re: #109 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Ran across a Moon landing denier on FB who confused Moon rocks with Pet Rocks. Said he remembered the commercials for Moon rocks and the dumb displays for them in the toy section at K-Mart, and how stupid everyone thought it was

I was wondering how the hell anyone could get that mixed up, then I went and looked it up and saw that the Pet Rock craze was a six-month, one-shot fad in 1975. From about June ‘75 until Xmas of that same year and then the fad was pretty much over.

Damn good marketing, though; classic case of being in the right place at the right time. Made Gary Dahl a millionaire.