Turbo iCyber Laser e2000-tron

[citizenkafka]

Remember the vapid marketing buzzwords of yesteryear?

The words that lazy ad men would tack onto mediocre products... apparently to spice them up or something?

My favorites:

"Turbo" This one seemed to appear sometime in the mid eighties. I think it's supposed to draw from the inherent wickedness of fast cars in general, Kitt's Turbo Boost

Comments

[anonymous]

Hehe. I had a computer back in '94 with a turbo. it was great. It was like a 286, but if you pushed the "Turbo" button, it would run as a 386. WTF?! All I know is that it made my games run really fast, so you had to answer the Jeopardy questions really quickly :)

Ah, and "2000" cracks me up too. Lever2000--the soap for the new era. er somethin. They tack these on some really weird products. I think the I-C-U-P may take the cake though.

I'm so sick of eToys and iDogs, I could spit!

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[bigulgy]

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