What They Took From Us Open Thread

There's a fun but bittersweet meme called "What They Took From Us." The idea is that you show something nice that we used to have, which has now disappeared.

I first saw the meme about Pizza Hut's old distinctively-roofed buildings versus the Ikea Construction Company boxes they have now.

So they idea is that you offer an overwrought lament that you've lost a major part of your cultural patrimony, but then you just link some trivial mass-market nostalgia-bait.

So here's a What They Took From Us: Insanely hot girls on TV who are on TV just because they're insanely hot and people like looking at insanely hot girls.

The left hates this meme, of course, because they hate anyone who's having fun.

They're also mostly hysterical autistic scolds so they don't understand tropes like deadpan humor.

Accurate but grubby in its fun-shaming.

Posted by: Ace at 05:30 PM

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1 ST

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 28, 2025 05:32 PM (+NS5Y)

2 What's going on with her left leg though?

Posted by: Gibson Girl at November 28, 2025 05:32 PM (Q54m/)

3 We have right many repurposed Pizza Hutt buildings in these parts.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 28, 2025 05:33 PM (+NS5Y)

4 Only been to Pizza Hut a couple times, too many good pizza places around here

Posted by: Skip at November 28, 2025 05:34 PM (Ia/+0)

5 The argument I have heard is that no building is distinctive now because they want to be able to resell it.

Bah, I say.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 28, 2025 05:34 PM (bss/y)

6 Remember when car hoods were strong enough to support a young woman without collapsing?

Posted by: Oddbob at November 28, 2025 05:35 PM (3nLb4)

7 70s girl looks nice
No tats
No odd piecing,
Doesn't need to lose any pounds

Posted by: Skip at November 28, 2025 05:35 PM (Ia/+0)

8 I read a couple books on that Googie Atomic Age architecture that was popular in California for a spell. It was a beautiful gestalt of optimism, car culture, and pop sensibility that wasn't afraid to be fun. Exuberantly tacky yet elevating.

I wasn't around for its heyday but I miss it nonetheless.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 28, 2025 05:35 PM (kpS4V)

9 A B&B Owner Was Found Murdered at Her Lakefront Property — By the Same Man Who Murdered Her Mother 23 Years Earlier

https://is.gd/mcINJO

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There's a whole lot of crazy in this story.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at November 28, 2025 05:35 PM (L/fGl)

10 95% of right-wing nostalgia is just women with unbelievable honkers captioned "this is what they took from us".

To be fair, plenty of women have unbelievable honkers today, too. They're just attached to 300+ lbs, rainbow-color haired beasts. Or a dude.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at November 28, 2025 05:36 PM (N8nAC)

11 The sign in that Pizza Hut says $5.99 buffet!

Posted by: Ellen at November 28, 2025 05:36 PM (9ipOP)

12 /wth

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 28, 2025 05:36 PM (9ipOP)

13 DAHHH Bearss putting it on the Iggles

24-9

Posted by: Don Black. Message: not found at November 28, 2025 05:36 PM (AOsQT)

14 The second Pizza Hut may be a take-out only location so it kind of makes sense for the architecture to be unwelcoming. They don't want you to hang around, just get your pizza and GTFO.

Posted by: Oddbob at November 28, 2025 05:37 PM (3nLb4)

15 >>A B&B Owner Was Found Murdered at Her Lakefront Property — By the Same Man Who Murdered Her Mother 23 Years Earlier

That's almost Romantic.

Almost.

Posted by: garrett at November 28, 2025 05:37 PM (rO4EG)

16 so this is shaping up to be a nostalgia thread

uphill, both ways

Posted by: Don Black. Message: not found at November 28, 2025 05:37 PM (AOsQT)

17 What's going on with her left leg though?
Posted by: Gibson Girl at November 28, 2025 05:32 PM (Q54m/)

She's obviously a T-1000.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 28, 2025 05:37 PM (ExV1e)

18 11 The sign in that Pizza Hut says $5.99 buffet!
Posted by: Ellen at November 28, 2025 05:36 PM (9ipOP)

That's a good price!

Posted by: AOSHQ Std 29 year old at November 28, 2025 05:37 PM (bss/y)

19 Wendys wouldn't be closing stores if they still had salad bars.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 28, 2025 05:38 PM (+mUZM)

20 The boxy buildings are more efficient and have much better FAR than the old wide-roof (mostly single-floor) buildings. There’s a reason they took over modern design.

Is that Miami Vice clip real? Looks like they interposed much more modern shots, including of that girl. She seems to be wearing more modern clothing and hair style than in 1985.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at November 28, 2025 05:38 PM (5gaia)

21 Iggles fans heading for the exits

Posted by: Don Black. Message: not found at November 28, 2025 05:38 PM (AOsQT)

22 Also, Kanye East can kindly go fuck himself in the ass.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 28, 2025 05:38 PM (bss/y)

23 What is wrong with that guy that he's down on unbelievable honkers? Men have been inspired to do incredible things just to get a glimpse of unbelievable honkers.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 28, 2025 05:38 PM (lUFok)

24 Bring back Googie design and architecture. Then bring back the rest of the 1950s. Except polio, if possible.

Posted by: gp at November 28, 2025 05:38 PM (4kcNT)

25 Pizza Hut was the bomb back in the day. Grab a table, sit down, some big, buxom waitress of questionable morals would take your order, pizza and beer arrived in no time. Enjoy. Maybe slip the waitress a $20 for service later.

Nowadays it's craptastic with no customer service and a spastic colon for a week after you eat their "pizza".

Posted by: Shakey's Pizza too at November 28, 2025 05:39 PM (s0upz)

26 Apparently you haven't walked over the Brooklyn Bridge when it's warm out and as the models - female and male - are sitting or lying across girders as they pose for their portfolios or whatever.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at November 28, 2025 05:39 PM (NFX2v)

27 I'm not sure what Kanye East's point is.
Are Leftists not into chicks?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 28, 2025 05:39 PM (xcxpd)

28
I'm guessing you all have already discussed Trump voiding everything signed by the autopen during Biden's reign.

Posted by: fourseasons at November 28, 2025 05:39 PM (3ek7K)

29 I think that's Cake Girl's Mother on that Pontiac.

Is that a Pontiac?

Posted by: garrett at November 28, 2025 05:39 PM (rO4EG)

30 Some smart ass calls trannies "Pizza Huts"ecause although they may repurpose them, you always know it's a Pizza Hut.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at November 28, 2025 05:39 PM (L/fGl)

31 >>> What's going on with her left leg though?
Posted by: Gibson Girl at November 28, 2025 05:32 PM (Q54m/)

Light is reflecting up from the chrome.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 28, 2025 05:39 PM (3uBP9)

32 27 I'm not sure what Kanye East's point is.
Are Leftists not into chicks?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 28, 2025 05:39 PM (xcxpd)

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We are sexist incels who only want boobs. We're not serious people.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 28, 2025 05:39 PM (GBKbO)

33 23 What is wrong with that guy that he's down on unbelievable honkers? Men have been inspired to do incredible things just to get a glimpse of unbelievable honkers.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 28, 2025 05:38 PM (lUFok)

That is one of the primary motivations of Man, in point of fact.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 28, 2025 05:40 PM (bss/y)

34 24 I see All Hail Eris beat me to it at 8!

Posted by: gp at November 28, 2025 05:40 PM (4kcNT)

35 All today's fast food joints look interchangeable, and are largely drive thrus

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at November 28, 2025 05:40 PM (wBaIH)

36 33 23 What is wrong with that guy that he's down on unbelievable honkers? Men have been inspired to do incredible things just to get a glimpse of unbelievable honkers.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 28, 2025 05:38 PM (lUFok)

That is one of the primary motivations of Man, in point of fact.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 28, 2025 05:40 PM (bss/y)

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"When Man invented fire, he didn't say "Hey, let's cook!" He said: "Great! Now we can see naked bottoms in the dark!" As soon as Caxton invented the printing press we were using it to make pictures of - hey! - naked bottoms. We've turned the Internet into an enormous international database of... naked bottoms. So, you see, the story of male achievement through the ages, feeble though it may have been, has been the story of our struggle to get a better look at your bottoms."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 28, 2025 05:41 PM (GBKbO)

37 shark bite?

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at November 28, 2025 05:41 PM (NFX2v)

38 1970's hooters? Jungle Pam............

Posted by: Big Porker at November 28, 2025 05:41 PM (x389x)

39 some big, buxom waitress of questionable morals

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A Pizza Slut.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at November 28, 2025 05:41 PM (L/fGl)

40 They took the special time of Saturday morning cartoons by making them available 24/7.

Some of my favorite memories of me and my brother were watching cartoons, eating sugary cereal (which mom only let us have then) and watching Hanna Barbara toons and Pink Panther and Land of the Lost and Speed Racer and Looney Tunes……. It was special.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 28, 2025 05:41 PM (mT+6a)

41 32 27 I'm not sure what Kanye East's point is.
Are Leftists not into chicks?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 28, 2025 05:39 PM (xcxpd)

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We are sexist incels who only want boobs. We're not serious people.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 28, 2025 05:39 PM (GBKbO)

Bah. Who wants to be serious if you don't get boobs?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 28, 2025 05:41 PM (xcxpd)

42 I'm guessing you all have already discussed Trump voiding everything signed by the autopen during Biden's reign.

Posted by: fourseasons at November 28, 2025 05:39 PM (3ek7K)

Ace did a whole post on it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 28, 2025 05:41 PM (ExV1e)

43 14 The second Pizza Hut may be a take-out only location so it kind of makes sense for the architecture to be unwelcoming. They don't want you to hang around, just get your pizza and GTFO.
Posted by: Oddbob at November 28, 2025 05:37 PM (3nLb4)
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COVID shifted businesses from gathering places in which to stuff your face to the strains of lite jazz into drive thru gerbil tunnels where they dispense your caffeinated protein slurry. Starbucks focuses on drive thru customers and walk-ins are an afterthought.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 28, 2025 05:41 PM (kpS4V)

44 They tried to take away my whole history, but I still have it in my head.

Posted by: Eromero at November 28, 2025 05:41 PM (i+bC1)

45 41 Bah. Who wants to be serious if you don't get boobs?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 28, 2025 05:41 PM (xcxpd)

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"Seriousness without boobs is not serious."
-Aristotle

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 28, 2025 05:41 PM (GBKbO)

46 Only game I watch and it's a loser

Posted by: Skip at November 28, 2025 05:41 PM (Ia/+0)

47 29 I think that's Cake Girl's Mother on that Pontiac.

Is that a Pontiac?
Posted by: garrett at November 28, 2025 05:39 PM (rO4EG)
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Chevy Camaro

Posted by: Elric the Blade at November 28, 2025 05:42 PM (5gaia)

48 Posted by: Shakey's Pizza too at November 28, 2025 05:39 PM (s0upz)

Never ate Shakeys, but I've heard it was ok if you had never had pizza before.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 28, 2025 05:42 PM (bss/y)

49
Okay. I napped and missed it. Gonna catch up now.

Posted by: fourseasons at November 28, 2025 05:42 PM (3ek7K)

50 I think Pizza Hut made a major marketing error in changing their outside decor. As someone who used to be on the road quite a bit, and needed to fit a meal break into the mix, I relished the times I stumbled across an easily recognizable red roof of a Pizza Hut.

It meant that I could sit down, relax for a bit; maybe even grab a salad to go with my Pizza/ or whatever. It was a fast food joint dressed up like a sit down restaurant. And when you're working on the road, that's known as an oasis from the usual crap food and noisy atmosphere you'd find at the burger depots.

Some idiot in the Pepsi Co (who I assume still owns Pizza Hut) boardroom decided to "be like the other fast food joints" and they lost their identity in the process.

Posted by: Orson at November 28, 2025 05:42 PM (dIske)

51 45 41 Bah. Who wants to be serious if you don't get boobs?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 28, 2025 05:41 PM (xcxpd)

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"Seriousness without boobs is not serious."
-Aristotle
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 28, 2025 05:41 PM (GBKbO)

#SurprisingGreekWisdom

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 28, 2025 05:43 PM (xcxpd)

52 Is that Vic's wife?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 28, 2025 05:43 PM (Zz+7G)

53 some big, buxom waitress of questionable morals

Mavis.

She was snowed in.

Posted by: Old Home is Good Bread at November 28, 2025 05:43 PM (olroh)

54 The argument I have heard is that no building is distinctive now because they want to be able to resell it.

Bah, I say.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 28, 2025 05:34 PM (bss/y)
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Ugh. See this all the time on those "home improvement" shows on channels like HGTV.

"no, no, don't get those red cabinets! They'll reduce the resale value!"
"You might like carpet, but hard floors are better for resale!"
"Yellow will work in this space, but you'd better budget eggshell paint for when you go to sell it!"

Yes, resale is a thing. But it's where you live, or reflects your brand, or whatever. Make it what you want.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 28, 2025 05:43 PM (0lawO)

55 I like this guy and his brother. The don't drag it out; less technical more kaboom.

youtu.be/y9agVr5LPx4

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 28, 2025 05:44 PM (Zz+7G)

56 51
"Seriousness without boobs is not serious."
-Aristotle
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 28, 2025 05:41 PM (GBKbO)

#SurprisingGreekWisdom

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 28, 2025 05:43 PM (xcxpd)

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"Goat boobs, right?"
-Plato, checking in on his student's ideas

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 28, 2025 05:44 PM (GBKbO)

57 "Seriousness without boobs is not serious."
-Aristotle
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 28, 2025 05:41 PM (GBKbO)

#SurprisingGreekWisdom
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 28, 2025 05:43 PM (xcxpd)

Isn't Greek wisdom required to reference anal?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 28, 2025 05:44 PM (ExV1e)

58 38 1970's hooters? Jungle Pam............
Posted by: Big Porker at November 28, 2025 05:41 PM (x389x)

https://tinyurl.com/mrrpe6rt

That's... NOT SFW.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 28, 2025 05:44 PM (bss/y)

59 Remember when car hoods were strong enough to support a young woman without collapsing?
Posted by: Oddbob at November 28, 2025 05:35 PM (3nLb4)
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Yeah. It was cool when stuff was made of metal. Imagine those Duke boys trying to slide across one of these polymer or ultra-thin aluminum hoods...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 28, 2025 05:45 PM (0lawO)

60 TJM - Kurosawa coming soon?
I like Japanese movies with Samurais

Posted by: Skip at November 28, 2025 05:45 PM (Ia/+0)

61 Never ate Shakeys, but I've heard it was ok if you had never had pizza before.

The one closest to me in high school had to close due to high lead content in the air. Don't remember if he hit any passing cars or not.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 28, 2025 05:45 PM (lUFok)

62 "Seriousness without boobs is not serious."
-Aristotle
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 28, 2025 05:41 PM (GBKbO)
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Since when are boobs not serious stuff?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 28, 2025 05:45 PM (0lawO)

63 I loved the Pizza Hut salad bar, but I was young and immortal. No way I'd do it these days with the trogs rooting around in the vegetation.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 28, 2025 05:45 PM (kpS4V)

64 60 TJM - Kurosawa coming soon?
I like Japanese movies with Samurais

Posted by: Skip at November 28, 2025 05:45 PM (Ia/+0)

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I've noticed.

Yeah, I'll probably do a Kurosawa video soonish. Maybe early next year.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 28, 2025 05:45 PM (GBKbO)

65 Yes, resale is a thing. But it's where you live, or reflects your brand, or whatever. Make it what you want.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 28, 2025 05:43 PM (0lawO)

People are whacked these days.

It's your HOME- not an investment.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 28, 2025 05:46 PM (bss/y)

66 I miss bench seats in cars. Excellent for making out.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 28, 2025 05:46 PM (kpS4V)

67 62 "Seriousness without boobs is not serious."
-Aristotle
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 28, 2025 05:41 PM (GBKbO)
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Since when are boobs not serious stuff?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 28, 2025 05:45 PM (0lawO)

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I believe this is a quote from an Italian philosopher.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 28, 2025 05:46 PM (GBKbO)

68 We had Shakey's back in the day. Balloon animals. Loved it as a kid.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 28, 2025 05:47 PM (+NS5Y)

69 I miss bench seats in cars. Excellent for making out.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 28, 2025 05:46 PM (kpS4V)

You'd have thought, what with the body-positivity movement, that they'd have made a comeback.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 28, 2025 05:47 PM (ExV1e)

70
I'd like to throw up an imaginary pic of the USSR.

Because I'd give my left nut to go back to the days when all we had to worry about was the USSR.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 28, 2025 05:48 PM (kTpjt)

71 People are whacked these days.

It's your HOME- not an investment.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 28, 2025 05:46 PM (bss/y)
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Houses are durable goods that provide shelter while requiring nearly continuous maintenance to prevent it from collapsing and approaching zero in value.

On average, they just about keep up with inflation, once everything is considered and factored in. Unless you're an RE investor (builder, flipper, etc), don't sweat it. Make your home what you want it to be.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 28, 2025 05:48 PM (0lawO)

72 I did the math recently. you can check my math

21,700 cost of house 1965 (average)
Mortgage 5.5-6.0%
Minimum wage 1.25 (oregon) 1.15 (federal)

cost of house in hours worked: ~8.5 years

484.000 cost of house 2025 (average)
Mortgage 5.7 – 6.%
Minimum wage (Oregon) $15.05 (federal) 7.25

Cost of house in hours worked :~15.5 years

Posted by: Kindltot at November 28, 2025 05:48 PM (rbvCR)

73 Eagles getting beat again?

Posted by: Case at November 28, 2025 05:48 PM (5Je/N)

74 Here he is shooting full oxygen bottles with various rifles.
Surprise! Some don't penetrate.

youtube.com/shorts/dvt5_w_XKJ0

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 28, 2025 05:48 PM (Zz+7G)

75 Local Smart and Final torn down. Local Boston Market now a Hispanic ghetto chicken place.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 28, 2025 05:48 PM (NeYqv)

76 Shakey's and Barnaby's both had pretty good chow, IMHO.

Posted by: gp at November 28, 2025 05:48 PM (4kcNT)

77 You should have seen hungry poor grad student Franpsycho go through that Pizza Hut buffet like a hot knife through butter.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 28, 2025 05:49 PM (9ipOP)

78 I miss bench seats in cars. Excellent for making out.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 28, 2025 05:46 PM (kpS4V)
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Bench seats
No seatbelts
Column-mounted shifter
"necking knob" on the wheel

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 28, 2025 05:49 PM (0lawO)

79 71 Houses are durable goods that provide shelter while requiring nearly continuous maintenance to prevent it from collapsing and approaching zero in value.

On average, they just about keep up with inflation, once everything is considered and factored in. Unless you're an RE investor (builder, flipper, etc), don't sweat it. Make your home what you want it to be.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 28, 2025 05:48 PM (0lawO)

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Well, it keeps up with inflation unless there's a sudden artificial increase in demand that sustains over several years due to assorted, large external factors.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 28, 2025 05:49 PM (GBKbO)

80 6 Remember when car hoods were strong enough to support a young woman without collapsing?
Posted by: Oddbob at November 28, 2025 05:35 PM (3nLb4)

Remember when young women were lithe enough not to collapse a car ?

What do we have now? Lizzo? Tank Abrams? Fat A** AOC? I could go on.....

And yes...I purposely left out the word 'hood'

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 28, 2025 05:49 PM (QGaXH)

81 There's still an old fashioned Pizza Hut up in Tunkhannock, Pa. I might get a road trip going to there

Posted by: Josephistan at November 28, 2025 05:49 PM (c49Mn)

82 More Nancy Cameron.

She was a Playmate for Playboy in 1974 (a year before I was born) but I always found her... striking and attractive.

https://tinyurl.com/bddvmbjy

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 28, 2025 05:50 PM (bss/y)

83 I like this guy and his brother. The don't drag it out; less technical more kaboom.

That spinning propane tank seems to know right where the tripod is, and tries its best to reach it.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 28, 2025 05:50 PM (olroh)

84 "I miss bench seats in cars."

They would be way easier on my back than the Dr Mengele-designed butt crucibles in my Hyundai.

Posted by: gp at November 28, 2025 05:50 PM (4kcNT)

85 I miss bench seats in cars. Excellent for making out.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 28, 2025 05:46 PM (kpS4V)
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[Grins]

— Obama

Posted by: Elric the Blade at November 28, 2025 05:50 PM (5gaia)

86 Some idiot in the Pepsi Co (who I assume still owns Pizza Hut) boardroom decided to "be like the other fast food joints" and they lost their identity in the process.
Posted by: Orson at November 28, 2025 05:42 PM

Odds are it was due to a Ivy League MBA. What can't they F up.

Posted by: Beartooth at November 28, 2025 05:51 PM (0714D)

87 Starbucks opened a drive thru/ delivery only near here.

Posted by: Accomack at November 28, 2025 05:51 PM (IG7T0)

88 Pizza Hut is owned by Yum! Brands, Inc., which also owns other fast food chains like KFC and Taco Bell.
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A commenter mentioned this the other day. Yum owns everything.
They buy it, homogenize it, then neutralize it until it tastes like frozen fish sticks from the grocery.

Remember Shakey's Pizza!

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 28, 2025 05:51 PM (Zz+7G)

89 66 I miss bench seats in cars. Excellent for making out.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 28, 2025 05:46 PM (kpS4V)

Also could get more people in. These kids today, I doubt many of them have squeezed 8 people into an Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera!

What would be a modern equivalent? Camry?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 28, 2025 05:52 PM (bss/y)

90 The left hates this meme, of course, because they hate anyone who's having fun.

They're also mostly hysterical autistic scolds so they don't understand tropes like deadpan humor.
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Yup.

And anyway, even if he's right, what's so bad about longing for a nice income and a lady with a great rack?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 28, 2025 05:52 PM (0lawO)

91 Never ate Shakeys, but I've heard it was ok if you had never had pizza before.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 28, 2025 05:42
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They were better known for their Mojo potatoes than pizza around here.

Posted by: olddog in mo at November 28, 2025 05:52 PM (bQ4nt)

92 90 And anyway, even if he's right, what's so bad about longing for a nice income and a lady with a great rack?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 28, 2025 05:52 PM (0lawO)

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Because...men should like masculine women who order them around?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 28, 2025 05:52 PM (GBKbO)

93 I think that's Cake Girl's Mother on that Pontiac.

Is that a Pontiac?
Posted by: garrett at November 28, 2025

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I think so too. It's not a Buick; no "portholes" on the fender. Chevy Camaros had different grilles, Oldsmobiles had a more upright stance, and Cadillacs didn't have a sporty coupe.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 28, 2025 05:52 PM (wzUl9)

94 [Grins]

— Obama
Posted by: Elric the Blade at November 28, 2025 05:50 PM (5gaia)

If for no other reason, Obama deserves to be despised for Cash for Clunkers. So many wonderful cars gone. Like tears in the rain.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 28, 2025 05:52 PM (bss/y)

95 94 If for no other reason, Obama deserves to be despised for Cash for Clunkers. So many wonderful cars gone. Like tears in the rain.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 28, 2025 05:52 PM (bss/y)

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All replaced by newer cars with 37 airbags, only one of which going off will total the car.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 28, 2025 05:53 PM (GBKbO)

96 And anyway, even if he's right, what's so bad about longing for a nice income and a lady with a great rack?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 28, 2025

At this point I'll settle for just one

Posted by: Josephistan at November 28, 2025 05:53 PM (c49Mn)

97 Pizza Hut in my city went out of business. They used to have a thick , tangy Italian dressing. Pizza was ok but that dressing was great on salads

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 28, 2025 05:54 PM (bfwj/)

98 I miss bench seats in cars. Excellent for making out.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes

Two things you used to see in movies but don't anymore.

1) Cool ways to enter cars often involving sliding over.

2) Cool ways to light cigarettes, yours or others'.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at November 28, 2025 05:54 PM (L/fGl)

99 They took away Pizza Hut. There is a pod company, infested with pod people, in a place with that lettering on it. But it isn't Pizza Hut. It's a skin-suit of an American company now.

The food is garbarge. The service isn't garbage simply because there isn't any service. The good options for food they used to have are simply gone. Pizza Hut is gone.

Posted by: Another Anon at November 28, 2025 05:54 PM (4h45B)

100
The other night I watched Hots Shots.

It is astounding how similar Admiral Benson (Lloyd Bridges) is to biden. The only difference is Adm. Benson is likable in the movie, whereas biden is an angry coot.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 28, 2025 05:54 PM (y6eaM)

101 Things they took from us: telephones in the bedroom that don’t listen to us. Peace and quiet in the car when you’re driving with your seatbelt off. The ability to start your car without getting all the way in, because now you have to push the brake pedal first. Men comfortable with Approaching women. Women being civilized, instead of argumentative shrews.

Posted by: CloseTheFed at November 28, 2025 05:54 PM (lZILf)

102 Googie Atomic Age architecture that was popular in California

Saw the wrecking ball knock down Googies. Much of that architecture was John Lautner. Virgin records built a structure that robbed the view from a 1920s apt hi rise next door. Also Tiny Naylors.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 28, 2025 05:54 PM (BLBGH)

103 91 I liked the mojos, and the Shakey's crust was good, with a dusting of cornmeal beneath. Two things must be correct on a pizza: crust and sauce. Without quality C&S, all is lost.

Posted by: gp at November 28, 2025 05:54 PM (4kcNT)

104 Because...men should like masculine women who order them around?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 28, 2025 05:52 PM (GBKbO)

There was a great line I heard on some video. A guy and a gal were talking about relationships and he was saying so many modern women think a guy wants a fight or battle and to constantly rewin them (what they want really.) And the guy tells her: why do you think a guy would want to fight a war at home for the rest of his life?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 28, 2025 05:55 PM (bss/y)

105 Remember Shakey's Pizza!

Was it Shakey’s that had the early form of email, where you could leave messages for people while on a road trip?

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 28, 2025 05:55 PM (olroh)

106 I had buddy who managed a pizza hut. I would show up at closing time, help him close up and then we make a pizza and have a pitcher of beer. He also would dig out the red quarters and play the juke box while we ate.

Posted by: Beartooth at November 28, 2025 05:55 PM (0714D)

107 I saw Butt Crucible open for KMFDM at the KitKat Club.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 28, 2025 05:55 PM (kpS4V)

108 28
I'm guessing you all have already discussed Trump voiding everything signed by the autopen during Biden's reign.

Posted by: fourseasons at November 28, 2025 05:39 PM (3ek7K)

Yes...but are we ever really through discussing ANYTHING?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 28, 2025 05:56 PM (QGaXH)

109 Can't stand pump up the volume. Too much shit music at high volume bcuz PARTY PARTY PARTY.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 28, 2025 05:56 PM (BLBGH)

110 If for no other reason, Obama deserves to be despised for Cash for Clunkers. So many wonderful cars gone. Like tears in the rain.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 28, 2025 05:52 PM (bss/y)

You know a lot of them, especially the Japanese ones, were bought for scrap, shipped to Russia, where they bought the used engines from Japan that were "scrapped" for being too old, and re-sold them.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 28, 2025 05:56 PM (rbvCR)

111 More Nancy Cameron.

She was a Playmate for Playboy in 1974 (a year before I was born) but I always found her... striking and attractive.

https://tinyurl.com/bddvmbjy
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 28, 2025

***
She was the one where they did a front-and-back gatefold, I think. One side was her looking at you, and the other was you looking at her . . . back.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 28, 2025 05:56 PM (wzUl9)

112 I am pretty sure that is an OG Camaro (70's anyway.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 28, 2025 05:56 PM (bss/y)

113 There was an autopen thread even.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 28, 2025 05:56 PM (+NS5Y)

114
I axed a couple weeks ago: Remember metal (chrome) bumpers?

We used to Jump Start our cars with Coat Hangers!

-1 coat hanger for the Positive
-touch bumpers for Ground
-bob's your uncle

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 28, 2025 05:56 PM (y6eaM)

115 Men comfortable with Approaching women. Women being civilized, instead of argumentative shrews.
Posted by: CloseTheFed at November 28, 2025 05:54 PM (lZILf)

I saw a video the other day where the guy said that women used to respect the game. If they weren't interested, they said so nicely, now they make a tiktok about and inform the world that you're a creep who is beneath her.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 28, 2025 05:56 PM (ExV1e)

116 Do insurers cover AirBNB properties? If so, are they stupid?
Here's a big bunch of droogs destroying a San Diego AirBNB house:
https://tinyurl.com/yjpdntm2

Posted by: gp at November 28, 2025 05:57 PM (4kcNT)

117 One of the funny and sad things in the USSR were brick walls. Post-revolutionary (i.e. Soviet) brick walls - never straight, never properly done, looked like some 10-yr old had helped his dad with a project. Meanwhile, pre-revolutionary brick structures - normal, perfect. Got to where we'd look for the awful brick-work as a sort of game and compare notes on the shoddiest ones we'd seen that day.

In some of the imagery from Ukeistan, I have had some Soviet nostalgia, seeing the crude brick work in much of the construction.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 28, 2025 05:57 PM (U/Byj)

118 Alaska is the land of repurposed Pizza Hut buildings. One in Spenard is a Pho place, but the winner goes to the one next to Merrill Field that is a smut store. Even had those trapezoid windows, neatly covered up at this point. I thought all the smut stores had gone on line, but then, we also had the last Blockbusters in service, so I guess we might be a bit slow on merchandizing up here.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 28, 2025 05:57 PM (6Bc88)

119 Starbucks opened a drive thru/ delivery only near here.
Posted by: Accomack

They just opened a McDonald's a few blocks from me. I could walk to it, if, you know, I, like, walked.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at November 28, 2025 05:58 PM (L/fGl)

120 Pizza Smut! That's hilarious, TCM.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 28, 2025 05:58 PM (kpS4V)

121 I could have used a hill to roll down to jump start my truck. Pop the clutch and you're running.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 28, 2025 05:58 PM (sDNVV)

122
Young-er Bif would watch Miami Vice just for the opening credits.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 28, 2025 05:58 PM (QVmho)

123
They also "took away from us" ALL the old-time Actors we liked, because these stupid actors lived long enough to Disappoint Us.

For instance, dick van dyke.

I hate dick van dyke.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 28, 2025 05:59 PM (y6eaM)

124 Also could get more people in. These kids today, I doubt many of them have squeezed 8 people into an Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera!

What would be a modern equivalent? Camry?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 28, 2025

***
My 2016 Buick would hold five normal (aka pre-2020s) people. Only two in the front because of individual seats. and the third in the back would have to sit on a hump, but it would be doable.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 28, 2025 05:59 PM (wzUl9)

125 Tcn. Stupid autocorrect thinks this is the movie thread.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 28, 2025 05:59 PM (kpS4V)

126 Pizza Smut! That's hilarious, TCM.
Posted by: All Hail Eris

In our area, they were known as Pizza Sluts.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 28, 2025 05:59 PM (cYBz/)

127 For instance, dick van dyke.

I hate dick van dyke.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 28, 2025 05:59 PM (y6eaM)

Therefore: dick van dyke == spunk.

Posted by: Ed Asner at November 28, 2025 06:00 PM (PiwSw)

128 They took Mello Yello Zero (except in the coke freestyle machines.) Cans and 2 liters went away during covid.

I really love that soda for some reason. It's not insanely sweet, which makes it unique in the Mtn. Dew genre.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 28, 2025 06:00 PM (bss/y)

129 Stupid autocorrect thinks this is the movie thread.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 28, 2025 05:59 PM (kpS4V)

Every thread is a movie thread.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 28, 2025 06:00 PM (ExV1e)

130 40 They took the special time of Saturday morning cartoons by making them available 24/7.

Some of my favorite memories of me and my brother were watching cartoons, eating sugary cereal (which mom only let us have then) and watching Hanna Barbara toons and Pink Panther and Land of the Lost and Speed Racer and Looney Tunes……. It was special.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 28, 2025 05:41 PM (mT+6a)

I felt the same way about the Charlie Brown specials. Also the traditional Christmas movies like Miracle on 34th St - should only be viewed at the season and in the original black and white - as intended!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 28, 2025 06:01 PM (QGaXH)

131 114
I axed a couple weeks ago: Remember metal (chrome) bumpers?

We used to Jump Start our cars with Coat Hangers!

-1 coat hanger for the Positive
-touch bumpers for Ground
-bob's your uncle

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 28, 2025 05:56 PM (y6eaM)

I bought a 1961 Ford Falcon this summer. Chrome everywhere. I have the toothbrush to polish it, too. Bench seats you could make babies in. No seat belts. Nobody took it from us, we just let it pass by. But not anymore, not me, anyway.

Now to buy some cat-eye sunglasses and get my hair all bouffant.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 28, 2025 06:01 PM (6Bc88)

132 Back to trimming the tree (not a euphemism) while listening to Christmas music.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 28, 2025 06:01 PM (kpS4V)

133 I am pretty sure that is an OG Camaro (70's anyway.)

I think you're right. The little badge in the middle of the nose and that sloping grill were on the mid 70's Camaros.

Now I'm going back to looking at "headlights".

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 28, 2025 06:01 PM (lUFok)

134 That looks like a Firebird.

As far as her leg, it could just be sun glare shining on her.

Posted by: Case at November 28, 2025 06:02 PM (5Je/N)

135 My 2016 Buick would hold five normal (aka pre-2020s) people. Only two in the front because of individual seats. and the third in the back would have to sit on a hump, but it would be doable.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 28, 2025 05:59 PM (wzUl9)

My Olds was a fairly small car. My Pappaw's town cars? Fuck. 10 people? Grandpas station wagon? Hell, probably 12-13?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 28, 2025 06:02 PM (bss/y)

136 I think so too. It's not a Buick; no "portholes" on the fender. Chevy Camaros had different grilles,

Definitely a Camaro. Probably '76, '77.

Posted by: Oddbob at November 28, 2025 06:02 PM (3nLb4)

137 In the early years after the fall of Glorious Soviet Power, the Russian far east was full of Japanese used cars (easy to tell by the driver being on the wrong side). Importing them was a big initial mafia biznyess. Of course if you're just sprung from economic/cultural prison, used Japanese cars are about the best thing you could hope for.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 28, 2025 06:02 PM (U/Byj)

138 That new Pizza Hut looks like an old Fotomat (not sure how they were spelled). So inviting!

Posted by: t-bird at November 28, 2025 06:03 PM (LLQU7)

139 Mary Tyler Moore, 1959, dressed as Tinkerbell, dancing in a Googie diner, on a SoCal street lined with Googie car lots. There's a fantasy for your new-fangled AI painting things to chew on.

Posted by: gp at November 28, 2025 06:03 PM (4kcNT)

140 45 "Seriousness without boobs is not serious."
-Aristotle
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 28, 2025 05:41 PM (GBKbO)

Shouldn't that be Aris-tit-le?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 28, 2025 06:03 PM (QGaXH)

141 Now to buy some cat-eye sunglasses and get my hair all bouffant.
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 28, 2025 06:01 PM (6Bc8

Planning on auditioning for a Far Side movie are ya?

Posted by: Beartooth at November 28, 2025 06:03 PM (0714D)

142 Yeah, she's sitting in the valley between the light and the swell of the hood. Her ass seems to fit nicely.

...

I'm sorry, what were we talking about?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 28, 2025 06:03 PM (bss/y)

143 Original Taco Bell stores abound, easy to ID by their distinctive faux-mission design. Many are just now independent taco places. Meaning real taco places, not Americanized stuff.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 28, 2025 06:04 PM (U/Byj)

144 ,>>> The boxy buildings are more efficient and have much better FAR than the old wide-roof (mostly single-floor) buildings. There’s a reason they took over modern design.

Bauhaus is the future.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 28, 2025 06:04 PM (Z5/Ih)

145 My Pappaw's town cars? Fuck. 10 people?

I have a 2005 Town Car. It has fake bench seats, and it has three seat belts in the front and in the back. Person in the front middle would be a bit uncomfortable what with the hump, but it is there and presumably expected to be used.

You could easily fit at least three pre-2020s people in the trunk.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 28, 2025 06:04 PM (olroh)

146 126 Pizza Smut! That's hilarious, TCM.
Posted by: All Hail Eris

In our area, they were known as Pizza Sluts.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 28, 2025 05:59 PM (cYBz/)

Yeah, that part of town is prowled by streetwalkers, so I guess Pizza Sluts works too.

Now I'm gonna laugh out loud every time I go into Anchorage past the Pizza Smut!

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 28, 2025 06:04 PM (6Bc88)

147 I'm sorry, what were we talking about?

Lines and beautiful designs, I think.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 28, 2025 06:04 PM (lUFok)

148 91 Never ate Shakeys, but I've heard it was ok if you had never had pizza before.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 28, 2025 05:42

They were better known for their Mojo potatoes than pizza around here.
Posted by: olddog in mo at November 28, 2025 05:52 PM

There was a Shakey's in San Luis and they used to have bunch o lunch, all you could eat pizza, spaghetti and salad bar for really cheap and I think yes, they had potato wedges.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 28, 2025 06:04 PM (TmEds)

149 >>> Can't stand pump up the volume. Too much shit music at high volume bcuz PARTY PARTY PARTY.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 28, 2025 05:56 PM (BLBGH)

It was on one of the late night tv music advertisements, along with CB's block rockin beats

Posted by: banana Dream at November 28, 2025 06:04 PM (3uBP9)

150 There's an original Prince Castle building still sitting about a mile east of me. Eyesore now.

Posted by: gp at November 28, 2025 06:05 PM (4kcNT)

151 The Bears are good now?

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 28, 2025 06:05 PM (+NS5Y)

152 More MTM nostalgia:

https://tinyurl.com/5n8v67jf

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 28, 2025 06:06 PM (bss/y)

153 I miss Freedom Rock!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 28, 2025 06:06 PM (pkeXY)

154 Crimped hair is trying to come back. Sigh.

Posted by: Piper at November 28, 2025 06:06 PM (OoFl2)

155 66 I miss bench seats in cars. Excellent for making out.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 28, 2025 05:46 PM (kpS4V)
_______
100% agree.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 28, 2025 06:06 PM (s0JqF)

156 The new Pizza Hut has an old Pizza Hut behind it. What's up with that?

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at November 28, 2025 06:06 PM (syz1S)

157 We soon will be discussing the Comassar Judge who voided the EO, no doubt signed by witnesses

Posted by: Skip at November 28, 2025 06:07 PM (Ia/+0)

158 156 The new Pizza Hut has an old Pizza Hut behind it. What's up with that?
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at November 28, 2025 06:06 PM (syz1S)

Heh. Good eye.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 28, 2025 06:07 PM (bss/y)

159 "What's up with that?"

Mitosis.

Posted by: gp at November 28, 2025 06:07 PM (4kcNT)

160 From that Miami Vice video. They also took Radio Shack away from us!! All those electronic trinkits and doodads, reasonably priced, and questionable quality. I bought a Radio Shack branded wx radio there once and it did work for decades until it died. Last year. RIP Radio Shack.

(unless Radio Shack still exists, somehow. I haven't seen one in years)

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 28, 2025 06:07 PM (v9vY1)

161 I completely missed the pump up the volume movie with C. Slater. I read it was a coming of age teen drama and I had done come of age already.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 28, 2025 06:07 PM (3uBP9)

162 Planning on auditioning for a Far Side movie are ya?
Posted by: Beartooth at November 28, 2025 06:03 PM (0714D)

I intent to look damned fine driving that vehicle, I will have you know.

Miss Calaisie, first grade teacher, had the best bouffant hair, glossy brown, big flip ends. I have her photo somewhere. My hairdresser will have a heart attack.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 28, 2025 06:08 PM (6Bc88)

163 Could be a Camero. The headlight looks Camero.

Nice tits.

Posted by: Case at November 28, 2025 06:08 PM (5Je/N)

164 "In our area, they were known as Pizza Sluts."

That lead to the joke: What do you call a brunette prostitute hanging out with two blond prostitutes?

Regular price, four bucks, four bucks.

Its was funny back then.

Posted by: Z, no not him. A different Z at November 28, 2025 06:08 PM (F+CKH)

165 66 I miss bench seats in cars. Excellent for making out.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 28, 2025 05:46 PM (kpS4V)

I watch a lot of older stuff - 30s - 60's and I notice frequently people enter curb parked cars from the passenger side and slide across the bench to the driver's side.

It also seems automotive air conditioning, while available in the sixties, wasn't widely used until much later

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 28, 2025 06:08 PM (QGaXH)

166 We just watched Wizard of Oz. Can someone explain why it's supposed to be for homos?

Posted by: Eeyore at November 28, 2025 06:09 PM (s0JqF)

167
Now to buy some cat-eye sunglasses and get my hair all bouffant.
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 28, 2025 06:01 PM (6Bc8

That car sounds fun.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 28, 2025 06:09 PM (TmEds)

168 151 The Bears are good now?
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 28, 2025 06:05 PM (+NS5Y)

https://youtu.be/DSjtiHfHdbQ

Nope, still suck.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 28, 2025 06:10 PM (6Bc88)

169 That new Pizza Hut has an old style Pizza Hut right behind it.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 28, 2025 06:10 PM (Z5/Ih)

170 Never ate Shakeys, but I've heard it was ok if you had never had pizza before.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 28, 2025 05:42

They were better known for their Mojo potatoes than pizza around here.
Posted by: olddog in mo at November 28, 2025 05:52 PM

There was a Shakey's in San Luis and they used to have bunch o lunch, all you could eat pizza, spaghetti and salad bar for really cheap and I think yes, they had potato wedges.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 28, 2025 06:04 PM

There used to be a shakey's pizza place outside the front gate of the Navy Base in Yokosuka Japan. There would be a line at the door when they opened for the lunch buffett.

They would have all of the classics and some weird Japanese stuff like smoked octopus pizza with corn along with sushi pizza and other bizarre stuff that my wife loved.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 28, 2025 06:10 PM (0N4FZ)

171 (unless Radio Shack still exists, somehow. I haven't seen one in years)

Somebody probably still owns the name but AFAIK, all the brick and mortar stores closed pre-covid. A buddy and I made the rounds of all the stores we could find and grabbed all the parts and connectors we could recognize at cents on the dollar. I got four 4-ft copper ground rods for a buck a piece.

Posted by: Oddbob at November 28, 2025 06:11 PM (3nLb4)

172 >>> We just watched Wizard of Oz. Can someone explain why it's supposed to be for homos?
Posted by: Eeyore at November 28, 2025 06:09 PM (s0JqF)

I don't think it is, except it's a musical and Judy Garland is in it. So just those two things.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 28, 2025 06:12 PM (3uBP9)

173 We just watched Wizard of Oz. Can someone explain why it's supposed to be for homos?

Because it has Judy Garland in it. Pretty sure that’s it. Judy Garland became an icon for gays because of her singing career, I think, not her movie career.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 28, 2025 06:13 PM (olroh)

174 My cousin sent me a picture of a 57 Chevy he is restoring. As he said, not a piece of plastic on it.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 28, 2025 06:13 PM (sDNVV)

175 "Mary Tyler Moore, 1959, dressed as Tinkerbell, dancing in a Googie diner, on a SoCal street lined with Googie car lots."

I tried it at deepai.org, and it's a good start. Need to edit her costume a bit. Never tried this image stuff before.

Posted by: gp at November 28, 2025 06:13 PM (4kcNT)

176 94 [Grins]

— Obama
Posted by: Elric the Blade at November 28, 2025 05:50 PM (5gaia)

If for no other reason, Obama deserves to be despised for Cash for Clunkers. So many wonderful cars gone. Like tears in the rain.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 28, 2025 05:52 PM (bss/y)

To be fair, a lot of vintage tin got melted down for scrap during WWII.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 28, 2025 06:13 PM (QGaXH)

177
That new Pizza Hut has an old style Pizza Hut right behind it.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

It's a red roof but if you zoom that picture the lettering on the other building looks weird. Maybe AI.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 28, 2025 06:14 PM (pkeXY)

178 How could you blackmail an 80s Maserati owner. He already knows it's going to randomly quit working and need more money spent on it than a hooker.

Posted by: DaveA at November 28, 2025 06:14 PM (FhXTo)

179
They want to take away A/C and Gas appliances from us, too.

Oh, and our childrens' innocence.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 28, 2025 06:14 PM (y6eaM)

180 Muscle Cars.

Now you have to be a rich boomer to buy them.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 28, 2025 06:15 PM (KDPiq)

181
The Bears are good now?
Posted by: Boss Moss
-----
https://youtu.be/DSjtiHfHdbQ
Nope, still suck.
Poted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK

Ditka, and John Candy getting shitfaced around a card table.

"Da Bears"

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 28, 2025 06:15 PM (QVmho)

182
Two words:

Howard fucking Johnsons

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 28, 2025 06:15 PM (y6eaM)

183 175 Ha, it made one with three legs on her. That's so hawt!

Posted by: gp at November 28, 2025 06:15 PM (4kcNT)

184 Rifle racks in your truck

Posted by: the way I see it at November 28, 2025 06:16 PM (KDPiq)

185 Fresca

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 28, 2025 06:16 PM (A0sqA)

186 Because it has Judy Garland in it. Pretty sure that’s it. Judy Garland became an icon for gays because of her singing career, I think, not her movie career.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 28, 2025 06:13 PM (olroh)

And her husband, or at least one of them I think

Posted by: Kindltot at November 28, 2025 06:16 PM (rbvCR)

187
Americana died when __________.

fill in the blank

For example:

Americana died when the last Howard Johnsons closed.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 28, 2025 06:16 PM (y6eaM)

188 Service Merchandise

Posted by: the way I see it at November 28, 2025 06:18 PM (KDPiq)

189 Wizard of Oz isn’t gay per se, but the movie is a musical (gay), stars Judy Garland (gay icon), and that scene where they’re skipping/dancing through the forest couldn’t have been gayer if they started sucking each other’s dicks (very gay).

I’m sure it was made by faggots too. Oddly enough, Margaret Hamilton was a Christian and conservative.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at November 28, 2025 06:19 PM (5gaia)

190 "Because it has Judy Garland in it"

Gays like flamboyance; the movie delivers. Furries love Bert Lahr.

Posted by: gp at November 28, 2025 06:19 PM (4kcNT)

191
And I am Thankful for...

Ace not leaving us with dildo for 96 hours.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 28, 2025 06:19 PM (y6eaM)

192 I read a couple books on that Googie Atomic Age architecture that was popular in California for a spell.

I love that style. Makes me think we could still live like the Jetsons.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 28, 2025 06:19 PM (CHHv1)

193 Flying Monkeys will never be gay . Only horrifying.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 28, 2025 06:20 PM (KDPiq)

194 So, that guy responding to the nice gal on the hood just shows, as people have pointed out before, half of what the left goes on about is pretending to be confused about normal human interaction. Like they're all Jane Goodall observing humanity in our native habitat.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 28, 2025 06:20 PM (3uBP9)

195 "Oddly enough, Margaret Hamilton was a Christian and conservative."

That's why they tried to burn her for real in the staging 'accident.'

Posted by: gp at November 28, 2025 06:20 PM (4kcNT)

196 Stuckey is still around and The Nut Tree in Vacaville is over 100 years old so they haven't gotten everything yet.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 28, 2025 06:20 PM (sDNVV)

197 Pontiac?
Posted by: garrett at November 28, 2025 05:39 PM (rO4EG)
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Chevy Camaro
Posted by: Elric the Blade

Firebirds didn't have 2 sized headlights.
The Pontiac badge is a chevron not a square.

Posted by: DaveA at November 28, 2025 06:21 PM (FhXTo)

198 "I love that style. Makes me think we could still live like the Jetsons."

Equal parts hopefulness for the future, and playful goofiness.

Posted by: gp at November 28, 2025 06:21 PM (4kcNT)

199 I think flying monkeys could be gay and horrifying if you tried really hard.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 28, 2025 06:21 PM (3uBP9)

200 180 Muscle Cars.

Now you have to be a rich boomer to buy them.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 28, 2025 06:15 PM (KDPiq)
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The rare, number-matching cars, yes. But beyond that, there are some cheap bargains out there.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at November 28, 2025 06:21 PM (5gaia)

201 I don't get the "regular price, four bucks, four bucks" joke.

"Wizard of Oz" is not gay. They're all banging Dorothy. That's why the witches hate her and are trying to get rid of her.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at November 28, 2025 06:21 PM (asXVI)

202 Americana died when __________.
fill in the blank

Americana died when McDonald's stopped making its fries with beef tallow.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at November 28, 2025 06:21 PM (syz1S)

203 Gas station attendants

Posted by: the way I see it at November 28, 2025 06:22 PM (KDPiq)

204 I don't want to make a spoiler but he blew up two full oxygen bottles in the back of a Ford Expedition and after they put the fire out. The engine started and ran.
Hello, Buck, about that Ford...

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 28, 2025 06:22 PM (Zz+7G)

205 I liked Fresca.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 28, 2025 06:22 PM (mT+6a)

206 and that scene where they’re skipping/dancing through the forest couldn’t have been gayer if they started sucking each other’s dicks (very gay).

Oh, good grief !

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 28, 2025 06:22 PM (PFs9e)

207 Women today are ruining their looks with all those tattoos.
I agree with that. Guess it's a "thing" now. Would hate to see them in about 15 years.

Posted by: Case at November 28, 2025 06:23 PM (5Je/N)

208 @187 the last HoJo's was in Lake George NY. Ate there in the early 00s . It closed on 2022. The last owner served time in jail for sexually harassing an employee

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 28, 2025 06:23 PM (bfwj/)

209 It also seems automotive air conditioning, while available in the sixties, wasn't widely used until much later
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 28, 2025

***
My father's '66 Impala Super Sport had factory A/C. Of course that was an upper-level model, and sold in the Sweat Parlor of the American South, so you'd expect it.

His '58 Impala didn't have air. He had an aftermarket unit put in.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 28, 2025 06:23 PM (wzUl9)

210 205 Fresca, OK but we developed a taste for Tab.

The Lab Mice @ 250 cans a day

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 28, 2025 06:24 PM (gm9Sb)

211 I liked Fresca.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 28, 2025 06:22 PM (mT+6a)

Fresca is awesome.

Tab is anti-awesome

Posted by: the way I see it at November 28, 2025 06:24 PM (KDPiq)

212 One discreet tattoo above my left tit. DNR.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 28, 2025 06:25 PM (sDNVV)

213 >>> And I am Thankful for...

Ace not leaving us with dildo for 96 hours.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 28, 2025 06:19 PM (y6eaM)

96 hour dildo sounds like one of the chinese hells described by Egg Shen.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 28, 2025 06:25 PM (3uBP9)

214 Clean, safe middle class neighborhoods.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 28, 2025 06:25 PM (uDDWT)

215 "Oddly enough, Margaret Hamilton was a Christian and conservative."
_______
There were more of them around back in the day. Or at least, they didn't hide it. I know both Ginger Rogers and Cyd Charisse were on our side.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 28, 2025 06:25 PM (s0JqF)

216 Kids will never have the freedom of going to a party, getting drunk and stupid and making fools of themselves and the only proof of their stupidity is the “memories” of their friends. No smartphones. No ring cameras.

Just people being in the present enjoying the party.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 28, 2025 06:25 PM (mT+6a)

217 A small tat on a girl's ankle or instep is kind of hawt. But you're all right -- in forty-five years that's not going to be a good look.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 28, 2025 06:26 PM (wzUl9)

218 It's a great movie, a masterpiece IMHO, but let's face it, there's a jillion ways to poke fun at it.

Posted by: gp at November 28, 2025 06:26 PM (4kcNT)

219 Fresca is still around. Hard to find, though.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 28, 2025 06:26 PM (LjSYW)

220 Judy Garland being a gay icon must have caused her daughter Liza confusion. She married Aussie pooftah singer Peter Allen and didn't realize he was light in the loafers. Either confused or drugged out of her gourd

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 28, 2025 06:26 PM (bfwj/)

221 Oddly enough, Margaret Hamilton was a Christian and conservative."
_______
There were more of them around back in the day. Or at least, they didn't hide it. I know both Ginger Rogers and Cyd Charisse were on our side.
Posted by: Eeyore at November 28, 2025 06:25 PM (s0JqF)

Ronald Reagan was president of the actors guild.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 28, 2025 06:27 PM (KDPiq)

222 184 Rifle racks in your truck
Posted by: the way I see it at November 28, 2025 06:16 PM (KDPiq)

This, siblings and cousins always had these in high school and my husband told me he and his friends did too and I grew up in California.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 28, 2025 06:27 PM (TmEds)

223 Nice chick on the camaro hood. That early 70's period camaro was popular with the girls I went to high school with. They were 8-10 year old cars, so affordable as a first car. Yeah, they dressed like that too. Sigh...

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 28, 2025 06:27 PM (snZF9)

224 There were more of them around back in the day. Or at least, they didn't hide it. I know both Ginger Rogers and Cyd Charisse were on our side.
Posted by: Eeyore at November 28, 2025

***
Jimmy Stewart and Gary Cooper, too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 28, 2025 06:27 PM (wzUl9)

225 That tweet calls them honkers… heh I thought they were hooters. Whatever you call ‘em that photo has a very nice pair

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 28, 2025 06:27 PM (xT8gx)

226 Of course GM made both the Camero and Firebird so they are very similar.

Posted by: Case at November 28, 2025 06:27 PM (5Je/N)

227 Fresca still exists.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 28, 2025 06:28 PM (pkeXY)

228 224 There were more of them around back in the day. Or at least, they didn't hide it. I know both Ginger Rogers and Cyd Charisse were on our side.
Posted by: Eeyore at November 28, 2025

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Jimmy Stewart and Gary Cooper, too.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 28, 2025 06:27 PM (wzUl9)
________
Ginger and Cyd looked better.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 28, 2025 06:28 PM (s0JqF)

229 "Kids will never have the freedom of going to a party, getting drunk and stupid and making fools of themselves and the only proof of their stupidity is the “memories” of their friends."

See 116.

Posted by: gp at November 28, 2025 06:29 PM (4kcNT)

230 Have a Fanta.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 28, 2025 06:29 PM (+NS5Y)

231 Flying monkeys will rape your ass if they catch you
Look what they did to the Scarecrow

Posted by: Skip at November 28, 2025 06:29 PM (Ia/+0)

232 Of course GM made both the Camero and Firebird so they are very similar.
Posted by: Case at November 28, 2025

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The early "pony cars," as they were called, chasing after the Mustang's customers.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 28, 2025 06:29 PM (wzUl9)

233 >>>She married Aussie pooftah singer Peter Allen and didn't realize he was light in the loafers. Either confused or drugged out of her gourd
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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That's what they said.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 28, 2025 06:29 PM (Zz+7G)

234 Watch "Judgement at Nuremberg" just to see how gracefully Judy Garland aged. 41, looking like a rough 61. Spencer Tracy, BTW was in his early 60s and looked like Death already caught up (Jamesons whisky I imagine).

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 28, 2025 06:30 PM (gm9Sb)

235 The first Taco Bells did not have indoor seating. It was great in San Diego.

Posted by: no one at November 28, 2025 06:31 PM (GLn15)

236 209 It also seems automotive air conditioning, while available in the sixties, wasn't widely used until much later
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 28, 2025

***
My father's '66 Impala Super Sport had factory A/C. Of course that was an upper-level model, and sold in the Sweat Parlor of the American South, so you'd expect it.

His '58 Impala didn't have air. He had an aftermarket unit put in.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 28, 2025 06:23 PM (wzUl9)

My first car (in 1974) was my mom's 1964 Olds Cutlass F-85. It had factory air which had long since quit. In south Florida! My parents had bought it used from some friends of theirs several years earlier but had never seen fit to fix the A/C. Too expensive they said....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 28, 2025 06:31 PM (QGaXH)

237 nood

Posted by: gp at November 28, 2025 06:31 PM (4kcNT)

238 nood

feline

Posted by: banana Dream at November 28, 2025 06:31 PM (3uBP9)

239 Wolfus, that gave me a mental flash of someone in a Pinto screaming " wait for me "

Posted by: Ben Had at November 28, 2025 06:31 PM (sDNVV)

240 Used to be 25 cents to cross the Throgs Neck Bridge

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 28, 2025 06:31 PM (I8Tp0)

241 Watch "Judgement at Nuremberg" just to see how gracefully Judy Garland aged. 41, looking like a rough 61. Spencer Tracy, BTW was in his early 60s and looked like Death already caught up (Jamesons whisky I imagine).
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 28, 2025 06:30 PM (gm9Sb)

Yes a lot of actors in those days looked a lot older than they were imo.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 28, 2025 06:31 PM (KDPiq)

242 Are we sure that the chick on the car hood is of legal age?

Posted by: Bulg at November 28, 2025 06:32 PM (77rzZ)

243 Stuckey is still around…

That’s the chain that had the road trip messaging system.

In the summer of 1973, Stuckey’s installed computer consoles in each of its 350 locations throughout America. Every one of these consoles had a 10 digit numeric keyboard (0-9) and a small readout screen.

The only thing you had to pay for was the call to Stuckey’s headquarters, so Ma Bell probably wasn’t too excited about the program, as telephone companies lost a lot of money to the HELPS project. But highway traveler’s seemed to really like this new and innovative idea that helped them make every trip a pleasure trip.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 28, 2025 06:32 PM (olroh)

244 I took a look at deepai.org. It does not seem to know what a "centaur" is supposed to be; it keeps giving me horse images.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 28, 2025 06:33 PM (wzUl9)

245 TCM is playing Gone With The Wind tonight.
It's at the part where Scarlett and Rhett have finally married and had Bonnie Blue.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 28, 2025 06:33 PM (6ydKt)

246 I had buddy who managed a pizza hut. I would show up at closing time, help him close up and then we make a pizza and have a pitcher of beer. He also would dig out the red quarters and play the juke box while we ate.
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That is awesome.

Nothing can come close to replicating 80s Pizza Hut dine-in on Friday or Saturday night.
The chaos. The happy loud. The smell of hot pizza. The trip to the videos games.
Your pizza, scading hot, landing on the table and almost instantly disappeared.
The ice cold Pepsi in that red cup.

I wish it was legal, at a restaurant, sign at the door "cell phone jammer in use, your phone is not welcome here."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 28, 2025 06:33 PM (HXT0k)

247
Watch "Judgement at Nuremberg" just to see how gracefully Judy Garland aged. 41, looking like a rough 61. Spencer Tracy, BTW was in his early 60s and looked like Death already caught up (Jamesons whisky I imagine).
Posted by: bill in arkansas

Shatner
Looked
Fine

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 28, 2025 06:34 PM (pkeXY)

248 My favorite repurposed Pizza Hut building was in Navasota, Texas, where I found one that had become a Chapel & Funeral Parlor.
I looked for a sign saying “This weeks special - 2 Free Pizzas with every Funeral!”

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 28, 2025 06:35 PM (3U2FH)

249 Remember when car hoods were strong enough to support a young woman without collapsing?"

Remember a time when the average weight of American Women was way under 170 lbs?

Pepperidge Farms remembers

Posted by: man at November 28, 2025 06:36 PM (XuXeR)

250 Thought the gay community liked Glinda the Witch with her flamboyant, "high femme" beauty in the 1939 film.

Over the years, were also drawn to the over top divas overcoming the odds of rules, looks, talent and so on; Liza, Diana Ross, Cher, Bette Midler, Barbra Streisand, Elizabeth Taylor, Bette Midler, Lucille Ball, Aretha and many of the women tennis greats.

Now I guess it's the Wicked set. IDK

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at November 28, 2025 06:36 PM (NFX2v)

251
15 >>A B&B Owner Was Found Murdered at Her Lakefront Property — By the Same Man Who Murdered Her Mother 23 Years Earlier

That's almost Romantic.

Almost.
Posted by: garrett at November 28, 2025 05:37 PM

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In a "stinking pile of psychopathic dog shit" kind of way.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at November 28, 2025 06:36 PM (xPNeT)

252 I think that's Cake Girl's Mother on that Pontiac.

Is that a Pontiac?

second generation Chevy Camaro

Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at November 28, 2025 06:37 PM (iNp3L)

253 The Pizza Hut thing is the same as Cracker Barrell.

Because these corporations hire DEI morons that have NO FUCKING IDEA how the real world works, so literally all they can do is regurgitate the nonsense that their business school 'taught' them, and it all ends up with all the corporations doing the same stupid shit.

They claim they need to 'modernize' to 'appeal to modern audiences', and all they do is take away what makes the brand actually recognizable in the first place.

Stuff like Pizza Hut is so stupid. You have a franchise whose buildings are instantly recognizable. So you're gonna change it to look like every other food franchise because... why?

Same crap they did to Cracker Barrell. And Taco Bell. And everything else.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at November 28, 2025 06:37 PM (jEIOw)

254 Are we sure that the chick on the car hood is of legal age?

Well, she's probably close to Medicaid eligibility now.

Posted by: Oddbob at November 28, 2025 06:38 PM (3nLb4)

255 Margaret Hamilton had a better figure than Billie Burke.

Posted by: Bulg at November 28, 2025 06:38 PM (77rzZ)

256 I don't get the "regular price, four bucks, four bucks" joke."

You dont remember the Pizza hut buy one for regular price get another for 4bucks and get another for 4 bucks?

Too much explaining already...

Just go find a "Totally tasteless jokes" paperback from the 80's

Posted by: Z, no not him. A different Z at November 28, 2025 06:38 PM (F+CKH)

257 27 I'm not sure what Kanye East's point is.
Are Leftists not into chicks?

Only if they have a girthy lady p*nis.

29 I think that's Cake Girl's Mother on that Pontiac.

Is that a Pontiac?

JFC. That's a Camaro. Pontiac had the distinct nose in the middle of the grill with the red pontiac badge in the middle. Camaro has the smaller red/white/blue emblem mounted higher on the front bumper.

Terrible f**king color on that car though and 70's vinyl tops blew *ss.

Posted by: Nelly at November 28, 2025 06:39 PM (ALN08)

258 I worked with a guy who quit his job took achance running a Shakey's pizza place

Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 28, 2025 06:40 PM (d4zil)

259 Definitely a Camaro. Probably '76, '77.
Posted by: Oddbob
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Yep, camaro. 75 or 76. We had a 77 in the driveway growing up, different bumper config.

Posted by: scampydog at November 28, 2025 06:49 PM (41CYW)

260 Pixy is not letting me comment =, saying that my comment "looks like spam" even though nothing about it looks liek spam. Anyone else having this problem?

Posted by: zombie at November 28, 2025 06:50 PM (oraVG)

261 What they took from us:

A race-blind individual identity.

What were the favorite kids' books in The Olde Dayes?

Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel.

Goodbye Moon.

Where the Wild Things Are.

etc.

Well, that's all gone. At Thanksgiving a distant relative showed me a kids' book (on her iPhone) that was her granddaughters' "favorite book."

What was it about?

Racial bullying and identity politics.

The lead character is a young girl who is half Native American and half black. When she is raised by her Indian mother, all the Indians are racist against blacks, and bully her, so she feels bad.

So then she runs away from home to her black father. But then all the blacks bully her because she's half Indian and they're all racist against Indians.
[con't]...

Posted by: zombie at November 28, 2025 06:50 PM (oraVG)

262

So she runs away again and ends up in a white foster family -- where they're all racist against her for being both black and Indian.

So then she feels like an outcast because everyone is racist against her.

The end.

There is no uplifting resolution -- the end is simply that she feels bad and is bullied because everyone is racist.

Note: This girl is neither black nor Native American.

Posted by: zombie at November 28, 2025 06:51 PM (oraVG)

263 We had a 77 in the driveway growing up, different bumper config.

Yeah, I thought of that after I posted. Full vinyl covering, right?

Posted by: Oddbob at November 28, 2025 06:52 PM (3nLb4)

264 So, you see, the story of male achievement through the ages, feeble though it may have been, has been the story of our struggle to get a better look at your bottoms."

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behind every great achievement there is some fantastic boobs

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at November 28, 2025 06:57 PM (kDHiw)

265 Yeah, I thought of that after I posted. Full vinyl covering, right?
Posted by: Oddbob
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Heh, one of the few that was not vinyl. Older brother's ride.

Posted by: scampydog at November 28, 2025 06:58 PM (41CYW)

266 I don't mind the tats. But I really don't like the bull nose rings in women. What idiot influencer or popstar started that trend? It's hideous.

Posted by: LizLem at November 28, 2025 06:58 PM (gWBY1)

267 234 Watch "Judgement at Nuremberg" just to see how gracefully Judy Garland aged. 41, looking like a rough 61. Spencer Tracy, BTW was in his early 60s and looked like Death already caught up (Jamesons whisky I imagine).
Posted by: bill in arkansas
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No HVAC and no modern medicine. All they had was penicillin and aspirin. Only thing a surgeon did was mend a broken leg.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 28, 2025 07:00 PM (Zz+7G)

268 What they also took from us: Pizza Hut once had a school program where if you read, you got a free pizza. Very beloved among my generation. Might have contributed to the literacy rate of Gen X/millennials.

Correlation vs causation: does the plummeting literacy rate also graph with the ending of the Pizza Hut reading program?

Posted by: LizLem at November 28, 2025 07:04 PM (gWBY1)

269 One of those old Pizza Hut buildings here in town. Been abandoned for probably five years now. Just sits in the frontage of a Walmart with a "For Sale" sign.

Problem with a unique building design is, it's only designed for one brand. Meanwhile they opened a new one down the road a bit. Not sure anyone goes to it, either.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at November 28, 2025 07:08 PM (MZ+PY)

270 Never ate Shakeys, but I've heard it was ok if you had never had pizza before.

I endorse this comment (willowed)! My mother took me to the first Shakey's in Tulsa, OK in 1967. She bought carrot strips so it might be a healthy dinner. So she thought!

Posted by: jayhawkone at November 28, 2025 07:17 PM (9rPx3)

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