Before there were blogs, there were scrapbooks. Like many people in
the pre-internet era, I saved clippings of interesting or humorous items in
envelopes and folders and desk drawers, and eventually transferred them
into "magnetic" photo albums. Now I've reached the "downsizing" phase
of my life, and have to decide what to do with the material. I don't want to drag the albums around with me
forever, but some of the material is too good to just throw in the
dumpster.
So, I'm scanning the pages into TYWKIWDBI. This is the first of what will eventually be ten weekly posts with material from my old "humor" scrapbook. The content varies from
priceless to junky (especially in the case of humor, which often doesn't age well), but there's no time to sort things out or curate the
content (and in any case, old "magnetic" photo albums don't lend
themselves to the rearranging of paper content, which starts to shred
when you try to remove or rearrange it.)
The text on all the types of "scrapbook" pages can be very difficult to read. One possible workaround is to right-click on a page to open it in a new tab, then zoom the image on that tab.
TYWKIWDBI's mentioned on No Such Thing As A Fish, Feb 7th edition--cool! https://audioboom.com/posts/7498779-episode-307-no-such-thing-as-eastenders-the-opera
ReplyDeleteThank you for the heads-up, Marlys. I'm behind in my listening (currently on episode 299).
DeleteI just listened to episode 307 again and it made me smile. Thank you for introducing to me to the podcast years ago!
DeleteI miss those Far Side cartoons! ��
ReplyDeletehttps://www.thefarside.com/ There ya go.
DeleteAnd I miss the National Lampoon, especially the True Facts section. Ah, memories.
ReplyDeleteI have to kind of cringe at the "too bad you're a wimp" one -- that kind of "comic" was popular in the 70s, when men were insisting that women actually were lying when they said they wanted thoughtful, respectful, caring men -- what they really wanted was a tough cave man type who "took charge."
ReplyDeleteTrigger warning: You're going to encounter a lot of cringeworthy "humor" in these 40/50-year old clippings during the next ten sessions. I just don't have time to curate them.
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