Sort of a no class option. Literally.
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I found a pile of '80s porn on a job site, in a long abandoned desk. I left it there. It was weird.
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Here in Toronto thereās a local band called Alvvays (thatās A-L-V-V-A-Y-S), though itās pronounced āAlwaysā. They made the spelling change, of course, so that people had a hope in hell of finding them on search engines.
Today I was trying to find on-line info about a shower head, claimed to be the only one of its kind made in Canada, called SHOWERME. It took a lot of other search terms to get Google to bring it up. The guy demoing it live was annoyed I didnāt buy one on the spot, and complained no-one buys on-line. Having gone on-line with the express intention of finding some reviews and then, if they were good, possibly going back and buying one, I can see why.
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Scientists in my discipline have a bad habit of trying to do cheeky names (there was some biology software about 15 years ago called PORNSTAR). At least those usually have an authorās name attached to make it a little easier. Though Iām not sure it would help with PORNSTAR. There must be a porn star for every last name out there, no?
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Telephone Book + Rule 34 = I assume so
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A door-to-door salesman that strips and takes showers on peoplesā front porches?
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I should really go to a magic site, but Iām not any kind of magician, and havenāt done anything with magic in decades. But as a kid I read (and made some tricks) from a magic book Iād really like to track down. There was one trick in it called āBang, Come! Bang, Go!ā It was a box you put something in from the top, hit it on one side, and the something disappears from view from the front. You hit it on the other side, and the something appears.
I have no information other than that, but it must have been published in the 50ās or early 60ās. Oh, it had a lot of small stage illusions that you could build, as opposed to sleight of hand or card tricks. (I was more interested in building tricks than showing them, actually . . . )
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Home Show, and a rather near demo setup that recycled water from a catchbasin back up to the shower head.
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I have a few possible leads. Do you have any more details about the song itself? Iām heading to bed but wonāt close out my research tabs. 
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itās not a book, but that reminds me of āstop over in a quiet town.ā
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you may have found it already, but āthings can only get betterā is a great howard jones song:
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I found that link too, and yes I know how quotes work. But I wouldnāt exactly call it a good source of information.
Near as I can tell, the companyās on-line prsence is absolutely minimal. Not even a domain name with an About Us page.
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Thank you for that.
As a matter if fact I remember that song from the time, but I never knew who it was or what it was called.
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Ok, Iāve got it narrowed down to one artist who had songs that could have played on Kiss 100FM in 2006/2017 but Iām not sure Iāve got the right artist ā¦ and if I do it may not be this song.
Together As One is a fantastic album so even if I got everything wrong, I have some awesome music to listen to. 
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And, may I add, I never knew Yakov Smirnoff was such a great drummer.
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Found it:
March 1986 issue of High Fidelity.
I canāt believe I actually remembered the tag line and magazine name correctly after all these years. I guess it made one hell of an impression on me at 8 years old.
Hereās the whole thing in context:
The 1980s were a wild time for consumer electronics.
I can imagine myself spending a lot of time on this siteā¦
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There was a board game in the early 80s or maybe late 70s. Sci-fi themed, the game pieces were translucent plastic and you tried to stack up little geometric stages/pods on a sort of rocket base piece.
At the center of the board there was a black plastic thing with a spinner on it, that would always stop in one of six directions. On your turn you would spin the spinner, and hope it didnāt flash a light out in your direction and āzapā your spaceship.
Anyone have any idea what this was called? It wasnāt Dark Towerā¦
Ah nevermind, I just found it! This was about my fourth try.
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An author Iāve been collecting uses the signature āA Guerreā to sign all her articles. Not āAlice Guerreā. Not āAlice Guerre-Lavigneā (who may well be her daughter. Not sure yet.) Needless to say, this does not play well with full text search engines.
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A War! A War! But itās a name!
Look for a concordance or whatever they use for ā¦ the subject of un-searchable names. Figure out what the standard cases are that apply to the name you are looking upā¦
Iāll stop, Iām sure you already know the next step after you stop screaming at the unitary existence of maddening happenstance.
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