Mayberry Machiavelli
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Thu May-20-04 11:24 AM
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Favorite relic from defunct company or product, dot-com or other: |
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I've got a mug from Webvan, the online grocery delivery company. Kind of a funky inverted cone shape.
I've also got one from "Nuromax", a drug called doxacurium. Sorry if any of you work for the company that produced Nuromax (Burroughs-Wellcome?), but I remember it as a drug that was looking for a use. One that it never really found. I don't know if anyone is still making it, I know that I haven't seen a vial of it in about a decade.
The Nuromax mug is cool though, it's got a logo of a male torso, showing the muscles and beating heart under the skin, with an EKG trace along the bottom, presumably symbolizing the lack of effects of Nuromax on the cardiovascular system. I don't use the drug, but I still use that mug a lot.
What are your favorite relics?
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Thu May-20-04 11:25 AM
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1. Hands down, Yard Darts |
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those were like mini javelins with really good balance.
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Mayberry Machiavelli
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Thu May-20-04 11:29 AM
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2. That's cool, but I'm really looking for relics SYMBOLIZING, or containing |
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iconography of the defunct company or product, rather than the product itself...
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Philostopher
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Thu May-20-04 11:33 AM
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3. Before WOXY went off the air ... |
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We bought a wall clock with the station logo. The station's dead, probably for good, but there will be plenty who remember it -- swag is just one way of remembering... about the only way, apparently. *sigh*
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Thu May-20-04 11:34 AM
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Edited on Thu May-20-04 11:37 AM by sweet_scotia
so I have plenty of useless relics lying around. One of my favs is a 3D Kodak poster from 1891. Just looking at it takes you back to an era when photography was the new art form.
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Thu May-20-04 11:37 AM
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5. Lotus software coffee mugs |
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Which mysteriously made their way to my kitchen.
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Thu May-20-04 11:39 AM
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A cap, lapel pin, and post-it note pad. I received all of this when I hired on at Global Crossing. Worst career move of my entire life. They went BK 10 months later.
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Thu May-20-04 12:03 PM
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13. I worked for a dotcom in that era ... |
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Frontier Global Crossing was a big vendor/partner for us. We used your Toyama datacenter in Sunnyvale.
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Thu May-20-04 11:44 AM
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7. I have an Enron hand squeezer thing |
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it's made out of skinned foam in the shape of a small cube. You're supposed to squeeze it to exercise your hand. I got it at N.A.B. in Vegas a few years ago along with all the other swag. I can't find it now (just moved) but I think it has something to do with high speed cable...
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Mayberry Machiavelli
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Thu May-20-04 11:47 AM
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9. ENRON! Nice! It should drop money from the retirement funds of |
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the Enron worker out of it when you squeeze.
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Thu May-20-04 11:49 AM
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10. I have a t-shirt (never worn!) from the opening day at "Enron Field" |
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Edited on Thu May-20-04 11:49 AM by Richardo
...in Houston. How proud we were that day :eyes:
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Mayberry Machiavelli
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Thu May-20-04 11:59 AM
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12. You should be able to silk screen that into something useful or cute, |
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Thu May-20-04 11:45 AM
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"Thanks a billion for helping us obtain $1 billion in Alpha AX sales in its first year".
Compaq bought them out a year later.
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Thu May-20-04 11:51 AM
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11. I have lots of stuff from railroads I've worked for that no longer exist.. |
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Edited on Thu May-20-04 11:51 AM by Richardo
...Denver & Rio Grande Western and Southern Pacific. Model locomotives, shirts, coffee cups, beer mugs, mouse pads, ashtrays.
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Thu May-20-04 12:24 PM
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14. I own more swag from more "Fucked Companies" ... |
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than I care to think about.
THe one I still have and use on a regualr basis is a black army field jacket with our old logo on it. I have yet to attach the RAM chips to the epolettes but I'll do it some day.
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Mayberry Machiavelli
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Thu May-20-04 12:34 PM
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16. RAM chips. Epaulettes. (shudders) |
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Thu May-20-04 12:28 PM
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I temped for his company for a coupla months in '97 and somehow the mug fell into my bag one day.
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Thu May-20-04 12:40 PM
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17. I have coasters with the trial name for Viagra. |
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Thu May-20-04 12:41 PM
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18. I guess that name went on the scrap heap of history, along with |
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"Hardonix" and "Boneril".
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