/r/OldSchoolRidiculous
Laughing at the past.
Laughing at the past
The r/OldSchoolRidiculous Wiki
What is ridiculous? "I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description, and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it."
-Justice Potter Stewart, Jacobellis v. Ohio, 1964
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Keep it old school: Voting reddiquette
- Title should include short description and year or decade.
- If it's not safe for the 21st Century, and your title is vague, tag it [NSFW].
- No using post titles to editorialize current events or politics. Save any (respectful!) discussions of the present for the comments.
- No real violence
- No celebration of hate
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Our sister sub: /r/Tacky
More subs like us:
- /r/vintageads
- /r/otr
- /r/AskOldPeople
- /r/RedditForGrownups
- /r/oldschoolcreepy
- /r/VintageSciFi
- /r/TheWayWeWere
- /r/vintagepalooza
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A snapshot of "the future".
The above is an illustration from a book I own titled The Future (p. 1931), by a man named A.M. Law. Though the drawing is fairly silly, it is not intentionally so - rather it is the author's quite serious attempt at imagining what human civilization will be like in the distant future. The book is what we would now call a work of "retrofuturism".
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Look how men flock around the girl with the clear, bright, Nadinola-light complexion. Nadinola Bleaching Cream, 1960.
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[April 25th, 1924] "Beatrice Kyle, world-famous American high diver, Standing by Fire Engine with Pickle".
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Laurence Olivier and Dustin Hoffman on the set of the brilliant (1976) film, Marathon man
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Wtf Were They Thinking??
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“Girl Bandit Faces 20 Years”
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Farm dynamite. Blowed up good. Blowed up real good. (1920)
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Pear II - we proudly announce the arrival of the computer you have been waiting for (1981)
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I was lied to
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A Batman Water Gun from the 60s.
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[April 20th, 1924] "When We Can "Holiday-In" On The Loudspeaker."
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Some excerpts from c1898's The Frolie grasshopper circus (created by The American Cerial co, seemingly to advertise Quaker Oats)
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Catch and release
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You were saying
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Fifth Avenue, NYC (1974) Photographer unknown. Original Kodachrome collection of Susan Fensten.
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Ribs in A Can (Armour, 1963)
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William Jennings Bryan was famously long-winded, and his rival, William McKinley, poked fun during the 1896 presidential race.
12:46 UTC
A friend sent me one of these ads & I thought it was some sort of parody/joke. Sadly, no
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14 hour wives….
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Oh, do dish! Luxurious gold toned upholstered GOSSIP BENCH. 1957
05:17 UTC
Dear 1873 Scientific American, is it true that a glass of water will absorb all the toxins in the room and become poisonous?
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"Once I'm good n' drunk, I'm gonna' shoot that goddamn high-steppin' little brat!" (Buffalo Commercial 1914-07-03)
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Elephant-hoisting technology is an underrated area of development during the Age of Invention.
11:48 UTC
Dschinghis Khan - Dschinghis Khan (Disco 26.03.1979)
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Are you too stout?
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Daytona Beach, FL 1985
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Nude Psychotherapy developed in the 1960s as a way to challenge preconceptions and promote intimacy and trust, but suffered a decline in the 1980s.
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Herculaneum Ridiculousness
The Le Antichità di Ercolano Esposte (Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed), engraving...
Absurd
23:57 UTC
Yamaha Electone Organ, 1971
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"... fully 1000 Polacks were engaged in fighting, wrangling, and talking in their gibberish language." (Buffalo Evening News 1883-07-23)
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