The Dodo Collection

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The Dodo Collection
Steve Stack

Steve Stack’s nostalgic eulogies – 21st Century Dodos and Christmas Dodos – combined in one ebook edition. A fond farewell to the many inanimate objects, cultural icons and general stuff around us that find themselves on the verge of extinction.We’ve all heard of the list of endangered animals, but no one has ever pulled together a list of endangered inanimate objects.Until now, that is.Steve Stack has catalogued well over one hundred objects, traditions, cultural icons and, well, other stuff that is at risk of extinction.Some of them have vanished already.Cassette tapes, rotary dial phones, half-day closing, milk bottle deliveries, Concorde, handwritten letters, typewriters, countries that no longer exist, white dog poo……all these and many more are big a fond farewell in this nostalgic, and sometimes irreverent, trip down memory lane.

The Dodo Collection

Steve Stack

Contents

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Title Page (#u91e9d004-de8a-5bb1-94ee-5c01e6642c21)

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Century Dodos (#ud83815cd-1270-514d-97b5-c01a1d95470d)

Christmas Dodos (#u672f1500-5cca-51cc-b10e-76ecf2057eb1)

The End? (#u2f5f9ce7-c711-5265-8cd6-e5fb84462b22)

Further Reading (#u4e2ff052-53e1-5ea2-8035-b21e3b72f08d)

Dodos Online (#u79fb0eb2-733d-5c45-86e6-67ec9e0a4914)

About the Author (#u123c7e2b-1ed1-5f66-af85-5db58e9ddabb)

By the Same Author (#u268cbe44-41bc-5cc2-add3-d5973adde070)

Copyright (#u075256ee-9ea1-523b-b01f-ab64cd033a2c)

About the Publisher (#u29c1df68-0868-5502-a752-8eec88e6fa78)

STEVE STACK

21st Century Dodos

A Collection of Endangered Objects (and Other Stuff)

Illustrations by Dave Cornmell

Dedication (#ulink_5c647a50-1539-5b46-bde5-e34bda075ada)

For Ethan and Martha

who have never heard of most of the things in this book,

the poor, deprived children

Contents

Cover (#ud83815cd-1270-514d-97b5-c01a1d95470d)

Title Page (#u165d3e17-87cf-5488-8c7f-1e97d4cfd92d)

Dedication (#ulink_5043b6d0-b420-5187-b5da-8c59e0445a7d)

Introduction (#ulink_24cae9a2-652c-5332-a98c-40be38a62a09)

AT THE CUTTING EDGE OF TECHNOLOGY: Crushed beneath the wheels of progress … (#ulink_fd8cfa0e-4d10-52ec-a2ad-69d99398e7d2)

IN THE HOME: Where we all grew up …

IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD: Where we walked and played, commuted from, and came home to …

ON THE HIGH STREET: Where we shopped, banked, parked, and hung about …

AT SCHOOL: Where we learnt, got into trouble, and grazed our knees …

ON TELEVISION AND RADIO: That we wasted hours in front of …

IN THE CINEMA: Where we sat in the dark, snogged, and ate popcorn …

IN THE NEWSAGENT: Where we bought our sweets and comics …

ALL THE OTHER STUFF: Where I have plonked everything else …

Introduction (#ulink_8275bd1e-093f-5199-8a9b-b40914e350f8)

With 21st Century Dodos I wanted to commemorate the many inanimate objects, experiences and, well, other things that many of us grew up with but which are either extinct or very much on the way out. Of course, most of these are victims of the eternal march of progress, and that is only to be expected, but it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t mark their passing and bid them a fond farewell.

I was heartened by the reaction to the first edition of the book. I was emailed, tweeted and Facebooked (that’s not a word, is it?) by hundreds of people who wanted to share their thoughts and memories of some of the dodos included. I also received six photographs of white dog poo. Who said a writer’s life wasn’t glamorous?

But most enjoyable of all were the dozens of suggestions for dodos I had missed, and I am delighted to say that I have included as many of these as I could in the new Readers’ Dodos section of this edition. Even more content for less money. I hope you are suitably grateful.

Every entry in this book is given a dodo rating of between one and five dodos. This indicates their rarity, ranging from one dodo (still quite common) to five dodos (completely extinct). No doubt some readers will want to argue with me about the ratings I have allocated each item. Feel free, I love a good scrap. You can email me at 21stcenturydodos@gmail.com (http://21stcenturydodos@gmail.com).

STEVE STACK

October 2012

AT THE CUTTING EDGE OF TECHNOLOGY Crushed beneath the wheels of progress … (#ulink_8da7978b-70eb-5b3c-8707-1ead350987e6)