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Judge a man by the quality of his character, they say.

i love the specification of "alive" in the people magazine "sexiest man alive" award. clearly they're worried about ötzi the iceman sweeping the competition. as they should be.

valtsv

leolaroot

mx-misty-eyed

rb to give a snout-out to the gays

dorothylarouge

Holy shit lol

onenicebugperday

What the hell she drew a man

onenicebugperday

You're gonna be blown away by what I'm about to tell you

scoops-aboy86

Younger writers. Please, just know that you could not skip to different songs on a cassette tape, that’s CDs. With tapes you pressed fast forward or rewind and prayed.

Also, VHS tapes did not have menu screens. Your only options were play, fast forward, rewind, pause, stop, or eject.

Y’all are making me feel like the crypt keeper here, I’m begging you 😭

risingoflights

reblog to instantly disintegrate some of your peers to dust

reallyintoscience

Also, courtesy of an otherwise great book set in the 70s I just read: if you're writing about landlines, "blocking" numbers was not a thing. (Without police and exchange-level involvement, anyway, iirc.)

Caller ID (being able to see the number of the person calling) was a Cool Extra Feature that started being available in the 90s and you had to have a phone that could handle it and pay extra for the feature to be activated. And then you just didn't pick up the phone if that number was calling. Nothing you could do about them ringing you. And before that, every call was a mystery. Before answering machines, (a whole separate bit of kit originally) if you didn't answer you'd never know what the call was about.

heywriters

Some of you might need to watch old films and television while trying to write eras your audience remembers perfectly well. Just to see things in action. Please.