This image was taken from what I presume is my mom’s Seventeen magazine circa 1974. Apparently my mom did succumb to the marketer’s magic by purchasing a can of the magic wonder. The image actually contains four instructions (of which only two are visible):
Spray, Fluff, Brush, go!
Below is a scanned image of my original Nintendo user manual. It was the late 80’s and my friend Brian and I were glued to our TV’s playing Zelda, Super Mario Bros, and some other game I now forget the name of.
In its latest version of Windows Media Player, Microsoft has re-titled, re-scripted, re-named major components of its popular online media player.
No longer is music copied from CD to ones desktop, laptop, or portable media device, it is “Ripped”, the feature in WMP is titled “RIP” – now add “OFF” and we have the following:
Definition:
!. To steal from: thieves who ripped off the unsuspecting tourist.
2. To steal: ripped off a leather jacket while ostensibly trying on clothes.
3. To exploit, swindle, cheat, or defraud: a false advertising campaign that ripped off consumers.
The process of ripping music/movies/files is how P2P file networks were built. It allowed media to be moved from a physical subtrate i.e. CD/DVD to a digitized file format which was stored on one’s computer/laptop/Portable Media Device.