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Pole Sitting (1974)
Here’s another endurance fad that was bound to claim a life sooner or later. It started in the early 20th century as a way for sailors to show their toughness and balance, and soon enough companies started hiring flagpole sitters for publicity stunts and the like. The all-time champion of the practice was Louisiana-born Richard Blandy, who started doing it in 1929 and managed to turn it into a career, smashing world records over the next four decades. Blandy drank whiskey and smoked cigarettes during his epic vertical stays, but was killed in 1974 when his pole snapped in half during a sit at an Illinois mall.
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Sagging pants was in the late 80's, early 90's for gangstas and wannabes to hide a gun in their waist band. Then is spread to suburban idiots.
January 16 2013 at 1:07 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThis has nothing to do with fads and everything to do with morons.
January 15 2013 at 12:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWhen did waterbeds become a fad anyway?
Whomever put this together is an idiot.
THIS WRITER IS TOTALLY UNINFORMED MOST OF THESE ARE STILL AROUND THEY NOT FADS THEY STUPID
January 12 2013 at 12:47 PM Report abuse Permalink -1 rate up rate down ReplyLIFESTYLES
When did dancing become a fad. bad example if you ask me!!!! Dude just had a bad heart, **** out of luck!!
January 12 2013 at 1:22 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThe first "popular" group to sag was Kriss Kross in the 90s. Several of the law enforcement personnel I worked with then (and now) relate it to their work scenes...
January 11 2013 at 10:13 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyits just stupid people doing stupid sh*t that's all its too it. Doesn't mean you shouldn't do certain things. Like the old guy dancing to gangnam style and dying. He was one foot in the grave already if that killed him. The austrilian kid doing planking on a f**n skyscraper. Stupid!! or the guy who tripped on his sagging pants and fell 3 stories while robbing and killing people. I say that's what they all deserved. Idiots are getting their rewards!!
January 11 2013 at 9:20 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplySagging didn't come about in the early 2000. Sagging has been around since I've been alive and I'm 26. Tupac sagged all the time. Don't give credit to the 2000's for a thing some did in the 1980's and hundreds later in the 1990's.
January 11 2013 at 2:10 PM Report abuse Permalink -1 rate up rate down Replywho cares?
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