Abdul's official "The past is a foreign country" thread.

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Fri Dec 25, 2020 9:50 am

Sack support is very important

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sat Dec 26, 2020 3:05 am

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Mon Dec 28, 2020 2:42 am

England 1901:

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Mon Dec 28, 2020 12:09 pm

John Cleese?

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Tue Dec 29, 2020 12:04 am

Harlem 1970.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sat Jan 02, 2021 2:11 am

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sat Jan 02, 2021 11:31 pm

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Wed Jan 27, 2021 12:00 am

Kids remote learning during a polio outbreak in the 1940s. Teachers read lessons over the radio!

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sat Jan 30, 2021 2:09 am

Ella Fitzgerald jailed in 1955 for singing to an integrated audience.

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Tue Feb 02, 2021 10:58 pm

Hotarubi · Post by **Hotarubi** » Wed Feb 03, 2021 1:48 am

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Wed Feb 03, 2021 2:34 am

Spoiler:

Grammatron · Post by **Grammatron** » Wed Feb 03, 2021 8:52 pm

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Wed Feb 03, 2021 11:33 pm

A bunch of those would make a great Halloween gift

Hotarubi · Post by **Hotarubi** » Thu Feb 04, 2021 1:02 am

Send one to ed, it'll be the first girl head he's received for 60 years.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Thu Feb 04, 2021 2:12 am

Ku Klux Kiddies, the KKK's youth group.

sparks · Post by **sparks** » Thu Feb 04, 2021 2:23 am

Teach em how to start fires without torching themselves, that's what's needed at that age.

Grammatron · Post by **Grammatron** » Wed Feb 10, 2021 8:45 pm

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Fri Feb 12, 2021 4:56 am

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sun Feb 14, 2021 2:05 am

Witness wrote: ↑Mon Dec 28, 2020 2:42 am England 1901:

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/NaiveImpracti ... mobile.mp4

Rob Lister · Post by **Rob Lister** » Sun Feb 14, 2021 10:40 am

They're all dead.

shemp · Post by **shemp** » Sun Feb 14, 2021 3:03 pm

Rob Lister wrote: ↑Sun Feb 14, 2021 10:40 am They're all dead.

No shit, Captain Obvious.

Fid · Post by **Fid** » Mon Feb 15, 2021 5:20 am

Witness wrote: ↑Tue Jul 08, 2014 1:45 am
Jimmy & Rosalyn Carter's wedding – 1946.

This should become rather poignant in the not too distant future.
And yeah, Jimmy took me high school class on a tour and lecture of a nuclear reactor in Ga Tech (downtown Atlanta). Submariner, you go bud.

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Mon Feb 15, 2021 10:33 am

Rob Lister wrote: ↑Sun Feb 14, 2021 10:40 am They're all dead.

Yeah, the same thought occurred to me. Made me sad.

The current oldest living person was born in 1903.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_t ... est_people

She's now the 3rd oldest of all time.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Tue Feb 16, 2021 2:38 am

Hotarubi · Post by **Hotarubi** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 2:01 pm

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/ ... -gairsoppa

The fragments of a 1941 love letter to a woman named Iris, found nearly three miles under the ocean in a shipwreck, have been painstakingly pieced together by experts, 80 years after it was posted.

Inglewood Hotel. Currently for sale.

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 5:35 pm

Has the recipient responded?

– J.D.

sparks · Post by **sparks** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 6:41 pm

Fid wrote: ↑Mon Feb 15, 2021 5:20 am
Witness wrote: ↑Tue Jul 08, 2014 1:45 am
Jimmy & Rosalyn Carter's wedding – 1946.
This should become rather poignant in the not too distant future.
And yeah, Jimmy took me high school class on a tour and lecture of a nucular reactor in Ga Tech (downtown Atlanta). Submariner, you go bud.

FTFY

Fid · Post by **Fid** » Fri Feb 19, 2021 2:20 am

Thanks, note to self, the spellchecker spells better than me.

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Fri Feb 19, 2021 8:21 am

Grammatron wrote: ↑Wed Feb 03, 2021 8:52 pm

http://madmysterycompany.com/main/what- ... nor-house/

https://nypost.com/2011/10/02/amazing-h ... order-now/

BUILD A WORKING LASER PISTOL

What could be simpler? Send the company your $2 and in return you’d receive detailed blueprints for building your own laser gun at home. Imagine the fun of vaporizing your friends and teachers.

– J.D.

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Fri Feb 19, 2021 2:06 pm

My mother is left-handed. Her younger sister had that "corrected" by her parents after they realized the error of their ways.

Not sure why some people thought it needed to be corrected.

For baseball players it seems to be a sort of natural advantage.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Fri Feb 19, 2021 11:38 pm

Rob Lister · Post by **Rob Lister** » Sat Feb 20, 2021 12:19 am

That's actually pretty good.

Hotarubi · Post by **Hotarubi** » Sat Feb 20, 2021 3:01 am

Doctor X wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 5:35 pm Has the recipient responded?

– J.D.

Banned from Twitter.

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Sat Feb 20, 2021 6:59 am

– J.D.

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sat Feb 20, 2021 12:41 pm

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sat Feb 20, 2021 7:17 pm

Link: https://twitter.com/twothickscoops/status/1363009267142447107

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sun Feb 21, 2021 1:31 am

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Sun Feb 21, 2021 12:07 pm

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sun Feb 21, 2021 12:23 pm