About 20 years ago, back when people were still flying with abandon,

Virgin Atlantic launched its upper class with really cute salt and pepper shakers,

named Orville and Wilbur.

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And this is a Kimbo.

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Shortly after the cute plain-shaped salt and pepper shakers were delighting the, quote,

upper class passengers on Virgin Atlantic.

Wired magazine wrote an article about them and talked about how cool they were

and how great it would be to steal a set.

Well, shortly thereafter, the thefts began to rise,

and Richard Branson became annoyed at how much money he was losing

when these metal salt and pepper shakers kept disappearing.

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