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A place to appreciate the twentieth century comic character Everett True of "The Outbursts of Everett True." Feel free to check out the sticky.

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Everett True doesn't like glaring headlights (October 25, 1921) (lemmy.world)

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Printed 103 years ago today in the East Oregonian. Image cleaned up, see the original.

Found on the Library of Congress site.

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[–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 19 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Ah, the good old scientific days when every product had to be marketed as scientific, using that exact word. Like this scientific ad, which scientifically repeats how scientific the headlight is because scientific readers demand science scientifically.

[–] toast@retrolemmy.com 18 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

No worse than the "atomic" or "space-age" days that followed, and way better than "block-chain" or "AI" of today.

[–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

True, just like "online" and ".com" in the 2000s. Marketing loves to pointlessly toss around fad words. I will mock this specific ad for overusing the word to a comical degree, though.

[–] toast@retrolemmy.com 5 points 4 weeks ago

I will mock this specific ad for overusing the word to a comical degree, though.

Don't get me wrong. I agree. Mock away. I was just commenting on how this is something we can't seem to get away from.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Ordinary Headlight Dangerous

Edit: SCIENCE!