Worst Products Ever

[Left Is Write]

We've had stupid product names and stupid band names today...now let's hear it for the Worst.Products.Ever.

I'll start: Ron Popeil's ghastly spray-on "hair" for balding men.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Any of the many many exercise machines

that look so easy to use on the tv, but when you try to get on one, you nearly fracture a hip, and decide to use it as a place to dump your dirty clothes.

[seafey]

2. space pen...

shitloads of money dumped into this invention so that our astronauts would be able to write with no gravity!

just use a pencil for crying out loud.

[WindRavenX]

31. funny story on that...

...the US spent like 6 million for NASA to come up with a zero-G pen. Then the Russians pointed out they never used pens, they always used pencils :)

[seafey]

49. Yeah that's why I thought of that...... nt

:)

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

3. Steak-umms

Pressed and formed, could have come from ANYWHERE on the cow.

ANYWHERE.

:evilgrin:

[Feathered Fish]

5. yuk

:puke:

[barackmyworld]

13. that probably stands for

ummm...what part of the cow is this from?

[Fenris]

4. Ron Popeil's Mr. Microphone

Back before Ron's face looked like a catcher's mitt and he was hawking the "Showtime" Rotisserie, Ron sold this piece of shit called the Mr. Microphone. I think it had a small radio transmitter in it so you could sing through the radio. That fucker had some shitty products, but my God did they sell.

[GRLMGC]

7. ahahahahahahahahah

Set it and Forget it

[Fenris]

8. His face looks like he put it through that goddamn thing.

:scared:

[Left Is Write]

10. And that takes us to another bad product...

The Flav-R-Wave Oven! So bad, they couldn't even come up with their own catchy slogan! The slogan for the Flav-R-Wave? "Set it and walk away."

[eauclaireliberal]

26. Enzyte!

Everytime I venture to the Dark Side (anywhere on TV outside of PBS), I keep running into this Enzyte bullshit. Make me want to scream.



And that damn whistle-melody drives me nuts...it sticks in my head for hours.

[proud2BlibKansan]

27. "Hey good lookin, we'll be back to pick you up later"

Remember that line from the Mr. Microphone commercial? LOL

Anyone remember Popeil's Pocket Fisherman?

[BiggJawn]

36. "Popeil's Pocket Powered Pud-Puller"

"It really, REALLY works!"
A spin-off of the pocket fisherman. I actually caught a fish with one of those things.

My vote has to go to:

Any product advertised on TV for 1/2 an hour in front of a room full of trained seals by a loud guy in a 2-sizes-too-small polo shirt. Extra points if he's got one of those boom mike things on his ear.

[Longgrain]

6. Marshmallow Fluff!

Nuff said!

[RumpusCat]

15. No way!

::eats fluffernutter::

[Longgrain]

19. Can't stand flufferntters...

There was a thread the other day about gross foods. Everyone else I know likes marshmallow fluff, I can't stand the stuff...

:puke:

[fluffernutter]

18. pffft!

fluff is so fluffy and good, how, i ask, HOW can you diss it like that?

[Longgrain]

20. N/t

but...;-)

[fluffernutter]

22. okay, i'll forgive you this time

:P hey, did you see your name up in lights in this morning's milestones thread? :toast: i am still not at 400 yet, you are way ahead, i fear i shall never catch up...

[Longgrain]

29. Thanks!

He blushes...I think?

I finished that poem for you, but I'd rather not post it here lest it be too off topic, so I posted it down in the Writers Forum--just look for Poetry Thread.

I should also remind you, that stalking a another person is illegal, and I don't think either of us want to get in trouble with the Mods.

Though the kind of Stalking
That you seem to be Talking
Makes me smile
Much like your Stockings

;)

[seafey]

9. spinny rims

aNNOYING!

[Goathead]

11. "Bag 'O Glass"

"Teddy Chainsaw Bear"

[Left Is Write]

14. No, no, no! Those were

perfectly safe children's toys! Don't you remember Johnny Switchblade, Adventure Punk?

[McKenzie]

12. K-Tel record vacuum

appeared in the 1970's and was a device to suck all the harmful debris out of your vinyl collection...pity we've all gone to CD...

Close second is the handy-dandy dial-a-matic sponge sharpener... a figment of the Freak Bros' fevered imagination I think...or maybe of my febrile imaginings.

In fact, I could rant on about stupid ads that sell things like twin-blade razors...they do exactly what a single blade razor did around 90 years ago...or washing powders that wash whiter than white...aaaaargh...advertisements....the horror, the horror....

[Ian David]

16. Ionized water and other similar idiocy

Junk science in the marketplace

Magnets and "catalysts" for softening water, magnetic laundry balls, waters that are "oxygenated", "clustered", "unclustered" or "vitalized" (purporting to improve cellular hydration, remove toxins, and repair DNA), high zeta-potential colloids and vortex-treated waters to raise your energy levels, halt or reverse ageing and remove geopathic stress— all of these wonders and more are being aggressively marketed via the Internet, radio infomercials, seminars, and by various purveyors of new-age nonsense. The hucksters who promote these largely worthless products weave a web of pseudoscientific hype guaranteed to dazzle and confuse the large segment of the public whose limited understanding of science makes them especially vulnerable to this kind of exploitation.

The purpose of this site is to examine the credibility of these claims from the standpoint of our present-day understanding of science. The latter, of course, is always evolving and is never complete, but it makes an excellent "B.S. filter" that is almost always reliable. It is hoped that the information presented here will help consumers make more informed decisions before offering up their credit cards to those in the business of flogging pseudoscience.

http://www.chem1.com/CQ/

[sakabatou]

17. Electrolux vacuums

"Nothing sucks like electrolux."

[fluffernutter]

21. New Coke and colored Ketchup.

[youthere]

23. The Epilady

The vibrating spring you run up and down your legs that rips the hair out by the roots...problem is thaat darn spring keeps clogging up with the tiny bits of flesh that come out as well.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

30. Ouch! Glad I never tried that.

and I've tried most beauty contraptions...

[CO Liberal]

37. I Used to Go to Garage Sales Back in NJ

And there was an Epilady at every one of them...

[Cornjob]

24. Crystal Pepsi!

Foulest beverage I ever tasted!

[datasuspect]

25. thalidomide

[proud2BlibKansan]

28. I heard that was still prescribed

in Europe. But never to a woman of child bearing age.

[gollygee]

32. Flow-bee

My mom had one and ruined her hair and my dad's hair with it.

That thing couldn't do a decent hair cut to save its life.

[BrainRants]

33. Microsoft "Bob"

And that annoying little "Clippy" in Office!

[mcerise]

34. Evian Mineral Water Spray

5 oz for $10.80

I can't believe people would pay more than $2 for an ounce of water.

[CO Liberal]

38. Evian Spelled Backwards is "Naive"

Remember that.

[SarahB]

35. Chia Head

anything Chia really

the epitome of lameness :puke:

[GRLMGC]

43. I know a guy who

looks like the Chia head. He's a total douchebag.

[brentspeak]

39. Disposable Schick single blades (the yellow ones)

The packaging said "Feel the Difference!" Yeah, I felt the "difference", all right, as well as about a hundred-thousand nicks, cuts, and scrapes...

[progmom]

40. yes!

Pure evil, they were.
I always wondered if anyone ever bought those a second time!

[Socialist Dem]

41. Pepsi A.M.

It's cola for breakfast!

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

42. The Corvair

No, really, just ask Ralphie Boy Nader! :evilgrin:

(I actually owned a Corvair for a short time- I LOVED it!)

[Seabiscuit]

44. Ken dolls

[Seabiscuit]

45. Pet Rocks

[Kenneth ken]

46. You win!

Pet rocks were absolutely the worst product ever.

I can't believe any store actually thought they would sell, but probably some actually did. I don't personally know anyone who had one, so I can't say for certain if any ever did. :eyes:

[BikeWriter]

47. The Ford Edsel... n/t

[Nile]

48. Electricity and the internal combustion engine.

But we are all dependent on them.

[terrya]

50. The Chevrolet Vega.

That was the first car I ever bought. It started rusting VERY quickly. The aluminum engine was ok in the city, but it was NOT something to take out on the highway.