#Gary Dahl

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Pet Rocks: From 1970s Fad to Interplanetary Travelers

Can you dig it? It’s been half a century since advertising genius (or madman?) Gary Dahl pulled off one of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll swindles—except there was no music, just rocks. And not the Rolling Stones kind, either. This guy put a rock in a box, called it a Pet Rock, and laughed all the way to the bank. No, not the Bank of Bedrock—this was cold, hard cash, baby. The Rise of the Pet Rock…

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Pet Rock creator Gary Dahl became a millionaire from his rock sales in the 1970s. Each rock came in a special box (bottom left) with a detailed instruction manual.

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Propaganda

Tallulah Bankhead (Lifeboat, Devil and the Deep, The Cheat)— Fierce, outspoken, uninhibited, and witty. An amazing actress who strongly supported civil rights and was unashamed of her sexuality.

Theresa Harris (I Walked With a Zombie, Baby Face, Out of the Past)— Being Black in old Hollywood meant that Harris never reached the heights that her talent and striking looks warranted. In the pre-code Baby Face, she plays the best friend of Barbara Stanwyck’s character, but after the code was frequently pigeonholed into maid roles. Which is DUMB because she always LIGHTS UP THE SCREEN and you cannot see anyone else!

This is round 3 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

[additional propaganda submitted under the cut.]

Tallulah:

please read the personal life section of this woman’s wikipedia. a bisexual (or ambisextrous as she called herself) legend

She was bisexual. About her film The Devil and the Deep she said 'Dahling, the only reason I accepted that part was to fuck that divine Gary Cooper'.

Theresa Harris:

A hard-working black actress, most of her roles were of servants. However, whenever she had a chance she shone. The iconic Baby Face, in which she costarred with Barbara Stanwyck, is one example where her brilliance stood out.

Beautiful smile and her EYES<33

Submitted NYTimes article about Theresa Harris, Lynn Nottage, and representation of Black women in vintage film in general: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/24/theater/theresa-harris-a-black-actress-who-left-an-impression.html

Submitted Essence article: https://www.essence.com/news/vintage-vamp-theresa-harris/

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Summaries under the cut

Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Young Tristran Thorn will do anything to win the cold heart of beautiful Victoria—even fetch her the star they watch fall from the night sky. But to do so, he must enter the unexplored lands on the other side of the ancient wall that gives their tiny village its name. Beyond that old stone wall, Tristran learns, lies Faerie—where nothing not even a fallen star, is what he imagined.

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

Billy, Old Dan, and Little Ann—a boy and his two dogs...

A loving threesome, they ranged the dark hills and river bottoms of Cherokee County. Old Dan had the brawn, Little Ann had the brains—and Billy had the will to train them to be the finest hunting team in the valley. Glory and victory were coming to them, but sadness waited too. And close by was the strange and wonderful power that's only found...

The Witches by Roald Dahl

This is not a fairy-tale. This is about real witches. Real witches don't ride around on broomsticks. They don't even wear black cloaks and hats. They are vile, cunning, detestable creatures who disguise themselves as nice, ordinary ladies. So how can you tell when you're face to face with one? Well, if you don't know yet you'd better find out quickly-because there's nothing a witch loathes quite as much as children and she'll wield all kinds of terrifying powers to get rid of them.

The Kane Chronicles by Rick Riordan

Since his mother's death six years ago, Carter Kane has been living out of a suitcase, traveling the globe with his father, the brilliant Egyptologist, Dr. Julius Kane. But while Carter's been homeschooled, his younger sister, Sadie, has been living with their grandparents in London. Sadie has just what Carter wants—school friends and a chance at a "normal" life. But Carter has just what Sadie longs for—time with their father. After six years of living apart, the siblings have almost nothing in common. Until now.

On Christmas Eve, Sadie and Carter are reunited when their father brings them to the British Museum, with a promise that he's going to "make things right." But all does not go according to plan: Carter and Sadie watch as Julius summons a mysterious figure, who quickly banishes their father and causes a fiery explosion.

Soon Carter and Sadie discover that the gods of Ancient Egypt are waking, and the worst of them—Set—has a frightening scheme. To save their father, they must embark on a dangerous journey—a quest that brings them ever closer to the truth about their family and its links to the House of Life, a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs.

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

Brian is on his way to Canada to visit his estranged father when the pilot of his small prop plane suffers a heart attack. Brian is forced to crash-land the plane in a lake--and finds himself stranded in the remote Canadian wilderness with only his clothing and the hatchet his mother gave him as a present before his departure.

Brian had been distraught over his parents' impending divorce and the secret he carries about his mother, but now he is truly desolate and alone. Exhausted, terrified, and hungry, Brian struggles to find food and make a shelter for himself. He has no special knowledge of the woods, and he must find a new kind of awareness and patience as he meets each day's challenges. Is the water safe to drink? Are the berries he finds poisonous?

Slowly, Brian learns to turn adversity to his advantage--an invading porcupine unexpectedly shows him how to make fire, a devastating tornado shows him how to retrieve supplies from the submerged airplane. Most of all, Brian leaves behind the self-pity he has felt about his predicament as he summons the courage to stay alive.

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell

On San Nicolas Island, dolphins flash in the surrounding blue waters, sea otter play in the vast kelp beds, and sea elephants loll on the stony beaches. Here, in the early 1800s, a girl named Karana spent eighteen years alone.

Karana had to contend with the ferocious pack of wild dogs that killed her younger brother, constantly guard against Aleutian sea otter hunters, and maintain a precarious food supply. Her courage, self-reliance, and grit has inspired millions of readers in this breathtaking adventure.

Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

Leo Borlock follows the unspoken rule at Mica Area High School: don't stand out--under any circumstances! Then Stargirl arrives at Mica High and everything changes--for Leo and for the entire school. After 15 years of home schooling, Stargirl bursts into tenth grade in an explosion of color and a clatter of ukulele music, enchanting the Mica student body.

But the delicate scales of popularity suddenly shift, and Stargirl is shunned for everything that makes her different. Somewhere in the midst of Stargirl's arrival and rise and fall, normal Leo Borlock has tumbled into love with her.

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

For Milo, everything’s a bore. When a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his room, he drives through only because he’s got nothing better to do. But on the other side, things seem different. Milo visits the Island of Conclusions (you get there by jumping), learns about time from a ticking watchdog named Tock, and even embarks on a quest to rescue Rhyme and Reason! Somewhere along the way, Milo realizes something astonishing. Life is far from dull. In fact, it’s exciting beyond his wildest dreams. . . .

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

As a young horse, Black Beauty is well-loved and happy. But when his owner is forced to sell him, his life changes drastically. He has many new owners—some of them cruel and some of them kind. All he needs is someone to love him again....

Whether pulling an elegant carriage or a ramshackle cab, Black Beauty tries to live as best he can. This is his amazing story, told as only he could tell it.

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

Doomed to - or blessed with - eternal life after drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck family wanders about trying to live as inconspicuously and comfortably as they can. When ten-year-old Winnie Foster stumbles on their secret, the Tucks take her home and explain why living forever at one age is less a blessing that it might seem. Complications arise when Winnie is followed by a stranger who wants to market the spring water for a fortune.

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hii you said you have a list of books you think jason would have liked(?) i am asking you for your list boy 👁️👁️

SO glad you asked, here's my list of the books I think tiny Jason Todd would have acquired as battered paperbacks and scribbled his name into the front covers and turned into jagged fractures of his own identity:

Matilda, Roald Dahl

The Guns of Navarone, Alistair McLean

Hatchet, Gary Paulsen

Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury

The Outlaws of Sherwood, Robin McKinley

Mort, Terry Pratchett

Parsifal's Page, G. Morris

Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O'Dell

Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card

Chu Ju's House, Gloria Whelan

The Book Thief, Markus Zusak

Maniac Magee, Jerry Spinelli

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Gary Cooper and Lauren Bacall, Bright Leaf, 1950

"'Coop' was one of the most attractive men I've ever seen, with his cornflowerblue eyes. He was a pro, but not always on time. One morning he was late and Mike was livid - so much so that he screamed at me. He wouldn't dare let go at Coop, knowing he'd just walk off the set. Now I have never handled myself well in screaming situations. I become inarticulate, usually cry. On this occasion with his ranting and raxing - 'Goddamn actor-bum!' - I took myself tearfully to my dressing room. Finally Coop arrived, not all that late, and Mike was all over him: 'Gary, dahling, how are you - how do you feel?' Coop knew that Mike was full of it, but played the game."

-Lauren Bacall, By Myself and Then Some

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THEY'RE DONE ✨

my borderlands OCs: an eridian fanatic / eridian weapon replica manufacturer, a former FPS e-sports champion turned vault hunter, and a disillusioned guardian who bears resentment towards eridians for his lack of purpose following their extinction

(& their dog)

+ bonus: jensen's body at various key stages. he's been muscular from young adulthood due to being a dahl marine (lost legion combat medic).

[+ I just didn't want to edit the base too much bc this ref already took me way too long lmfao]

some bonus info under the cut!

JENSEN: ((33, he/him)) vault hunter, unofficial researcher, & traveling salesman who specializes in making extremely accurate replicas of eridian guns to make them more widely available to the public. carries his wares in a modified eridian fabricator. a former lost legion combat medic, his obsession with all things eridian began when he met the watcher and was invited into the vault of the sentinel alongside zarpedon and the rest of her soldiers. aka my new favorite gary stu. an accomplished researcher, especially due to his guardian companion's insider knowledge, he could probably teach tannis a few new facts and theories, but at the very least he could keep up in a discussion with her

MIKEY: ((26, he/him)) the biggest name in the competitive scene for his game of choice, he grew bored of being the best, and longed for a real challenge. (he would probably be a borderline zer0 kinnie if zer0 wasn't a real person in universe lmfao) so he traded his mouse and keyboard for a sniper rifle and set off to do the improbable: open vaults. (and try 360 no scopes in real life. so far he's only managed to fall on his ass) says things like "newb" and "ggez" when he kills someone.

THE DESERTER: ((predates the landing at nekrotafeyo, he/him, less frequently they/them)) formerly "the archivist", his initial purpose was keeping written records of key historical moments in eridian history. most of their work was destroyed preceding the wipe of eridians from human memory. when the extinction came, he was supposed to stand vigil alongside the watcher and record one final record, though it was to be hidden within a vault. he couldn't watch them all sacrifice themselves, however, and abandoned his post, making his new name the last thing he was ever given by his creators. now, lacking a purpose and growing irrational resentment for being abandoned by their creators, they travel the galaxy with an eridian fanatic, and drip feed him information (can't be TOO forthcoming, he's still an irritatingly cryptic guardian 80% of the time)

RIPLEY: ((adult skag approx 3-4 yrs, female)) simply a baby. very tame and docile towards allies but violently protective. presumably domesticated and selectively bred for her small stature and lack of pointy spines. was abandoned by her previous owners for reasons unknown, and jensen discovered her starving on the outskirts of a town on pandora. likes belly rubs. knows the word treat so you have to spell it out around her unless you want her to lose her mind.

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Birthdays 8.11

Beer Birthdays

William K. “Bill” Coors (1916)

Greg Kitsock (1956)

Conrad Seidl (1958)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Dik Browne; cartoonist (1917)

Alex Haley; writer (1921)

Chris Hemsworth; Australian actor (1983)

Joe Jackson; rock pianist, songwriter (1955)

Steve Wozniak; Apple co-founder (1950)

Famous Birthdays

David Atchison; railroad mogul, politician (1807)

Enid Blyton; writer (1897)

Louise Bogan; poet (1897)

Erik Brann; rock guitarist, singer (1950)

David Brooks; journalist (1961)

Melky Cabrera; San Francisco Giants OF (1984)

Eric Carmen; rock musician (1949)

Arlene Dahl; actor (1924)

Viola Davis; actor (1965)

Mike Douglas; television talk show host (1925)

Jerry Falwell; preacher, hypocrite, wingnut (1933)

Mavis Gallant; Canadian writer (1922)

Martin Johnson Heade; artist (1819)

Hulk Hogan; wrestler (1953)

Robert G. Ingersoll; writer (1833)

Friedrich Ludwig Jahn; father of gymnastics (1778)

Bob Lacey; comedian (1946)

Jim Lee; Korean comic book artist (1964)

Gari Melchers; artist (1860)

Carolyn Murphy; model (1973)

Philip Phillips; archeologist (1900)

Gifford Pinchot; environmentalist (1865)

Vida Pinson; Cincinnati Reds CF (1938)

Nikki Randall; porn actor (1964)

Joe Rogan; comedian (1967)

Carl Rowan; journalist (1925)

Pablo Sandoval; San Francisco Giants 3B (1986)

Marilyn vos Savant; writer, columnist (1946)

Jah Wobble; rock bassist (1958)

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After the success of the Pet Rock, Gary Dahl unsuccessfully tried marketing "Sand Breeding Kits" and "Red China Dirt".

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Patricia Neal by Truus, Bob & Jan too! Via Flickr: Vintage postcard. Photo: Warner Bros. American actress Patricia Neal (1928-2010) won both an Oscar and a Tony Award. In the first part of her film career, her most impressive roles were in The Fountainhead (1949), opposite Gary Cooper, and the Sci-Fi classic, The Day the Earth stood still (1951). In 1953, she married writer, Roald Dahl and they would have five children in 30 years of marriage. After appearing in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), she won the Best Actress Oscar for her role in Hud (1963) opposite Paul Newman. Patricia Neal was born Patsy Louise Neal in Packard, Kentucky, in 1926. Her father, William Burdette Neal, managed a coal mine and her mother, Eura Mildred Petrey, was the daughter of the town doctor. Patsy grew up, with her two siblings, Pete and Margaret Ann, in Knoxville, Tennessee, where she attended high school. She was first bit by the acting bug at the age of 10, after attending an evening of monologues at a Methodist church. She subsequently wrote a letter to Santa Claus, telling him, "What I want for Christmas is to study dramatics". She won the Tennessee State Award for dramatic reading while she was in high school. She apprenticed at the Barter Theater in Abingdon, Virginia, when she was 16 years old, between her junior and senior years in high school. After studying drama for two years at Northwestern University, she headed to New York City. Her first job was as an understudy in the Broadway production of the John Van Druten play 'The Voice of the Turtle' (1947). It was the producer of the play that had her change her name from Patsy Louise to Patricia. After replacing Vivian Vance in the touring company of 'Turtle', she won a role in a play that closed in Boston and then appeared in summer stock. She won the role of the teenage Regina in Lillian Hellman's play, 'Another Part of the Forest' (1946), a prequel to 'The Little Foxes', for which she won a Tony Award in 1947. According to IMDb, she was visited backstage by Tallulah Bankhead - who had played the middle-aged Regina in the original Broadway production of Hellman's 'The Little Foxes' - and told Neal, "Dahling, you were as good as I was - and if I said you were half as good, it would [still] have been a hell of a compliment!" The role made the 20-year-old Neal a star. Subsequently, Neal signed a seven-year contract with Warner Bros. In the first part of her film career, her most impressive roles were in The Fountainhead (King Vidor, 1949), opposite the much older Gary Cooper, with whom she had a three-year-long love affair, and in director Robert Wise's Sci-Fi classic, The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), which she made at 20th Century-Fox. Her affair with the married Cooper led to an abortion and nervous collapse. It quickened her decision to leave Hollywood. She returned to Broadway and achieved the success that eluded her in films, appearing in the revival of Lillian Hellman's play, 'The Children's Hour', in 1952. She met writer Roald Dahl in 1953 at a formal party, and they were married nine months later. The couple would have five children in 30 years of marriage. In 1957, Patricia Neal had one of her finest roles in Elia Kazan's parable about the threat of mass-media demagoguery and home-grown fascism in A Face in the Crowd (1957). Before she appeared in the movie, Neal had taken over the role of Maggie in Tennessee Williams' 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof', the Broadway smash that had been directed by Kazan. Returning to the stage, she appeared in the London production of Williams' 'Suddenly, Last Summer' and co-starred with Anne Bancroft in the Broadway production of 'The Miracle Worker'. After appearing opposite Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard in Breakfast at Tiffany's (Blake Edwards, 1961), she had what was arguably her finest role, as Alma the housekeeper, in Hud (Martin Ritt, 1963) opposite Paul Newman. The film was a hit and Neal won the Best Actress Oscar. She co-starred with John Wayne and Kirk Douglas in the war film In Harm's Way (Otto Preminger, 1965). In 1965, she suffered a series of strokes. Variety", the entertainment newspaper, mistakenly reported in their 22 February 1965 headline that Patricia Neal had died from her multiple strokes five days earlier. In truth, she remained in a coma for 21 days. She was filming John Ford's film, 7 Women (1965), and had to be replaced by Anne Bancroft. Neal was pregnant at the time. She underwent a seven-hour operation on her brain and survived, later delivering her fifth child. Her daughter, Lucy Dahl, was born healthy, but in its aftermath, the actress suffered from partial paralysis, and partial blindness, she lost her memory and was unable to speak. She underwent rehabilitation supervised by her husband. He designed her strenuous and intense recovery routines, including swimming, walking, memory games and crossword puzzles. Her experiences led to her becoming a champion in the rehabilitation field. She turned down The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967) as she had not recovered fully from her stroke. When she returned to the screen, in The Subject Was Roses (1968), she suffered from memory problems. According to her director, Ulu Grosbard, "The memory element was the uncertain one. But when we started to shoot, she hit her top level. She really rises to the challenge. She has great range, even more now than before". She received an Oscar nomination for her work. Subsequently, new acting roles equal to her talent were sparse. Patricia Neal received three Emmy nominations, the first for originating the role of Olivia Walton in the TV movie The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (Fielder Cook, 1971), which gave birth to the TV show The Waltons (1972). One of her last films was the comedy Cookie's Fortune (Robert Altman, 1999) with Glenn Close and Julianne Moore. Patricia Neal died in 2010 in Edgarton, Massachusetts from lung cancer. She was 84 years old. She had become a Catholic four months before she died and was buried in the Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem, Connecticut, where the actress Dolores Hart, her friend since the early 1960s, had become a nun and ultimately prioress. Neal and Dahl's ordeal and ultimate victory over her illness were told in the television film The Patricia Neal Story (Anthony Harvey, Anthony Page, 1981), starring Glenda Jackson and Dirk Bogarde. After he played such a strong and devoted role in her physical and mental recovery from her paralytic illness, Neal divorced her husband, Roald Dahl, in 1983 after discovering his long-term affair with her former close friend, Felicity 'Liccy' Crosland. Dahl and Crosland married shortly after his divorce from Neal became final, and remained wed until Dahl's death. Neal and Dahl had five children: Ophelia Dahl, Lucy Dahl, Theo Dahl, Tessa Dahl, and Olivia Twenty Dahl (1955-1962), who died suddenly from complications of measles encephalitis at the age of seven. The story of Olivia's death and how Neal and Dahl coped with the tragedy was dramatised as a made-for-TV movie, To Olivia (John Hay, 2020). Neal and Dahl had numerous grandchildren. Patricia Neal always refused to reveal the name of her second husband, the man she married after her divorce from Roahl Dahl. Sources: Jon C. Hopwood (IMDb), Wikipedia (Dutch and English) and IMDb. And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.

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Where every player played during the 1994-95 NHL lockout: Calgary

Czech Extraliga: František Musil (H.K. Sparta Praha) DEL: Robert Reichel (Frankfurt L��wen) IHL (Russia): Nikolai Borschevsky (K.K. Spartak Moscow) NL: Phil Housley (Zürcher S.C.) OHL: Jamie Allison (Detroit Jr. Red Wings) IHL: Steve Konroyd (Chicago Wolves) & Rick Tabaracci (Chicago Wolves) Liiga: Theo Fleury (Tampereen Tappara), Michael Nylander (J.Y.P.) & German Titov (Turun Palloseura) AHL: Joël Bouchard (Saint John Flames), Neil Eisenhut (Saint John Flames), Len Esau (Saint John Flames), William Greig (Saint John Flames), Cory Stillman (Saint John Flames) & Ed Ward (Cornwall Aces/Saint John Flames) Didn't Play: Steve Chiasson, Kevin Dahl, Todd Hlushko, Dan Keczmer, Sheldon Kennedy, Trevor Kidd, Kelvin Kisio, Paul Kruse, Alan May, Sandy McCarthy, Scott Morrow, Jason Muzzatti, Barry Nieckar, Joe Nieuwendyk, Joel Otto, James Patrick, Jim Peplinski, Gary Roberts, Ronnie Stern, Mike Sullivan, Andrei Trefilov, Vesa Viitakoski, Wes Walz, Trent Yawney & Zarley Zalapski

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Gary Lesley in the news

To quote Gary Lesley himself:

Crisman, Dahl, Maury Island, JFK's murder, tapped phones, rerouted opened mail, strange unannounced people appearing at my and my parent's apartment back in the late 1960s! And now, this recent discovery at podcastufo.com! Merseyside Bulletin, a UK zine, was where I announced the end of UAPRO in early 1970. It just never ends. Will it ever end out there? 

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Propaganda

Tallulah Bankhead (Lifeboat, Devil and the Deep, The Cheat)— Fierce, outspoken, uninhibited, and witty. An amazing actress who strongly supported civil rights and was unashamed of her sexuality.

Dinah Sheridan (Genevieve, The Railway Children)— It kills me that this absolutely stunning jewel of a woman felt compelled to cut short her career, just at the point that Genevieve was flinging her into the stratosphere, because she married the managing director of Rank film company (the one whose logo is the strong man hitting the huge gong) and he made her give up her career. Made a comeback in 1970 to play the mother in the railway children (starring jenny agutter), but how much luminous work did we lose? Oh I can't bear it.

This is round 1 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

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Tallulah:

please read the personal life section of this woman’s wikipedia. a bisexual (or ambisextrous as she called herself) legend

She was bisexual. About her film The Devil and the Deep she said 'Dahling, the only reason I accepted that part was to fuck that divine Gary Cooper'.

Dinah:

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Hi everyone, this was a mistake on my part! The Kane Chronicles are not supposed to be here as they were in the last competition. Any votes for them will be counted as "see results" votes when it comes to calculated if any books are outright eliminated, and if they end up winning, second place will be taken instead.

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From Ridicule to Riches: Business Ideas That Defied the Critics

In the world of entrepreneurship, some business ideas faced ridicule and skepticism initially but later transformed into successful ventures. Here are inspiring stories of businesses that defied the odds: 1. Pet Rock Craze: In the 1970s, Gary Dahl marketed pet rocks, selling them as ideal, low-maintenance pets. Despite initial mockery, the pet rock fad became a phenomenon, earning Dahl millions in sales. 2. The Snuggie Sensation: Initially mocked as a quirky blanket with sleeves, the Snuggie became a cultural phenomenon. Commercials showing people using it at sporting events and while lounging turned it into a bestseller, proving skeptics wrong. 3. Airbnb: When Airbnb started, critics doubted the idea of strangers staying in others' homes. However, the platform revolutionized travel accommodations, offering unique experiences, and today, it's a global giant in the hospitality industry. 4. Crocs Footwear: Crocs, the colorful foam clogs, faced ridicule for their unconventional design. However, they found a niche market among chefs and medical professionals due to their comfort. Over time, Crocs expanded their designs and became widely popular. 5. The Segway Scooter: Hyped as a revolutionary mode of transportation, the Segway faced mockery initially. While it didn’t entirely revolutionize cities, it found its place in tourism, law enforcement, and niche urban transport markets. 6. Shake Weight Fitness Device: The Shake Weight, an unconventional dumbbell with a shaking motion, was met with widespread ridicule. Despite the initial laughter, clever marketing and infomercials helped it gain attention, making it a profitable product. 7. The Pet Translator App: An app claiming to translate pet sounds into human language was met with skepticism. While not literal translation, these apps gathered a following among pet owners, embracing the fun and bonding it offered. 8. The Edible Insect Industry: Eating insects was once a taboo idea in many cultures. However, with sustainability concerns rising, companies promoting insect-based protein products faced ridicule initially. Today, these products are gaining acceptance due to their eco-friendly nature. 9. The Fidget Spinner Craze: Initially marketed as a tool to aid concentration, fidget spinners faced criticism as a passing fad. However, they became incredibly popular, especially among students, providing a simple yet effective stress-relief mechanism. 10. Online Influencer Marketing: In its early days, many questioned the effectiveness of online influencers. Skeptics doubted their impact on consumers. Over time, influencers became integral to digital marketing, shaping trends and driving sales for various brands. FAQs: Q1: Were there any successful businesses that faced extreme criticism before becoming successful? A1: Yes, several businesses, including Crocs, Airbnb, and the Snuggie, faced mockery initially but later became highly successful ventures, proving critics wrong. Q2: What lessons can entrepreneurs learn from these stories? A2: Entrepreneurs should believe in their vision, adapt to market feedback, and be resilient. Innovation and understanding evolving consumer needs can turn initial skepticism into success. Q3: How did the pet rock become a profitable business despite its simplicity? A3: Clever marketing and positioning the pet rock as a humorous, low-maintenance pet appealed to consumers' sense of novelty, leading to its widespread adoption and profitability. Q4: What role did effective marketing play in the success of these businesses? A4: Effective marketing, especially through creative advertising and online platforms, played a significant role in changing public perception and driving acceptance for these unconventional ideas. Q5: Are there other examples of businesses that overcame initial ridicule? A5: Yes, various industries have stories of businesses facing ridicule initially, such as Apple’s early computers and electric cars, which are now mainstream and widely accepted. These examples highlight the power of innovation and perseverance. Read the full article

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La increíble historia de Gary Dahl, el emprendedor que vendió millones de rocas como mascotas

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