11
Dec
Posted by Yehuda Berlinger as Modern Board Games, Other
Erin Sherbert at The Examiner wins the clueless award for being the first reporter this year to title an article “Board Games Are Making a Comeback”, a title or phrase which has been used at least once every year since 1990 (aka when video games started making inroads). (source) Runners up: Elissa Doherty in the Herald Sun. (source) Staff reporter in the Daily Mail. (source)
What else was making a comeback in the last few weeks (via Google news)?
- 70s
- A host of 80s legends
- A once depressed [downtown] area
- al-Shabaab fighters
- Alternative justice systems
- Amateur boxing
- American Idol
- Andy Griggs
- Antoine Walker
- Aprons
- Arctic gray wolf
- Art of the face
- Asbury Park
- Ashok Dinda
- Aurela Gace
- Baby Alive
- Back to the Future
- Backwardation
- Bald eagles
- Barbara Walters
- Barber shops
- Barter culture of our forefathers
- Beatles
- Ben Harris’ brother Daniel
- Benji
- Bernard Callebaut
- Bernard DeVoto
- Bishwanath Basu
- Bipul Sharma
- Blowout salons
- BOGO event
- Boxing
- Boxy tuxedo jacket with slim pants and a leather clutch
- Brandon Backe
- Brandon Webb
- Brendon Hughes
- Brendon McCullum
- Broncos [team]
- Bruce Irons
- Bulk deals
- Burlesque
- Burma’s black market in petrol
- Bush’s reputation
- Business in Mystic
- Buying with cash
- Buzz cuts
- Canned beer
- Car industry
- Cardigans
- Carefree
- Cascades predators
- Cattle rustling
- ‘Chhoti Bahu’
- Chiricahua leopard frog
- Chris Baryla
- Chris Tucker
- Churches
- Clara Hughes
- Classic cocktails
- CLEAR
- Clog dancing
- Clutter
- Colgate women’s hockey team
- Companies offering adverts based on deep packet inspection tracking technology
- Companies like JP Morgan Chase, HSBC, and American Express
- Compound pharmacies
- Copper
- Corktown and Briggs neighborhoods
- Crafts
- Cuba [at India trade fair]
- Customers
- Cycling Open
- Darts
- Daryl Hurley
- Democrats
- Dining out
- Discretionary spending
- Diversified names
- Dividends
- DJ Drastik
- Do-it-yourself ethos
- E-mail
- Eastern Oregon University
- Economy
- Edmonton tourism industry
- Electric cars
- Eminem
- Endangered monkeys
- English Longhorn cattle
- Erik Morales
- Esoteric bonds
- Fairy-tale castle at the Land of Christmas
- Fake delivery package scam
- Fake eyelashes and personalized nail extensions
- Falcons [team]
- Fatal1ty branded motherboards
- Faux fur
- Feminism
- Fiat
- Film
- Flintstones
- Flip-flop hot money
- Floyd Jr.
- Former Bollywood diva Madhuri Dixit
- Fountain Powerboats
- French roll hairstyle
- “Free Your Mind” song
- Fully automatic soft folding roof
- G8
- Gautham, son of popular comedian Brahmanandam
- Geauga Lyric Theater Guild
- General Musharraf
- Giant sturgeon
- Gift cards
- Glaciers
- GM
- Glamorous stewardess lifestyle
- Good old-fashioned rabbit ears
- Google Docs ‘offline’ feature
- Gooseberry
- Gould’s Turkeys
- Grand Truck Nano-7 Hammock Hammocks
- Grass-fed beef
- Great spotted kiwi
- Greek letter sororities and flats
- Growth
- Guinevere book series
- Gunners’ stopper
- Half of Milli Vanilli
- Hairy armpits
- Hampton Holiday Parade
- Hanoi’s finest park
- Heritage breed animals
- High heels in boots of all kinds
- High tech and natural resources
- High-yield bonds
- High-yield markets
- Holiday company/office parties
- Home bar
- Hookworks
- Hope
- House flipping
- Housing market
- Houston radio
- Humility
- Idea of whole-animal cuisine
- Ideas of liberty
- Import beers
- In-game photography
- India hockey team
- Integrated Cycling Federation of the Philippines-conducted National Open
- Invertebrates
- Jam making
- Jamie Birrell
- Jennifer Grey
- Jimmy Choo’s line of men’s shoes
- Joel Robertson
- John Birch Society
- Jon vanDyk silk ties
- Josh Brown
- Jr. C hockey
- Juami Rocha
- Katie Arnott’s nickname “Little Arnott”
- KC Lekha of Kerala
- Kemp’s turtle
- Kenmore Cardinals
- Kickball
- Kieron Dyer
- Kim Clijsters
- Khanolkar
- Knitted and crochet items
- Lake County
- Layaway
- Lee Jung Hyun
- Leon Spinks
- Likes of opening batsmen Adrian Barath and Devon Smith and the wicket-keeper Carlton Baugh
- Lily Savage
- Limited
- Lincoln Park bees
- Lionel electric trains
- Little Caesar’s
- Local and organic foods
- Long-beleaguered American consumer
- Low Ngai Yuen
- Luxury goods
- M&A
- Madhoo Shah
- Madhu Bangarappa
- Madhuri Dixit
- Marc Savard
- Marcos Baghdatis
- Margaret Mountford
- Mark Philippoussis
- Mel Gibson
- Men who support feminist politics
- Michael Leighton
- Michael Owen
- Michael Schumacher
- Michael Vick
- Michaella Krajicek
- Mickey Mouse
- Microsoft’s failed Kin
- Minimal, emotionally driven dance music
- Minivan
- Model trains
- Mohammad Ashraful
- “Money” Mayweather
- More traditional toys and entertainment forms
- Motorola’s handset unit
- Mountain gorillas
- Music games
- Mustache
- Nate Robinson
- National Open Cycling Championships
- Native grasses with names such as eastern gamagrass, switchgrass, big bluestem, little bluestem and Indiangrass
- Nevada tourism
- New Toyota models
- Niche products
- NOC
- Nokia
- Nostalgia
- Notepads
- Notion of “media convergence”
- Old classic toys
- Old man winter
- Old motor vehicle brands that left the Kenyan market several years ago
- Old-fashioned gangster movie
- Old favorite Korean cars
- Old-school Disney
- Old-school lockets
- Olden times in the medical field
- Older Irish breeds such as Irish Maol, Dexter and Kerry
- One of the “stripes” on Jupiter
- One-piece swimsuit
- Organic and sustainable fabrics
- Otters
- Outsourced call centers
- Passenger trains
- Paul Brinkmann
- PCP
- Peng Shuai
- Phone deregulation
- Photo radar
- Picture story
- Pierce Bronsan
- PIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain) problems
- Pine marten
- Pirelli
- Playboy clubs
- Polaroid instant photography
- Porches
- Porsche
- Preppy style
- Primus Financial Holdings Ltd
- Private brands
- Promise rings
- Promotions that appeared in WMMA 2
- Public’s faith in a “culture of poverty”
- Publicizing luxury skin care
- Quake 3
- R&B duo Cedric “K-Ci” Hailey and Joel “JoJo” Hailey
- Radio Flyer wagons and peach crate scooters
- Ransomware
- Reading’s Franklin Street Station
- Real trees
- Real-estate stocks
- Red and green holiday ribbons
- Redskins
- Renault
- Renee Martel
- Retro, cheap, non-PC toys
- Retro names like Betty, Don and Roger
- Retro technology
- Retro updos
- Revisionist Westerns
- Rickets
- Ricky Hollis
- Robert Campbell
- Robert Menzies
- Robert Thornton
- Rodeo
- Role of the Chief Digital Officer
- Roller derby
- Root cellar
- Rug hooking
- Rurouni Kenshin
- RV trailers
- Saif and Vidya
- Santa Claus
- Scarlet fever
- Scott Styris
- Scottsdale Saguaro’s defense
- Sequins
- Services that were quick to get the ax in previous years, due to budgetary constraints
- “Shake and Bake” attitude that drove Ricky Bobby to a successful NASCAR career
- Shameless extravagance
- Shelley Kitchen
- Simple
- Simple “piece and jam” enjoyed by generations of Scots children
- Sitcoms
- Small business loans
- Smoking nutmeg
- Smurfs
- Some hundred-year-old ideas (such as wheel-mounted pancake motors)
- Space heaters
- Spending on small luxuries
- Split level homes
- Steve Harris from Churchill
- Stockings
- Student activism
- Supply side economics
- Swaps
- Swine flu
- Syphilis
- Tailored shirts
- Tech jobs
- Thanksgiving travel
- Theatre of the Ridiculous
- “the riddle”
- Throwback to old-school icons like Burt Reynolds and Tom Selleck
- Titanic
- Todd Thomson
- Tracey’s hair
- Traditional automobile markets
- Traditional dress
- Traditional media in general
- Traditional pubs
- Traditional skills
- Traditional styling
- Travel agents
- Treasure Valley manufactured housing market
- Trees
- ‘Tuba Man’
- Twitter
- U biology professor Dale Clayton’s LouseBuster
- Understated brown cardboard
- Unsecured bonds
- Vespa scooter
- Village Shopping Center at 902 W. Kimberly Road
- Vinod Anand
- Vinyl [records]
- Vole
- Wahlberg
- Warm temperatures
- Warren Joubert
- Welcome wagon
- Wheatridge Lady Mustangs
- Whoopie pies
- Whooping cough
- Wicket-keeper Parthiv Patel
- Wigs
- Wild turkeys
- Wilson Philips
- Winged eyeliner, bold, red lips and beautiful, flowing waves
- Wool
- Word “helpmeet”
- World Premiere of local playwright Marcy Rodenborn’s tale of middle aged punkstresses
- Yar’s Revenge
- Z28
- Zaheer Khan
- Zombies
- Zhu Zhu Pets
If you suddenly heard that people still enjoy it, or that it happened once, or that you wish it were true, it doesn’t mean it’s “making a comeback”.