016, Nintendo was also the majority shareholder of Major League Baseball’s Seattle Mariners.

Jaminator, Hard Rock Made Easy

Worlds of Wonder or WoW was a 1980s American toy company…[that sold] the Jaminator (1990), an electronic air guitar that plays different riffs depended on which buttons are pressed on the neck and also provides basic rhythm accompaniment with a small keyboard and drum pads.

An electric guitar is a fretted stringed instrument with a neck and body that uses a pickup to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals.

A keytar is a relatively lightweight electronic keyboard (with or without a built-in synthesizer) that is supported by a strap around the neck and shoulders, similar to the way a guitar is supported by a strap.

Hard rock is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music that began in the mid-1960s, with the garage, psychedelic and blues rock movements. It is typified by a heavy use of aggressive vocals, distorted electric guitars, bass guitar, drums, and often accompanied with keyboards.

In various popular music styles, riff refers to a brief, relaxed phrase repeated over changing melodies.

You Like Your Macintosh Better Than Me, Don’t You Dave

Super Bowl XXXIII was an American football game played between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Denver Broncos and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Atlanta Falcons to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1998 season. The game was played on January 31, 1999, at Pro Player Stadium in Miami (now part of the suburb of Miami Gardens, which became a separate city in 2003).

The Year 2000 problem is also known as the Y2K problem, the Millennium bug, the Y2K bug, or Y2K. Problems arose because programmers represented the four-digit year with only the final two digits. This made the year 2000 indistinguishable from 1900. The assumption that a twentieth-century date was always understood caused various errors, such as the incorrect display of dates, and the inaccurate ordering of automated dated records or real-time events.

The Macintosh (branded as Mac since 1998) is a series of personal computers (PCs) designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc.

HAL 9000 is a fictional character and the main antagonist in Arthur C. Clarke’s Space Odyssey series. First appearing in 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) is a sentient computer (or artificial general intelligence) that controls the systems of the Discovery One spacecraft and interacts with the ship’s astronaut crew.

Dr. David “Dave” Bowman serves as the protagonist of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

TBWA\Chiat\Day is the American division of the advertising agency TBWA Worldwide.

Donald J. Trump Eats His Pizza the Wrong Way

Pizza is prepared fresh, frozen, and as portion-size slices or pieces.

Pizza Hut experiments with new products, discontinuing less successful ones. In North America, Pizza Hut has notably sold “Stuffed crust” pizza, with the outermost edge wrapped around a cylinder of mozzarella cheese Stuffed Crust pizza was introduced in March 26, 1995. By the end of the year it had become one of their most popular lines.

Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American businessman, television producer, author, politician, and the Republican Party nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election. He is the chairman and president of The Trump Organization, which is the principal holding company for his real estate ventures and other business interests.

Ivana Marie Trump (née Zelníčková]; February 20, 1949) is a Czech-American businesswoman, author, socialite, and former fashion model, widely known for her marriage to Donald Trump. Although the settlement remains sealed by the courts, it is rumored that [she] received $20 million; the $14 million family estate in Connecticut; a $5 million housing allowance; $350,000 annual alimony; all of her jewelry; and 49% of Mar-a-Lago, the family home in Palm Beach, Florida, that also serves as a private club for the Palm Beach elite.

Regarding divorce settlements, according to the 2004 Grant Thornton survey in the UK, women obtained a better or considerably better settlement than men in 60% of cases. In 30% of cases the assets were split 50–50, and in only 10% of cases did men achieve better settlements (down from 24% the previous year).

Jack in the Box Meat and Cheese Focus Group

A cheeseburger is a hamburger topped with cheese.

Meat is animal flesh that is eaten as food.

Cheese is a food derived from milk that is produced in a wide range of flavors, textures, and forms by coagulation of the milk protein casein.

A focus group is a form of qualitative research in which a group of people are asked about their perceptions, opinions, beliefs, and attitudes towards a product, service, concept, advertisement, idea, or packaging. Questions are asked in an interactive group setting where participants are free to talk with other group members.

[Jack in the Box] rebounded in popularity in 1994, after a highly successful marketing campaign that featured the fictitious Jack in the Box chairman Jack character (voiced by the campaign’s creator Dick Sittig), who has a ping pong ball-like head, a yellow clown cap, two blue eyes, a pointy black nose, and a linear red smile that changes with his emotions, and is dressed in a business suit.