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Question: How will you spend your Christmas vacation?

I’m going to be drunk every night because of my broken heart. - K. M.

I’m going to catch up on tiddle de winks, ping pong, and parchesi. - A. M. T.

Catch up on some sleep and make whoopee. - M. K.

I’m going to have company (it’s quite alright and proper). -J. B.

I intend to vegetate - J. B. A.

I am going straight to hell and not come back - D. H.

Barnard Bulletin, New York, December 20 1935

  • Rhaedas@fedia.io
    32·
    1 month ago

    See, things didn’t start with Reddit or even with Usenet. This kind of stuff has always been with us, it just gets easier to see as tech progresses.

  • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    20·
    1 month ago

    I’ll be whoopee. My partner and I have been very lax on that (depression?) but we plan to get all fucked up on drugs and get nasty. Stupid holidays.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    12·
    1 month ago

    FDR is in office. The Social Security Act is signed
    Worst of the Dust Bowl heat wave. 109℉ in Chicago
    The Labor Day hurricane, a category 5, hits the Florida Keys
    The Helena earthquake hits at 6.5 in Montana.

    Rough year. No wonder everyone sounds like the COVID-19 lockdown.

    • lars@lemmy.sdf.org
      2·
      1 month ago

      99° F (37° C) in Chicago last summer was a catastrophe. And there was even air conditioning which took the edge off after trudging through sidewalks that had begun to stick to my shoes. I cannot even imagine a 1930s 109° F (43° C).