Stuff I liked that not enough of you did, so it’s gone

• Diet Mountain Dew.  Of course, I refer to the original formula, and I’ve been over it at some length.
• Raisins, Rice & Rye.  I’m pretty apathetic about raisin bran, but this stuff totally rocked.  The flakes stayed crispy, and they had a lot of flavor.  My gustatory memory for this is stronger than just about any other departed comestible, I think.
• HD DVD.  Sigh.
• The Jackie Thomas Show.  Tom Arnold’s rise to fame was questionable by reasonable people because of its logistics, but they obscure the fact that he was, in fact, a pretty funny guy.  His turn in True Lies was the best thing he did; this short-lived sitcom was runner-up.
• Palm OS.  In my life, so far, this has been the only platform wishing to take over my life to which I have mostly submitted.  Alas, a perfect storm of mismanagement and circumstance doomed it.  I still have and use my T|X, complete with third-party drivers for Windows 7.
• My home cholesterol monitor.  I can’t remember who made it, but I paid a non-trivial amount of money for it, and the company immediately went out of business.  Naturally, the test strips were proprietary.
• Del Taco.  Well, it’s gone around here, anyway.  When I was in the ninth grade, there was one across 78 from Oxford High School, and we used to visit it between the end of the school day and the start of band practice.  Absence makes the, um, stomach grow fonder and all that, so I’ve probably idealized it just a little bit in my memory, but I do remember it being very much better than Taco Bell.
• VH1 Classic.  Here’s another “original formula” lament.  It’s mostly a whole lot of crap now—endless thrown-together documentaries, four-hour movies on The Temptations, and so forth.  Several years ago, it was very, very close to early MTV—12 to 15 videos an hour, presented without fanfare.  They were meticulous about showing the entire video, too.
• Dickeys.  Just kidding.

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