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

Last Updated: 24.06.2025 02:16

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

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

Mimeograph machines:

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.

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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.

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.

Jet magazine and the accompanying “Jet Beauty”

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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.

Hmmm…..

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Cigarette ads on the rear cover of EVERY magazine:

Porno films that came with a “free projector”:

Koogle:

Have you ever witnessed a remote beach show where hundreds of turtles crawling to the water?