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AYDS was an appetite-suppressing candy and normal people everywhere were proud scat-braggers.
Hurrah for customer-pleasing Savings to Checking Automatic Transfer plans, and thank you, World of Wonder (and whoever’s responsible for making sure that line of ad text was rendered in all caps).
David Schmader—former weed columnist and Stranger associate editor—is the author of the solo plays Straight and Letter to Axl, which he’s performed in Seattle and across the US. His latest... More by David Schmader
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Virginia is for (poop) lovers.
5%. Damn.
5% interest. I’ll deal with the funny acronym anytime for that interest rate on savings.
The post about Pee-Wee Herman got me thinking about the ’80s earlier. Yes, it was an exceedingly strange decade.
Gull wing hair
I’m a fan of Peanut Butter Ayds.
I ate Ayds (but back in the ’70s) chocolate-flavored, more like a candy gone rancid, rather than an “appetite suppressant.”
Some college roommate had a box which, I suppose, could have been easily countered by the then ubiquitous brownies laced with hash/grass.
I remember busting into my mom’s cache of AYDS–because they were essentially *candy*. She later switched to Dexatrim–as did I (just for fun, not because I wanted to lose weight).
SCAT is what Topeka called a division of the local police force…I think it stood for “Street Crime Action Team” or something similarly lame in a 70’s crime show sort of way…
I fucking loved the chocolate AYDS candies. Mom got so pissed at me for eating all of them!! YUMMY!!!
http://www.skat.org/
Nobody was a “proud scat-bragger” back in the 80’s.
How old are you Schmader???????
Are you arguing with evidence of the featured ad?
Also, no chicken has ever crossed a road.
The unfortunately-named SCAT bus passes my dorm all the time… http://www.scgov.net/SCAT/
@13 – of course not.
Chickens are into Voodoo, not Christianity.
Ha! This reminds me of the Somerville Cable Access Television sign in Somerville, MA (not kidding).
Of course, Canada briefly had a major party called the Conservative Reform Alliance Party. They later dropped the R, then the A, and now you have Stephen Harper who, as sitting prime minister, eats babies.
I had an account with them when I lived in Virginia, but that was the 90s and their acronyms weren’t nearly as funny.
That is hilarious. My mom worked for FVB for 20 years before they were bought out by another megabank. I would send this to her but then I would have to explain what scat is!