# Stupid things sold on TV

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-things-sold-on-tv/21575>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 6, 2000, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-things-sold-on-tv/21575 "2000-06-06T18:18:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Vestal\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5e9695/32.png) [@Vestal\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vestal_Blue)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2000, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-things-sold-on-tv/21575/41 "2000-06-07T23:29:17Z")

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Let’s not forget Suzanne Sommers and her line of idiotic exercise equipment.

Thighmaster, my butt!

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**Author:** ![Koffing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@Koffing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koffing)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2000, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-things-sold-on-tv/21575/42 "2000-06-08T01:08:15Z")

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**Trumpy303** wrote:

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> Sunshine: CVS is a drugstore that used to be Revco.  
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Did CVS buy Revco? Anyway, Revco and CVS co-existed as separate entities at one time. We used to have both in this area.

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**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2000, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-things-sold-on-tv/21575/43 "2000-06-08T14:33:12Z")

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I feel I should mention that I was in JC Penney’s yesterday and saw a number of boxes (and one display model, eeeuuughhhh) of _a cheap knockoff of the Boogie Bass_. That’s right, another company, believing that demand will be so high that the market will bear TWO singing bass companies, has ripped off the Bass and is churning out their own breed of singing rubber fish.

I was, to say the least, appalled.

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2000, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-things-sold-on-tv/21575/44 "2000-06-08T14:52:23Z")

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They are now selling painted state quarters. Yes, they  
have painted the first six in brillant day-glo colors.  
Really ridiculous.

I am collecting the quarters. I figure there’s worst  
things to do with 10 years and $12.50.

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**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2000, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-things-sold-on-tv/21575/45 "2000-06-08T15:17:59Z")

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Annie, that reminds me of an article in a recent “Onion”

“Rare quarter is worth 26 cents!”

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