My favorite thing about Original D.A.R.E. is that tobacco and alcohol mega-corps helped fund it. Maybe they funded all of it. I don’t remember.
“Hey! Don’t use THEIR drugs!! Use OUR drugs!!” 
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My favorite thing about D.A.R.E. was the display case full of drugs and paraphernalia that the police officer brought into our classroom. He was trying to warn us what to look out for if we found any of that stuff laying on the ground somewhere, I guess. However, if you tell a kid that here is a collection of lots of powerful, expensive, and dangerous things, all in one place, they’re going to think, “wow! that’s cool!”
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Before D.A.R.E., I took lots of juvenile anti-drug books out of the library.
(This was still in the 1980s. I’m old, Sonny. 
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My folks thought I was being conscientious, I’m sure.
Mostly I dug the artwork (very post-psychedelic in the glitzier productions) and the exploitation-style stories in the fiction anthologies. Also, drugs had really clever nicknames.
No one else read that stuff for the cornball happy endings, either I bet. 
DARE gave me a legit drug-phobia that lasts to this day. I don’t even like to take allergy medicine. So I guess you could say it KINDA worked? Kept me clean, at least.
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That was exactly my reaction to the case. “That looks awesome!”
I remember they also told me not to pick up little pieces of paper with cartoon characters on them. I guess they thought people were just leaving tabs of LSD in random places?
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This reminds me of a lesson I learned in politics (not going to discuss specifics). Don’t start iterating, because no one will let you stop.
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Well, looking at Da Vinci (the real one, not the one from Oxnard), I think you can argue for a direct link between Art and Science.
Architects were in my art school. They draw stuff, and they always look/sound kinda’ science-y, what with their love of perspective and numbers and stuff.
And then there’s… Measuring Man. [boing-boing noises]
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Architecture is just art you live in. Why does no one get that? – Jacob Stone (The Librarians)
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“Sure, it funnels all the rain into the house, but look at those curves!”
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[indignant sigh]
“WELL, I STILL WANT ONE!!”
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They were just trying to spare you the life-scarring, mind-altering horrors which kids of my generation were frequently subjected to.
For example (viewer discretion is advised)
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Golly. The inflation calculator says that the knife would cost either 4,387 comics, or $8.77 and 117 comics. Sounds like a bargain.
Edit to add - Amazon sells Bazooka in a 225 piece tub for $15.98, or 7 cents/piece, more or less. So 4,387 comics (ie pieces) would cost $307, and 117 comics comes in at $8.19, plus $8.77 = $16.96.
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Hungry Herman sucks and deserves a memorable whuppin.
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I’m afraid I was not spared that horror.
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I was thinking about 90s arcades earlier and remembered another of the infamous FMV games that cost like an entire dollar for each credit. They were always interestesting, but I’d generally keep an eye out for someone else dumping their money into it instead of wasting my own.
Specifically, I remembered Time Traveller, which was also a hologram, like Star Wars chess! The only place I ever saw this was at the big arcade/go-kart/batting cage place across town.
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In the entire history of the world, did anyone ever really save up and send away for one of these premiums?
Oh wow, I haven’t thought about that game in years. I really enjoyed it.
Do you remember Dactyl Nightmare, the first big commercial VR game? They did it in malls and the like. The lines were huge.
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Wasn’t that a Freakazoid episode? This must have not made it to my part of the world.
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Not quite, it was a parody of that though.
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