What made you smile today? :)

[Franklan]

I just found this advertisement from the 90ies. Lovely.

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[Franklan]

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[Sannerl]

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[Franklan]

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[Sannerl]

Excellent tutorial!

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[HEM]

Under "Distance" one could add: Is it horse racing: Furlongs...

[alma.freya]

Under "Distance" one could add: Is it horse racing: Furlongs...

Is it a horse: hands

[Emkay]

If people don't like you, it's ok. You only need to be concerned if dogs don't like you. Then it's time for some self-reflection.

[Sannerl]

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[Sannerl]

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[Franklan]

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[Sannerl]

[Franklan]

Running into stationary objects can be painful according to a recent pole.

[Sannerl]

[Sannerl]

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[Feierabend]

Sleeping Squirrels in their nest on someone's window ledge

Lovely!

[Nixon]

No sweets with processed sugar today.
Just a teaspoon of honey

[Franklan]

Do you remember the days when one used a modem to dial-up to the internet?

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You needed a provider to let you dial up.

At that time, AOL swamped the German market, you couldn't buy a pack of coffee beans without an AOL disk (with the dial-up software on it) attached to it.

The supply of these disks was so abundant, I had them in the glove box of the car to use as ice scraper in winter!

I went to a bar, and our table had an AOL disk under one of the legs to stop it from being wobbly! Those were the days.

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According to the news, this is over now, as AOL will switch off its last dial-up stations today.
It is 2025, unbelievable.

[Franklan]

Echte Wagner was a German brand of margarine.

It came with collectible cards.

In the 1930ies, they created a series of cards known as "Zukunftsfantasien" (Imaginings of the Future).

Here is a picture of one of those cards:

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Isn't it astonishing that they correctly predicted people sitting together just to immediately call someone else to show how unimportant their companion actually is?