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

Mimeograph machines:

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

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.

Why did the massacre of al-Dawayima Palestinian residents not have the same reverberations as the Deir Yasin massacre?

Jet magazine and the accompanying “Jet Beauty”

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.

Have you ever been a victim of gaslighting? What happened?

Porno films that came with a “free projector”:

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.

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

Do opposites attract? How often do you see weird couples like a guy/girl dating someone who is boring with no sense of humor ?

Koogle:

Cigarette ads on the rear cover of EVERY magazine:

Hmmm…..

Family scapegoats with years of healing: what events or thoughts precipitated your full acceptance of your family's narcissistic dynamic? Can you share your inner thoughts as you reached it? How do we know when we have reached full acceptance?