Dudley the Dinosaur

years ago, sometimes on a Saturday morning, I would see these animated commercials featuring dinosaurs talking about the importance of good dental care. The star was a green boy dino named Dudley, and I thought his commercials were fun and cool. Though these days, you seldom see them on tv. Anyway, I caught onto Dudley and was looking for merchandise of this catchy mascot character, maybe a fun picture with a costume of him? Finally my opportunity came during our town's annual summer street fair. It was located in the business section, where there were booths from various companies and organizations. I came across a booth of the ADA and saw the Dudley.
I had mentioned to the woman in the booth on how much I was a fan of Dudley and asked kindey for some of the things in her booth. I got two Dudley the dino activity books and a few dental samples. It was then that it was late in the afternoon, and upon passing the booth from a distance, I had then began to ask her a question. Immediately she yelled at me angrily and told me to get away from her. She was extremely rude to me. But I did manage to get the Dudley samples. I also found out from the ADA website that they have Dudley merchandise as he's the official spokes dino of this organization. However I thought that you had to be in a dental business to order the merchandise, but the minimum for the order is 100 at just a little over a $1.00 per copy.
I don't think I would want to order 100 copies and spend over $100.
I feared that the same woman who yelled at me would be there the next year. She wasn't thank goodness.

Geoffrey the Giraffe

growing up, I thought Toys R Us was cool, but my main interest was their mascot character Geoffrey the Giraffe. Believe it or not, I first had memories that Geoffrey had a giraffe family in the earily commercials for this great toy store. Of course that was back in the 1970's-1980's. I didn't go there much, as the only closest one was in a shopping center before the SmithHaven Mall. But the few times I went there, I have never seen Geoffrey in costume form walking around the greet the kids. It was on my trip to Toys R  us in NYC that  I finally met up with him  and had my picture take with him in his cartoony form (which is what I most remember him by). He was much taller than me, as  I had only made it height wise to his nose. But he's the giraffe that makes us laugh. The next time I saw him in person, was when the store made a more realistic verison of him. Met up with him and got my picture taken with him. Personally, I much prefer to see him in cartoony form.
        The only few Geoffrey products I bought was a plastic candy tube as a Christmas thing. The tube was filled with red and  green M&M's candies, and the top cover was of Geoffrey in a Santa suit with his two giraffe kids in his arms on each end. I think the Geoffrey family consisted of Geoffery, Mrs. G, Big G, and Baby G. (I'm not changing her diapers) I found a few websites that took me down memory lane of animation cels of the animated Toys r us commercials featuring Geoffrey and his family. Of course I got a few Geoffery merchandise in the NYC store. Very big place, and they even let you play with their toys.  Sometimes I thought I was crazy for remembering these things, but turns out that sometimes what you're trying to remember might be just within your fingertips.

nostalgic products

I know that alot of  products had come and gone, but I loved them and I missed them dearly.

Hostess Pudding pies
Giggles Cookies
Keebler Pudding Creames
Some kind of sortbread cookie that had a drop of chocolate on it
PB Max chocolate bar
Shoprite brand Bran Muffins (Used to be sold at Shoprite)
Dinosaur Grrrahms cookies
Patterson's Lochness monster short bread shaped cookies (imported from Scotland)
Chocobliss candy barr
Dinersaurs Cereal
Rocky Road Cereal
S'mores Crunch Cereal
plastic backed baby diapers (from when I was a baby in the 1970's)