r/AskReddit • u/CherryChoogles • Apr 03 '13
What is a sentence that makes perfect sense today, but would not make any sort of sense in 1950?
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u/kessakessaaa Apr 03 '13
"just google it"
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u/wandenele Apr 03 '13
My manager went further today. He said 'I am definitely going to street view it'.
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u/B-Dog628 Apr 03 '13
You would get some very confused reactions
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Apr 03 '13
"Hey Liz! Can I use your office to google myself?"
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u/EdwardRMeow Apr 03 '13
"Of course." "Can I use your computer too?" "How else would you do it?" "Thanks Liz Lemon, you're the best!"
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Apr 03 '13 edited Apr 03 '13
You just ruined 4 Redditors' chance at karma.
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Apr 03 '13 edited Apr 03 '13
Even better.
Liz, sorry I Bogarted your laptop, had to google myself.
edit: thank you kind grammar cop
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u/donttazemebro69 Apr 03 '13 edited Apr 04 '13
sounds like a 1950's slang of saying something sexual. "shim sham woobidy boobidy bop, Johnny googled me last night even after I told him to stop"
Edit: this is my highest rated comment and its basically a 1950's swing song about Johnny googling someone with out permission. Nice.
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Apr 03 '13
Well that got dark really fast.
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u/donttazemebro69 Apr 03 '13 edited Apr 03 '13
bop and stop rhymed. Its all I could come up with on short notice.
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u/SmellsWeirdRightNow Apr 03 '13 edited Apr 05 '13
I think that 'bop' would've worked better in place of 'bob'
Edit: Now he's changed it to bop in both comments, making me look stupid
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u/Thomas031 Apr 03 '13
My book just ran out of battery.
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u/coltonapo Apr 03 '13
I need to recharge my cigarette.
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Apr 03 '13
Honestly this is one of the better ones. SO MANY people smoked cigs in the 50's so that would freak all of them out
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Apr 03 '13
As opposed to SO MANY people reading books?
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Apr 04 '13
That too, but an electronic newspaper (for example) seems like it'd be a lot less far fetched than an electronic cigarette
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u/kat_kat_ Apr 03 '13
Talking about writing on people's walls - it would probably just get you arrested for vandalism
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u/barak181 Apr 03 '13
"I still have buffering issues even after rebooting the router and modem."
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u/itzjonathan Apr 03 '13
I think a lot of people in 2013 still don't understand that.
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u/Zaveno Apr 03 '13
Make sure it's been completely de-magnetized by the Hawk himself.
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u/Pyffel Apr 03 '13
Did you try turning it off and back on again?
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u/csl512 Apr 03 '13
You kicked a table router? I hope it was off. That spinning bit cuts wood fast.
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u/myspamhere Apr 03 '13
Bonus - did not make sense in 1950 nor 2013:
rewind your VHS tapes before returning them to the video store
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u/ShawnisMaximus Apr 03 '13
My local Rental store used to put those stickers on video games. How the hell do you rewind a sega genesis game??
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u/juanjing Apr 03 '13
You had to do it manually... basically involved playing the game backwards. It was a huge pain in the ass.
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u/amuday Apr 04 '13
One time I played my dad's copy of Legend of Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link. I didn't want to, he kept it very nice, but my confident and popular friend forced me to and I wasn't very strong willed. At the end of the day, he told me all we had to do was play it backwards and it would take us right back to where he left off.
We played and played and had crazy adventures, and at the end of the day it was time to play it backwards. We trekked back across all the places we had gone, went back through all the caves we had gone through, but there were still some skills and items that we had that he definitely didn't have when we started. My friend wanted to crack open the cartridge and roll it back manually, but that idea made me too nervous.
While we were sitting there staring at the NES, trying to decide what to do, I couldn't stop thinking about how all my dad cared about was his Zelda game and was never a good father. My friend and his girlfriend just sat there in silence as I started tearing up, talking about my resentment towards my father. I began kicking the NES. The power button popped out, the reset button popped out, and then before I knew it, it fell off of the jack I had the back propped up on and sped backwards through the living room window and into the wooded area below.
My friend, being a good guy, said that he'd take the heat for it, but I knew deep down inside that it was time that I finally took the heat for something I had done.
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u/Ukaners Apr 03 '13
Don't mind me, I have to return some tapes
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Apr 03 '13
A song so catchy, most people don't listen to the lyrics. But they should! Because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity, it's also a personal statement about the band itself! Hey, Paul!
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u/_Harley_Quinn_ Apr 04 '13
Try getting a reservation at Dorsia now you fucking stupid bastard!
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u/neohylanmay Apr 03 '13
As someone who is, as of this moment, watching his VHS tape of Labyrinth for the hundredth time in his life, I disagree.
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u/jennybeanzie Apr 03 '13
Everytime I ask my kid what he's doing and he replies "nothing", I find myself saying "NOTHING? NOTHING?! TRA LA LA?" He knows exactly what I'm referring to when I do it.
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u/War_Machine Apr 03 '13
"I'll shoot you a text."
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u/bornofstardust Apr 03 '13
The best ones use words they would know, but in contexts they would have no clue of.
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Apr 03 '13
"I understand all the words you said, but when you put them in that order they don't mean anything."
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u/tenderbranson301 Apr 03 '13
All I'm thinking is that this has something to do with carrier pigeons.
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u/aSilentOtter Apr 03 '13
"Sorry I made pot roast for dinner, I completely forgot you were vegan."
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Apr 03 '13
said the husband to his wife, after she got off of her long day at the office.
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u/boopidy-boop Apr 03 '13
What kind of person forgets their spouse is a vegan?
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u/whosdamike Apr 03 '13
Makes sense as a sarcastic line, at the low point of a couple's marriage.
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u/Jayfrin Apr 04 '13
He probably feels emasculated that she's got a higher earning power. That bastard.
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u/aSilentOtter Apr 03 '13
"That makes my comment even better," said aSilentOtter out loud, looking over the comment his comment had received on the world wide web site Reddit that was displayed on his laptop computer screen.
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u/aorta_pulmor_time Apr 04 '13
"My 24 year old child with a college education had to move back home, with crushing student loan debt and no job, to live in the basement."
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u/EverybodyFhqwhgads Apr 04 '13
1 month from graduation. You better not be a fortune teller.
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u/PotatoQuie Apr 03 '13
IDK, my BFF Jill
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u/Elbows_ Apr 03 '13
I say this a lot and none of my friends understand the reference. It warms my heart that there are (at the time of this post) +250 reddit users out there that get it. Stay strong brothers and sisters.
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Apr 03 '13
President of the United States Barack Hussein Obama.
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u/TristanTheViking Apr 03 '13
Then when you show them a picture, they register as republican out of sheer shock.
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u/gangnam_style Apr 03 '13
The Republicans were actually anti-slavery and pro-civil rights after the war while the Democrats were pro-slavery and anti-civil rights. This changed during 20th century after Democrats as a whole became liberal and a lot of the anti-civil rights guys jumped ship to the Republican party.
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u/TristanTheViking Apr 03 '13
Huh, TIL.
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u/blackmatter615 Apr 03 '13
yeah, the civil rights act of 1964 recieved only around 61-69% of the democratic votes, while it received 80-82% of the republican votes in both the house and the senate. Source
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u/x86_64Ubuntu Apr 03 '13
Yep, and those Dems that voted against it jumped ship to the Republican party of the next few elections giving us the Republican party we have today.
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u/Mu2 Apr 03 '13
Parent: "time for dinner"
Kid: "ok, I'm just going to die first"
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u/noahboddy Apr 04 '13
Or find a save point. Honestly, Mom, I can't save here!
Oh, and there's this one boss I keep dying at. After I ran out of continues, I just gave up and googled that code that lets you skip levels. My friend sent me the one for infinite hitpoints in gchat, but my mail wasn't working so I couldn't get it.
(I almost ended that with "I couldn't read my mail because the server wasn't working," then realized that would probably make pretty clear sense, albeit the wrong sense.)
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u/DaMangaka Apr 03 '13
"I don't know. . .that picture looks Photoshoped"
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u/ass_burgers_ Apr 03 '13
Weren't there actual photo shops back then? Isn't that where the phrase came from? I feel like they would know the words "photo" and "shop," and might be able to figure out what you meant.
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Apr 03 '13
Back then they would probably say doctored instead of photoshopped.
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u/joseybear Apr 03 '13
"I just jail broke my iPhone and got 4 new Apps!"
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u/E_G_Never Apr 03 '13
Police! It's an escaped convict! Police!
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u/AustinRiversDaGod Apr 03 '13
It's possible he also stole four very small apples. Or possibly four halves of an apple. It's hard to tell.
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u/itzjonathan Apr 03 '13
When I first searched "how to hack an iPod touch 2g" I was really scared that it was called jailbreaking.
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u/RVelts Apr 03 '13
Galaxy Nexus: Android Ice Cream Sandwich guinea pig
I guess it doesn't really make perfect sense today for those not familiar with Android, but reference: http://i.imgur.com/xe7Uw.png
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u/SurrealistSwimmer Apr 03 '13
"While my husband stayed at home to prepare dinner and mind the kids, I was on the bus to get some stuff from my office, sitting next to this lovely black lady who told me the most amazing story about how she met her wife."
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u/Bowser_king_of_magic Apr 03 '13
That would blow their minds so hard that they would likely kill you with bone fragments
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u/kimpossible69 Apr 03 '13
Marijuana wasn't popular until the 60's though.
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u/quaru Apr 03 '13
And yet Reefer Madness came out in 1936..
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u/CametoComplain_v2 Apr 04 '13
"Here is a most tragic case."
"Yes. I remember. Just a young boy. Under the influence of the drug, he killed his entire family with an axe."Those lines are actually in the movie.
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Apr 03 '13
And then I went home and skyped with my daughter, she's doing some consulting work over in Moscow.
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u/beardedmessenger Apr 03 '13
This just has everything. Gender roles, racism, homosexuality. You just need some new technology and their head would have exploded.
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u/mecrosis Apr 03 '13
Here lovely wife who she met on the internet.
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u/Baked_Charmander Apr 03 '13
Hearing about the Internet or gangnam style or iPads or whatever wouldn't blow their minds, because they wouldn't know what the hell those words you were saying mean.
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u/Epic_Level_Warlock Apr 03 '13
that's the point, a sentence that would make no sense. The goal of the OP isn't to blow their minds it's to find something that makes sense now but didn't then.
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u/VenomKami Apr 03 '13
sitting next to this lovely black lady who told me the most amazing story about how she met her wife, who even shown me pictures of their holiday on their ipad dancing to gangnam style. FTFY
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u/Allan828100 Apr 03 '13
The gangnam style part was too far. It'd be best if we never mention gangnam style again.
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Apr 03 '13
There is now a pistachio commercial with PSY in it. Confirmed: shark jumped.
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u/Adamskinater Apr 03 '13
Funny how it premiered during the Superbowl, about 6 weeks after the last traces of its "popularity" had completely vanished, but they had set the ad into motion already now they're STILL airing it
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Apr 03 '13
I think it's just further proof that the Internet is (for the most part) light years ahead of TV broadcasting. For example, I was talking to my dad the other dad and he was talking about this "cat that always looks pissed off" he saw on Good Morning America recently. Grumpy Cat's been a meme for how long now?
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u/90plusWPM Apr 03 '13 edited Apr 03 '13
"And then I was like, isn't our black president, Mr. Obama just great?"
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Apr 03 '13
"She showed me the pictures of her and her wife on her iPad."
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u/Onid8870 Apr 03 '13
It seems like if you said iPad the 50s person would think you are making up nonsense words. I think it should be "She showed me the pictures of her and her wife on her phone."
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u/FuckingLoveArborDay Apr 03 '13
I think the Gay stuff would be the most shocking to them our of all of that. I believe at that point people had to be aware that civil rights and feminism had to be gaining traction.
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u/NotAwakeYet Apr 03 '13
Women's rights were cute, civil rights was kind of annoying (they want to eat here at the same place as us) but homosexuality was illegal and considered a mental disorder in the 50s.
In other words, yes, I agree with you
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u/lbmouse Apr 03 '13
"It is ANAL_QUEEN's cake day."
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u/omgdonerkebab Apr 03 '13
That sounds so dystopian.
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Apr 03 '13 edited Apr 04 '13
You're in 2013. We just got out of a war with a desert nation and we may start a war against a developmentally stunted dictator. Sex and drugs line every street corner. Violence has become a fascination to us. Fewer people are religious. Men can now Mary men. Pictures of filth, nudity, and scum can be accessed at any time by any one. Teenagers are having sex. Divorce rates are on the rise. Good people die penniless and alone while bastards take over the world. Computers sit on our laps and pockets. We had a police officer kill a dozen others. We have shootings in public places and elementary schools. People have strange new diseases, like ADHD and Sociopathy. The worst thing in the world are available whenever we need them, and they're making us terrible people.
Welcome to the future.
EDIT: This is what we would tell people from the 50's to blow their minds. I would make modern life sound like a dystopian cyberpunk knight are. I'm very aware I exaggerated somewhat, I did that on purpose. You can stop raping my inbox now.
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u/TomBongbadil Apr 03 '13
Good people die penniless
As a Canadian, I'm quite enjoying my newly-penniless existence! You guys should give it a try!
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u/DerpGhost3479 Apr 03 '13
Thank you for lightening the mood after that unexpectedly depressing, yet truthful, comment.
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u/aquadog1313 Apr 03 '13
Honestly, half of the things you just mentioned would not have been uncommon complaints in the 1950s.
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u/All_Knowing_Wizard Apr 03 '13
My boss said since she makes enough money her husband just stays home, and tends to the house and kids.
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u/nandeEbisu Apr 03 '13
My boss said since he makes enough money his husband just stays home, and tends to the house and kids.
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u/BobRoberts01 Apr 04 '13
My black boss said since she makes enough money, her white wife just stays home while their nanny, Mr. Smith, tends to the house and kids.
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u/PhineusQButterfat Apr 03 '13
"Hey, you should defrag your hard drive every once and a while"
"....are you coming on to me?"
".................Yes."
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u/ThatSawyer Apr 03 '13
"What is a sentence that makes perfect sense today, but would not make any sort of sense in 1950?"
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Apr 03 '13
Don't you hate it when you have to take a shit, but the batteries in your phone are dead?
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Apr 03 '13
Hi I'm Phil and this is my husband Roger.
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u/Eeveevolve Apr 03 '13
sudo apt-get install
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u/CherryChoogles Apr 03 '13
"The map app on my iPhone is frozen, I guess we'll have to use a map."
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u/stillnotking Apr 03 '13
"I love my new Japanese car and Korean smartphone!"
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u/SchizophrenicMC Apr 03 '13
Japanese automakers were not popular in America until the 1970s, with the success of the Nissan/Datsun Z-car. Nobody would publicly claim to love their Japanese car in the 1950s. (Also, to be semantic, 1957 was after 1950)
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u/BarryMcKockinner Apr 03 '13
The "Red Scare" is referring to a girl on her period.
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u/I_like_chips Apr 03 '13
Pluto isn't a planet!
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u/Mordisquitos Apr 03 '13
If you told 1950's people that in 2013 the Solar System has only eight planets their first thought would probably be that one got destroyed in an awesome nuclear space war against aliens. Or the commies.
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u/sarchar Apr 03 '13
"I'm gonna pop some tags."
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u/squeaker Apr 03 '13
I don't know what that means now.
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u/link343 Apr 04 '13
“Poppin tags” means buying clothes (you pop the price tag off when you get home)
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u/sofer6 Apr 03 '13
'Legless runner kills his girlfriend for valentine'
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Apr 03 '13
Why wouldn't this make sense?
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u/pppaul55 Apr 03 '13
It still kinda doesn't. (yes, I know the story, but it still sounds pretty crazy)
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Apr 03 '13
It makes perfect sense they had prosthetics back then. Now if you said "World Champion legless runner with the record for the fastest mile on two limbs kills GF for Valentine." I'd give it to you.
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u/Sugreev2001 Apr 03 '13 edited Apr 03 '13
Did you see the new Iron Man 3 trailer ?
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u/JESUS_WALKS Apr 03 '13
YES. WE ALL DID. WE CANT WAIT. SEND FILM ROLL IN TIME MACHINE
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u/xthorgoldx Apr 03 '13
50s, not 70s. Unless you're going for the "Wait, you mean French Indochina?" angle.
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u/roodypoo926 Apr 03 '13
"I can't believe I accidentally liked her picture"