Minimalist poet, minimalist lifestyle

...and I can't remember any of these!

Popples

Jelly shoes - you could wear them without socks

Slap bracelets

Wack Wallwalker

Koosh balls

Hacky-Sack

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Some crazes from the decade I can recall though:-

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Trivial Pursuits

The Smurfs

Cabbage Patch Dolls

Rubik's Cube

I thought this might be an appropriate posting after the site being hacked earlier by a prankster.

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Some outrageous hoaxes I've selected from the postings on the Fortean Times Forum.

Ban dihydrogen monoxide!

Drunken surfing on the web to be banned.

The Swiss spaghetti harvest.

Planetary alignment decreases gravity.

Whistling carrots.

Dutch Elm Disease infects redheads.

Diamond-encrusted grenades.