Weird '80s Menswear Brand Provides 23 Tips For Avoiding Marriage

1. Cricketeer was apparently a menswear brand (around in the '70s and '80s) that created some very...uh, interesting ads. Like this one, giving you "23 Ways to Avoid Marrying the Girl."

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2. Here they are.

1. At a really passionate moment, call her "Mommy."

2. Tell her you owe $83,000, but with her help you know you'll work it out somehow, someday.

3. Say you'd love to get married as soon as you've rid the galaxy of the Venusian invaders.

4. Call her at 4:27 a.m. on a Sunday morning and ask if she can think of a 12-letter word beginning with 'A' meaning 'Before the Flood'.

5. Ask if she'd mind changing clothes with you.

6. Scratch constantly. Explain that the dermatologist says it's not catching unless the little flakes of skin actually touch somebody.

7. Give her a 550 lb. set of barbells for an engagement present.

8. Tell her that your python is the cleanest of pets.

9. Plant a "how to avoid wetting your bed," book in your apartment.

10. Insist that she walks three paces behind you.

11. Say that your mother, the interior decorator, must live with you.

12. Sing "Melancholy Baby" constantly.

13. Spend hours and hours showing her your voluminous stamp collection.

14. Tell her that your favorite author is the Marquis de Sade.

15. Give her a gift of mouth wash.

16. Say that while your mother and father are first cousins, you're perfectly okay.

17. Ask her if she minds your spending one evening a week with your first wife.

18. Make a pass at her mother.

19. Her father?

20. Say that you're 99% sure that your mother will allow you to marry her.

21. Tell her you took out large insurance policies on all your wives.

22. Rent a Rolls Royce Phantom Mk XIII, take her for a ride and ask her if she gets a kick out of doing the town in a stolen car.

23. Confess your quirk.

3. Here is another Cricketeer ad. It is not an advice ad. I do not know what type of ad it is.

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Is It Possible For Clothes To Be TOO '80s?

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Remember when Balmain showed overpriced distressed jeans, some elegantly upturned shoulder pads, and a few tight dresses that look amazing on models but no one else? Yeah, that stuff is like from a bygone era compared to Thursday's fall 2013 show in Paris... which ALSO appears to be from a bygone era.

"'More is more' has been the inferred house motto, but sometimes enough is enough," wroteWWD, sneering at what the paper called the collection's "parody of Eighties nouveau pastiche." There's really only one way to assess the merit of that review, and that is, by going directly to '80s icons themselves to find out what they thought of the show.

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'80s Sarah Jessica Parker is aghast at the amount of metallic and texture.

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'80s Melanie "Working Girl" Griffith is trying to think of a polite way to suggest models wear a pants or skirt, but not both.

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'80s Renee Simonsen would like to trade her purple outfit for that purple runway look.

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'80s Brooke Shields doesn't feel comfortable commenting.

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'80s Molly Ringwald just doesn't understand why someone would want to wear a sweater that prohibits all arm movement.

Al
o: metallic harem pants.

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'80s Kelly Kapowski prefers her midriff to a super-wide, shiny belt.

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'80s Grace Jones is totally loving all of this.

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'80s Prince likes it but kind of has mixed feelings.

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'80s Madonna is embarrassed that she never wore anything like this someplace really serious, like the Oscars.

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The 9 Most Profound Gaming Confessions

1. The Gamer Who Loves Horses Too Much

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2. The Gamer Who Chose Games Over Friends—With No Regrets

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3. The Gamer Who Is Sick of Mario Kart Nostalgia and Isn't Going To Take it Any More

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4. The Gamer Who Is Anxious but Hides it Well

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5. The Gamer Who Beats the Blues with Zelda Music

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6. The Gamer WIth Too Many Feelings for His/Her Nintendogs

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7. The Gamer Who Played the Wrong Game

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8. The Gamer With the Oedipus Complex

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9. The Gamer Who Owes a lot to Uncharted

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Someone Made An Exact Physical Replica Of The Pip-Boy 3000 From Fallout

Here's what it looks like in the Fallout games:

And here is what the one made by prop designer Zachariah Perry looks like:

What is our nation's highest medal of honor? Whatever it is, give it to this guy. Source: zachariahperry.com / via: geektyrant.com

And it works!

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What It Was Like Trying To Find Something On The Internet In The '90s

1. You need to find something. First, you're like: Screw this shit.

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2. You could go to the library, but they're NEVER OPEN.

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3. Dad's Encyclopedia Britannica collection? Books: ugh.

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4. So you try looking on Yahoo. Ugh...what is all this random stuff?

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5. Maybe Excite will be better? No...

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6. You should try HotBot. They update their listings WAY more often. (Or so I hear.)

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7. Did you try Lycos? It's one of those crawler ones. You want the crawl.

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8. What about InfoSeek? They have...what's it called? Hooligan? Oh, Boolean. Yeah, they have that.

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9. Still nothing? What about AltaVista. They have all the sites. I think.

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10. Why aren't you searching on Dogpile. Hello! They take the searches from all the other searches and then it's all the stuff.

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11. Ugh, that was overwhelming. There's this refined gentleman who appears to know a lot. Did you Ask Jeeves? You did? Yeah,
his answers kind of suck.

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12. Well there is this new thing I heard of called...Google? I know Goo-gle. Hahahaha.

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13. Getting closer? You can always check this book. Or call 411. Or just ask your cool history teacher who knows everything.

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10 Things You Didn't Know About The National Security Agency Surveillance Program

The program, known by its unclassified nickname "Stellar Wind," is code named "RAGTIME."

1. Who has access?

Only about 3 dozen NSA officials have access to the intercept data from RAGTIME's domestic counter-terrorism collection operation.

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2. Who contributes to the program?

As many as 50 companies have provided data to the program

3. How does it collect data?

In order to collect on a target, the NSA needs one additional piece of evidence besides its own proprietary link-analysis protocols which assigns probability scores to each potential target.

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4. How does it interact with NSA?

Although the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court rarely rejects RAGTIME-P requests, it often asks the NSA to provide more information before it approves them.

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5. What is program XKEYSCORE?

At Fort Meade, a program called XKEYSCORE processes all signals before they are shunted off to various "production lines" that deal with specific issues. PINWALE is the main NSA database for recorded signals intercepts. It is compartmentalized by keywords (the NSA calls them "selectors"). Metadata is stored in a database called MARINA and is generally retained for five years.

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6. How do they access reporting?

"Finished reporting," or transcripts and analysis of calls, is accessed through the MAUI database. (Metadata is never included in MAUI.) There are dozens of other NSA signals activity lines, or SIGADS, that process data in parallel. Among the active databases and systems: ANCHORY, an all-source database for communications intelligence; HOMEBASE, which allows analysts to coordinate their searches with DNI mission priorities; AIRGAP, which deals with priority DOD missions; WRANGLER, which focuses on electronic intelligence; TINMAN, a database related to air warning and surveillance; OILSTOCK, a system for analyzing air warning and surveillance data; and many more.[i]

7. How does the FBI interact with the program?

The Bush Administration believed that the program was highly protected, and instructed the NSA to share only the most essential data with the FBI. But the FBI had "read in" more than 500 of its special agents. Had policy-makers been aware of this, sharing the RAGTIME data and its sources would have been much more efficient and would have allowed the FBI to separate the wheat from the chaff must more easily.

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8. What happened with the New York Times?

NSA Director Michael Hayden was secretly pleased that the New York Times withheld significant details of the program when the articles revealing it were first published, but he play-acted in public, castigating the Times for their indiscretion.

9. How does NSA know if something is wrong with the attorney general?

The set-up to the famous hospital-room confrontation between White House counsel Alberto Gonzales and ailing Attorney General John Ashcroft : James Comey, as acting attorney general, refused to affix his signature to a specific set of certifications provided by the Justice Department to Internet, financial and data companies, believing that the justification for providing the bulk data to the NSA was not sufficient. The White House panicked, because they worried that the companies would simply stop cooperating with the NSA if they suddenly didn't see the signature of attorney general. They would know that something was wrong.

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10. What does Congress think about surveillance laws?

Congress repeatedly resisted the entreaties of the Bush Administration to change the surveillance laws once the RAGTIME program had been institutionalized. This was for a simple reason: they did not want to be responsible for a program that was not legal.

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