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Monday, January 25, 2010


Happy Birthday, bubble wrap! You don't look a day over 40.
Today marks an essential day in pop-culture history: Bubble Wrap's 50th birthday.

Where would we be without these protective, oddly addictive plastic orbs of sealed air?

The term "Bubble Wrap" was coined in 1960 by engineers Marc Chavannes and Al Fielding who came up with the stuff in Hawthorne, N.J., "with the intent of creating a trendy new textured wallpaper."
Thank gawd that didn't catch on. How would you ever match a fresh piece of bubble wrap after your drunken co-worker put his face through your wall? You wouldn't.



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