The oldies format was an attempt to recreate the station's history as a popular music station ( and was part of a nationwide fad of " real oldies " formats on AM radio stations in the early 2000s ( decade )), and while they maintained the official WWKB calls for station identification, they also played the original " WKBW Buffalo " jingles and featured many of the classic WKBW jocks including Armstrong and Neaverth.

His poems plunge from perhaps ironic piety to equally ironic blasphemy ; they reflect, more than anything else, his interest in mediæval Latin literature, and his works led to a fad for late Latin literature among authors like Joris-Karl Huysmans.

As the adoption of the term in America coincided with a fashion among teenage girls in the early 1920s for wearing unbuckled galoshes a widespread false etymology held that they were called " flappers " because they flapped when they walked, as they wore their overshoes or galoshes unfastened, showing that they defied convention in a manner similar to the 21st century fad for untied shoelaces.

In 1962, they sold a limbo dance kit to take advantage of that fad, and in 1975 when the movie Jaws was released, they sold plastic shark teeth.

Typically they were less analytically talented managers who had latched onto scientific management as the latest fad for cutting the unit cost of production.

Food fad is also used by media and the scientific community to refer to diets that do not follow common nutritional guidelines, regardless of their actual status as a fad ; for example, the Atkins and Paleo diets are commonly referred to as food fads, even though they have enjoyed cycles of popularity for several decades.

FamilyDoctor. org, a publication of the American Academy of Family Physicians, for example proclaims that fad diets " typically don't result in long-term weight loss and they are usually not very healthy.

At the beginning of the fad, they were worn primarily by young women in their teens and twenties, and occasionally by younger girls, older women, and ( particularly during the disco era ) by young men.

A new form of literary work called the " Annual " was a fad from about 1823 through 1857, and became so popular, that they were soon published up to 17 times a year.

The writing does not shy away from the actual condition of life for present day indigenous Australians, it does not present the songlines as a new-age fad but from an appreciation of the art and culture of the people for whom they are the keystone of the Real.

It is common for dieters to have tried fad diets only to find that they gain weight, or return to their original weight, after ceasing the diet.

Internet memes are seen as cost-effective, and because they are a ( sometimes self-conscious ) fad, they are therefore used as a way to create an image of awareness or trendiness.

At the beginning of their song they dissed another kid group Another Bad Creation when Chris " Mac Daddy " Kelly said " don't try to compare us to another bad little fad ".

With regards to his neighbors, Bob and Midge Pinciotti, it is indicated that Red used to enjoy their friendship before they started to get involved " into every fad there is ".

Tight rolled pants, or more commonly called pegged pants, was a fad of the late 1980s early 1990s in which girls and boys would tight-roll the bottoms of their jeans or any pants that they wore.

The recent upsurge in the popularity of pot-bellied pigs as fad pets has led to abandonment when owners discover that the pigs actually grow to larger sizes and require more care than they believed.

Victorian ladies had a fad of stringing unusual seeds to wear as jewelry.

With the publication of the Expanded Edition in 2000, the fad for acronym-based names had long since faded, and the writer and the publisher both felt that the forced acronym had become irrelevant.

Reality shows with low ratings included The Amazing Race, Lost ( unrelated to the better-known serial drama of the same name ) and The Mole, leading some to speculate that reality television was a temporary fad that had run its course.

Additionally, the toy retailers which controlled consumer access to games had concluded that video games were a fad.

The Romantics had a minor hit with " What I Like About You " in early 1980, but, by then, power pop was seen as a passing fad by many critics.

In 1789, Thomas Jefferson is fabled to have returned from 5 years in Europe with a waffle iron, setting off a fad for waffle frolics ( waffle parties ), though waffle frolics had been documented as early as 1744 in New Jersey, and the Dutch had long since established waffles in New Amsterdam ( New York City ).

By the end of 1970s the skateboarding fad had waned, and the original parks of the era began to close.

The Cajun fiddle was a well established instrument which had been somewhat eclipsed by the German accordion fad, which had similar effect in French Canada.

Harris compared the laid off hospital workers to the people who lost their jobs after the hula hoop fad died down in the early 1960s, commenting " Just as Hula-Hoops went out and those workers had to have a factory and a company that would manufacture something else that's in, it's the same in government, and you know, governments have put off these decisions for so many years that restructuring sometimes is painful " ( The Globe and Mail, 6 March 1997 ).

By 1910, Modernisme had been accepted by the bourgeoisie and had pretty much turned into a fad.

Knerr and Melin had created the biggest fad to date.

" Lindy Hop was also increasing in popularity, and by 1941 the Big Apple was a past fad that had been replaced by the Lindy Hop.

Marston had, however, arrived on the literary scene as the fad for verse satire was to be checked by censors.

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League fad meant all teams had to cut expenses.

It may also be a by-product of this fad that Scandinavian clogs, which were considered rather outrageous in the late 1960s and early 1970s, had become classic by the 1980s.

The British Track records art department had independently chosen to use the current fad for all things Indian to create the cover, and thus the album's cover has a photographed copy of a mass-produced religious poster of the Hindu devotional painting known as Viraat Purushan-Vishnuroopam with a small, superimposed painting of the group by Roger Law ( from a photo portrait by Karl Ferris ) blended in.

In the wake of the crash, many American retailers considered video games a fad that had run its course, and had seriously cut back their sales of such products, or stopped them entirely.

This " fad " ended because the mummies were revealed actually to be recently killed slaves.

" The major Kilroy graffiti fad ended in the 1950s, but today people all over the world still scribble the character and " Kilroy was here " in schools, trains, and other similar public areas.

There was later a backlash against " beauty ", and the fad ended, as did steel plate etchings for books.

Almost undoubtedly made quickly before the roller-skating fad of the late-1970s and early-1980s ended, the film was originally led by Linda Blair and Canadian actor David Kennedy, with whom Blair was dating at the time.

By the 17th century in Europe, spotted horses were quite fashionable, though when the fad ended, large numbers of newly-unsellable horses were shipped to the Americas, some for sale, and others simply turned loose to run wild.

The fad for 3-D film would last for only two years, 1952 – 1954, and helped sell House of Wax and Creature from the Black Lagoon.

In 1990, 21 contemporary bands — including R. E. M., ZZ Top, Richard Lloyd, David Leonard, The Jesus and Mary Chain, and Primal Scream — recorded covers of Elevators songs on Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye: A Tribute to Roky Erickson, one of the first tribute albums, in what would become a fad.

Although many motion picture studios would not touch this new medium, thinking it's was just a fad and would fade away, MCA decided to embrace this new phenomenon.

This period would also create history as Dre and Yella would cross paths with a teenage performing group called CIA ( Cru ' In Action ) starring O ' Shea " Ice Cube " Jackson, Dre ’ s cousin Tony ‘ Sir Jinx ’ Wheatob and Darrell ‘ K-Dee ’ Johnson who caught the attention of regular patron, and local drug dealer Eric ‘ Eazy-E ’ Wright, who was looking to capitalize on this new fad and turn his business legal.

Unfortunately, the concept behind the arrangement was that rock and roll music was a passing fad, and that the pop music of the 1920s through the early 1950s would endure.

The song was greeted by raving fans on both sides of the Atlantic but was dismissed by some critics as nothing more than another fad song that would not hold up to the test of time.

In 1948, Hynek said that " the whole subject seems utterly ridiculous ," and described it as a fad that would soon pass.

In 1994, ABC and CBS Radio passed on the show, saying a national radio show on the subject would be unsuccessful, as computers and the Internet were a fad.

He was convinced that any changes from the Britain of his youth ( in the late 18th century ) were signs of degeneracy, that Britain was about to go bankrupt, and that the new railways were a passing fad which would soon give way to a return to stagecoaches.

In an attempt to cash in on the fad, at least 2 other companies produced tapes that would work with the Teddy Ruxpin toy.

Although the masks were widely believed to be only a fad that would presumably die down as the public attention on Watergate waned, the masked managed to outlive their presumed fad status by becoming popular during events such Halloween and adult masquerade parties.

But it was a fad, and only Los Pericos would sustain and grow their careers once the fancy faded ( Los Cafres would be mildly successful starting in 1994 ).

A band that was not a fad was Los Auténticos Decadentes, who would become a hugely popular ska-Latin pop and ballad group.

Even The New York Times predicted that crooning would be just a passing fad.

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Since the Doctor's last visit, a new fad of dreaming had arisen, with professional dreamers who would construct dream worlds in which groups of people could participate in a shared fantasy.

Gilbert admitted some doubts as to whether the æsthetic subject would still be appreciated, years after the fad had died out.

The brand was marketed despite internal concern it would be a fad and not last more than a year.