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CREEMEDIA

It crawled into my post office box, honest. Lurking there amidst the usual ransom notes, subscription revocation notices, libel suits, 8x10 glossies of stereo components, back issues of the Cuban Communist Party newspaper and oversize postcards featuring Bugs Bunny imploring me to watch Tin Huey’s upcoming appearance on Celebrity Whew!, it looked like yet another useless catalog of spare parts for technological advances that have yet to occur.

May 1, 1980
Mark J. Norton

CREEMEDIA

Fun, Fun, Fun ('Til Daddy Takes The Motorized Shark Fin Away!)

by

Rick Johnson

1800 UNUSUAL NOVELTIES Johnson Smith Company Mt. Clemens, MI 48043 (50?)

It crawled into my post office box, honest. Lurking there amidst the usual ransom notes, subscription revocation notices, libel suits, 8x10 glossies of stereo components, back issues of the Cuban Communist Party newspaper and oversize postcards featuring Bugs Bunny imploring me to watch Tin Huey’s upcoming appearance on Celebrity Whew!, it looked like yet another useless catalog of spare parts for technological advances that have yet to occur.

But then a phrase on the cover leaped out at me: Rotary Nose Hair Clipper, it promised, p. 38. Finally, something I can use! And then, on the very same page, Alien Ears, Motorized Shark Fin, Avalanche Shave Cream, Watch TV Lying Down and Grow Your Own Sponges! I stood there with the transcendentally befuddled expression of George.Chapstick as I realized what had fallen into my hands—the 1980 Johnson Smith Company “World Of Fun” Catalog!

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