04/27/2017 · 2:40 pm
The May 2000 issue of The Last Laugh contained a do-it-yourself board game as its centerfold. It was called Not The Nineties!

I don’t know if anyone ever played it; I doubt it. The potshots are pretty brutal for a fun diversion. What can I say, the 1990s were actually pretty brutal themselves. The game provides a reasonably accurate simulation of trudging through ten unpleasant years.
(Printable game board included at the end of this article!)
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Filed under Bad Influences, Comix Classic & Current, Don't Know Don't Care, Faint Signals, Idiot's Delight, Magazine Rack
Tagged as 1990s, 1991, 1993, 2000, Beavis & Butthead, Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, board games, Cheers, Comedy Central, Dana Carvey, David Hyde-Pierce, Drop Dead, Frasier, John Mahoney, Kelsey Grammer, Last Laugh, Mike Myers, O.J. Simpson, pre 9/11, Seattle, South Park, The Smithereens
12/25/2015 · 12:04 am
If you’re reading this on Christmas afternoon because your family is driving you nuts, and you have the technology, I suggest that you legally download The Iron Giant, from 1999. Gather everyone around, and watch it with them. It will make your holidays extra wonderful.

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Tagged as #fbf, 1990s, 1999, A113, Amazing Stories, animation, Brad Bird, CalArts, CGI, Christmas, Christopher MacDonald, Chuck Jones, Cloris Leachman, Eli Marienthal, giant robots, Happy Gilmore, Harry Connick Jr., Jennifer Aniston, John Mahoney, metal, movies, Old Yeller, Optimus Prime, Peter Cullen, Richard Matheson, Steven Spielberg, Ted Hughes, The Iron Giant, The Simpsons, Vin Diesel
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