What do you remember that 95% of us have forgotten?

Question: What do you remember that 95% of us have forgotten?

Copiers were exceptionally expensive when I was a kid and so schools and most businesses used a machine like this if they had to make a small number of copies.

Porno films that came with a “free projector”:

Why do atheists not love a G-d that does not stop punishing them harder and harder in this world and the next until they surrender to Him?

Since I don’t know 95% of you I can only guess…..

A magazine started in 1951 that highlighted the African American community in the United States in an era where Black issues and people were not reported on in the mainstream. This was a weekly magazine until 2009 and it was in print until 2014. While it’s now in digital form (along with its companion magazine Ebony) The Jet Beauty was one of the few places that attractive African American models could be seen, although the sexist nature of photos was always a minor controversy.

A friend and I almost set his house on fire when we were watching one of these and it overheated and melted. I wasn’t allowed to come to his house again because of it even though it wasn’t MY projector.

How would you spank me if I had been sent home from a school camp because of my poor behavior?

Jet magazine and the accompanying “Jet Beauty”

Koogle:

Mimeograph machines:

What are some things that children used to wait for, but are no longer common in today's society?

Cigarette ads on the rear cover of EVERY magazine:

Hmmm…..

At one time, peanut butter was deemed not to have enough flavor and so Koogle, a flavored peanut spread, was introduced. Similar to Nutella, Koogle lasted into the late 1990s when dietary changes and poor sales rendered it extinct.

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