Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Retrospective

Thanks to the fine folks at Sonic Retro for all their hard work without which this video wouldn't have been the same. Drop by and give them a look over. They're full of great information on old school Sonic:
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Speed run footage taken from Werster: / wersterlobe
Specifically this one:
• Sonic 2 2013 - Emerald...
Guy makes it look so easy. Give him lots of love.
As I said in the video the original Sonic the Hedgehog was the first video game I ever played. An uncle of mine had it and I was amazed. He wanted me to take notice of a different set of games.... I have no memory of what. But to 5-6 year old me? There was nothing cooler than Sonic.
This game was the first game I ever owned. In fact, as I've lost everything Genesis through life and moves I hope to one day physically own all three Genesis Sonic games again. I always loved the Genesis plastic boxes.
Anyway, time for some dumb stuff? I always fill these with dumb stuff. What's next....
Shampoo is a weird word, right? You ever stop and just think, "I'm going to lose my mind if I don't figure out where the word shampoo came from!"
Just me? Well, anyway....
It's the 1760s and the British Empire is going full speed ahead. The sun never sets on their blatant cruelty! Well, being the British Empire they make their way into colonizing India, a country that was very much already populated. Customs and words of course now bounce back and forth between India and Britain. And one of those words is "chāmpo" itself derived from the word "chapati" which was Sanskrit for massage.
As words often do, it mutated as it traveled from India back to Britain through various colonial and mercantile avenues. Eventually being called "Shampoo." And shampoo was a hit.
Sake Dean Mahomed helped popularize it in England by calling it the most 1700s British thing possible: "The Indian Medicated Vapour Bath" and claimed it helped with everything from rheumatoid arthritis and gout to curing lame legs.
And I'm sure they smelled better too.
From there on shampoo only went more and more mainstream. The biggest advancement was by Hans Schwarzkopf in 1927. He created the first known liquid shampoo in Berlin. And the rest is history.
This has been Everyday Is Midnight. Your guide to shampoo history.
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