Size is no guarantee of survival or longevity in business. From a 1994 peak of 2,323 locations, the USA version of K-Mart has most recently been reduced to 3 stores in the continental US. This article from Mental Floss records the latest closure, and the decline of the iconic big red K. K-Mart Australia is …
I don’t want a KFC Chicken Sandwich Snuggler Pillow. Pillow Pets in the USA are going to make them I also think it costs a ridiculous amount. But here it is anyway.
No Olympics would be complete without a viewing of Chariots Of Fire. While it takes liberties with the historical facts, it does so for reasons of dramatic tension, not to radically misrepresent the character of those whose story it tells. The Olympics themselves seem obsessed with creating and feeding their self-narrative as an entity. Chariots …
John Cornell was a clever man who rose to fame playing ‘Strop’, Paul Hogan’s awkward, mumbling sidekick. Not only did he manage Hogan’s rise in fame, he was instrumental in starting Kerry Packer’s World Series Cricket, helped create the wildly successful Crocodile Dundee, and married the gorgeous Delvene Delaney (something amazing to those who grew …
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