Last month, an anonymous reader asked about the Wigwam jingle. “The Wigwam stores in Hawaii had a song that played in the ...

In Sanskrit, the word for a tooth, a bird and a Brahmin is the same ... ten (+1) things that Mr. Market taught me in 2024. In a roaring bull market, having an investment memory can be a handicap.

"I feel like Mr. Potato Head," said Jenny Feldman ... "staying away" from any treatment that permanently changes the teeth, bite, or jaw. "I would say that the treatments overall have not been ...

Fun toy history fact: Mr. and Mrs. POTATO HEAD (the honorifics were dropped ... grid and the many options for parts (e.g., smile/mouth/teeth for the same “part”) would have made this easy ...

To get a better understanding of this era, check out the vintage ad for Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head above. When Mr. Potato Head hit shelves in 1952, customers were expected to provide their own potato.

They then check the parts available for Mr. Potato Head and replace its mouth with one with teeth. The green machine immediately starts to sing a similar song, just with a crucial word change.

But the advent of television changes all this. And the first two ads to go this route are for the perennial classic Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head. So why did the Potato Heads go from organic to plastic?

Whatever the motivation, days of national teeth-gnashing erupted ... Now they’ve come for Mr. Potato Head. While attempting to correct sins of the past we frequently err in the opposite ...