St Ignatius High School - Ignatian Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the story of the destruction of earth and the happy go lucky days that follow it. Earth was destroyed? But why? Well, that's really very simple. It was in the way of an inter stellar freeway, so the Vogons disintegrated it Arthur Dent and Tiffany are the only survivors. They are rescued by Ford Prefect, the inter-galactic hitchhiker who really knows where his towel is. They run into such people as Zaphod Beeblebrox (ex-president of the Galaxy), Vogons (responsible for the third worst poetry in the history of the Universe), and Marvin the paranoid android, as well as an existential elevator and a socially concious police officer. As this collection of cosmic cutups traipses around the universe, they find that the answer to the question of life everlasting and everything is forty-two. But six times nine doesn't equal forty-two And what is the question? To find this out. and much more than you really want to know, read its sequel. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Do you know where your towel is? Bottle Caps What do Pepsi Spirit , Coke, the Real Thing ', and Me and My RC have in common ? This seems to be a very simple question They are all slogans from rival cola companies. In nineteen eighty-one and eighty-two. however, the similarities went quite a bit further They all ran contests that not only used the same theme, but also the same medium. The basic idea behind all of them was to buy specially marked bottles of your favorite cola and save the caps On the underside of the caps, concealed by a plastic film to build suspense, were various letters or words. If you were a faithful consumer and bought enough pop, you could eventually spell out the slogan of whichever brand of cola you were drinking The rewards for doing this were plentiful. For merely spelling out Pepsi Spirit one could collect a prize of five hundred dollars There were many subordinate prizes too. ranging from bicycles to twenty-five cents. This seems like very easy money. A company would be stupid to give away money like that, wouldn't it? Not really. In reality, companies lost very little money at all. There were only seventeen R' s printed in the United States. That's not even one five hundred dollar prize for every two states. Still, one could win a pretty penney by saving up his twenty-five cent caps, couldn't he? Yeah, but since most people saved them and didn't know that the contest ended December thirty-first, they got stuck with fortunes in useless tin Even though no one got suddenly rich, everyone had a good time trying. Nothing caused more excitement on an otherwise boring day than scratching the covering out of a bottle cap to find that you've won twenty-five cents. Too bad the boring day was January first Offices full of businessmen have closed because of it. Intellectuals across the world have been baffled by it. Mathematicians marvel at it's inner mechanism. A calculous course at Harvard is built around it, and over 100 of its solutions have been published Yet, in England, an eleven year old child has solved it in twenty-six seconds Such is the paradox of the cube - It is so easy when you know how But how Buy your solution manual and find out Then, if you are ever in 1982 again, you can pick up the world's most popular toy and amaze your friends with just a few twists of your wrists. Voila!!! Fad

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Fads ’81-’82 Things That Made The World Go ’Round Kooo-oo-koo-koo-koo-koo-koo- koo' Kooo-oo-koo-koo-koo-koo-koo-koo' OK. Good day eh? Uh, welcome to the fads section of our yearbook My name is Bob Mackenzie and this is my brother Doug. DM: Like. Good day, eh? BM We re from the Great White North You may have heard of us ’cause a lot of D)’s are playing our hit single from our album on the radio. DM: Beauty, eh? BM Yeah, beauty. So. we’re kind of a fad. and that’s like why we’re here DM Well, actually. I’m a fad Hosehead here is just sort of grit on my coat tail BM Aw, how could you do that to me-making me look bad like that. DM: You r such a hoser! BM: Stop lyin’, will ya? DM Take off, eh? Geddy Lee (Ten bucks is ten bucks) So. like, take off-to the Great White North! Take off —it's a beauty way to go. TAKE OFF! You hosers. Whether you like it or not, the Preppy look was definitely the biggest fashion news in 1982 The strange thing was that there were as many anti-Preppies as there were members of the top drawer society. Between these two cultures was waged the battle of the monogram The famous Izod alligator came to be the most widely recognized symbol of preppiness Save the alligator, eat a preppie!” became the battle cry of the liberal cult. To sum up the controversey. it could be said that preppies were either loved or hated, but never ignored I looked at my rador scanner and saw that there were about six on my tail! So I went down the ground, pulled a quiet reverse, and got 'em all with a smart bomb.” Who's talking' With the advent of modern microship technology, chances are it might be an ordinary businessman describing his latest foray to a video game arcade. This activity has become quite common now not only among businessman, but in all walks of life. The industry did not really boom until 1978 when the Bally Co., which produces many pinball games, released a new game to go with its other inventions. The name of the game was SPACE INVADERS. The object of the game was to defend the Earth from great numbers of aliens w-ho descended to the surface with increasing speed. The following year. The Atari Co. released a game called ASTEROIDS, and from then on the field has literally exploded into a multimillion dollar industry. The popularity of these games is obvious, as each video machine takes in about ISO dollars a week. Multiply this figure by the number of machines operating, and one begins to comprehend the size of the industry. In addition to this, media coverage of the whole phenomena has increase, and books dealing with the various aspects of the games from how-to manuals to the psychological affect of these games have appeared. For the player, however, the only concern is to attain the best score possible and en|ov it. The games provide an easy war to release agressions by taking them out on an inanimate” object. In the long run. they have the physical benefit of improbing eye-to-hand coordination. Whatever the reason for play may be, the ultimate purpose is to have fun. which is what the video game mania is all about 26 Fad

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